Lol Of Course Christians Should Be Loving But Should We Be Yelled At For Simply Having A Set Of Beliefs?

Or maybe because you just happen to like another character more. Why does race constantly need to be brought up to attack someone’s preference of character/storyline?

why would you bring race to a completely unrelated matter? and you’re only on episode two and you’re saying already that lancelot & nimue are the superior ship even when you haven’t gotten the chance to see arthur and nimue develop their relationship? damn. maybe you ARE racist.

I got excited by the possibility of Nimue and Lancelot becoming romantically involved after watching just the first episode. Like I said in the original post, I enjoy the enemies to lovers trope and it seems to me like that’s what’s being set up to happen. I love trying to predict the plot of shows and movies and me shipping them is just one of those predictions. I didn’t realize people were being called racist for shipping them until I was scrolling through related tags and my post was a response to that.

I try my hardest to be an anti-racist but I know I still have a more to learn since I’m not a POC. It’s possible I ship Nimue with Lacelot instead of Arther because of subconscious racism and I’ll be mindful of that as I continue to watch the show. It’s my belief though that arguments about ships detract from more important issues POC deal with daily. As my original post said, multiple POVs can coexist in fandoms as long as those opinions aren’t actively hurting or oppressing people.

If anyone is wondering what post prompted this ask, here’s the link:

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Before anyone calls me racist for shipping Nimue and Lancelot, let me just say that I’m enemies to lovers TRASH. It wouldn’t have mattered w

Why Rey feels so off during the first part of the movie

I want to touch upon something that has been bugging me ever since I saw the movie. Beware, I’m not inventing the wheel here, and I’m also terribly sleep-deprived. I’m just expressing some thoughts that I wanted to share.

So, did you notice that basically all the Reylo scenes up until the one where Rey stabs Kylo and then heals him feel… off? Especially the way Rey acts? 

Were you as detached and alienated from her like I was, going so far as to ask yourself who this character even was?

Well, I gave this some thought.

I think that with the partial retconning of TLJ and the subsequent regression in the story, they shafted Rey in all kinds of ways, but especially when it comes to our ability to understand her actions and emphasise with her, most notably in the scenes when she is angry and/or fighting Kylo (ergo: in conflict).

Rey is a very passionate character, quick to anger. One article about her that I read (I’ll provide the link when I find it) described her as “deliciously feral”, which I think sums it up perfectly. Rey is somewhat unhinged, she reacts quickly and often in a heated fashion.

The thing is: whenever we see Rey being hostile and/or fighting in TFA and TLJ, we are provided a reason why. We get a narrative justification for her anger/violence/attacks, and it always comes from a place of compassion, a sense of justice or a place of pain/hurt relating to her past.

She attacks Kylo in TFA because he killed Han. She snarks at him in TLJ for that very same reason, and later on, after having changed her mind about him, she attacks Luke because he tried to kill him. (And then she just ships herself to him in the mail - an icon. We stan.)

But the bottom line here is:

We always get to see why Rey is angry, and what drives her to violence. We get a justification within the narrative. Her actions make sense.

But in TROS, this does no longer apply. Especially when it comes to Kylo. Because story-wise, we are beyond the fighting. Beyond the dueling. We are at the ‘reaching out, trying to find a balance and solving our conflict with words’ stage.

But since they basically ignore this whole narrative from TLJ, their dynamic is reverted to their TFA animosity. At least up until the scene where Rey heals Ben (after almost killing him, mind you!!), when it’s just randomly picked up again as if the first hour of the movie didn’t happen.

This is why Rey feels so off when she is interacting with Kylo in those scenes up until the stabbing. There is no reason provided by the narrative as to why she is so hostile to him. We expect her to act differently because we all saw TLJ. Sure, there is gonna be conflict, but not this lightsaber fight nonsense.

Their conflict at that point is not physical, it is emotional, and it should’ve been tackled as such in dialogue.

But since it wasn’t, and they just had Rey lash out at Kylo as if this was the ending of TFA, her hostility and aggressiveness come off as… well, just that. Hostility and aggressiveness. 

There is no reason, no explanation, no plausible rationalisation, and subsequently no possibility for us to relate to or understand Rey.

I don’t know why they did this.

Maybe they wanted to convey the idea that this was her ~palpatine darkness~ manifesting and making her lash out. (As if her real darkness, the one we see in TFA and TLJ, i. e. her pain and anger that stem from her abandonment issues, her loneliness, her struggle with her own identity, were not enough.)

Or they just wanted to retcon TLJ and they needed more lightsaber fights. I don’t know. Either reason works and both are terrible.

But in the Saga of Larten Crepsley, he and Wester looked at each other confused. “They had never seen a deep gaze in any man’s eyes” roughly translated, but still there

*walks in*

*walks onto stage*

*grabs microphone*

*breathes in to prepare*

*looking down at the confused audience*

“Larten is bi”

*The crowd cheers as I drop my mic and enter the shadows of where I once came*

Dan Stevens and Lucy Boynton ten years ago.

Dan Stevens and Lucy Boynton now.

Ayup, things are gonna get WEIRD, y'all.

so that was a lie

Kylo Ren/Ben Solo was a complex character, not a straight out “villain,” which would add meaning to the Reylo kiss if you learned to pull your head out of your backside.

Me:

“Taking one last look… at my friends…” Words can’t express how much I’ve learned from these people as I’ve watched them apply their acting talents over the last 5 years. I’ll always cherish our friendship. (via @JoonasSuotamo on Twitter)

The very air between them bent and wavered as Snoke harnessed the Force and made it his weapon. Rey thrashed in pain, screaming and seeking an escape that didn’t exist. Kylo could feel Rey’s pain and panic, a bright roar in the Force that overwhelmed all else—even the dark presence of Snoke.

Disney is the most POWERFUL company in the world. Do you REALLY think they would let people like JediPaxis and JW giving the plot away like that without making them disappear? The ONLY script that got leaked have been John Boyega’s one. And it was bought by Disney before anyone could see it. They are extremely secret about their movies and they know EVERYTHING that’s happening in their company. Literally. Everything. So you can conclude that the leaks are not real. Remember too that Disney is famous for their Fairytales. Star Wars IS a fairytale. That’s confirmed by J.J. and for their happy endings. So guys, breathe, relax, Ben’s not going to die. Or at least he is going to be healed by Rey. Reylo is and will always be a thing. We are going to have more Reylo scenes in TROS than TLJ and TFA reunited! Think about all the marketing stuff about Reylo though. Did you see this with the previous films? No. Because there was only a little Reylo in the film. DID YOU SEE THAT EVERY MARKETING TV SPOT THING THAT WE HAVE IS REYLO. Even Sheev ships them. So relax, everything’s going to be fine.

May the force be with you. Always.