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roppuri · 6 years

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Star Wars The Last Jedi Review

I think i need to post this because i don’t understand all the hate, this movie is not perfect but i like it and i think it doesn’t deserve to get so much hate trust me at least they didn’t scream Martha to end the fight, lol jk jk

Spoilers, ofc

The Themes

SW TLJ was about failure, all of the characters were experiencing failure in this movie, all resistance’s plans were a total failure... Luke was failed to train Kylo... Rey was failed to invite Kylo etc

The Storytelling

Overall it divided in two parts, A (Leia, Poe, Rose, Finn) and B (Kylo, Rey, Luke)... i’ll say it... A was not good, the important goal of this A was to introduce Finn love interest named Rose (yes! love interest! alert for Finn x Rey shippers) i knew the theme was failure but this A ended up bad with poor storytelling, here’s why :

Finn and Rose were to find a man in flower pin to crack the code but ended up in jail and met random jail guy who could crack the code (LUL! that was some luck you had, in the end that flower pin guy wasn’t even needed and that random jail guy betrayed them)

Admiral Holdo didn’t even tell Poe why she chose to abandon the ship to go for base in the closest planet from the beginning sound very stupid for me (LUL! again, abandoned base... what a luck! and what’s so wrong about telling him?)

Casino’s point was to tell about Rose’s backstory but it delivered so bad because so many coincidences like point 1

btw, so many people complain about Leia’s sudden superman power but cmon man, Leia had force and she lived over 50+ years! there’s no way she couldn’t use the force, even when she was unconcious... she was meant to be badass here but ended up being flamed by a lot of people FeelsBadMan for the director

in the end Finn & Rose plan failed and they was being captured but with boom here and there they were magically survive, Poe looked very stupid for boycotting because he didn’t even know a thing about Admiral’s true plan and Admiral didn’t even want to tell him! and the kiss from Rose was so forced!.. yes, they could make Finn a love interest but not this fast! i couldn’t believe Rose in love with Finn after only first adventure.. im pretty sure there’s still Ep.9 ? hello.. ? amirite? im not defending this, this A is so bad in story telling... a bad part about the movie.

B, in contrast was good Kylo and Rey’s relationship progress here was the best part of this movie, trust me guys i didn’t even ship them in TFA but this movie, TLJ sold me that pairing, all of their conversations were pretty good, yin and yang reference, disney prince & princess reference, sexual tension almost in everything they did... (ok, perfect! i’ll make 3 possible endings : 1) make Kylo dead in Ep.9,redeem himself and we’ll get another ep.6 2) make Kylo and Rey dead together in Ep.9 and make shippers riot 3) make Kylo and Rey ended up together, marry, have kids and a lot of fans will say SW is a romantic disney princess movie, LUL jk.. just saying)

Rey’s parents were not an important person and im totally fine with that... remember Anakin? and again made a total contrast with his boyfriend, i mean Ben So.. Kylo Ren

A lot of people were angry about Luke’s characterization but i think he was fine... he was a human you know, he’s scared another Darth Vader appeared again and just for a bit he wanted to kill his own student, just for a sec.. but then he stopped, realized and regretted of what he has done...btw the first time he knew Darth Vader was his father, he can’t accept it y’know... why do you think he threw himself to the space? but then he realized there’s still a light inside him and want to take his father back, so what’s the difference between the first and the second one? Luke was not OOC at all, even when he’s being a coward but again this was very human for him, your hero was not flawless... your hero was a human.

Snoke and Phasma... eeeh, yes, they were a total waste in this movie but they didn’t even appealing to me ever since the TFA, i didn’t want 30min wasted for their backstory LUL i didn’t care... for me the main villain was Kylo than Snoke like Darth Vader than Palpatine and in the end Snoke & Palpatine were both killed by their apprentice LUL the only difference was just Kylo did it faster, i was OK with that because it seems like TLJ wanted to take a different turn for Ep.9

Final fight was ok, Luke was badass and Luke’s death was tolerable maybe for adding a plot twist which was actually unnecessary but hey you didn’t want your hero to be sliced in half right? his death was so peaceful and he'll become cooler when he become ghost anyway (Yodaa, Dumbledooore, GanDaaLF)

Overall Kylo and Rey saved this movie for me, fantastic movie? no. garbage movie? no, but it was enjoyable, it didn’t decrease my love for SW and i’ll definitely in for Ep.9 because of them

Long post, sorry for grammar, my English is bad etc etc... my opinion is super subjective, feel free to disagree but pls no flame, TY

the Reylo is too stronk, btw.. but Disney keep it PG-13 if not they’ll have sex already

