[Jupiter’s] lack of extraordinary qualities outside of her genetic sequencing does ultimately become part of the movie’s point. There’s nothing that sets her apart, aside from the luck of her birth, and she doesn’t manage to cause a revolution or right the wrongs of the universe or do anything else heroic, in her past or present incarnation. The bravest act she manages, her big moment of agency, is choosing to trade her own life and those of her loved ones for the larger survival of Earth, which may not be a sweeping gesture but is a desperately resonant one. Jupiter chooses not to participate in a system in which her specialness depends on the ruin of others. Dramatic rescues and flying boots and space police and dragon aliens aside, her pivotal choice is to not be the princess.
Alison Willmore making an excellent point on the resonance of Jupiter’s choice (via fuckyeahjupiterascending)