"I need someone to show me my place in all this."
Ah, #Reylo.
It's hard not to get a little caught up in the steamy romantic tension
between Rey and Kylo Ren in "The Last Jedi."
"Don't be afraid.
I feel it too."
We get a real chemistry between the two,
as they each try to turn the other to their side through a series of long-distance Force
chats.
She gets to see him shirtless.
And they even intimately touch hands.
To Rey, Kylo Ren is Ben Solo --
and Adam Driver looks at Daisy Ridley with a sad longing
that reveals a whole other side to Kylo beyond the bratty anger he shows to everyone else.
At the end of "The Last Jedi," Rey has to shut herself off from Kylo,
mentally closing the door on their special Force connection,
which makes us a little sad because we were starting to get on board with the #Reylo shippers
--
even though we knew the movie wasn't never going to let them get together.
They can't just suddenly both be on the same side of the Force --
what kind of conflict would that give us for the next movie?
"Where are you, Kylo Ren?"
"Here I am."
[Kisses]
But that isn't even the real reason that we knew it wasn't gonna work out.
We knew because love never works out in "Star Wars."
Which brings us to our big question --
why don't couples ever get a happy ending in "Star Wars?"
Is love just doomed in this universe?
There are a few more couples in outside of the movies,
but in the "Star Wars" movies, we've yet to see a couple stay together for the long
haul,
unless you count our brief glimpse of Luke's aunt and uncle before they're killed.
Even Han and Leia don't grow old together.
"I've always hated watching you leave."
There is real love in "Star Wars," but love is more of a moment than a lifetime partnership.
Part of this is due to pragmatic reasons -- if you're constantly fighting off the evil
empire,
thinking you'll die at any second, trying to stop your son from murdering everyone,
and make long distance work when you're literally light years apart...
date nights aren't going to be the priority.
But there are also a number of deeper reasons why passionate love just doesn't work in
"Star Wars."
The emotionally charged looks between Ben Solo and Rey
make us think back to the passion of Anakin and Padmé,
which wasn't as successful an onscreen chemistry, but nevertheless.
Like Anakin and Padmé, Kylo and Rey are drawn to each other because they're polar opposites.
The Force is all about balance made up of strong bonds between opposites,
so there's a deep attraction between intense darkness and intense light.
Even Han and Leia fall for each other partly due to how different they are,
"When you aren't acting like a scoundrel."
"Scoundrel?"
and their friction is what makes their flirtation so satisfying.
"I like the sound of that."
"You still want to kill me."
"That happens when you're being haunted by a creature in mask."
The connection that's possible between Rey and Kylo at this moment
when they're still forming their adult identities
reminds us that opposite things can start out very similar, very close together,
even though they end up very far apart.
Snoke says he knew that as Kylo's darkness became more powerful in the universe,
a corresponding light would rise -- a Rey of light, if you will.
"Darkness rises and light to meet it."
So Rey and Kylo are each other's equivalents.
They're almost like soulmates, the way they can see into each other --
"You imagine an ocean.
I see it."
no one else can understand the intensity of their powers and burdens.
"Being so lonely."
Being so perfectly opposite, they feel more connected to each other than to anyone else.
But the thing that draws them together is also the reason they can't stay together.
Anakin's and Padmé's relationship falls apart because for both of them,
their connection to the Force comes first.
When Anakin has his prophetic fear that Padmé is going to die in childbirth,
he turns to the Dark Side to try to prevent this from happening.
"You're breaking my heart.
You're going down the path I can't follow."
Later when she asks him to reject the Dark Side,
"Stop!
Stop now!
Come back!
I love you!"
"Liar!"
his rage leads him to almost kill her himself,
proving that even though she was the justification for his actions,
by now the Dark Side is more important to him than she is.
And the same dynamic is now true now for Kylo and Rey.
Their personal relationships to the Force come before romance.
Even for Han and Leia, the will of the Force ultimately was more powerful than what the
couple felt.
Their son turning to the Dark Side drove them apart.
So the Force had its own plans for their future.
In "Star Wars," romantic love just isn't the most important thing.
"All I want is your love."
"Love won't save you, Padmé.
Only my new powers can do that."
One way to make all this clearer, is to distinguish between different types of love --
and the Ancient Greeks had some very handy words for for talking about different kinds
of love --
Their word for sexual, romantic love was one that we still use today, eros.