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woop i guess here i go− does it ever bother u how they don't really ever quite explain what's going on with luke's illness other than "aAAAH he'S sUDDENLY in PAIN!!1!1!" and some sort of nerve damage and what not... not that it doesn't make it any less sadder... BUT!!! sometime ago i looked up the symptoms of nerve damage and apparently it says stuffs like sharp pains (which we see happen often to luke through out) BUT ALSO numbness, tingling, loss of muscle strength, and suddenly dropping stuff??? so i'm just wondering if you have any headcanons on luke's illness? DO YOU THINK HE'S JUST IN CONSTANT STINGING PAIN, AND HIS PAIN KILLERS ARE SO STRONG IT JUST NUMBS HIS WHOLE BODY??? OR DO YOU THINK HE ALTERNATES BETWEEN FEELING NUMB AND SUDDEN SHARP PAINS??? this has been my personal hc ever since jfjsjd i'm sorry you could see i'm a luke stan cause all luke stans are angst enjoyers /hj i just wanted to share my brain rot to the world thank you

hi anon!!! first off, i deffo wanna say uve come to the right place both abt luke hcs (because im a luke enjoyer first, a human being second) AND thoughts about his illness

tho i wouldnt say im bothered by how they dont explain the symptoms of his illness much since narratively, i can see how this would be necessary to maintain a certain amount of suspense on the NXX drug

however, ur so right in bringing up those other symptoms, bc ive got a bunch of thoughts and feelings about this!!

for context, i also have a longtime undiagnosed-after-years-of-tests neurological condition, but it's not serious and more just a lifetime inconvenience. i experience muscle myoclonus, which means that at any time without warning, my legs, arms, or neck can suddenly jerk into movement and ive actually got a bunch of those symptoms u mention haha!

but enough about that! lemme go thruuuuu

some of my thoughts/hcs on luke's illness

wc: 1.7k

before i start, this is whole thing is going to be mixing fiction (tot's story) and fact (IRL information on certain illnesses, medications, etc). the fiction bit is important because while tot describes luke's condition and shows us its effects, does Not name what it is, and the whole thing is still shrouded in a lot of mystery. but the fact bit is important because there are real conditions out there that are similar to what luke has, based on what we know.

among them, Fibromyalgia seems like the closest real world condition to what luke has got, but since it's not outright stated in canon, i'll be making some stuff up. still, it's important to me to have like, a somewhat sensible system in making stuff up, which is why im laying down all this ground work jhvjdhsfd, and because in the hc portion of this post i'll be riffing off of some of my own experience

anyhoo, let's REALLY start with what we already Know

what we know of luke's illness thus far from all the available story information from the global server

key words in that above title are "global server", because im aware that main story episode 9 in the cn server looks like it'll give us more info on this, but i dont like to or want to spoil myself for tot's future main story. so i'll be working within global server parameters!

so heres everything we know (...or rather, what i was able to remember in the course of me writing this response HAHA), as its been outright said and confirmed in canon:

luke's condition is currently diagnosed as terminal

luke's condition mostly manifests in sudden pain episodes that happen randomly and without warning. these pain episodes are not described to be coming from any specific body part, just that it's pain in general.

these pain episodes happen without any external trigger (i.e. luke doesnt have a pain episode when somebody bumps into him suddenly, but he can have a pain episode out of nowhere just doing something as passive as sitting or standing)

immediately after a pain episode, he takes his meds

these meds are analgesics (painkillers) and he was prescribed them by his previous doctor (the one who was handling luke and his condition before aaron)

even now that aaron has taken over as luke's primary physician, luke still takes painkillers immediately after any pain episode to manage the pain

luke's condition was caused by the NXX drug. after a mission where his team was attacked with toxic gas, he was the only survivor and the medicine he was given was somehow contaminated with the NXX substance

the NXX drug causes damage to the central nervous system, and luke's condition is confirmed to be related to his nervous system because in SSR Under The Milky Way, he describes his condition very specifically with the lines "[The contaminant] caused irreversible damage to my nervous system." and "[I] will constantly suffer from intermittent nerve pain."

hcs on The Experience Of The Condition

the main physical symptom we see in canon is pretty clear: sudden and randomly occurring debilitating pain. i like to think it's of the stinging variety!! but dialed up to 10000000 because it's always shown to be intense enough that always luke reacts to the pain. and luke's pain tolerance is High. in personal story 4, he didnt even flinch when mc was stitching up his gash, but he did double over in pain, trembling and shaking, when he got hit with one of the pain episodes.

