I am still resolutely Team No-One. Well, maybe #TeamTheDeadKidsMother
Oh yeah, one other thing I forgot –
– no-one, not Spider-Man, not Aunt May, no-one says “With great power comes great responsibility” in this movie. Which is odd, because…that’s literally what the film’s about.
I am still resolutely #TeamNo-One. Well, maybe #TeamTheDeadKidsMother
– who was meant to be Miriam Sharpe from the comics, right?
Um, anyway, yeah – it was a fantastic film, but at the end you did rather feel like a lot of blood had been spilled and a lot of people injured for no very good reason. Which is probably the point I suppose, but – maybe it’s because I’m not really overly invested in either Tony or Steve, but all through the movie I was hoping someone would drop some equivalent of the Doctor’s “SIT DOWN AND TALK!” speech into their thick, stubborn heads.
(Oh Tony, you literally recruited Peter as a child soldier, you frickin’ idiot. And Steve, you weren’t exactly unwilling to fight said child solider. Honestly you’re both pretty awful, running around causing mayhem for your own ends, Steve is better by a hair maybe? But I kinda suspect I’m the only one who thinks that…)
Um, anyway, some more thoughts:
The scar Kylo gets from Rey is in the exact spot Han caressed his face as he died.
tfw you realize chewbacca probably loved ben almost as much as han did.
he was probably ‘uncle chewie’.
and chewie had to raise his gun against him.
chewie’s a good marksman. he was probably entirely capable of hitting kylo lethally. but he couldn’t. because he held ben as a baby and put him up on his shoulders and let ben pull on his fur because human babies all seem to go through that awful hair pulling phase.
how could he kill ben, who had been so small in his big wookiee arms when he was brand new that chewie had almost been scared to hold him for fear of breaking him.
“Chewie, we’re home!” was such an uplifting line in the TFA trailer, but it suddenly becomes really sad in the context of the actual movie
The Falcon isn’t Han’s home anymore. His home was with Leia and his son, and now they’re both gone to him in different ways, so all he can do is run back to his old life, and convince himself that’s all he needs. It’s great to see Han in the Falcon again, but that’s not remotely where he should have been….he wasn’t actually home at all.
aaaaah what the hell Harrison Ford’s actual son is also called Ben
It is Star Wars and it is also Christmas!
However, Star Wars does not have a Christmas! Or any kind of holiday season, I gather. That did not stop me from writing this spoiler-laden, slightly Clone Wars-borrowing-from take on A Christmas Carol. Luke is about to be visited by three spirits! Ooh yes.
[I wasn’t kidding when I said ‘spoiler-laden’! This will ruin the movie for you if you haven’t seen it!]
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