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[ SECRET POST #3986 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3986 ⌋

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I need some joy right now so proclaim what you love about your fandoms/pairings/characters/whatever.

Finnpoe / Stormpilot is the best ship from the Sequel Trilogy. I'm not going to talk about the fandom and its shippers, because I know people here have strong opinions about it.

Take Finn - a former Stormtrooper, raised as a human weapon ever since he was a baby, a number stripped of any real identity. He's a good stormtrooper : can actually shoot, brilliant tactician. And yet his best weapons are his empathy, his sense of morality and his kindness. He won't blindly follow orders and he won't shoot innocents. He has flaws, too - sometimes his emotions take over, but it's so human and it feels so new after years where the action hero standard was "stoic, quipping badass dude". He's a great character, and a great protagonist.

Now take Poe - this guy is probably moderator of r/wholesomemes if it exists in a galaxy far, far away. Ever since he meets Finn, he's all about that sweet positive reinforcement - telling him how nice his shot was, asking him about his name. Treating him like a human being and a friend, when he didn't have to - they just teamed up at the beginning because they needed each other for their personal goals, and they could have just left it at that. After all, Finn is "just" a defector from the First Order who just tortured Poe, right? Yet Poe goes the extra mile, and reaches out to Finn, helping him on his path to self-discovery.
Even without his relationship with Finn, Poe's great. Sassing Kylo like his idol Leia Organa, resisting torture, incredibly supportive of his astromech and his squadron.

No you take them together - and you have the POWER COUPLE OF THE RESISTANCE. Fire-forged friend, escaping Hell (the First Order) together. Syncing to each other so they can (almost) fly to safety, MINUTES after meeting each other. Poe understanding what Finn needs (a name, a sense of humanity, his help later so he can save Rey) and giving it to him without asking for anything in return. And Finn, even though he's found Rey on Starkiller Base, sees that the Resistance's X-Wings are in trouble, and his first reaction is to say "We need to help them!" because he can't just ignore the battle going on anymore. Finn and Poe would be such a wholesome, supportive relationship, built on communication (they're so good at understanding each other already!). Together, they can take on whatever the world decides to throw at them. Individually, they're badass, but together, they're an unstoppable First Order-destroying machine. And when all he's said and done, you'll best believe that Poe and Finn will probably spend a few years exploring the Galaxy, Finn catching up with everything he missed in the FO with Poe at his side. And afterwards, they will settle down, and live happily ever after.

I've been meaning to check their tag for fic since I watched that. The flirty little comment about the jacket was too darn cute.

I thought the concept of Finn was really interesting. What I wanted most was to see humanizing for all the Stormtoopers and I thought Finn would be a great entry-point for that (i.e. that he would be really bothered to fire on his fellow Stormtroopers or there would be obvious history or what not) but they didn't really do that in the movie. BUT, I hope there will be more of that in TLJ and #9.

I love Poe too. My favorite relationship for him is the one he has with Leia. Have you been reading the Poe comic? Because it's awesome. There's some speculation about where his character is heading for TLJ that has me pumped.

Honestly Finn going ham on the troopers on Takodana has bothered me for a long time. I've kind of made peace with that in the sense that Finn knows he's a traitor and that he will be killed on sight. So he's in a kill or be killed situation. However if it was up to me, I would have not shot the Takodana battle the same way. I would have cut that shot of Finn stabbing that trooper which was pretty brutal lol. There are a few times where Finn is a bit inconsistent (he seems to me that he carries the idiot ball when he starts having scenes with Rey).

I do love the Poe comics! I have yet to catch up on the very latest one, but it's nice to see Poe grow from pilot to Commander through the hardships he and his squadron face.

I'm trying to tamp down on my expectations/hope but I usually give Finn a pass in TFA because so little time has passed and he's being thrown every which way and not given much time to think about what to do or what he has done. I'm really hoping that the next two movies will give us more (or they release a book that really digs into it, but I expect that won't come out while the movies are still holding information back).

The last Poe issue was great, and it looks like the next one will be even better.

I don't even actively ship Stormpilot but I agree with this comment.

