#trosleaks

It is, indeed, the Nightmare Scenario.

To me, the thing that makes this so baffling is how JJ really gave Rey exactly the life she was afraid of in TFA. He, in HIS FILM not Rian’s, has her look up at that older scavenger woman and see the face of her future- he in HIS FILM gave her that big ‘wonder’ shot and line about seeing greenery for the first time. This motherfucker sketched this character with a real edge of poignancy which gave her humanity, that moment of ‘is this all my life will be?’ and the longing of adolescence. She wants life!

And then he made that vision come true. She ended up precisely as she feared she would, alone on a dead planet with no family and no purpose. They put a fucking line in the fucking visual dictionary about her always being more comfortable in deserts.

That’s how bad this fucking movie is- they put this line in a visual dictionary to try to justify dumping their heroine in her depression dream and leaving her there with nothing but ghosts EXACTLY AS SHE WAS AT THE BEGINNING. LOCKED IN ETERNAL CHILDHOOD, HER LOVE INADEQUATE TO SAVE HER PRINCE AND HER VICTORIES ENTIRELY COMING FROM ACCIDENTAL CONNECTIONS TO MEN. She has no power, none of her decisions matter or have any consequences. And her reward for all her suffering and faith is getting to crawl back into her defensive maladapted coping mechanisms with a new set of pretend parents and some identity theft.

When WHEN did we start pretending that she wanted an important lineage or a name and not someone to love and have love her?

What is going on in the tiny minds which produced this? Super empowering how none of her choices mattered and she couldn’t save her soulmate because we wouldn’t want to imply any possibility her romantic love could be consummated. No it’s a barren, frigid thing, and she can only come down from the pedestal long enough to give him a chaste peck as he dies, snuffing out all chance of renewal and rejuvenation for the galaxy.

From what I’ve heard, JJ Abrams created an entire new trillogy just to kill the whole family, and how his story is about how lonely the main girl is because she grew up alone without a family or friends. Apparently Rey is Palpatines grandaughter or some shit. Anakin sacrificed himself for nothing because in the end Palpatine is still the winner. Rey dies. Kylo brings her back. They kiss. He dies again somehow. Leia dies. Nothing means anything in the end. (All of that sounds very familiar?)

I legit cannot stop crying today. And I’m not crying out of anger or frustration. I’m fucking heartbroken. Ben Solo has been my favorite character since 2015. They went out of their ways to get the audience to empathize with him. As much as he was an antagonist and did horrible things, he was also coded as an abuse victim. Manipulated since birth. He was never given a chance for happiness.

But more than that, my heart bleeds for the Skywalker family. I’ve been a star wars fan since the prequels were in theaters and I watched them as a little kid. RotS was heartbreaking to me but at least the OT had a silver lining - tyyhe hope for a new generation.

Now they’re all dead after so much suffering. Ben and Padme both died so young. And I don’t even know the purpose of making Reylo canon. It just adds to the tragedy that these two should’ve been together and never could.

Rey ends up alone. In a inhospitable planet, right like where she began,

@ antis:

Spoiler alert.

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