If he needs to find peace from people patting his ass and telling him it wasn’t his fault, then fuck his peace. That sounds, again, suspiciously like a threat that the people he hurt need to swallow down their pain and anger and endlessly accommodate him to avoid a greater threat, whether from the First Order or Kylo Ren’s own darkness. It’s his own damned responsibility to find peace, not the people he tortured and tried to murder.
The same goes for Padmé: There is no peace without justice, and if she was seeking “peace” by literally getting in bed with a mass murderer at the expense of justice for murdered children, then her idea of peace is not peace but appeasement.
I also never said the stabbing attempt would be a positive thing, I specifically said it was suicide and too little, too late. It would be an expression of despair born out of Anakin’s crimes and guilt for her own silence, not a positive development. At least it would show an awareness that she had made a terrible mistake, not a doubling down on the same make-nice avoidance of accountability that had worked so spectacularly (as in, not at all) before.
I’m an Anidala shipper and… I don’t think it would have been OOC for her to try to kill Anakin after confirming what he had done. Going to Mustafar specifically to kill him, with the twins along for the ride wouldn’t make sense imo. But having her wake up after he choked her and shoot him, causing him to fall and burn, during his duel with Obi-Wan would have. It would also have been preferable to the high ground explanation.
Exactly! Let her play an active role Lucas you coward.
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