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#star wars #rogue one #swro #jyn erso #cassian andor #playlistposted a version of this playlist before but I’ve recently changed platforms (8tracks to Playmoss) and I’ve also gotten ahold of the soundtrack for the movie for extra feels
Can you guys believe that Rogue One was literally just about a beautiful happily married gay couple, Baze Malbus & Chirrut Imwe, adopting Jyn Erso and having to deal with her angsty boyfriend Cassian Andor and his besties Bodhi and K2?
i always wondered about the star wars universe how history is so easily forgotten like “oh so they stories were true?” yes rey!! have you never seen holos? anything? “who was my dad” are u kidding me luke what happened to ur dad is like the modern day equivalent of obama dismembering donald trump with a katana inside a volcano but then! i remembered! look at their fucking data of the death star plans its a fucking floppy disk and look at scariff they put all their records on EVEN MORE awkward and inconvenient floppy disks imagine having to carry around a suitcase full of fucking vhs sized floppy disks and they all look alike!! no labeling! are those the plans to the death star or a recipe for a space casserole? who knows! no wonder history is lost so easily jesus
i was bored and made a playlist for this emo trash baby
endless list of favourite male characters: Cassian Andor (Rogue One)
↳ We don’t all have the luxury of deciding when and where we want to care about something. Suddenly the Rebellion is real for you, some of us live it. I’ve been in this fight since I was 6 years old, you’re not the only one who lost everything some of us just decided to do something about it.
one of my biggest takeaways from rogue one is that I loved how surly and selfish and initially unlikeable jyn erso was. and I bet if she was a dude, 95% of the fandom would agree with me.
#I mean you know there’d be 5 million posts about how she’s gruff and emotionally walled off#but ‘soft’ deep down lmao#and how she calls everyone ‘my friends’ after saw’s rebels attack them#and says they need to be protected bc saw knows her#even though she’s only known them for like 5 minutes#she leaps in front of k2s0 to protect him from baze as well#and latches onto cassian immediately when he decides to trust her with his blaster#bc just like him she desperately wants to connect with someone and to have someone invest in her that way#is an entirely foreign feeling#but one she desperately needs to feel#although tbh I liked her from the beginning#I like characters that are complicated and have layers#and guess who else was selfish initially#han solo - and we’re never even told why#with jyn we know exactly why#even luke’s entire storyline is focused on protecting those around him rather than fighting for a general cause#he was pretty pissed when he found out he was being trained to kill his father too ( @priscillajeanohare )
#it seems weird to me #that ur all in love w han who was selfish and only decided to fight for himself #i mean with jyn we can see her horror and reasoning since she was a little girl #but ppl are like um yeah dont care #shes got so much more backstory than most of the fem characters we get in sw #she was complicated as hell #unlikeable at times yeah #developed a hell of a lot #she ended up dYING for the rebellion y'all #she was finally on par with the dude characters we love no matter what #and ppl are bitching lol ok (via @stripperanakin)
My favorite part of rogue one is how they all make it off Scarif and live happily ever after :))))))))))))
rogue one did a lot of things i never thought they’d let a star wars movie do, in terms of: being a movie about Sacrifice and what that means and also
letting people into the club.
like, rogue one opens star wars to people in a way i wasn’t expecting. american voices and american accents are not nearly so prominent in this movie in way i’ve never seen before in a work of science fiction– diego luna and donnie yen and jiang wen all speak english and they also speak it with their accents and there’s something to that, that opens ownership and possession and interaction with this movie to people who don’t speak english natively.
and so much of the plot, the thrust, of this movie focuses on
fathers and daughters in a way that left me just breathless. motherhood is still essentially absent in this movie, but
opening star wars to women who feel themselves as daughters feels so big to me, as someone who loved and loves star wars with her dad, this was so validating.
and also: rogue one gives a view into the rebellion as a military network; cassian andor is a soldier and a spy and he knows soldiers and spies and he does things, terrible things, in the name of the rebellion, because war makes you do terrible, ugly, violent things in the name of things you believe in. there’s a very real weight to the violence that happens in rogue one that meant So much to me. living your politics means sacrifice in such a big way in rogue one, and it opens the narrative of loss in force awakens so much more clearly. leia and han falling apart makes so much more sense now
but just also
rogue one is a movie about hope. and i mean that, not in some corny cheesey way but in a Real! Tangible! way. and because rogue one is a movie about hope, it’s a movie about sacrifice.
just
it is an audacious, beautiful thing and
it is a thing about hope.
