[ SECRET POST #4214 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4214 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

It feels like a lot of people spent two years absolutely certain where the sequel trilogy was going (Rey Skywalker and/or mentor!Luke, Finn/Rey, the new "trio", Kylo being uncomplicatedly evil) and then got upset by TLJ due to their own built-up expectations being dashed.

I mean, is it really a fair criticism that Kylo Ren had a big role? He's a legacy child, the trilogy's main antagonist, and Adam Driver has top billing after the OT actors. Anyone who was disappointed by the focus on him was just setting themselves up for failure. Likewise, Rey and Finn ended the first movie separated in different solar systems, Rey and Poe had never even canonically met, Luke was said in TFA to have "walked away from it all", etc. Most of the narrative decisions in TLJ flowed naturally from TFA, but entire segments of the fandom bizarrely convinced themselves they were going to get something entirely different.

Sometimes a story going in a different direction than you wanted doesn't mean it did anything wrong, it just turned out not to be for you in the end.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

This so hard, see also:

1. The myth of cinnamon roll Luke, when Luke was only saved from falling to the dark side by an last-minute act of god.
2. Excessive Reylo stanning.
3. Running with the bloodline interpretation of ambiguous lines in TFA totally ignoring the dharmic influences on the canon regarding rebirth and cyclic history.

[(Anonymous)]

1. The myth of cinnamon roll Luke, when Luke was only saved from falling to the dark side by an last-minute act of god.

OMG, this. As someone who is a casual Star Wars fan (I've seen the movies. That's the only canon to the VAST majority of viewers), I've never understood the criticisms of Luke in TLJ. He behaved exactly as I would have expected him to, based on previous films.

[(Anonymous)]

I love that Rey and Poe meeting was so unimportant that TLJ retconned their original introduction to each other in the TFA novelization.

[(Anonymous)]

Same anon as just above - as someone who only watches the movies (like the VAST majority of the audience), I felt that TLJ actually increased the importance of Rey and Poe meeting. A good 90% or more of viewers do not give a shit about the novelizations. If the filmmakers didn't care about them meeting, they would have been fine leaving it to the book. They made a point of putting in those few seconds of screentime. That to me is not retconning but actually putting it into the only canon that matters. That to me suggests they've decided that their meeting is actually very important.