Rogue One Spoilers Ahead
So that last scene on the beach, with Jyn and Cassian holding each other as the wave of the Death Star’s blast rolls in…
I have some thoughts about this.
Specifically, I noticed that, even though they could have just leaned into each other and held hands or touched foreheads or even just had their shoulders to the blast, they didn’t. Jyn is holding Cassian tight to her, looking directly over his shoulder into the wave of oncoming light, and he looks back over hers, away from the water.
And, see, throughout the first two thirds of the movie, prior to Jyn rallying to the Alliance cause after her father’s death, the thing that distinguishes her from the other characters is that she’s willing to close her eyes to the threat, to not look up at the Imperial flags. Cassian, on the other hand, is entirely defined by the fact that, to be blunt, he’ll look at the war head-on and do the dirty work, he’ll spy and kill and manipulate because it has to be done.
And I think it says a lot that, upon their deaths, they fly in the face of those character traits. With Cassian at her side, Jyn has the strength and pride in herself to look straight into the blast wave bringing her death and smile. And with Jyn beside him, Cassian can look away and close his eyes and pretend that everything will be okay.
full offense but the scene of baze malbus holding chirrut imwe and begging him not to go is a more iconic love scene than anything nicholas sparks has ever touched sorry i don’t make the rules
leupagus:
rookbodhi:
alternative ways to say “i love you”: star wars edition
- i know
- keep it, it suits you
- we came back for you
- i don’t need luck - i have you
- do you think somebody’s out there?
- i do
(Source: kellymarietran, via wildehacked)
For @littlestartopaz: What would have happened if Leia was sent to
Tatooine and Luke to Alderaan?
This sounds like an excuse for my very favorite thing:
blatantly strong-in-the-Force Jedi Leia.
I was gonna do headcanons but instead HERE is the first scene of Leia
Skywalker of Tatooine finding some old asshole in a brown robe. *backflips out*
Leia scowled at the old man—Ben Kenobi, her ass—and the droid at her knee warbled happily.
“You lied,” Leia said. The sweet-faced boy draped in white robes on
the recording had asked for an Obi-wan,
but Kenobi’s aren’t exactly a dime a dozen since the old homestead was
annihilated by the Tuskens. She can do
the math.
“From a certain point of view,” Kenobi said
with a shrug, smiling down at the droid.
“The boy on the recording–”
[Prince Luke Organa of Alderaan]
the droid offered.
“—very helpful, thanks, Prince Luke said you
were his only hope,” Leia said, prowling forward. “What exactly qualifies you for that, old man?”
Kenobi looked up at her with a start at that,
blinking pale blue eyes at her, and gave a brittle half-laugh. “You’re very much like your father, when I
knew him,” he said distantly. And then
he launched into an epic tale about Jedi and her father and Leia stood, feeling
shock shiver through her. She had known
that her father was a general, but a Jedi?
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