Poe was not a spice smuggler!!!
I just watched tros, and i liked it. But one thing really angered me, and it was jjs total disregard for Poe’s (CANON) backstory. It is evident that jj did not read the Poe Dameron or Shattered Empire comics, and now casual fans who do not consume any canon other than the movie will not know the truth.
He was NOT A SPICE SMUGGLER!! Both of his parents were rebel heroes who were key fighters in the war against the empire. His mother, Shara Bey was an A-wing pilot (one of the best in the galaxy) who was in charge of protecting the falcon during the battle of Endor and who assisted Luke in the retrieval of a force tree. (Luke gifter her with a force tree which she planted in her home in Yavin-4) and fought with Leia in Naboo. Poe’s dad, commander Kes Dameron was a land fighter who fought alongside Han and Rex in Endor. After the war, they settled in Yavin-4 raised Poe in peace. (You can read about this in the Shattered Empire comics)
Poe grew up in Yavin-4, where Shara taught him to fly in her A-wing from a young age. He joined the New Republic Navy as a pilot when he was of age, and when he learned about what the First Order was doing, he left the New Republic Navy and joined Leia in the Resistance early on. (Leia was basically like an aunt to him, it is implied) (you can read more about him in the Resistance and his backstory in the Poe Dameron comics)
Now JJ set him up as a spice smuggler!!!. Which erases his amazing and important backstory. What i expect will happen now is that we will get a new comic to fix it up telling the story of how he posed as a spice smuggler while undercover for a Resistance mission. This is very likely and will be an easy mistake to fix, considering he was really active Resistance member who went on countless missions. In one of those missions, where he had to take on the false identity of a spice smuggler, he met Zori. Due to his high Resistance rank, he could not risk revealing his true identity to her, and they formed this bond under the false ilusion of his identity. Eventually, when he completed the mission he had to abandon the spice rink.
That is all for today, may the force be with you
(EDIT:) i found out that in the vidual dictionary they said that he joined the spice runners after Shara died as an act of rebellion. I still think this is out of character and in the previous canon he just went str8 to the navy
Poe’s The Raven reads a little differently if you know what ravens are actually like. There’s about a 90% chance that there was nothing supernatural going on with that guy in particular, and the raven was just fucking with him – ravens would absolutely give people existential crises for fun if they knew how.
why didn’t hux just go with poe and finn and chewie instead of stay and get shot like he’s not stupid he knows he’s going to be found out as the spy and if he rly doesn’t care who wins he can just leave with them like can u believe we were really THAT CLOSE to getting our fanon resistance!hux
how fun would that be
poe and hux bantering, poe calling him hugs again, hux pulling some smart manoeuvre at the battle of exogol, hux and finn both starting a stormtrooper revolution
the absolute WASTE jj. thanks for killing off all the characters you could have done a million brilliant things with.
- Altered Carbon: Humans think of AI’s as little more than rogue computur programs and will be totally unwilling to form meaningful bonds with them or empathise with them on any level
- Altered Carbon Fans: We care about 1 emotional support goth poet AI, and if you make him cry one more time we will kill eveyone in this hotel and then ourselves
Fritz Eichenberg (October 24, 1901 – November 30, 1990)
German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. (Wikipedia)
From our stacks: Illustrations from Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. With an Introduction By Hervey Allen and Wood Engravings By Fritz Eichenberg. New York: Random House, 1944.
- Half in Half (12/15)
Prompt: One half light, the other dark. Divided by your differences, your brother went from your other half to the man who killed your father. You once refused to lose hope, refused to let Ben go. With walls built around yourself, can Poe break them down?
Based off of: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.
Pairing: Poe Dameron x Solo!Reader
Other parts:
Force Awakens: one - two - three - four - five
The Last Jedi: one - two - three - four - five
Rise of Skywalker: one - two - three - four - fiveNotes: This is a whole lot longer then I thought it’d be, so enjoy everyone. Things get angsty and into the root of it all, finally. I’m just so excited for these next parts to come – I literally cannot contain my excitement. And the fact that there’s only THREE parts left????? I feel like I literally just started this series lol.
Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. I’m super proud of it so please make sure to let me know what you thought of it.
Send me a little comment in the ask section or leave it below on what you thought of this chapter. As usual, I hope you all enjoyed!
Please don’t plagiarize my work!
“What is this?”
- Half in Half (13/15)
Prompt: One half light, the other dark. Divided by your differences, your brother went from your other half to the man who killed your father. You once refused to lose hope, refused to let Ben go. With walls built around yourself, can Poe break them down?
Based off of: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.
Pairing: Poe Dameron x Solo!Reader
Other parts:
Force Awakens: one - two - three - four - five
The Last Jedi: one - two - three - four - five
Rise of Skywalker: one - two - three - four - fiveNotes: Another long ass part, lol. It’s over eight thousand words and delves into a lot of things, so strap yourselves in for a journey!
Send me a little comment in the ask section or leave it below on what you thought of this chapter. As usual, I hope you all enjoyed!
Please don’t plagiarize my work!
In the darkness of the night, your cries are what interrupt the silence.
- Half in Half (14/15)
Prompt: One half light, the other dark. Divided by your differences, your brother went from your other half to the man who killed your father. You once refused to lose hope, refused to let Ben go. With walls built around yourself, can Poe break them down?
Based off of: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.
Pairing: Poe Dameron x Solo!Reader
Other parts:
Force Awakens: one - two - three - four - five
The Last Jedi: one - two - three - four - five
Rise of Skywalker: one - two - three - four - fiveNotes: I literally couldn’t wait to post this tomorrow because something that i’ve been waiting for since the FIRST PART FINALLY HAPPENED and… I won’t spoil it, but i’m just too excited. So please, please let me know what you all think because even if this isn’t my longest chapter, i’m really proud of it :)
Send me a little comment in the ask section or leave it below on what you thought of this chapter. As usual, I hope you all enjoyed!
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Biting your lip, you stare ahead of you.
The Rise of Skywalker Movie Review
SPOILER ALERT. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN TROS, LOOK AWAY NOW.
Okay. So, it’s 2am, I got back from the movie about an hour ago, and I have feelings I can’t sleep on, so here they are.
Overall the movie was pretty great but there’s just oneeee little thing that’s bugging me and it’s the matter of Kylo Ren.
I will preface this by saying that Kylo Ren is my favorite character and everything I say after this will be biased as shit. Because I love Kylo Ren and I love that Ren turned out to be one big romantic. And now it’s canon that he’s spent three entire movies chasing after his literal soul mate. He’s a Disney Prince. I don’t care what anyone says. He makes Prince Eric and Prince Charming look like little bitches. Does your boyfriend chase you through literal galaxies, ForceTime you every chance he gets, propose to you multiple times even though you keep saying no, and then crawl out of a hole to save you even after you stabbed him in the stomach, crashed his ship with him in it, then torched his second one? I didn’t think so. Here’s looking at you, Li Shang. You’re the closest but Kylo Ren literally died for Rey.
Personally, I think the strongest part of TROS was the Rey/Kylo relationship. Everything else was sort of all over the place because I think the scope of the film was too big. Rey/Kylo worked because it was intimate and relatable. This is why the end was a slight betrayal. Kylo has been searching for love and acceptance his whole life from someone who’s not afraid of him. He was abused by Snoke and Palpatine, and then his own uncle tried to murder him. He has trauma on trauma. He finally meets Rey and he goes from a Darth Vader fanboy with delusions of grandeur to a whole ass clown reaalllll quick. And Rey, the poor little orphan Annie, wanted to know her parents and not be so damn lonely. She then meets Kylo and it’s all sex eyes, phallic lightsaber duels, and intergalactic pining from there.
