{"id":116109,"date":"2016-01-30T22:52:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/30\/praxid-one-of-the-most-important-lines-in-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-30T22:52:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:52:12","slug":"praxid-one-of-the-most-important-lines-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/30\/praxid-one-of-the-most-important-lines-in-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/praxid.tumblr.com\/post\/136051166820\" target=\"_blank\">praxid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the most important lines in <i>The Force Awakens <\/i>comes from Kylo Ren: \u201cIt\u2019s just us, now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a lot of ways, the movie is <i>about <\/i>that one line. Passing the torch to these three characters. In the future, they\u2019ll be the ones telling this story. It\u2019s just them, now. The three of them. And even <i>before <\/i>this point, the story ties them together:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each is introduced with their face covered\u2013linking them visually from the start.<\/li>\n<li>Each was separated from their parents. They all lost something they can\u2019t get back, by being alone in formative moments.<\/li>\n<li>Each feels a deep-seated \u201ccall to the light\u201d. Rey saves BB-8 simply because it\u2019s the right thing to do. No one taught her to do this, she just <i>does <\/i>it. She knows how inherently. Finn, too, chooses to save Poe because he inherently knows right from wrong. Kylo struggles to express the same knowlege, in front of Vader\u2019s mask\u2013he <i>knows <\/i>what\u2019s right, feels that call. He doesn\u2019t want to listen, but he knows in his heart what he should do.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Each needs to decide for themselves who they want to be. No one can tell them what to choose\u2013they choose for <i>themselves<\/i>. Their decisions shape the direction of this story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Kylo, Finn, and Rey stand together in the forest, <i>Star Wars <\/i>has\u00a0changed forever. Han Solo is gone\u2013and these three new characters have taken their places in a <i>new\u00a0<\/i>story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve picked out roles for themselves\u2013Finn chooses to go back and fight for Rey. He\u2019s become a hero. Rey chooses to explore the force. She\u2019s become a Jedi. Kylo Ren runs from the \u201ccall to the light.\u201d He tries to become a monster. Whether or not he\u2019s succeeded\u2013well, that remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just us, now,\u201d Kylo says. And in so many ways, he\u2019s right. It\u2019s their story. And we\u2019re waiting for them to tell it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>praxid: One of the most important lines in The Force Awakens comes from Kylo Ren: \u201cIt\u2019s just us, now.\u201d In a lot of ways, the movie is about that one line. Passing the torch to these three characters. In the future, they\u2019ll be the ones telling this story. It\u2019s just them, now. The three of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/30\/praxid-one-of-the-most-important-lines-in-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#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":[79,3763,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116109"}],"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=116109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}