his father said. // Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka.
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That video you shared with the child calling to Rey… I heard that the first time I saw the movie in the theater. I thought I was losing it because no one else seemed to hear it. But its definitely a small child.
I think someone talked about it before but to actually hear it yourself? Whaaaaa? This lines up with Rey seeing a child Ben with Snoke leaning over him in the TFA novel. And then there’s the whole “It is you” on Starkiller base. I firmly believe these were cut out of the movie because it made things too obvious. And then there’s the fact that Jason Fry couldn’t write too much about what was going on in Ben’s head in TLJ.
And then we get some weird time stuff going on in Rebels.
That child’s voice definitely belongs to a young Ben Solo. And he’s known about her since he was a child because he had visions/dreams of her.
Hi! I’m the anon! Sorry, I’m a little shy.
They’ve been doing some really strange stuff with time and space and the force recently and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if ep IX got really weird. I’ve seen a few folks claim they hear whispers in the wind of Ach-to, too but I haven’t been able to make anything out. And in addition to everything you’ve mentioned there’s some other weird stuff, like the Mortis arc which lasted only a few seconds of real time but at least like a day or two for Obi, Anakin, and Asokah – and then the Mortis gods showing up in Rebels for the weird world between world stuff. Rey having dreams of Ach-to and of Ben before she ever met him. Apparently, there’s some stuff in the Empire’s End novels about Jakku but it never actually mentions what’s on Jakku that’s important…
Idk, I’m not 100% ready to make any predictions or claims yet but there’s something really interesting going on under the surface and I wish I knew what it was. It just makes me go “hmmmm” a lot.
While Leia is in the other room taking a shower, Han says in a low voice: “Hey. It’s you and me, kid. Whole damn galaxy against us but we’ll make it through okay. I’m not always gonna be the best dad—c’mon, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing here. I can barely take care of myself. But I’ll always keep us pointed in the right direction… even if we zig and zag a little to get there. There’s your first lesson: sometimes doing the right thing doesn’t mean following a straight line. Sometimes you gotta—” He takes his hand and gestures with it like it’s a fish swimming this way and that, left and right and up and down. “Don’t tell your mother I said that.”
Do you ever think about how, aesthetically as well as perhaps meta-narratively, the First Order and the Resistance are attempted rebrands of The Empire and Rebellion? Or about how both seem to operate on the idea that they’re fighting for glory like their predecessors in the days of old but all they really do is feed the war machine that allows the rich to get richer and the poor to get desperate? How, of all the ST characters, Hux and Poe are the only ones born when the Empire was still a thing? How the superiors of both factions seem to regard their younger officers as a little too gung-ho?
Idk, I just think there’s something interesting going on in respect to how these two sides are so caught up in replicating the glory of the past.
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