The Ancient Greeks believed Eros wasn't likely to last and wasn't necessarily a good
thing.
It can take over a person and make them lose control.
Excessively strong emotions are a path to the Dark Side.
And Anakin's strong feelings for Padmé allow Palpatine to manipulate him.
Volatile Eros is also the attraction we see between Kylo and Rey.
By the end he wants to shoot her in the Millennium Falcon out of the sky.
He's gone from passion for her to passion for destroying her, which is classic Kylo.
We were already getting signs he wasn't going to be the most positive boyfriend for
Rey --
as Vanity Fair pointed out, he negs her with those statements
about how she's a nobody because of how her parents are, but "not a nobody to him."
This attempt to feed on low self-esteem is a real alarm bell.
Apart from eros, the other kind of love that's dangerous in "Star Wars" is self-love --
The Ancient Greeks called this Philautia, and said it had both a healthy and an unhealthy
form.
Those on the Dark Side are full of unhealthy self-love,
"Protection is a job for local security, not a Jedi."
They put their ambitions for fame and power above all else.
And while eros is a temptation for both Anakin and Ben Solo,
they ultimately choose to love themselves the most.
Meanwhile, Rey has to develop a healthy self-love by not falling for Kylo's attempt to diminish
her.
"You.
A scavenger.
You know I can take whatever I want."
And that healthy self-love is part of the basis for becoming a stable Jedi.
The Ancient Greeks had the word pragma for long-term partnership love,
which is what we don't get much of in "Star Wars" due to the volatility of all these people's
lives.
The most central kind of love in "Star Wars" is the Greek concept of agape.
In "Star Wars," it's this love and concern for the good of all people that's most important.
The community comes before the heart.
Theoretically you could have a solid romantic bond between two individuals who shared a
commitment to their community --
that's what Han and Leia have for a while.
But even then, the bigger community demands are probably going to come between the couple.
And for the most part, because opposites attract so strongly in "Star Wars,"
romance tends to be a destructive temptation, in conflict with community goals.
Eros isn't even the second most important kind of love in "Star Wars."
After Agape, the most important is Philia, or friend love.
In the original trilogy, Luke's and Han's friendship is just as underlined if not more
so than Han's and Leia's romance.
And even though Han and Leia separate, Han and Chewy as the best of friends do stay together
for life.
After all, Han and Chewie do stay together for their whole lives.
Taking all of these different kinds of love together,
we can see that ultimately Kylo was a dangerous test that Rey passed during her training --
just as Luke had to overcome the trap of his strong feelings he had concerning his father.
Rey's talking to Kylo at the same time she's being drawn into the pit underground,
which represents the pull of the Dark Side --
and when Rey sees versions of herself in the mirror this even recalls
when Luke sees his own face in Vader's mask.
A Jedi needs to be close to the will of the Force above all else,
and passionate emotion of this magnitude could only unbalance Rey.
A scene near the end of "The Last Jedi" raises more questions about the romantic future of
these characters.
With a brief glance, Rey observes the new connection developing between Finn and Rose.
That makes us think of Luke witnessing Leia's feelings for Han.
Finn's and Rey's fierce devotion to each other feels more and more like a platonic
Luke and Leia-style love.
And this "The Last Jedi" scene where Rey's observing them
corresponds to the scene at the end of "The Empire Strikes Back"
where Luke and Leia looked out on their future, as brother and sister.
Luke's very aware that Leia is clearly thinking about Han.
So if Rey is the Luke of this trilogy, and Poe Dameron is the Han Solo -- clearly given
his charming swagger --
that makes Finn sort of the Leia, who loves Rey/Luke dearly as a sibling figure,
but develops a different romantic attraction that's a total surprise even to himself.
The end scene also shows Poe and Rey finally meeting.
For a quick moment we're definitely wondering if this is setting up a potential romance
there.
Although that would be like putting this trilogy's Luke and Han together.
But clearly these cards are being reshuffled a bit, and we're not going to get a direct
repeat of the old stuff.
Anyway, however much we enjoyed Kylo gazing longingly at Rey,
we all just have to leave that behind us and get ready for the next battle between them.
The best we could hope for is the couple somehow reunites
just long enough to conceive a really awesome baby,
but #Reylo growing old together is just not in the cards.
"I'm being torn apart.
I want to be free of this pain.
I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it."
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