The Last Jedi resolved the intrigue surrounding the heroine of this new sequel-trilogy, Rey, and her parentage with a gracefully simple, bold assertion: Rey is… just Rey. Not the daughter of some space aristocracy or legacy lineage, but a hero of her own making. […] That Rey’s parents were ordinary people meant anyone from anywhere could be born a hero; what determined a person’s place in the world was who they chose to be, rather than their last name. “Rey is our protagonist. And the truth is, in the story, the toughest possible thing for her to hear is, you know, you’re not gonna get the easy answer that you’re so-and-so’s daughter, this is your place,” [Rian] Johnson told me after The Last Jedi’s release. “You’re gonna have to stand on your own two feet and define yourself in this world.”

Instead of taking the baton from Last Jedi and running with it to new heights, The Rise of Skywalker retreats right back into the safety of nostalgia. […] It’s as if Abrams and Terrio scrambled for a loophole specifically to mollify the “fans” upset that this hero—worse, this girl—dared to wield such incredible abilities with only her own strength […] Bookending the saga Anakin began with the story of a girl from nowhere who sets right what he helped unbalance might have been resonant. But who cares for that when there’s another billion-dollar franchise to set up and potential spin-offs to tease?

— Melissa Leon, ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ Erases the Power of Rey’s Story and Surrenders to Sexist Trolls

Moving my own twitter thread here–

Well fucking put. Thank you.

I found another great example of why BEN Solo was not meant to DIE until LATE in the editing process

This twitter thread explains it perfectly

And then someone also noticed this:

Why-

And the last thing I saw were the eyes of a frightened boy whose director had failed him.

hands up if you’d kill a thousand baby yodas to bring ben solo back

Yea,

10 000 baby yodas. I'd throw them all in the lava on Mustafar and watch them BURN

TROS opinions: no Reylo edition

These are just the overall impressions, without mentioning anything Rey-Ben related because honestly, Rey’s plot is a whole other mess and I don’t wanna touch it now. But I can already say this: it’s awful. 

Now, the rest of the story:

Look, I’m tired. This movie was a mess. I don’t know who thought this plot was good but… It’s not. It just wasn’t. As my friend said “They really brought Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o in to say two lines and have no relevance at all eh?”. It’s a waste of story. It wasn’t fun, it wasn’t satisfactory. It was just disappointing.

THHHHIIIS ^^^^ to all the dumbasses saying we didn’t like the movie because REylo isn’t good enough. JJ is a terrible screenwriter. He has visions of one or two scenes that would look good on camera but as soon as he needs to write the rest the guy is brain dead. The guy created a two and a half hours of pure mess, logic and explanations were missing, only clownery and mediocrity made it :)

This incredibly bad movie made nostalgic of watching The Director and the Jedi again.

Because in every second of that documentary you can see that Rian Johnson cared about these characters, even when he didn’t create most of them. He put passion to it. He is a writer.

J. J is not a writer, he is not even a damn director. He is a sellsman. Even his fucking BTS was OT nostalgia baiting and fanservise. Unlike Rian that is shown actually working.

And the worst thing is that these are his characters, he created them and he doesn’t give a shit. It’s depressing.

That man shouldn’t be writing anything and period. If it’s something that a writer can’t allow themselves is to not have passion for their own characters.

Interesting, J.J., that a romantic relationship can’t be deep, open, and intimate. Interesting that a romantic relationship can’t draw out bravery and courage and trust.

Or is it because they’re both men and society sexualizes gay men so much that your immediate, unconscious response to a gay relationship is that the romance is purely physical?

I wonder. Homophobic ideas are still deeply engrained, people. Deeply engrained.

2019, the year white male writing partners ruin every franchise.

Whats up JJ?

what a year, huh?

I know I said I’m going on hiatus bUT ONE MORE THING

things got writers forgot: