it’s honestly hilarious to me because the rogue one crew mostly have really complex and personal motivations for why they get involved in the first place, from cassian being a true believer in the cause, jyn wanting to find her father, bodhi wanting redemption for being part of the empire’s great machine
and then you have chirrut who literally only gets involved with the squad on jedha because he had zero fucking chill and decided he wanted to fuck up some stormtroopers. that’s it, that’s the only reason. he just wanted to kick some ass because he could. and baze only got involved because chirrut did lmfao
also this is even more amazing when you go into extended canon
not only did rey grow up orphaned and isolated, but also dirt poor, working a thankless job for despotic boss in order to feed herself and sometimes not managing even that. if you read ‘before the awakening’ rey’s story is utterly fucking heartbreaking because it’s outright said that she has, on multiple occasions, gone so hungry she had trouble standing. despite this she loves building things so much that she’d rather keep the best stuff she’s scavenging for herself than exchange it for food. she built her speeder already several years before we meet her, so like, in her mid-teens and she’s very proud of it. she has a workbench in her home and she’s always tinkering with things. rey would literally go hungry to follow her passion.
finn is basically caught in the equivalent of an abusive educational system that’s forcing him in little boxes and teaches skills (which incidentally involve murdering civilians) at the expense of his humanity. not only that but finn is also the overachiever who’s constantly doubting himself. it’s fucked up but before he escapes the first order so much of finn’s thought process is ‘i’m always at the top of the class and they’re saying i have so much potential, so why do i feel like such a failure?’ finn rebels against the order by bringing out his humanity full force and holding it up to them. he’s such a giant fuck you to the system it’s incredible. if anyone is a rebel in this story, it’s definitely finn.
poe is so interesting because at 32 he would actually still be in the millennial age gap. he’s older, and by all accounts should be that disillusioned guy who understood long ago that notions of galactic peace and what have you are useless in real life. he should be that dude who embraced his cynicism and is maybe sort of patronizing towards these idealistic wide-eyed kids. instead he’s the opposite of all that, but that’s not really the point. poe, whose family fought to establish the new republic, wants nothing more than to do his part in rebuilding it. but at some point in the process he runs head-first into a wall of corrupt politics and shady business deals that would profit from a war. but instead of giving up and keeping his head down once he realizes what he’s up against, poe goes and becomes a leader figure in the resistance.
so basically you have three young people: one who works incredibly hard and is often unable to cover her most basic needs, but doesn’t give up on her passion; one who should have been broken by an abusive educational system, but instead broke the system by affirming his humanity at every point in the story; and one who didn’t succumb to cynicism and chose to act once he understood politics is always self-interested.
and the second they meet they do nothing but praise and encourage and lift eachother up, loudly and enthusiastically.
space millennials. my heart is so full of love for this story.
i feel like obi-wan was constantly giving cody heart attacks because as the war went on and got more and more dangerous, obi-wan kept deciding “oh, i kinda feel like wearing less aRMOR TODAY”
like honestly, look at this:
early in the clone wars he had chest armor that looks like it probably covers his heart from both the front and the back and also has plating all the way up his arms as well as on his shins. it’s not perfect, but it’s definitely something, especially considering how the majority of the time, the enemy used blasters
after the time skip, apparently obi decided all that plastoid was cramping his style so he got rid of basically all of it except for his forearms. i would love to see his clones’ reaction to finding out their reckless general had now made himself even more of a target.
by ROTS obi-wan decided to basically fuck armor entirely, opting for fabric and leather alone, content in the assumption that the power of the force and pure concentrated sass will save him. he doesn’t even have gloves anymore lol. cody has long given up hope.
and it only gets funnier when you go back even earlier in the war, because he used to wear FULL ARMOR
boy even wore a helmet
no other Jedi did this, Obi-Wan just went full trooper and wore their armor, rode their speeders, wielded their weapons, “Jedi propriety” be damned (and other Jedi did comment on this). Qui-Gon would be so proud.
and then he just starts….stripping as the war goes on
What with his track record with robes, it was only a matter of time before he misplaced all his armor too.
By this reasoning, the next logical step is full nudity in Disney’s Obi-Wan movie.
I have two thoughts. OMG the sunburn… Also I feel that Ewan McGregor would be very supportive of the idea.
Thanks to Chuck Wendig and his new novel Aftermath: Empire’s End, we finally have canonized hamsters new Sequel Trilogy lore to analyze.
While several novels have been released over the course of the last year, Empire’s End is, in my opinion, the most substantial to date for insight into the direction of the Sequel Trilogy and its characters. Quite literally blowing open the “Jakku Mystery,” this novel also provides some additional insight into Snoke, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren and Gallius Rax’s fate.
As I masochistically subject myself to the slew of past and present tense that is Chuck Wendig’s writing, I will attempt to analyze the mythical lore of the Sequel Trilogy and in doing so, delineate that which is critical to the sacred canon. I will post the remainder of this meta under the read-more, as it’s very long and it contains spoilers.
This is a massive post but it’s very good. Every once in a while I find SW fans who are actually capable of deep analysis and that’s very exciting. Anyways these are great theories and you should read through this.
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