roane72:

soyeahso:

uomo-accattivante:

Amen and hallelujah. 🙌🏼

And there’s nothing wrong with theorizing, obviously. You just gotta know how to manage your expectations. There were several things I went into The Last Jedi ardently hoping wouldn’t happen. Those things happened, but were done in a way that set up the next part of the story in ways I hadn’t imagined, and to me that was a great outcome.

The thing is, I didn’t tell myself “If this thing happens I’m going to hate the movie.” I said “If this thing happens, I hope they do it well or I can find a way to love it.”

Reblogging this again, because April is saying something I’ve really been thinking about since TLJ came out, about storytelling and our relationship to it as viewers.

The storyteller’s job IS NOT to give the audience what they expect and what they want. God, how boring would it be if every story you encountered turned out exactly the way you wanted? The storyteller’s job is to turn expectations upside down, to make the viewer/reader think and get engaged. 

You can only get engaged if you come to a story and let go of your preconceived notions and expectations. And, in a fandom sense: You gotta let go of your fanon. Fandom is notorious for reducing characters to narrow archetypes. A well-realized character in a story cannot be a narrow archetype. If you’re so focused on your own narrow interpretation of characters that you view canon veering from that interpretation as ‘wrong’, you are never going to enjoy any new canon, ever. And honestly, that is not on the storyteller, that’s on you, as the viewer.