I was gripping my husbands arm when we were in the theaters watching it. I was so excited when he offered his hand, like internally screaming in excitement.
Crushing 
“Luke would have never have done that”
Idk man. Except for all those times in the original trilogy and old legacy eu stories where he flirted with the dark side and made horrible mistakes
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Is a wonderful breakdown of why I enjoy The Last jedi so much.
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I would have loved it if she had said “spare my friends and I’ll join you” and he agreed to let the rebels go. That would have been an understandable reason for Rey to agree to become a dark side apprentice!
Heck, this could be the moment we finally see the teachings of the dark side (I know its been explored in outside materials like books and games but not in the movies, where the Sith have always been flat, boring villains for the sake of it.)
Maybe have a scene where Kylo brings her to see the captured Finn and he is so horrified to see his friend join the life he fought so hard to escape… the dramaaaa
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Awww, this scene idea breaks my heart. Poor Finn can’t get a break.
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This right here is why people keep perking their ears up.
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Reblog with your out of universe gender
Because I’m pretty confident that the way it was written was for Rey to be expressly powerful without any care for an explanation. Namely the scene where she’s able to use a Mind Trick, which, again, is not as easy as she makes it look.
It wouldn’t be questionable if they at least alluded to some form of training.
And Luke learns to call back his lightsaber on Hoth without any training because he’s about to be eaten by a big furry snow monster. Yet for some mysterious reason, you repeatedly get hung up on female characters needing explicit justification for what they’re able to do before they’re ever allowed to do it.
You have an insane double-standard, guy.
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This is why I didn’t want to bring up Star Wars here because we’ve completely derailed the thread at this point, but fine, okay.
He did have training. He was trained by Obi-Wan, albeit very briefly.
This was after they left Tatooine, before the destruction of Alderaan.
You were fine with talking about it for the past few hours. What changed?
I notice you bring topics up, ride with them until you start getting criticized, then start accusing people of derailing. That’s rather un-critical thinking.
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Because me responding to it has caused us to discuss it for the past few hours.
This thread has transformed to “why are you upset about Shadowlands” to discussing Rey.
When did Obi-Wan teach him anything about moving things with his mind? I must’ve missed that scene, because he just put a helmet on him and taught him to block laser bolts.
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That’s circular logic. You can’t indulge a derailment and then declare that it’s derailing once it becomes inconvenient for you. You chose to talk about Star Wars. Now you don’t want to anymore?
< me watching Empire for the first time >
God, this Star Wars agenda is insufferable. They just gave Luke that power out of NOWHERE because he’s a guy. Sorry George Lucas, but I’m gonna need you to make Luke earn this new power that he’s never seen before, Force push is an advanced technique that requires at least a year of training.
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how did luke know how to hit people with the blue glowing part
what kind of mary sue is this
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why goku hair yellow
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asking the tough questions
Count Dooku was one of the most skilled lightsaber duelists of the entire Jedi Order, but sure, okay, Anakin is able to defeat him in Episode 3 because he’s strong in the Force. And we never hear anything about how he’s been training with Yoda every single day since Episode 2!
I’m so sick of these inexplicably powerful male characters.
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Deathwing was the most powerful dragon to ever devastate Azeroth, but sure, okay, Thrall can just use the power of friendship to destroy him.
I really wish Blizzard would stop shoving this agenda down our throats.
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