MY G O D IT WAS A BLESSING AND A GIFT UNTO US ALL.

In all seriousness, though, I loved it.  It couldn’t have been better designed for me if they tried.  Brutal honesty about Doing What Needs To Be Done, desperate people fighting desperate wars, shouting matches between allies with laser-targeted accusations and grief-driven sharp tongues, bloody hands and buried sins.  

Basically, look, okay, here: if you read and liked the entire Animorphs series, this will be your jam.  If you prefer your heroes to be unsullied and clean (which, no judgement), maybe not.  But seriously, give it a try.

A couple other things:

• “Fiercely competent anti-fascist space Latinx with a robot best friend” is my new favorite weirdly specific trope, see also: Poe Dameron

• Jyn Erso grows so much over the movie she’s my daughter and I love her

• I want to wrap Bodhi Rook in blankets and put him down in front of Fantasia and cuddle him and feed him chocolate until he’s Happy, I’m a simple woman with simple needs

• Darth Vader is so hilariously Extra

• Krennic’s cape is a fucking tragedy

• “Welcome home” *bawls*
  

• Baze and Chirrut are married and have been for like thirty years, sorry I don’t make the rules