Stars at War: The Force's Alarm Clock

[dhampyresa]

So I saw La Guerre des Étoiles: Le Réveil de la Force again. You may know this better at Star Wars: The Force Awakens. French movie rebranding strikes again!

I've seen it twice, once in 2D, once in 3D, both times in English with French subtitles. Quite frankly, I liked the 2D better than the 3D, for two reasons: 1, the lenses for the 3D glasses were smaller than the lenses for my prescription glasses and 2, I was in the front row for the 2D.

I was in the front row and then the music started blaring and I was suddenly five years old again. But it was better, because it was on the big screen and there's so many women and and and...

Well, I liked it a lot. But then again, I've never considered myself a Star Wars fan. I like the prequels -- pretty sure the last time I saw a Star Wars movie was III, in theaters. I ent to see this one because it's been ages since I saw some space opera on the big screen and I am weak in front of pretty pictures. Bottom line: I am Not An Expert TM.

Anyway, I liked it a lot!

In case anyone is curious about tu/vous distinctions in the subtitles: Rey calls everyone tu right away (except Han, Kylo Ren and very briefly Finn*), Poe and Finn call each other tu on sight, the only unequal tu/vous are Han calling Finn and Rey tu while they call him vous and Kylo Ren calling Rey tu while she calls him vous (WAY TO BE A CREEP DUDE). I can't think of anything else off-hand, but if anyone wants to know about any of them, just ask.

THERE'S A GIRL JEDI! :D

Let me repeat: THERE'S A GIRL JEDI! That moment when the lightsabre flies into her hand? My heart soared.

This is the Star Wars I wish I'd seen as a child. THERE'S A GIRL JEDI. There's General Organa. There's the female officers of the Resistance and the First Order. There's Phasma and that female X-Xing pilot. There's Maz Kanata. There's so many women!

Rey is so great. SO GREAT! She's amazing. She's resourceful and kind and brash and smart and stubborn as hell and doesn't afraid of anything. I would love her even if she'd never become a Jedi, but I can't deny that my inner child is still going GIRL JEDI! :D! GIRL JEDIIIIIIII! GIRL JEDI! GIRL JEDI! GIRL JEDI! :DDDDD

Then there's Finn, who decided to be his own person. He decided to be his own person and not who everyone wanted him to be, because that was the right thing to do. (And he needed a pilot; that was a good plan, btw.)

There's BB8 who is super cute and opiniated and cares so much.

There's Poe, who takes time to reassure his droid that everything will be fine and who thinks escaping from Kylo Ren is a totally rad adventure and who blithely gives his jacket away to a near stranger.

There's Leia who is a general and so badass and also kind of a Jedi? She Gets Shit Done, it's great.

Kylo Ren is such a failboat and kind of space!Hamlet, tbh. Acts like a teenager, is supposedly 30 (?!).This comparaison makes the lack of ghost!Anakin in the movie even more peculiar. But I'm sure there's great mileage to be had out of Alas, poor Vader, I knew him, Hux, a fellow of most infinite Dark Side

I just really enjoyed the movie.

What I haven't enjoyed so far is the fandom. Idk if it's because it's the first time in ages I'm somewhat invested in a megafandom, but I keep coming across people trying to tell other people how to do fandom. YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO. If I see one more anti-Rey/Kylo Ren screed, I will fucking writing some. Don't you try me, I have a canon-divergent premise that's perfect for it. (No, but seriously, are these people new to fandom? People have hero/villain ships, big whoop.)

Anyway, I'm not sure yet if I want to write fic for it. Me being me, I feel like every idea I have is about 90° off what everyone else wants to read so *shrugs*. (But it would be hilarious if Luke had been training secret Jedis on his island planet because too many Skywalkers spoil the soup Force, I am just saying.)

* Rey first calls Finn tu, then vous for the very brief period between him saying he's Resistance and when he grabs her hand, then back to tu again.

tl;dr: GIRL JEDI :D!

Yeah, I liked it a lot. Idk about fic, but I really want to go draw fem!Kylo Ren, that's one hell of an outfit.

Comments

[yuuago]

I was gonna write a thing about it, but then I forgot, but that's okay because your thoughts are basically my thoughts. u3ub

Also AHHH YES another person who loves the idea of fem!Kylo Ren! Yay!

[dhampyresa]

Your thoughts are good thoughts, mate. <3

I am very tempted to write fic in which Kylo Ren is a woman, just because. (Sith!Rey/Jedi!fem!Ren? Idk.)

[morbane]

I'm in a weird position where I didn't like it, but there were enough things I liked about it that I'm quite enjoying reading people's positive reviews.

I loved failboat Kylo Ren, and your description of Poe makes me grin.

Can we please have the crossover where Jupiter and Rey team up to save the galaxy? Because that is one Feudal Lady/ Lady Knight ship I could really get behind.

[ashen_key]

Can we please have the crossover where Jupiter and Rey team up to save the galaxy? Because that is one Feudal Lady/ Lady Knight ship I could really get behind.





YES. *________________________________*

[dhampyresa]

Am I wrong about Poe, though? AM I WRONG?

OMG YES I ship it already.

[isis]

SPACE HAMLET! Heeee!

[dhampyresa]

TO SITH OR NOT TO SITH

[yhlee]

I enjoyed it a lot, and I was also happy to see a girl Jedi and more female characters all around.

