corseque:

I was expecting (and fully prepared to enjoy the shit out of) some delicious blink-and-you-miss-it one-sided villainous pining, because that’s what I was kind of expecting from the big tender ‘little red riding hood’ posters and the trailer, and their dialogue exchanges in the video game Battlefront. I would have watched the movie multiple times if I only had the barest hints that Kylo Ren was in love with Rey, because that’s why I watched TFA multiple times in theaters. Like, I would have been satisfied with practically nothing, and I’m used to working with nothing.

But what I saw was so surprising… I was blown away, and I still can’t believe how much effort went into the writing and portrayal, the parallels between them, their spiritual strength and power, how much they had in common with their struggle with their parents and fighting their masters to become adults, how they really felt the same kind of lonely harsh darkness and had the instinct to comfort and protect each other. How young and tender it felt, and how they were. That Rey Reciprocated. That a bunch of screen time was dedicated to the part I personally found the most compelling. It’s not only like watching fanfic, it really is better than any other post-TFA fanfic I’ve read. It’s really good.

I think I’m still blown away by how symbolically meaningful it is, how you can look at Rey’s journey on multiple levels, and you can see how it could be more than a relationship, that it could have cosmic eternal resonance to it. It’s so interesting and complex, the Dark and the Light becoming balanced through love and compassion… I’m so glad they made the sequel trilogy about this. It’s meaningful to me.