YES. This is exactly what makes it feel so special. Wholesome and human heroes.apart, power couple together! 💚💚

~~Hello have you welcomed our lord and saviour Richard Aldana into your life?~~

It's an adult cartoon, a weird but oh so good mix of spaghetti western/boxing/urban fantasy/action, packed with humour, emotion, action, violence; it also has a bit of porn, uncensored male frontal nudity, mind control rape, electric torture and the like.
It's got interseting characters, between the knight-in-sour-armor anti-hero, the plucky girl he picks up and all but adopts, that great big nerd who knows way too much about the enemies to be entirely honest, the sweet comic relief, the epic bromantic partner, the kickass love interest...
The whole series in 26 episodes long, 13 minutes each so it's quick and easy to watch;
an English dub is available on Mondo/VRV (but region locked, you can't get it in Europe, booh)
the original French version is available on Studio+ and the DVD/BluRay come out just next week ~~ohmygods the collector set is so full of goodness I WANT IT NOW~~
you can also find English subs floating around on cartoon streaming sites.

It's actually a prequel to a comics series ~~so people clamouring for a second season totally missed the point.~~
The comics... doesn't start that good, what with looking like an average shounen manga series with a guy coming from our world to a fantasy realm for some martial arts tournaments and fucks bitches on the side; but it gets better, so much better.
The original French series is already 10 volumes long, the first 6 have been translated to English
a good thing, it's the end of a cycle so the cliffhanger until #7 gets translated and released might be necessary.
It's still ongoing, planning a total of 12 volumes. #11 should be released some time in late 2018?
Meanwhile a spin-off series is starting, one shot about secondary characters; first one scheduled in January. An artbook is on the works too?

And, bestest best part, the fandom is alive kicking and spreading!

This sounds interesting. Does it feel satisfying if you just watch the show without reading the comic too? Or does it feel unfinished?

It may be a bit frustrating because it was set to explain how the main character became what he is ten years later: even more jaded. You don't need to read the comics at all to understand the cartoon, but only you, once you've finished watching the cartoon, can decide whether or not you want more and read the comics, or give up.

I live in France, so yeah - lotsa hype, very interesting to see non-kiddie animation get made *well* - though the crowdfunding didn't carry them quite as far as hoped, iirc.
I appreciate it, but am a bit conflicted, because one of the main creators is a self-indulgent, over-hyped, puerile misogynistic troll.
Drawing gigonormous boobies all the time, and dubcon erotica... eh, stuff can still pass as artistic self-expression. Added to the body of his work, which besides being generally misanthropic constantly has female characters as incomprehensible and fickle (played for romance in a few of his early works, where the teenage male POV - literally done in one case - could kinda justify the feelings of confusion faced with mysterious Girl behavior, but... it adds up a bit much), and his overt anti-feminist trolling online - yeah I am soured.

(also Lastman got a lot of raving articles and reviews claiming it was the first French manga - and while, yeah, sure, they played up the shounen tourney tropes and published in a similar format, um, no, there's been several all-but-shoujo series already, but girly stuff don't count ne?)

I absolutely LOVE the new Disney canon.

Thrawn introduced Thrawn/Eli and the possibility of good(ish) Thrawn in the future.

The Mace Windu comic has Kit/Mace moments and introduced Mace's master, another kickass Mirialan female Jedi Master.

Darth Vader's new comic is exploring the Sith and the Inquisitors. Jocasta Nu's about to throw down with them. I'm hoping we watch Darth Vader hunt down Vos and some other Jedi too.

The Poe comic is exploring Poe's relationship with Leia, which is awesome. It's introduced several amazing women too. The latest issue has Leia with her mom's entire wardrobe.

The main Star Wars title made me ship Mon Mothma/Han. They're also exploring the ruins of Jedha, and finally gave us the moment Darth Vader learned he had a son. Plus, the annual has Pash Davane, who is amazing!

From a Center Point of View was awesome!! Yoda's blanket was Qui-gon's old cloak. His only prized possessions were that and a cup Obi-wan made for him. Qui-gon apologized to Obi-wan about saddling him with the Chosen One, and Obi-wan said he wasn't responsible for Anakin's decisions. Obi-wan made toy ships for Luke and left them on Shmi's grave for Beru to find. There's a mouse droid used for a gay tryst between two Imperials on the Death Star. Motti filed a complaint against Vader for choking him. Palpatine has a Shakespeare soliloquy about learning of Obi-wan's death. Guys, there's so much good stuff.

Wait there's a comic with Leia learning who Padme was and inheriting her stuff? Or is it her Aldaraanian mom?

It's Padme's stuff but Leia already knows who she is in the comic.

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