Spoilers for ep 8
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it felt extremely obvious to me that the line about maarva checking the tunnel under the hotel was a set up for her using it to rescue Bix in the next couple eps. So obvious in fact that I had been wondering if it was a misdirect. But I haven't seen too many people talking about that so maybe it's not as in your face as I assumed?
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if maarva does go rescue Bix I don't really see her surviving it. Maybe there are more interesting ways that story can play out? Idk.
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I feel like no matter what happens ferrix is the staging ground for the finale, at least for cassian.
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I can't tell if Cinta loves Vel, and I find that so interesting. Too much has been made of every time Disney talks about their "first" queer couple and I don't want to add to that, though I think Vel and Cinta are the first queer couple in star wars that I've seen whose relationship has been under the lens? Anyway my actual point is that I like how unrepresentational they feel. Their relationship is a messy disaster and headed for a bad end, imo, and I'm extremely here for it.
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there are two ways I could read cinta's feelings towards vel, and I can't tell which I like better, which is very fun.
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on the one hand, the straightforward reading is that while she does love vel, she has no patience for anything that doesn't serve the rebellion, and her own feelings always come second to her duty, so she expects the same thing of everyone else
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my second reading is that she doesn't love vel, but she sees how useful vel is to the rebellion, and so stays with her to keep her committed. Which is very fun. I think if it got confirmed some people would say it makes cinta "a bad person", which I don't care about and have no interest in even debating, but even so I'd rather they didn't confirm anything. Like Skeen, I think it's fun to have characters who sit in spaces of ambiguity, where multiple interpretations are possible.