Sorry, but I’m just gonna run off with this for a moment if that’s okay?
Because the visual… not parallel, but maybe echo between the top gif and the lower gif just hit me.
One a Kylo without his mask, the other a pre-suit Vader. Both are shots almost directly downwards and both are leading a group of troops.
This is Vader just after he accepted Sideous’ offer of power and fully turned himself to the Dark Side. We don’t know anything about Kylo in the shot except that it’s clearly after he wrecks his helmet – you can see his face very briefly in the shot – but you’re not going to tell me that the choice of angle and the way this shot is set up isn’t intentional.
I think that just like Vader is on his way to cement his alliance with Sideous killing the Jedi and destroying their temple, we’re seeing Kylo on his way to do something similar.
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