ALSO, I mean not the point, but having written my MA thesis on memoir...it is a legitimate and important form.

As I understood it, it was marketed as YA/adventure/dystopia? The covers, at least the hardback ones, were not at all romance-y. The movies were more sold that way but, that is a whole different thing.

Well since you haven’t *read* the book, you can’t really make that judgment. But, for example, gonzo journalism is not billed as “memoir.” And it is SUPER first-person. As I understand it, the book has a lot of factual information, a lot of interviews, a lot of research, all tied together by personal experience, which…

Journalism and academia are not the same thing.

Like the newish Bell Jar cover!?

Maybe she just felt a little woozy starting around 8 or 9 every day, not *drunk*, and figured that’s just how she feels at night.

Have you ever seen a physics major spend 10 hours a day in studio while balancing theory classes? I was friends w some art students (like, at a legit art school) in college, and they worked harder and partied less than any of the STEM majors I knew. The one I was closest to is now a graphic designer who’s won a…

My uterus just broke.

But he does wear a towel when he gets out of the shower.

Lots and lots of sunscreen every day?

Between killing Han and fighting Finn/Rey (whom, by the way, he had instructions not to kill, but to bring to Snoke), he got shot. He was bleeding from his side. So of course he wasn't at full strength. Rey — untrained, but experienced fighter as established early in the movie — was fighting with everything she had,…

He was stabbed with a lightsaber. The planet exploded.

I think that was the saddest. At least Han and Leia got that hug, and we know Luke and Leia will reunite (knock on wood). But Han and Luke never got to see each other again.

On my second viewing, these kids behind us (12-14?) kept saying “it’s Disney, so Han Solo isn’t dead!” My sweet babies, he was stabbed with a lightsaber, fell into the star destroyer, and then the planet he was on exploded. He is indeed dead dead dead.

Exactly. Or not even tip the scales; it’s really always about underdogs fighting against a seemingly unstoppable evil, and stopping it.

It hasn’t been decades. It seems reasonable to assume it’s been about 32 years since the events of Jedi (‘83-’15). In that time, Leia and Han had a kid, and that kid had a childhood. Eventually, they were troubled by the kid’s behavior and sent him to Luke, where Ben probably trained for a while before snapping and…

Agreed. Seen it twice so far, and I fucking LOVE it (and I’ve been watching the OT over and over again since I was 9, which was far too many years ago).

ALSO, it’s a pretty perfect “New Hope” parallel. Rey watches someone evil she doesn’t yet know she’s related to kill someone poised to be her mentor, someone who’s been more of a father figure to her than anyone she’s ever had.

Agreed. I read some of the books as a kid, but it was always about the (original) movies.

Well, wouldn’t that be more about Leia being Anakin’s daughter than anything to do with Han?