Introverteddaries - The Obsessive Corner

Lewis Pullman as Bob TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022)

(I don't think this post has made it here yet but if it has, I'll happily take it down)

need to unpack the way jyn was found by saw and abandoned, a failed attempt at protection from violence, kleya was found by luthen and trained, protected but not sheltered from violence, cassian was found by maarva and loved, but there was no protection from the violent death of clem. all these damaged children were shaped by the people who raised and mentored them, but also by the state of the wider galaxy, the inescapable violence and exploitation of the occupation. they all became killers, all basically condemned to use violence against to the existing social order in order to overturn it. they did not ask for the conflict, they were born into it, a generation who didn't know peace, from the core with jyn to the rim with cassian, it didn't matter where. they all came together to fight the same fight in the end.

Otto realising that instead of selling off his own daughter and ruining multiple people’s lives for a king he doesn’t even like, he could’ve just waited until Rhaenyra became queen and she probably would’ve made the hightower house one of the most important anyway because of how much she cared for Alicent.

giving them the medals they deserve for helping in the destruction of the death star

LEWIS PULLMAN & BRIE LARSON as CALVIN EVANS & ELIZABETH ZOTT | Lessons in Chemistry | 1.2 Her and Him

I started Andor expecting everyone was going to die. And that was ok, because they took the main point of contention for this show - who cares about a prequel for a character who died in Rogue One? - and turned it on its head. They wield the symbolism like a sword. The main soundtrack is a funeral march. A dead woman speaks from the grave and wishes she'd fought before the end. Everyone here is already dead, fighting for a future they'll never see.

But Bix? Bix is going to live. And somehow that's worse.

She's going to live. She's going to make it home to Ferrix. This show will end with her laying bricks for them all.

Inspiration struck me again so another leopard eats Dedra’s face.