I mean they obviously had no plan from the beginning right Rian Johnson just pulled this Reylo nonsense out of his hat
Wait…a darkly handsome male lead walking through a softly lit landscape toward the woman he loves???? Isn’t that……a romantic trope?????????
Oh look! The male lead is physically exposed under the gaze of the female lead! And is she……flustered???
Y’all hear sumn

……speaking of R&J……
(cough their outfits cough) (ps it’s entirely too difficult to get a decent screenshot of Olivia Hussey in that dress)
(cough their outfits cough) (ps it’s entirely too difficult to get a decent screenshot of Olivia Hussey in that dress)
Wow look at these two pairs of enemies can’t you just sense their hatred towards each other oh m gee
"If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people."
....I'm sure these shots weren't set up the in almost the exact same way for any particular reason
....I'm sure these shots weren't set up the in almost the exact same way for any particular reason
“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly.”—Jane Eyre
“Bleeding internally”…blood…red…red lines in mask…hmmmm
“He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”— Wuthering Heights
Hmm wonder if Disney’s trademark “one lover saved from death by the other” trope will carry any wait in this story that dEfInItElY dOeSn’T echo any previous myths, literature, or fairytales bc that’s ridiculous

(more instances of lovers being saved from literal/metaphorical death in Disney movies (and YES, Wall-E counts; we do NOT sleep on my robot childe in this house))
But let’s be real for a sec: would they give us so, so many examples of underworld-ish imagery for them to not follow through in typical Disney-ish fashion? The signs point to no.