Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20180220161818

Alright will first of all the newest epidsodes have been all chalk-full of meta-narratives about Star Wars' Fandom itself. Kylo Ren is essentially a *Star Wars fanboy all grown-up and acting like a demaning brat


 * He dresses like Darth Vader, he talks about doing him proud even though we the audiance know for a fact Aniken wants nothing to do with the Empire so we know there is no sort of influence going on, it is all misplaced obssessions, He wears a Darth Vader tribute costume, which is ultimately superfluous and he is basicly just cos-playing, He tries to be dramatic and cool but when his theatircs become impractical for a situation he explodes in violent outbursts. And all to get back at his daddy.

Similar Rey is a Star Wars fangirl, with Luke as her main idol.

She studies Luke, The Jedi and The Force, but she has gotten very lost to the myth since she has next to no solid info on what any of that is, what she does know she has obcessed over until she could make since of it, in otherwords Wild Mass Guessing, in leu of having actual info, a process that most fan theories are based on.

Now with those two primary factors in mind, also look at how certain facts are revealed to us. We are left wondering like Rey what happened to her parents, if they were killed due to her Force sensitivity, or if Kilo Ren and she are family, If Han Solo got around, numerous theories teased and never touch upon. And as Luke points out. No, they were druggies who sold her as labor for drugs and then left the planet. There was no great poetry aspect, life just sucks. No we the audiance had no way of knowing that before-hand, but Rey does. She was lost to the fan theories about there being some greater purpose and her being part of it.

This "twist" is a subvertion a build up that has no-pay-off because our own speculation put us on a wild goose chase about destiny and meaning as opposed to the much more obvious, they're dead-end parents.

But that is just story subversion. The true subversive part is the meta-narrative of the film. That everyone's obession with the Star Wars' universe and Luke, Lia, Han and Vader's legacy is backwards thinking and the real future of "The Force" or in meta-narrative "The Star Wars brand" is not going to reborn in the generation trying to capture it, but in a new generation experiencing the magic of it unfolding before them in real time. That child recounting the story to his friends and then the movie projects the image of a Jedi over him to imply he is one of the newly awakened Jedi. The symolism of that is that Star Wars will live on through it's newest fans not the obsessed adults try'ing to recapure similar stories they absorbed in their youth.

There are other symbols of-course, The Force remaining preserved but in a dead-in-it's-tracks state in Luke's isolated temple until he decides to light it on fire, but The Force rebalancing itself be taking root in the hearts of a new generation, Poe being so Genere Saavy about possible corruption tropes he starts seeing plots whenever orders are not explained and nearly destroying The Rebelion. Finn looking for one particular master hacker and being played for a chump by expectation of how these plots playout. All this is also playing with audiance expectations helped along by cuts at just the right times to keep the audiance guessing - just as Rose tells Finn that there are people who profit off conflict on both sides and keep the fighting going we change scenes to Poe questioning the vagueness of his orders and with that the audiance is on the same wave-length as Poe is for suspecting his superior Holdo.

Great subversion of all of this is that the film is implying it's fans should get a life and let the newest generation just enjoy the films. That "The Force/Star Wars" is meant as a sort of magic others to discover in their youth not obsess over into adulthood.