[ SECRET POST #5013 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5013 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT: In TFA about the only textual relationship between the two is that Rey is newly adopted Found Family to Han and Kylo is estranged from Han. Which comes to a head when Kylo kills his father. Her interactions with Kylo are limited to 1) torture/escape, 2) watching Han kill his father (her new father-figure), and 3) unleashing jedi whoop ass on him.

Sure TLJ flirted with romantic feels, but that doesn't mean that the romantic endgame is obvious when one party in the relationship betrays the other. The heroine coming to realize that sometimes a jerk is just a jerk and she doesn't really need him is a narrative arc the company has done before.

As a non-shipper, ideal endgame for Ben would have involved reconciliation with accountability. If anything qualifies as irreconcilable differences, patricide of a shared father-figure should. Ben doesn't need cheap redemption and romance, he needs recovery. The whole Beauty and the Beast story, which is really about keeping daughters in unhappy arranged marriages, has a lot of well-justified criticism of its premise that love heals all wounds and wounds all heels. Unfortunately TROS gave us probably the second-worst version of a Beauty and the Beast ending.

At any rate, as of TFA, the Beauty and the Beast ending was just as speculative as Rey is a Secret Skywalker. That was more explicitly teased for me than a slap-slap-kiss-kiss endgame relationship.

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Rey is newly adopted Found Family to Han

I think you misremembered this part of TFA. Han was all about abandoning Rey to her fate after she was kidnapped. Finn was the one who wanted to rescue her.

The heroine coming to realize that sometimes a jerk is just a jerk and she doesn't really need him is a narrative arc the company has done before.

I can't recall this happening before in Star Wars. Could you refresh my memory?

[(Anonymous)]

Frozen and Captain Marvel, which both count since all three franchises get filtered through the same marketing wonks.