In the AV Club review for Star Wars Rebel’s Legacy the reviewer made an interesting point, that he doesn’t necessarily buy into the ‘family’ dynamic that has been pushed over the last two season. Other people I admire have made similar points. And I sort of agree with them, as cute as the Space(Blank) appellations are, they don’t exactly reflect the very complicated reality. So I decided to break down, crew member by crew member, how exactly I think the fam works out from their perspective.
Would it help to change the term “SpaceUnconventionalButYetReallyFunctionalFamilyInASense” instead?
Would it be nice to type SpaceUnconventionalButYetReallyFunctionalFamilyInASense everytime we want to refer to them?
No?
I thought so 🙂
“Spacefamily” it is 😀
You can be a family without being a nuclear family. The Spacefamily is more of a family of choice, which is a trope that I adore, by the way, because it plays into my long-standing belief that your family is who you love, rather than the people you are born to (though, of course, those two things intersect quite often).
Agree!
I’m just playing around with the word “spacefamily” itself 😀
My pastor once told me something that i think applies here very well.
A person has three famlies in their life times.
The First is the one you are born into… you dont have a choice about that. It can be great, it can be ok, it can be horrid. But its always your first family.
The second is the family that you marry into. this is by choice.. choosing (what ever your definition of marriage is) to associate your self with another person by marriage.
Your third family is the family you find and choose for your self. and i quote “The blood of the covenant is stronger than the water of the womb.” The bonds and loves you choose to make, can sometimes mean more than the ones you were created with.
so YAH.. “SpaceFAMILY.”
Awesome… thanks!
I did not expect such a response, so, uh. Agreed, Space Family is super cute, and they are certainly a family. I just had a lot of feeeelings about how well written they are and how diverse their pasts are, and how nice it is to have a found family with such a unique range of definitions of family. I like the complexity.
A Middleground 