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I find purity politics especially disturbing when they reject canonical redemption arcs. It is rare, but I have seen posts about how Finn/Bodhi Rook/Prince Zuko/Draco Malfoy/The Maximov family etc. should still be treated as villians and punished; fans who find Bodhi’s death satisfying rather than heartbreaking. I find it disturbing. As if those people did not believe in forgiveness upon active change of sides in a conflict.

WTF?? Who finds Bodhi’s death satisfying? I loved that guy! I loved the entire Rogue One crew, but he was an especially interesting character because he figured out that what he had been doing was wrong. It takes much more strength to change your mind about something, to admit that you were wrong, than to keep going in a path you were always on. That doesn’t mean that previous wrongdoing should be forgotten, of course, but it has to be viewed in the context of the arc as a whole. And penance through death is a lot less valuable than penance through difficult right action, through saving lives and undermining evil. That’s what atones; that’s what tips the balance. Death does jack shit.

People who want Finn to die have just got to be stupid. He was pretty clearly brainwashed from an early age; we see his first deployment in Episode VII, right? When would he even have had a chance to defect before? Do people think he enlisted? He didn’t even have a name, FFS. He was bred to be a soldier.

Pietro Maximoff did die; isn’t that penance enough? Anyway, their story is presented as complicated and morally gray; we’re not supposed to completely blame them even while they’re still allied with Ultron. Of course, I get that a lot of people don’t see moral gray. I’m really not sure what to say to them; it’s useless describing colors to the colorblind.

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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (deleted scene)

Seriously though, this scene. WHY DID THEY DELETE THIS SCENE?

And as they went away with Luke letting Han’s hand trail out of his, I thought, “…as though millions of Han/Luke shipper voices suddenly cried out and were silenced.”

In all my days I’ve never shipped this till…

Welp, if I didn’t ship it before…

True story from ancient fandom corner: people did ship it, and that shit was stomped on harder than any slash has ever been stomped on. There were lawsuits. SW slash went WAY underground–even in the days when all slash was underground. There were ‘zines, but they were precious as carbuncles and basically if you had one or wrote in one you were like a fucking badass slash bandit.

I may have reblogged this before but I am compelled to do so again.

the way luke appears to look at han’s lips at the end… the pining look on his face…?!?!?

Star Wars has always had its finger on the pulse of the cultural fear of the moment. In the original trilogy in the 1970s and early 80s, it was The Man– an evil establishment that needed to be purified by a younger generation. In the prequels of the 90s, it was evil corporations secretly colluding with a corrupt government to create endless war.
 
 

Now, in early 21st century America, the villain is an unstable young white man who had every privilege in life, yet feels like the world has wronged him. Unbeknownst to his family, he finds and communicates with a faraway mentor who radicalizes him with a horrific, authoritarian ideology. By the time his family finds out, it’s too late, and now this unstable young white man has this horrific ideology, access to far too many weapons, and the desperate desire to demolish anything that he perceives as a threat– or is told to perceive as a threat.

“This is Not Going to Go the Way You Think”: The Last Jedi Is Subversive AF, and I Am Here for It  (via wilwheaton)

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Kylo Ren really is a great example for how sci fi/fantasy writers should tailor their worlds to fit the times, so it could resonate with the actual audience reading them. There would be no point in making a Hitler villain anymore, because we’re not afraid of Hitler, we’re afraid of the 25-year-old malcontented white boy who fondles Hitler memorabilia while sulking in his room.

Somebody pointed out to me that the First Order aren’t coded as Nazis, they’re coded as neo-Nazis, which is worse, because these are people who looked at horrific historical atrocities with the benefit of hindsight and went, ‘Yes, that’s exactly what we should do again, but this time more’

People complaining that Starkiller Base is a rip-off of the Death Star and that Kylo Ren is a whiny emo fanboy don’t realize that this is exactly the point

*points upwards*  THIS.

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I loved Mark Hamill’s story about how Harrison Ford kissed him during one take of this scene.

“It’s like the scene where I’ve been hurt and Harrison comes in and says, ‘Hey, you don’t look so bad to me. In fact you look strong enough to pull the ears off a gundark.’ I reply, ‘Thanks to you,’ and his line was supposed to be, ‘That’s two you owe me, junior.’ But he didn’t say it… he gave me a little kiss.”

i couldn’t…help myself

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amazing, truly

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Ok, but in Carrie’s book, she definitely mentions more than one occasion when Mark showed up unannounced at Harrison’s early in the morning when Carrie was just there and they were clearly not having a breakfast hang out and Mark was just like “hey guys let’s hang”, and also Mark followed their car while they were making out and honked at them and was like “oh hey wow, we’re all heading to the same place! let’s all go eat together!”

oblivious third wheel mark hamill is a legend

i’m mark hamill

The real victory here is knowing that Mark Hamill was good enough friends his co-stars to randomly show up at their houses uninvited to hang out and get food while simultaneously being too self absorbed to notice anything