I don't think Chirrut was considered "Force-sensitive" in that sense either His Moment of Awesome ISN'T using the Force in any way to "avoid" the gunshots He isn't avoiding them, he's just walking out there slowly and calmly like a big fat target, and everyone is just missing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
It's like Pulp Fiction, it's not a use of any kind of magic It's a miracle The Force is manipulating fate so that an incredibly unlikely event happens in order for him to fulfill his narrative function The *instant* that function is fulfilled, the blessing vanishes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
Chirrut doesn't, like, become exhausted and stop dodging at that moment A random stormtrooper just suddenly becomes able to do the obvious thing and shoot the slow moving guy right in front of him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
It's a powerful and yet infuriating moment, like you're supposed to scream with rage along with Baze It's the moment where Chirrut's faith is validated - "All is as the Force wills it" - and revealed to be a sick joke, that we're all just puppets the Force uses and discards
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
Well this is a tremendously nihilistic and misotheistic view.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
I mean if you're determined to not only read it in the most spiteful "ONLY I MATTER!" way and also ruin the scene for literally everyone else... *shrug*
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Replying to @loudpenitent @EmilyUnbound and
Are you saying Baze didn't have a right to be mad at that point
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
I don't even really read it in the same light you are, and I'm faIrly sure we aren't supposed to see Baze as having done so either. It's not a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Rage Against the Author, his last stand is simply an angry, sad and ultimately peaceful last stand.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
He literally is repeating Chirrut's mantra, and they all already know they're already dead. It's not a "The Force is a cruel joke!" moment - that's a viewer's subjective read.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Chirrut wasn't "discarded" because he was a dead man anyways, he wasn't trying to live, he was trying to get his job done.
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Okay, well, @saintwalker98 is right though, if the Force can make one impossible thing happen it could make infinite impossible things happen, it could've saved all their lives
It just didn't
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Even from an in-universe POV this is an extremely bitter pill to swallow, this is explicitly why Anakin turns to the Dark Side, because he can't follow the Jedi Code and adopt a stance of stoic fatalism and detachment about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
This movie was a tragedy (as was the prequel trilogy) and the whole thing about tragedies is they are by definition hard to take You can believe in the Jedi notion that attachment should be avoided because we all merge with the Force in the end anyway But it's painful and hard
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