I love this whole reading and it just makes me like the sequels even more. The idea that evil is cyclical and never fully defeated is so powerful to me right now because it’s so demonstrably true. Accepting that is so hard but so necessary. You pass on the fight.
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Replying to @della_morte_ @mattsaler and
The movie isn't saying that Luke is right to fall into despair after his failure but it is saying that there isn't any "answer" to failure, that you can't get anywhere by dissecting it and trying to make sense of it and trying to undo it or make it never happen again
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
The only thing you can do is accept it and move on to the next thing Which, of course, is much easier said than done
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
Tbh as much as I despise Mary Sue accusations and as absurd as Rey being Rule 63 Ken Palpatine is, I do think it gives more weight to Luke's terror over Rey's "darkness" in TLJ, especially since he says he recognized her from the beginning
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
i don't remember him saying he recognized her from the beginning, just that he knows NOW and that Leia knew she was a Palpatine when she started training her Whether this is Luke Force Ghost Afterlife knowledge passed to her or something else isn't clear
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @della_morte_ and
They've left it kind of vague but I prefer the headcanon that lots of people actually knew she was a Palpatine and didn't say anything because it's a sensitive subject
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarcasmorator and
She has the distinctive Palpatine chin or something
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarcasmorator and
I mean to be serious for a sec the scene where Han decides to take her in in TFA was loaded by JJ with a lot of subtext, Han and Maz have a brief conversation about whether he knows what he's doing, it's implied he at least suspects she's special somehow
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarcasmorator and
I also think the only logical explanation for what Finn's abortive dying confession to Rey was going to be, other than a confession of love, is that he knew she was a Palpatine (because Leia told him)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarcasmorator and
I think the explanation by Abrams that he was going to tell her he’s force sensitive also works for that scene.
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I don't really buy that That's not the kind of thing you feel moved to confess to another person when you're dying in order to unburden yourself
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