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I don’t know if I’m alone in this, but as someone who deeply resonated and connected with Rey in VII and VIII, I found myself completely disconnected to her in IX, it was almost like I was watching a completely new person on the screen (1/?)
I know this might sound ridiculous, but it sort of feels like you had your best friend in school who you spent all your time with and opened your heart up to them, and then the next day you show up at school they start acting like they don’t know you (2/?)
It was like they took my role model and brainwashed her, turned her into this shiny new perfect version of her who felt cold and untouchable to me. I recognize her face but her actions and behavior is so unlike her. (3/?)
Oh AND they took her whole identity away and put new sparkly stickers on top of it. She’s not a nobody, she is the chosen Palpatine, Skywalker, the hero. She’s not an instinctive clumsy brave girl, she is this picture perfect trained white jedi (4/?)
And it hurts so bad because I feel like my Rey, our Rey is underneath all of that facade hiding away somewhere unreachable and I can almost feel that that was Daisy Ridley trying to still fight with the script she was given to keep the spirit of our old Rey alive, but (5/?)
that person who I watched on screen in december, trying to k*ll the person who she attacked her biggest role model for and being happy even when she lost everything and went back to the start of her journey just with new traumas to bear, was not the Rey I connected with. (6/?)
Its funny because, I’d watch Rey edits and enjoy them and when I’d see IX Rey clips included it would just take me out immediately, I still can’t warm up to the idea that VII/VIII Rey and IX Rey are the same person. I cannot comprehend it for my own good (7/?)
I just wanted to get this off my chest. And I don’t feel like I lost my favorite character because they’re two separate people in my mind, I’m just sad I’ll never get to see the end of the story she deserved, instead of a brainwashed version of her with a fucked up ending. (8/8)
