{"id":113859,"date":"2016-02-15T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/15\/a-list-of-things-about-the-tfa-novelizations-that\/"},"modified":"2016-02-15T15:43:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:43:52","slug":"a-list-of-things-about-the-tfa-novelizations-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/15\/a-list-of-things-about-the-tfa-novelizations-that\/","title":{"rendered":"a list of things about the tfa novelizations that should probably be discussed asap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/levynite.tumblr.com\/post\/139194937575\" target=\"_blank\">levynite<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bestmixtapeintherecorder.tumblr.com\/post\/137996051647\" target=\"_blank\">bestmixtapeintherecorder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>aka if you haven\u2019t read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Force-Awakens-Star-Wars\/dp\/1101965495\" target=\"_blank\">alan dean foster\u2019s adaptation<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Star-Wars-Force-Awakens-Awakening\/dp\/148472822X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1453693560&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=before+the+awakening\" target=\"_blank\"><i>before the awakening<\/i>\u00a0by greg rucka<\/a> you\u2019re Missing Out, My Friend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>rey built her speeder all by herself. she also built a computer. completely from scratch out of salvaged tech from fighter plane wreckages, used data chips to build herself a flight simulator program so she\u2019d have something to do to alleviate her constant boredom, and then taught herself to be an <i>amazing pilot<\/i> out of <i>sheer stubborn determination to not let her own invention outsmart her<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>finn is inexplicably TERRIFIED THE WORLD WILL EAT HIM at various points after he crashes on jakku like\u2026 he\u2019s climbing out of the TIE fighter wreckage and panicking and looks up at the sky and sees some birds and thinks DOESN\u2019T LOOK LIKE THE BIRDS ARE GOING TO EAT ME\u2026 YET. he sees niima traders and thinks MAYBE THEY CARVE UP YOUR ORGANS TO SELL ON THE BLACK MARKET! he walks into maz\u2019s and has this observation that escalates real fast that it\u2019s a \u201cperpetual round of eating, drinking, gambling, scheming, negotiating, arguing\u2026 and OCCASIONALLY ATTEMPTING TO SPLIT ONE ANOTHER\u2019S LIVERS OR SOME EQUIVALENT ORGAN.\u201d (which, on the one hand, <i>precious sweet cinnamon roll<\/i>, and on the other\u2026 what the hell kind of propaganda are stormtroopers shown about the non-First-Order world????)<\/li>\n<li>the jacket scene is extended from the film. it includes an exchange of an echoed <strike>flirty<\/strike> \u201ctell you all about it sometime\u201d re: what poe\/finn missed in each other\u2019s lives in the interim. DISCUSS<\/li>\n<li>in general everything is fleshed out in a lovely way that takes stock and slows down and breathes into the spaces the movie can\u2019t? so many scenes have ten dialogue lines where the movie has one. the rey\/bb-8 trading at niima scene in particular &#8211; movie rey is WIDE EYES ABOUT SIXTY PORTIONS (\/bb-8 wibbles) WIDE EYES BECAUSE DAMN IT DON\u2019T GET ATTACHED TO THE DROID, but book rey spends several pages reading unkar\u2019s motives for wanting bb-8 and calculating what advantages keeping the droid could have for her and i think i like that version better honestly<\/li>\n<li>if you ever thought han solo was a posturing dashing space rogue and not an empathetic goober who\u2019s constantly thinking about other people\u2019s feelings underneath his cellophane bravado, this novel would like to have a chat with you tbh<\/li>\n<li>there\u2019s a lot of interesting stuff happening re: jakku culture and its social environment?? rey muses at length in the prequel about teedos and their culture and how they think all sandstorms are the same continually-appearing one sent as a sign of disapproval by their god. there\u2019s a lot about how violence is very present on jakku, but also very code-of-honor: do your thing and people will generally stay out of your way, but mess with someone else\u2019s shit, well. there\u2019s also an interesting juxtaposition of rey musing that age\/gender aren\u2019t factors giving anyone any special treatment in the life-and-death cycle of their environment, but also implications that unkar plutt and his henchmen ogle her, not in a way that indicates they\u2019d act on it but still in an icky power assertion one. (i don\u2019t get the sense otherwise that gender is much of a factor on jakku, though, and certainly not in the way that much of a rape culture exists among the scavengers, so do unkar&amp;co just do this to everyone or??)<\/li>\n<li>for anyone on the rey femslash\/\u201drey has probably just never ~seen a girl\u201d train: rey\/devi. please cry with me about it. rey (briefly) has a close female peer and friend on jakku in the prequel and uh, IT\u2019S A THING<\/li>\n<li>rey and poe\u2019s meetcute at the end though like. no \u201cthank you for all you did for finn your bravery means so much to me!\u201d no \u201cbb-8 has told me so much about you i feel like i know you so it\u2019s good to put a face to the name!\u201d uh. i quote: \u201cshe nodded slowly, searching his face and finding that she liked it.\u201d listen rey i know we\u2019re all in the same boat here about oscar isaac but have some goddamn chill, i didn\u2019t realize I LIKE YOUR FACE was an expression on jakku but here we are friends<\/li>\n<li>the tfa novelization in general is some damn elevated prose (i was expecting blatant money grub with daisy ridley\u2019s face slapped on the cover and i got SAT words in every sentence), but poe\u2019s section in the prequel is equally as elevated tbh?? all these gorgeous metaphors and observations and such. at one point leia happens to all of sit and glance while in his presence and he\u2019s all YOUR SADNESS IS DESCENDING ON YOUR SHOULDERS LIKE A BLANKET MADE OF MEMORY AND WARMTH AND LONGING AND LOSS. please envision with me a world containing a poe dameron who says to your face all casually and amicably \u201chey buddy \/arm punch\u201d while apparently looking at the mere way you slouch and drawing elaborate metaphors in his head about your life and experiences and that one time in the third grade you were sad.<\/li>\n<li>on that note: i am now more convinced than ever that instead of it only being a meta wink-and-nod, the fucker absolutely knew what he was saying when he said \u201cas long as there\u2019s light we\u2019ve still got a chance.\u201d he probably patted himself on the back mentally for a split second like \u201cthat was a good one, buddy, clever double meaning there, you did good.\u201d jessika pava probably groaned internally like \u201cg o d dameron dial back the corny factor why don\u2019t you\u201d and gave him a hard time about it after they got back to d\u2019qar. i don\u2019t know about you friends but i feel like this is the poe dameron we all deserve, t b q h<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I LIKE YOUR FACE<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>levynite: bestmixtapeintherecorder: aka if you haven\u2019t read alan dean foster\u2019s adaptation and before the awakening\u00a0by greg rucka you\u2019re Missing Out, My Friend: rey built her speeder all by herself. she also built a computer. completely from scratch out of salvaged tech from fighter plane wreckages, used data chips to build herself a flight simulator program &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/15\/a-list-of-things-about-the-tfa-novelizations-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a list of things about the tfa novelizations that should probably be discussed asap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13824,79,3763,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}