Reading Spoilers

[lydamorehouse]

 I haven't see Star Wars: Last Jedi yet and I have no idea when I will. All through the weekend, I did my due diligence and avoided being spoiled.  Then, this afternoon, I thought: why?  I kind of want to know what I'm getting into, frankly, if/when I go.  YEAH, you saw it. There's an "if" there. I liked Star Wars: Force Awakens a lot, but I walked away from that movie with some things in my heart that are going to make any follow-ups... difficult.

Poe and Finn are never going to be boyfriends.  This makes me unaccountably sad.  I kind of don't even care if they give me more hints of subtext in this current movie, I now want TEXT and only a moron thinks that's going to actually happen in the Star Wars franchise any time soon.  So, Finn waking up with Rey's name on his lips?  NO THANK YOU.

I was in the minor minority in that I liked Kylo Ren.  I liked him the moment he walked on the stage and I never stopped liking whiny-baby Kylo.  Not once.  From what I've gathered, I might start to hate him in this next film. This makes me seriously consider just not going. 

So, I started reading the spoilers looking for reasons to want to go. I haven't found any yet.  If you've seen it and you want to tell me why I should go, drop a note in the comments.

My weekend was otherwise nothing to write home about. Shawn and I made rosettes--well, okay, I made them, while Shawn kept me company. I spaced out and accidentally only made a single batch--apparently the recipe tells me to double it, but I didn't read all the words. (A perennial problem, honestly.)



I spent today wrapping the last of the Solstice gifts. My family gives gifts a bunch of times during this holiday season, so I'm actually FAR from being done with holiday shopping and wrapping. But, at least this part of the holiday is ready to roll. 

I work tonight at Shoreview, so it's a good thing that Shawn made double batches of lasagne yesterday, too.  We'll just have leftovers, since I have to dash out at 4:30pm.

Comments

[rachelmanija]

FWIW, I loved Kylo Ren in this movie. It's apparently really a love-it-or-hate-it movie; I loved it, but I don't know if you will. It has great character bits for everyone and some terrific performances, it's visually beautiful in a way that I've never seen to this degree in a Star Wars movie.

This is spoilery, but if you don't care about spoilers... rot13.com: Vg'f gur svefg Nzrevpna fs be npgvba zbivr V'ir rire frra juvpu unf gjb byqre jbzra jub ner irel pynffvpnyyl urebvp naq unir n sevraqyl eryngvbafuvc. Ab grkg, ohg V nyfb sbhaq gurz cerggl fuvccnoyr.

It does have a lot of heterosexuality, some earned and some obligatory.

[lydamorehouse]

I've read a number of spoilers now and I think I've come back around to wanting to see it. I'm still sad things are so straight, but I like what you had to say above, too, so....

[xochiquetzl]

I loved Kylo Ren in TLJ, too. ♥

My own rot13 spoiler comment: V fhfcrpgrq gung cerggl zhpu nyy Xlyb fuvccref jbhyq or unccl. Gur Erlyb crbcyr ner rpfgngvp, naq gur Xlyhk crefba V fcbxr gb jnf unccl, gbb. Gung fnvq, lrnu, gurer'f na rkgen urncva' urycva' bs Erlyb, VZUB. Yvxr, V qvqa'g fuvc vg tbvat va naq abj V guvax vg'f yvxr, fhcre-boivbhf. Gung fnvq, lrnu, gurer'f n ybg bs urgreb va gur zbivr.

Pretty much what rachelmanija said.

[lydamorehouse]

Mmmmm, I'm not sure how I feel about that. I was (am?) KyLux myself.

[xochiquetzl]

Well.

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V qba'g xabj. V pnzr bhg ybivat Xlyb rira zber, ohg V pna'g thnenagrr lbh'yy unir gur fnzr ernpgvba.

[lydamorehouse]

Fair enough. I'm probably going to see it sometime after Christmas. I'll let you know.

[naomikritzer]

Okay, for real, you should see this movie.

1. If you liked Kylo in TFA you'll like him in this one a lot. He's angry, angsty, and interesting.

2. I know the stuff that pisses you off about the sequels because we have discussed it a few times and I'm pretty sure that Rian Johnson agrees with you. There are multiple specific things you've ranted about. I seriously think that when Rian was in his brainstorming phase, he re-watched those movies and wrote down everything that pissed him off and set out to un-do or subvert or undermine that bullshit, and MOST of your list was also his list.

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I mean, there's stuff about this movie that might bother you. But there's stuff you'll love enough that I think it'll make up for it.

[lydamorehouse]

I think we're going to go this next week with Mason's GF, so you've convinced me. Especially the spoiler-y stuff, honestly.

[naomikritzer]

There was apparently a deleted scene that was EVEN MORE ON THE NOSE (but it's a long, long movie and it mostly just reinforced stuff that was definitely there already -- there's stuff other people think should be cut instead but I really liked most of it and am VERY glass they didn't.)