[ SECRET POST #4214 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4214 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

an inconsiderate ass who destroys the homes of harmless critters without apologising

Seriously? Come on. This is just pure nitpicking about a straightforward comedic beat.

falling into the painfully shitty trope of "girl must redeem the bad boy"

I feel like this would be a more powerful argument if we weren't talking about fucking Star Wars. Redemption is one of the classic, central, fundamental themes of the entire series. Rey is literally walking in Luke's shoes in the same way that Kylo is walking in Vader's.

[(Anonymous)]

This is just pure nitpicking about a straightforward comedic beat
The movie was full of, in my opinion, terrible decisions when it came to ~comedy~ and snappy one-liners so maybe that's why I hated it so much.

And yeah, sure, redemption is a central team. But "good girl saves/tries to save the bad boy" with gratuitous cringey and unnecessary shippy subtext is still a shitty trope that's been done to death and fuck that.

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Fuck you autocorrect.

[(Anonymous)]

what I loved about TLJ was that it set up the trope and then it didn't fucking work. Rey thought her role in the story was to save Kylo, and she had an impact on him, but he didn't chose to leave and she couldn't make him. in the end, she chose her own story and her own integrity instead. it read to me as a refutation of the trope.

NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah but I still expect Kylo to be redeemed at some point in the third movie. It's not exactly a refutation if it's still going to probably happen.

it's definitely a more interesting and more complicated version of the narrative, and it does refute some of the more simplistic versions of the idea that a single girl magically saves the bad boy with love, but I wouldn't rule out redemption entirely.