Ex Astris Scientia — reasons chirrut and baze are great

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reasons chirrut and baze are great

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- went in expecting shallow tibetan monk stereotype, got a nuanced character instead
- perfect warrior/monk cynicist/idealist dynamic
- the other half of the warrior/monk duo wasn’t a boring samurai stereotype
- the force is already rooted in daoism (and buddhism and… etc), why not honor that?
- proof that you can be wise and zen AND do it for the vine
- I AM ONE WITH THE FORCE THE FORCE IS WITH ME
- both characters made the setting/themes nuanced: chirrut and baze both demonstrate different responses to imperial destruction of their homeland
- fantastic one liners
- “the force didn’t protect you, i did” “i don’t need luck, i have you”
- ^ petition to make that the new “i love you” “i know”

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“proof that you can be wise and zen AND do it for the vine”

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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

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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. 

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it is an audacious, beautiful thing and 

it is a thing about hope. 

TLJ wasn’t the Star Wars we wanted but it was the Star Wars we needed.

Like Luke’s write-off pissed off a lot of fans but I wouldn’t call his behavior ooc I mean he’s still the massive gay drama queen as always.

But on a serious note the movie wonderfully delivers some very heavy and hard-to-swallow lessons (just like Rogue One did).

Heroes fail. Leaders fall. The ways of the Jedi were flawed. Everyone has their weaknesses. People become old and bitter and broken. Not everything has to mean something, sometimes your heroes are nobodies, abandoned on backwater planets by alcoholic parents. The movie rips your favorite characters from you and burns your hopes and beliefs to the ground. Luke and Yoda burn them to the ground. It’s real. It’s upsetting. But it’s real.

This movie scorched the proverbial garden so that greener plants may grow. So that new heroes may rise from the ashes of the ones that came before them. Stronger, better, wiser.

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