Why on earth did Johnson bring up the possibility of a romance between Rey and Kylo Ren, when just a few days earlier, he had tried to penetrate her mind against her will and kill her? Was Rey supposed to quickly forget this, because the director wanted to hint this possibility of romance?
Yes, because the twisted idea of Rey being with a character who was a psychotic killer from the start (there's no "fall" from any moral identity for Ren) is preferable to the lone black male who has been reduced to a clown now unnaturally linked to Rose.
So? Must every fairy tale trope be checked off?
For a traditionalist creation like
Star Wars...yes. That's what made the OT/PT work.
Yes, Lucas did intend for shades of gray, with a good guy
But that guy is not Obi-Wan. He's one of the few morally upright characters in the OT or PT.
Fair enough. I misread it.
No worries.
She did value it above all else until Anakin came along. It didn't feel natural. It felt forced.
Padme had her duty, but that did not mean she did not have other feelings or desires. As with anyone, it take the right person to bring that out in another, and for Padme, it was Anakin.
That argument proceeds from false assumption and concludes in error.
Nonsense. There are some SW/fantasy fans who created endless, hollow excuses why Finn & Rey (the only characters with true chemistry in this ST) should not be together, but aggressively argue Rey should be with Ren and/or Poe--for no good reason. That lack of any legitimate justification is an age-old resentment of a white female romantically involved with a black male.
And that's a load of garbage. People ship all characters, from Frodo/Thorin, to Princess Peach and Master Chief. It's not "buried." It's barely registered and we haven't seen the conclusion of the film! Yet, the assumptions abound...absurd.
Bull. This is a trilogy and its
two films in, so the point:
Yes--a homicidal dictator or a guy she barely knows...instead of the one character that naturally bonded with her not only as a friend, but--if you look at her expression as Finn is pulling the sheet on Rose / her message to Chewbacca which (despite no on-screen translation) would not be retreading a message of a friendship both she and Finn already know exists. Nope--that's all buried with one Poe scene and fantasies that Rey will "save" Ren in time for the two to become an item.
There's no defending this calculated crap; Kathleen Kennedy, et al., created the paper thin Rose only to give some "excuse" why the natural chemistry brought to a white female character and black male character would be kicked to the curb, then yes--buried--while trying to suggest some connection between Rey and a homicidal dictator, or some other man she does not know at all.
Also, why can't they just be friends? Why most Rey be in a romance? Why must any of them?
Again--the
Star Wars traditional fairy tale format used in two completed trilogies . This is not some other series where any random crap just happens, or change occurs for the hell of it. Romance is one of the central motivators in those trilogies, not a minor, expendable matter. This should be apparent to anyone knowing how Star Wars films (in the complete trilogies) work.