Their prayers were answered AF at the revelation that they have literal soul mates. They are two halves of a whole. Dyads. Twin flames. Aristotle said that “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” That’s literally wtf was going on between them! And yes, this is all canon. So to me, it doesn’t make sense for one to exist without the other. Both of them should have lived or both of them should have died. If their bond is as strong as we’re told, then it should be unbearable to be without each other. Who can live with half a soul? Also, they’re the light and darkness personified. Yin and Yang. If one dies, doesn’t that unbalance the Force again?
So, aside from all that, why didn’t Ben deserve to have love beyond one small moment? And why did Rey awaken from death SO HAPPY and full of unconditional love for the first time, only to have to watch one more person literally disappear from her life? It was cruel to do that to her. To them both.
So, I can get over Ben dying. I actually expected it. But it was like he was ERASED. No Force ghost, no tribute, no mention. Nothing. His sacrifice was for nothing. Rey didn’t seem too torn up about it and she was the only person who cared about him. If anyone was going to make us feel sad about his death, it was her. But then she bopped off to some other sandy junkyard planet to visit a place she has NO ties to other than Luke, who she absolutely hated. Leia was her true master. Then she took the Skywalker name which is ONLY associated with Luke, who, once again, she wanted to push into traffic. And Luke was the one who fucked Kylo Ren up the most. So taking his name felt like a huge “fuck you” to him. The Solos were her real family anyway. It would have made sense if she’d just stayed “just Rey” with no last name.
But what really troubled me was that Ben didn’t get a Force ghost. It would have been absolute perfection if he appeared next to her while she was looking at the twin suns on Tatooine, seeing as they’re a dyad and all. But he faded away and we never see him again. And instead of being gutted about it, I just felt cheated, like he’d been stolen from me. Like no one else gave a shit about him, so why should I? Instead, BB-8 was there who’s a droid who belongs to Poe, not Rey. I could go on and on but I won’t so I’ll end it here. I didn’t mean for this to be so long, but Kylo Ren deserved to be eulogized.
Long live The Supreme Leader.
More stray thoughts:
What I liked:
Rey and Poe bickering.
Rey’s force lightning.
Everything Chewie has ever done.
The little guy who wiped C3PO’s memory (his name escapes me).
Every Rey/Kylo scene while connected through The Force.
Poe having chemistry with everyone and everything and his comedic timing.
Hux being like “I’m the spy” and getting his balls back for a second.
Leia.
Finn/Poe bromance.
All Rey/Ben fight scenes either together or separately.
Dark Rey.
Adam Driver’s performance.
Reylo.
Kylo’s first on-screen smile.
Kylo Ren being the Disney prince we all deserve.
Things I didn’t care for:
Still not knowing who Rey’s parents are. Who was Palpatine fucking, and why wasn’t him having kids more a big deal?
Rose Tico getting friend-zoned HARD and generally being sidelined the entire movie and replaced by Jannah, who I sort of liked but like, why was she there and where was Rose?
What’s a spice runner exactly?
Palpatine should have just been a presence or Force ghost. I thought it was silly that he was actually alive but no great detail went into how that was possible or what he’s been doing for like 30 years.
What were The Knights of Ren actually for?
WHY CAN’T FORCE USERS EVER HOLD ONTO THEIR DAMN LIGHTSABERS.
I’m pretty sure Finn wanted to tell Rey he was force sensitive but it’s weird that he never got to. It made it seem like a romantic thing, especially because he didn’t want to tell Poe, who’s his supposed best friend who literally named him and clothed him.
Bendemption (yay) but him dying made zero sense. See above.
Introducing the idea of a Force dyad but not explaining it or when it’s happened before. Then Palpatine used the dyad bond as some weird wireless induction charger.
So, as you can see, there were more things I liked than didn’t like. The movie looked great, it was entertaining, and I couldn’t look away. Overall, I liked it a lot and I’m pretty satisfied. BUT let’s pour one out for the homie, Kylo Ren.
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