How did Leia and Rey address each other, do you remember?

[dhampyresa]

GIRL JEDI :D! But also, GENERAL LEIA ORGANA :D!

Hm. I can't remember them adressing each other, actually. NO WAIT Leia says "Que la Force soit avec toi" to Rey at the very end.

[yhlee]

Ah, cool. Merci bien!

[dhampyresa]

Given that Rey vouvoie Finn while she thinks he's in the Resistance (until they get closer), I would say she vouvoie Leia too, but I have no hard evidence.

[hokuton_punch]

ALL YOUR STAR WARS THOUGHTS ARE GOOD, YES. ♥ Ahh, I need to go see it again so badly...

[dhampyresa]

STARS WARS WITH GIRL JEDIS AND WOMEN GENERALS

I want to see it again soo, tbh.

[ashen_key]

GIRL JEDI GIRL JEDI GIRL JEDI

:D
:D :DDDDD

[dhampyresa]

I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

I still randomly go "girl jedi?" "GIRL JEDI :D!" internally, lmao.

[alasse_irena]

I had fun with it, but I also felt like there were a few too many wide shots of the Millennium Falcon for the sake of nostalgia and such like. I spent a fair bit of time in the cinema thinking, "Yes, trust us. We *have* seen the other movies. We *are* having childhood flashbacks. No need to be so heavy handed about it."

But yes, the presence of girl Jedi was very exciting, and child!me would've been so into Rey, and spent undoubtedly a large amount of time fighting with her sister about who got to be Rey in the pretend games and who had to be girl!Finn or girl!Poe.

I especially loved the fact that the three main characters spent so much time complimenting each other. Every time they did something that worked out, the other one would come around like, "That was amazing!" and then, "No, you were amazing!" "Wow, we were both amazing, check it out!"

I don't know that I'd write fic about it, but I'm pretty sure that whatever you've got in mind is the kind of fic I'd be willing to read. =P

[dhampyresa]

That was my feeling on first watch, but on second watch I could just enjoy it.

I was Darth Vader when we played at Star Wars with my brother, lmao. Death scenes are fun, okay.

Yes! I loved how supportive of each other everyone was.

APPARENTLY I am writing Sith!Rey/fem!Jedi!Kylo Ren to start with (yeah, I saw one more anti-Rey/Kylo Ren screed). I may end up writing gen h/c in the AU where Han does convince Kylo to defect on Starkiller Base (and then he has to train Rey while undergoing trial AND EVERYTHING IS AWKWARD) and/or crack fic where Rey gets to join Luke's two/three current apprentices, who may or may not know Luke is teaching the Force.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

C'est vraiment une tendance bizarre de Tumblr d'être tellement pro-justice sociale que cela en devient tyrannique. Perso, je shippe le fluff plutôt que le angst, mais ce n'est pas le cas de tout le monde ! Et oui, Kylo Ren est creepy, mais Rey/Kylo Ren m'est passé par la tête en voyant le film. Certaines femmes aiment les bad boys en fiction, tout comme certaines femmes aiment les vampires en fiction (je pense à Twilight, mais maintenant je vois aussi des gens qui critiquent Angel/Buffy et Spike/Buffy, WTF ???).

Finn/Poe love ! ♥_♥ Ils sont shiny tout plein.

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

Je t'avouerais que le angst est plus mon rayon (quelle surprise!), mais le fluff c'est bien sympa aussi. Ce qui me surprend aussi c'est cette idée qu'on ne peut avoir qu'un seul ship par fandom, genre WTF les gens WTF. /multishipper en puissance

Et puis merde fandom c'est censé être fun.

Poe ne ferait jamais d'infidélités à BB8! JAMAIS, tu m'entends! (Blague à part, c'est vrai qu'ils sont shiny, que se soit ensemble ou séparés.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

Mais BB8 aime bien regarder, en fait. XD

Tiens, j'ai pensé à toi pendant le dernier épisode de The Expanse, car un vaisseau s'appelait Scipio Africanus.

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

Mais tout s’explique!

*rajoute un point dans la catégorie "Raisons de regarder The Expanse"*

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Kylo Ren is such a failboat and kind of space!Hamlet, tbh. Acts like a teenager, is supposedly 30 (?!).This comparaison makes the lack of ghost!Anakin in the movie even more peculiar. But I'm sure there's great mileage to be had out of Alas, poor Vader, I knew him, Hux, a fellow of most infinite Dark Side
Haha, yes, that's so perfect. He's totally like a confused darkside space Hamlet.

That's interesting about how they translated the pronouns! I never though about that. Is vous the more formal pronoun? (My second-language classes were for Spanish, so we learned tu and usted.)

I feel like every idea I have is about 90° off what everyone else wants to read
I feel like that, too! I'm not super invested in most of the ships, and I just want, like, gen h/c? Or modern AUs, which are usually not my thing, but I'd really like to see how Rey being kind of a techie loner from the desert would translate to a modern Earth setting.

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I know, right? It's like, "Dude, Good is supposed to be the hard one, here".

"Vous" is both the formal second person pronoun and the plural second pronoun.

I actually have an idea for some gen awkward h/c (...i think, I am mad at h/c) so it's good to know there would be an audience.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

...i think, I am mad at h/c
How so?

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I meant to say "bad", sorry. I'm just not sure how h/c works or what the appeal is.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Oh, haha, that makes a lot more sense.