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raisedbymoogles) wrote2016-01-01 11:45 am
raisedbymoogles) wrote2016-01-01 11:45 am
'Scuse me while I fangirl a bit.
So, how ‘bout that new Star Wars? :DDD
First of all, can I just say - LADIES. SO MANY LADIES. Ladies in the foreground. Ladies in the background. LADY X-WING PILOT YES OMG. WE’RE HERE TOO. We’ve always been here. It’s nice to see that acknowledged.
Rey = amazing baby warrior goddess. Poe = amazing flower of manhood. Finn = YOU PERFECT CINNAMON ROLL YOU. And yeah, I ship it. All of it.
…actually I also ship Rey/Millenium Falcon. Did anyone else notice the only time she ever smiled was when she was piloting the Falcon? Or fixing it? Or talking about did you see what I did that was so amazing omg? (Favorite scene by the way. Rey and Finn are a couple of shameless fanbeings and I love it.)
I also loved the scene where they’re gushing a bit over Han, but Finn’s bit rings a little strange to me. He talks about Han and Luke like he was taught all about their adventures and raised to see them as heroes, but he can’t have been. I mean, maybe he is just assuming that the First Order lied to him all his life, but he still seems strangely familiar with the story. It seems a little odd that he would have learned the story and then have the teacher go ‘oh by the way, all that adventuring? EVIL. Don’t do that.’ …heh, maybe there’s an underground comic books trade among the stormtroopers.
Rey’s going to have to learn to speak Wookiee. Maybe she made a start on that on the way to the Isle of Misfit Jedi.
Han and Leia’s bits = PERFECTION. Also, fuck the haters, Leia(/Carrie) looks magnificent.
I’m of two minds about Kylo Ren. On the one hand what he is is done really well - a young, easily manipulated fanboy of a dark Jedi who really hasn’t put two and two together about what he’s doing. I like that the story has him begging Giant Hologram Gollumdemort for guidance. I like that even the narrative doesn’t let him get away with shit - Hux makes a point of pointing out when he screws up. On the other hand… he just isn’t scary. He’s kind of pathetic. He wears a mask as an affectation. Rey has his number within thirty seconds of meeting him. I mean, I love that Rey is stronger than him pretty much right out of the gate, but where’s the credible threat here?
(I guess there really aren’t going to be any Force ghosts in this, because if there were Anakin would be up in his face all the time. “Ben. Ben no. Ben this won’t end well. Ben for Force’s sake I didn’t wear a mask because it looked cool I wore it because I NEEDED IT TO BREATHE. Take that bucket off your head, you look ridiculous. Sith these days, I swear.”)
First of all, can I just say - LADIES. SO MANY LADIES. Ladies in the foreground. Ladies in the background. LADY X-WING PILOT YES OMG. WE’RE HERE TOO. We’ve always been here. It’s nice to see that acknowledged.
Rey = amazing baby warrior goddess. Poe = amazing flower of manhood. Finn = YOU PERFECT CINNAMON ROLL YOU. And yeah, I ship it. All of it.
…actually I also ship Rey/Millenium Falcon. Did anyone else notice the only time she ever smiled was when she was piloting the Falcon? Or fixing it? Or talking about did you see what I did that was so amazing omg? (Favorite scene by the way. Rey and Finn are a couple of shameless fanbeings and I love it.)
I also loved the scene where they’re gushing a bit over Han, but Finn’s bit rings a little strange to me. He talks about Han and Luke like he was taught all about their adventures and raised to see them as heroes, but he can’t have been. I mean, maybe he is just assuming that the First Order lied to him all his life, but he still seems strangely familiar with the story. It seems a little odd that he would have learned the story and then have the teacher go ‘oh by the way, all that adventuring? EVIL. Don’t do that.’ …heh, maybe there’s an underground comic books trade among the stormtroopers.
Rey’s going to have to learn to speak Wookiee. Maybe she made a start on that on the way to the Isle of Misfit Jedi.
Han and Leia’s bits = PERFECTION. Also, fuck the haters, Leia(/Carrie) looks magnificent.
I’m of two minds about Kylo Ren. On the one hand what he is is done really well - a young, easily manipulated fanboy of a dark Jedi who really hasn’t put two and two together about what he’s doing. I like that the story has him begging Giant Hologram Gollumdemort for guidance. I like that even the narrative doesn’t let him get away with shit - Hux makes a point of pointing out when he screws up. On the other hand… he just isn’t scary. He’s kind of pathetic. He wears a mask as an affectation. Rey has his number within thirty seconds of meeting him. I mean, I love that Rey is stronger than him pretty much right out of the gate, but where’s the credible threat here?
(I guess there really aren’t going to be any Force ghosts in this, because if there were Anakin would be up in his face all the time. “Ben. Ben no. Ben this won’t end well. Ben for Force’s sake I didn’t wear a mask because it looked cool I wore it because I NEEDED IT TO BREATHE. Take that bucket off your head, you look ridiculous. Sith these days, I swear.”)