maybe our cultural desire for grand mythological arcs is making us lose sight of the human stories. TLJ feels like a specific repudiation of this media ideology (within the context of one of those grand arcs, which makes it even more poignant!), and then TROS just takes us back to square one
jj abrams in particular loves to create these facades of depth for grand myth arcs and shits the bed literally every single time
Does this all mean there is no reason to talk about Star Wars ever again
I woke up this morning filled with this overwhelming shame and fatigue and as I sat on the can (as I do most every morning upon waking) I tried to figure out why the last few days have felt so icky, like the ambient noise of my life had taken on this louder, slicker tone. A bit more yellow and brown than usual.
I realized it was probably all this Star Wars. I am totally blaming Star Wars.
That sounds nastier than I intended. I hated this movie but I think this is less a reaction to the picture itself than justâŚfeeling like Iâm a part of the weird frenzy surrounding a 21st century multimedia franchise? Itâs much harder to ignore the onslaught of gifs and takes and memes when I have actually seen the work in question and have formed a strong opinion about it. I have fed the beast but now the beast is dining on me and I absolutely hate it. One of the great perks of my solitary lifestyle is I get to self-regulate my exposure to media I donât care for and I am going to treasure this gift until it is taken away from me cuz this was clearly a mistake and I promise I will never watch a Disney product again.
Perhaps the real star wars were the verified Twitter account enemies we made along the way
imo, both rey being pulled into the narrative and kylo renâs torture being linked directly to palpatineâs machinations and/or blood makes the whole trilogy seem like a flimsy fantasy prophecy plot where we donât even get told about the prophecy until the end
This was almost exactly the movie i cynically thought it would be after seeing Last Jedi, like holy shit wow
So in episode VIII, kylo tells rey that her parents were nobodies who sold her for drinking money.
In episode IX, he tells her that nothing he said was a lie, which can exist alongside the fact that sheâs a Palpatine because apparently her mother or father was a nobody (despite being the daughter or son of the Galactic Emperor) who died after selling her in an attempt to protect her. Okay, itâs a weird stretch/retcon, sure. The implication, though, is that while Rey was sold for her own protection, since 'Kylo didnât lie, her parents still used the money they got from selling their daughter to get wasted
Cool 
i said âfuck offâ aloud in the theater at that part
itâs like poetry
it rhymes
in fairness, idiotic retcons about parentage are one of the most star wars things about star wars
like, vader being lukeâs dad definitely wasnât planned before empire, leia being lukeâs sister wasnât planned before rotj, and the weight of all this canon on this exquisite corpse totally obfuscates that
with that in mind itâs not at all surprising that itâs gotten progressively stupider and more untenable, but neither does that somehow make this abortion of a movie actually fine when it happened to follow up someone who actually cared about these characters giving them a good, empowering script for a change
but I think if TLJ hadnât happened this would basically seem well-observed in its own dumb way
the best part of this movie was the tiny little alien mechanic dude
I went to Star Wars Identities which had costumes and puppets and spaceships.
On Felixâs point Ralph Mcquarieâs painting for the end of Empire has Leia and Luke holding each other like lovers.
Imagine making a movie and not using puppets and models holy shit those things are so cool
I mean I donât have to make them or work with them but I think other people should have to for my amusement
Poor Ponda Bada.
This is what peak performance looks like and also, coincidentally, exactly how I look naked.
Except for the butt. I donât have that much junk in the trunk. Weâll see how things shake out if I keep doing squats though.