in addition to the pain though, i totally second the motion on the symptoms of numbness, tingling, loss of muscle strength (which then leads him to train more to compensate for any loss, because luke is a madman with low self worth and one of his skills is his physical strength so he needs to keep that up for as long as he can), and suddenly dropping stuff, the ones you mention. a

those are my thoughts on possible physical symptoms. but with a condition as heavy as this, there will be psychological/emotional ramifications too

because of how tot's canon shows luke experiencing the Pain Symptom, the pain itself is put front and center. but personally i also think that the fact this symptom occurs Randomly, Suddenly, and Without Warning is on the same level of "oh god why this" as the pain

in general, not being able to know when your body is going to start working against you really really sucks! you cant prevent it, you cant avoid it, and you cant see it coming. sure you Can prepare for its random eventuality through out the day, which is what luke does by carrying around his painkillers everywhere with him, but even then, that only alleviates the specific instance currently happening and not the overall trend of It'll Happen Again! When? Secret....

it's hugely frustrating. in my case with involuntary movement, eventually i tried to constantly and impossibly try to expect it so that when it does happen, i dont knock over glass to the floor or fall down the stairs

but always trying to expect something you cant predict causes tension and anxiety.

luke's condition is much more severe and painful than my quirk. so keeping a mental background program, so to speak, always running and looking out for a pain episode of his condition must suck bigtime.

because he'll basically always be bracing himself for pain, even when nothing is happening.

and on a metaphorical level, being constantly braced for pain even when things are fine is something luke does A Lot. luke is always worried and preparing for worst case scenarios, luke is always trying to think ahead to have various backup plans to ensure people's safety, and luke seems more used to pain and bad things than he is prepared for happiness and good things.

bracing himself for pain gives luke a semblance of control over something that is terrifyingly out of his control completely. at least if hes always thinking about its inevitability, he'll have things that can help mediate its effects. but the price for that control is a constant tension and dread building inside of him every second, because hes always waiting for the other shoe to drop

my ideal hope for luke's story when a kind of treatment for his condition is found

i dont actually want for the condition to be completely cured. like, dont get me wrong, i obviously want the Terminal aspect of his condition treated because i love him and want him to live a long and happy life, but i dont want all of his symptoms gone. personally, i'd find it much more compelling narratively if his condition is treated and will no longer kill him in a few years, but still causes him pain that needs to be managed with meds and other treatments. and why i want this is because:

1 ) given the sheer struggle of his condition in the story thus far AND the fact that luke himself literally said the damage done to his nervous system is Irreversible, having a medical miracle like that happen feels a teensy bit like a deus ex machina to me. (sidenote: ofc, ur free to disagree with me! and feel free to disagree with this whole post in general, we've all got different opinions and thats chill)

2 ) in general with stories, i am less drawn to super neat resolutions and im more drawn to resolutions that are more like "and things werent perfect and they never will be, there will always be problems, but our characters will be okay and theyll keep getting better and better, and it's in this push and pull of struggle and learning and progress and getting through where their happiness lies"

ever since luke was a kid, even before he developed his condition, hes had the fear of being a burden to his loved ones. and when he does get his terminal condition, this fear is worsened and he starts to see his existence in other people's lives as a whole as a burden of pain and grief that isnt worth the trouble. and...i dunno, i just like the idea of him continuing to live but also continuing to have these problems that still spark fear inside of him and still take so much work to manage every day. and out of habit, he braces himself for pain, not just for the kind his condition gives him but from Life because Surely, His Loved Ones Will Get Tired Of All Of This, Of Him and The Problems He Comes With, Right?

but surprise surprise, they dont. because they care about him. because this should not and is not a dealbreaker for them continuing to care about him.

aaron creates treatment thats more on the preventative maintenance meds angle so luke doesnt have to just wait for a pain episode to pop up and then dry swallow painkillers every time. it's not infallible , but sometimes luke can have hours, even a whole a day sometimes where the pain hes bracing himself for doesnt come.

mc always reminds luke to take his meds whenever luke gets too busy or caught up in a case. he worries at first that it's an inconvenience to her for her to have to remember his routines for him just in case, but that worry becomes quieter as luke realizes she reminds him in the same tone as she says "good morning" or "have you had lunch yet? wanna join me?", just this casual and loving thing thats now integrated into both their lives

the team are always ready to help too in their own way. when luke gets a pain episode in hq, marius offers distraction in the form of idle chatter on (harmless) internal pax gossip while luke waits for his painkillers to dull down the stinging. when luke feels uncomfortable tingling crawling across his whole body while out with vyn, vyn subtly helps luke move from a crowded area to a quieter one where outside stimuli cant further overwhelm luke's senses. when it's a bad grip strength day and all luke wants to do is punch something and fuck his useless hands up even more, artem tells luke about custom silicone grips that exist for things like pens or knives or such and that they could look for some next time they go shopping.

it is not perfect. but luke's life, even with the pain, is still worth living. everybody is trying to help and eventually, luke learns how to start helping him self along with them too.

soooo yea theres my thoughts!! thanks for the ask, anon :D

#tears of themis #luke pearce #tot luke #xia yan #sorry this ask took forever for me to answer btw huhu...im always ded these days orz #asks #anon

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