and has anyone here mentioned that for a brief moment they SWITCHED LIGHTSABERS????!!!!!

YESSS, HE FINALLY GOT HIS LIGHTSABER BACK (and it was his, he used it in training with Luke – look at the shot of it in the flashback. It DID belong to him.)

IT was so beautiful, she didn’t even hesitate just threw hers to him to save him. Love these two so much.

also how she had to use his like a broadsword it was so big, meanwhile he’s fucking dual-wielding with a staff and a lightsaber lol dude is big

there has been no hint at poe/rey and finnrey has also been confirmed to be platonic/familial bond and with finn’s love interest being a woc they can’t ship finnrey like rose doesn’t matter so yeah they latch onto a ship that has no basis, no romantic chemistry and literally would be coming out of nowhere if it was made canon. if you pay attention to poe and his storyline you realize that the only love interest that would make sense for him actually is admiral holdo, now they had chemistry

They did, but she’s dead…so…

Anyway, yes there is no reasoning with antis and don’t waste time and effort on it – do what we’ve been doing for two years: LOOK TO THE TEXT. Look at the movie, the storylines, the build up – all of it screams Reylo and they can’t take that away from us.

and the antis are pressed because everything reylo shippers (or even just ben solo stans) predicted or hoped for has happened. kylo begun his redemption arc and did something i for one never expected him to do by killing snoke and rey and him understand each other, feel compassion for each other and just plainly care for one another beyond simple friendship and on top of that it was confirmed they aren’t related. antis are running out of reasons to claim the ship isn’t canon at this point

In my wildest dreams I hoped that they would kill Snoke together, but I neVER expected it to happen in TLJ! =OOO

He took the first step by shaking off the chains of his manipulator and oppressor, so I’m okay with him where he landed – but soon you gotta make the next step buddy, or Rey is gonna be very upset lol

But anyway, all of this is just illuminating one thing:

You cannot reason or argue with antis. No matter what they are given – two years of it and a canon movie that confirms it all – they are going to deny it. Because they hate what you love.

i gotta say i feel like the people shipping poe/rey at this point after their one exchange in this film (which was to me just to resistance fighters with a friend in common and a lot of respect for each other) have got to be delusional anti reylo because tlj gave us romantic reylo, there may not have been kissing or a confession of love but the two of them are definitely bonding and developing romantic feeling for each other

Gotta agree a little, I mean ship whatever you want based on whatever you want, but IMO thinking that poe/rey will be canon because of it is a little much for my tastes (BUT WHATEVER I TOTALLY GET THE APPEAL).

I think there will DEFINITELY be a contingent of antis who will be pushing certain things – damerey for instance – similar to how they pushed finnrey. Because it’s ANTI-reylo. That doesn’t mean people don’t legitimately ship them, but that they’re probably the anti’s ship of choice.

There is NO denying that Rey and Kylo have feelings of a romantic nature for each other. They did everything you could to show it to people except outright kiss.

if anything, kylo turning back into the dark side reminds me a resemblance to Zuko’s redemption journey in the crystal caves during the season 2 finale! it’s still possible, it just will take a longer route! i mean, it’s gonna be in THREE movies

It’s definitely just a misstep – now he’s fully in control of his destiny and choices for THE FIRST TIME IN THIRTY YEARS. So of course he would do something stupid. He’ll get smarter.

I can’t talk to specifics with the Zuko stuff because I don’t watch, but I’ll just sAY YES TOTALLY –

sometimes redemption is long and PAINFUL.

So, with Ben/Kylo as the final Skywalker descendant and George Lucas advocating for the Skywalker line to continue, at this point do you think it’s safe to say Rey and Ben are going to have to meet in the middle by the end of the trilogy? I honestly don’t see him getting together with anyone but Rey, when all is said and done. Boy is smitten. One more question; do you think there was more going on behind the scenes with the Force bond scenes? As in him coming to her at night?

George Lucas was advocating for it? OR are you talking about how he wanted the saga to focus on the family drama MORE (from reports onwhy he disagreed with LucasFilm very early onabout it).

I think regardless of all that, they’re going to meet in the middle – Rey is going to read the TRUE origin of the Jedi, realize that they were both wrong on sides, and convince him that he can be both light and dark – and happy, with her.

I think there were WAY more Force Bond things that happened that we didn’t see – you don’t go from shirtless ‘let the past die’ to scared and quivering (both of them) in a hut talking about your deep dark fears without there being a LOT more to it.

Force bonds grow and become more intertwined – I think that in Ep 9 with the time jump you’ll see that there’s more influence from them,, it happens a lot, etc. and I think they’ll start to be able to do it at will.