Great Visual Storytelling

i agree! in the book her excitement about the food is even more apparent. it's kind of heartbreaking to think she's probably never eaten this well in her life!

for a character who only had such a brief scene, i loved LST and i'm sad he died so suddenly and cruelly. i can almost forgive Kylo Ren for killing Han before i can forgive him for LST. at least i feel like i understand why he killed Han. with LST, it was just sheer meanness.

but you're right: he calm way he walks out into the fire is so resigned, so graceful, so powerful. like Ben facing Vader and just letting him cut him down.

oh good choice! i agree: the steps carry her so beautifully ~ she is ascending into this new life very much like Euridice out of Hades.

 

i love that she practically physically beats him backwards in that moment. especially since she's the one who's restrained!

and since you mentioned her white/grey clothes, it's rather interesting to me, too, that at the end when she's ascending the steps, she's wearing an outfit that is less ambiguously grey than what she began with (for those who like drawing comparisons between her and Luke in terms of costuming ~ he went through the same progression).

 

given his expression of worshipfulness later in the film, i'd say this is pretty spot-on foreshadowing.

 

i don't know what else you would call that expression on his face.
it's not anger and it's not just merely surprise. it's awe.

yeah, but he doesn't hesitate to loom over Poe and then tear his mind open. Poe is absolutely beneath him visually in that scene.

these are also two different interrogations rooms, so that may account for the lighting distinctions, though of course it's always an artistic choice. same with him crouching.

 

hahaha that's a great image. probably not unfitting given all the Light/Dark seduction/temptation themes generally in Star Wars.

it kinda goes back to bringing one's own experience to the film. people see different things based on how it resonates.

i agree he's creepy with her and i do think he's sorta just employing standards of interrogation, but he seems interested in her from the moment he encounters her on Takodana and the creepiness is him being awkward about following up on that.
whether that's because he senses her FS or thinks triple hair buns are hot, his surprise that she's "just a scavenger" clearly bothers him ~ and that really has nothing to do with getting the map, which is what he's supposed to be doing.

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that's the look. you don't just give that look to chopped liver. hahaha

 

you know, i'm actually going to say no to that. in that moment, i don't think he's threatened at all by her (yet).

Kylo Ren seems so painfully isolated and lonely. i think he sees her as a potential playmate and peer ~ someone he can connect to, someone like him, who can understand him. of course he goes about trying to get her all the wrong ways because he's an awkward self-absorbed twit, but in the moment i think it's rainbows and ponies in his eyes.

he may feel different about her now that she's knocked him down. we'll see how he reacts in viii.