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chiclet-go-boom:
rileywrites-parker:
Hey, so I know we’re all excited that these two are destroying the Vader Shrine, but honestly, the more I watch, the less it looks as though its a dual effort. Looks to me like they’re locking blades, Kylo deflects, and Rey slashes through it, knocking the helmet off it’s pedestal.
Helmet is on. Kind of feeling like this happens really early in the film.
Also - is that a knife in Rey’s left hand? Because that looks like a knife.
Might be onto something there. I was noticing that Rey’s committed to her swing, it inscribes a near full 360° arc. But Ren’s doesn’t, it’s merely skipping up - if he’s aiming for the shrine intentionally, then is he just rabbit punching it? Basically there’s two levels of effort here and it’s kinda suspicious the more you stare at it.
and at the end of this, you can see Ren just starting to reach up. To me it reads like a flinch of some sort. If Rey is destroying a locus of dark power that has Ren in it’s grip (I still feel this whole scene is some sort of force flashback/projection/mind maze), he might be breaking out of it when the Vader mask gets smashed.
and oh yeah, Rey has a dagger in her offhand which is also wtf in a seriously cool way. since when does our resident padawan-on-the-fast-track need an offhand weapon?
chiclet-go-boom:
rileywrites-parker:
Hey, so I know we’re all excited that these two are destroying the Vader Shrine, but honestly, the more I watch, the less it looks as though its a dual effort. Looks to me like they’re locking blades, Kylo deflects, and Rey slashes through it, knocking the helmet off it’s pedestal.
Helmet is on. Kind of feeling like this happens really early in the film.
Also - is that a knife in Rey’s left hand? Because that looks like a knife.
Might be onto something there. I was noticing that Rey’s committed to her swing, it inscribes a near full 360° arc. But Ren’s doesn’t, it’s merely skipping up - if he’s aiming for the shrine intentionally, then is he just rabbit punching it? Basically there’s two levels of effort here and it’s kinda suspicious the more you stare at it.
and at the end of this, you can see Ren just starting to reach up. To me it reads like a flinch of some sort. If Rey is destroying a locus of dark power that has Ren in it’s grip (I still feel this whole scene is some sort of force flashback/projection/mind maze), he might be breaking out of it when the Vader mask gets smashed.
and oh yeah, Rey has a dagger in her offhand which is also wtf in a seriously cool way. since when does our resident padawan-on-the-fast-track need an offhand weapon?