I Have Wanted To Say This For Awhile And Now Im Going To Say It.

I have wanted to say this for awhile and now I’m going to say it.

By saying that Rey’s parents sold her into slavery to protect her in TRoS they went from drunks/addicts looking for their next fix that did something morally reprehensible for their addiction on one level or another we could understand that they were sick and while being sick didn’t justify or make them selling their daughter into slavery any less horrific we have real world examples of people doing horrible things that they normally wouldn’t do to feed their addictions.

Now instead of being addicts with a terrible, yet sadly understandable, excuse they knowingly and willfully sell their daughter into slavery to “protect” her from Sidious and those searching for her; knowing full well that she would be starved, beaten and might meet an early death due to mistreatment. It’s just as morally reprehensible as before the retcon without the understanding that they were sick and their addictions were more important than their child.

Honestly I prefer the alcoholic/drug addicts parents to the supposed noble parents that sacrificed themselves for her.

If they wanted to make her parents noble they SHOULD have had her parents leave her with another couple and after some time the couple she had been left with sold her for money to feed their addictions.

There, you have noble parents yet don’t make them horrible parents by having them be the ones that sold her into slavery.

I am not justifying addicts behavior in any way; just saying that when you’re addicted you do things that you normally wouldn’t do to feed it.

Anon, I have been a Star Wars Fan for years; at least since I was twelve and I will be 32 on my birthday so that twenty years, give a year or so and I left TRoS feeling gutted. It was like I imagine getting punched in the gut feels like.

I talked with my Mom, who knows about my obsession, because I was really upset and she helped me pit it in perspective: I have dedicated almost, if not slightly more than, twenty years to a franchise, naming two cats after my favorite characters, Mara and Ahsoka, read a ton of the Legends Books, I used to have almost two full shelves on my bookcase dedicated to just Star Wars before Disney bought Lucasfilm than I donated them to the Library Book Sale because emotionally I was done with Legends, especially after the LotF Series ended, so it wasn’t unexpected to feel disappointed in how the main series of movies ended.

Also my two younger brothers hate TRoS, never asked what they hated about it because I was still emotionally raw over it and felt that my Mom would appreciate us not grumbling over the ending of a movie on Christmas.

My older brother said that he liked it and mocked me ‘not wanting to talk about it’. I became so mad with him for not dropping the matter I wanted to throw my son’s baby food at him but instead fixed him with a death glare and finally answered his question about why I hated the movie.

Also at some point I yelled for my Mom because he was getting on my nerves.

You’re not alone Anon or anyone else that was dissatisfied with TRoS for whatever reason.

So, I'm a TLJ shipper. And after TROS, many of the longterm SW fans around me were pretty happy with TROS, while I felt gutted. So I wonder if maybe I'm not a SW fan after all, that I don't "get" SW? Maybe TLJ was the only SW movie for me because it was Rian (and I've loved all of Rian's other movies) writing the story, but SW might not be for me? I don't know. I've just been feeling the "You're not a real fan if you didn't cry when they showed Tatooine" pretty intensely

Given the Rotten Tomatoes score for this film is Certified Rotten at 52% (it went down since last time I looked at it a few weeks ago, it used to be 55%), I would say that most people with sense did not like this movie and you are by far the only one who didn’t ‘get’ it. People who think Star Wars is a series of nostalgic locations with no connective story tissue or context are not the people you should allow to gatekeep your SW experience. 

The Tattoine scene is one of the shallowest things put to film and I wonder why any ‘true’ fan would think Tatooine was an appropriate place to ‘honor’ the Skywalkers when Anakin and his mother were enslaved here, Anakin watched his mother die there and slaughtered a whole village there, Luke’s aunt and uncle were murdered by the Empire there, and Han was held in carbonite there, and Leia was enslaved there. Even as it relates to Luke, Tatooine was the backwater hellhole he wanted to escape. That’s the actual purpose of the twin suns scene in ANH– Luke longing for adventure away from a planet of deadness and no opportunity. “If there’s a bright center to the galaxy, you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from.” 

It sounds to me like anyone with an actual appreciation of what the Skywalkers went through on Tatooine would be horrified that TROS thinks this is some ‘beautiful’ resting place for them when it’s a place they all wanted to escape. Their blind obsession with nostalgia at the cost of character integrity doesn’t make them better fans than you.

The fact that TROS was a nostalgic circlejerk designed to appease redditbros who are more concerned about battleship trivia and hOw a rANdoM WOmAN CouLD bE So PoWERFul instead of telling a meaningful story that refreshed and rejuvenated the fanbase by moving forward away from the iconography of the past and inviting new fans in is their failure, not yours.

Am I a fake fan because I hate TROS?

He even declares that the Force is more powerful than the Desth Star. The Jedi liked to say just how powerful the Force is; Yoda basically repeats the sentiment to Luke: size matters not.

“Be Careful What You Ask For.”

Cross Stitch is the OG Pixel Art with the added bonus of accidentally stabbing yourself with a needle and maybe leave a drop of blood behind.

cross stitch is just pixel art on fabric, reblog if you’re not a coward

This was years ago but I became so emotionally distraught over a fan fic that I couldn’t eat and couldn’t sleep for 24 hours.

My throat would close up every time I tried to eat.

I had wanted to read more of it and follow it to the conclusion with hopes of everything being made right but it wasn’t worth the toll it was going to take on my body.

We get invested in characters and it hurts when bad things happen to them; even in fan fics.

As for people that I don’t know personally there are people that I only know over the Internet that I will go to war for if I learn that they are being mistreated by someone.

When I learned that someone was posting fan fic stuff based off of someone I lurk on and feed their muse on occasion Headcanons and stuff that they post and not crediting them I was already to go to war and when I learned that that the thief had set up a patreon account so people could pay them for it I was livid and promptly went to get the information that I needed to give to my Internet Friend so that they could report them to patreon for abuse.

They didn’t want to so I let things lie because I recognized that I was flipping mad and out for blood and didn’t want to upset them any further by doing it myself because there would be malice in it: I would be reporting them for hurting a friend and the fact that they were breaking the rules would be the small secondary reason.

For all of you who need to hear this

The only time that I doubted that the Rebels would be successful in securing the Death Star Plans was that corridor scene.

I almost fully expected that datacard to be destroyed only for us to learn that there was another copy that made it to safety or that another ship got the transmission which is how Leia got the plans.

Fun Fact: in the original novelization of the first Star Wars movie Darth Vader appears when the fighting was still at the hatch and the Rebel Troops fled in terror.