The thing is… if Kylo were ever inclined to listen wouldn’t he have listened to the living? You know, like his own father Han? His mother Leia? Or his uncle Luke? Kylo isn’t being reached because he doesn’t want to be reached. He made his choice.
That sounds like more apologist bullshit.
Why does every character, living or dead have to be a grown ass man’s babysitter?
Y’all can’t just enjoy the nuance of a sympathetic villain and have them realize what they are doing is wrong by their own actions?
Enough of this Hux betrayal, Uncle Lando redemption, Rey baby factory redemption, Leia’s death redemption, Etc. The dude chose to be who he is. No one else.
Redemption ain’t redemption if you’re being forced to do it.
THIS. LET THE VILLAIN BE THE VILLAIN, TIMES ETERNAL LOOP. He’s chosen his path, over and over, get it thru your skulls. The male lead of the ST is FINN.
After TFA, if anybody could have swayed him, it would have been Leia having to make the hard choice of taking her own son down, imo, as a mirror of Luke and Vader I personally would have liked. Let him apologize to his mother for all the harm he’s done as he passes on to get reamed by grandpa in Force Ghost limbo.
That is not happening, so let him be taken down by Finn, his foil that chose the opposite path.
Do you ever cry because Finn and Rey had nothing? They had nothing. Their childhoods stolen from them, dropped in a cut throat environment, no family. The universe didn’t give a shit about them.
But their kindness. Their hope. That burned on. It burned so brightly that even the darkness around them couldn’t snuff it out.
And they found each other, and it was two lost souls finding each other. Yin and yang. The perfect combination.
They fight for each other, they come back for each other, they love each other – there’s no denying that.
Romantic or platonic, you cannot tell me Finn and Rey aren’t soulmates. You just can’t.
I think that I prefer to think about a foil not as someone who is in natural opposition, like a Harry v. Draco, but people who are similar with a noted or a few noted differences. One of my favorite literary foils is Elinor Dashwood and her sister Marianne. Elinor is steady, stable, sort of long-suffering. Marianne is sunny, lighthearted, is fine with taking chances. They are not enemies – they love each other very much – but despite being born to the same parents and having the same upbringing, they are very different women.
So with that in mind, this is why I think Finn’s foil is Poe Dameron.
I love The Swan Princess, and it is one of the first animated movies I ever saw. My favorite parts are always those where it’s shown that Derek and Odette are really starting to fall in love. This is a Finnrey take on the scene where Derek teaches Odette how to shoot a bow and arrow (before things go to crap). In this version Finn is a (non-shallow) prince from a planet where sharpshooting is an art form, and Rey is a headstrong, princess who is an ace pilot and rebelled against the idea of marriage at first until she found her match in Prince Finn. Both are Force Sensitive and both are preparing to defend their kingdoms from the Great Animal Kylo Ren.
anyway, asian wlw are so strong for dealing with bigotry and festishisation of their race and sexuality and I hope every asian wlw is having a good day despite the hardships they have to deal with
Elements of the left say that antifa tactics – direct, physical
confrontations with fascists and racists – are a “gift to the
alt-right,” letting them play victim and validating their paranoid
fantasies about the persecution of white dudes – but punched Nazi
Richard Spencer says that antifa tactics have worked as intended, making
it impossible for him to continue his on-campus recruitment tour for
his forthcoming race-war.
Spencer’s admission of antifa’s victory was part of a long, dull Youtube video
he posted last Sunday, in which he announced the premature end of his
“college tour,” because “When they become violent clashes and pitched
battles, they aren’t fun,” adding, “Antifa is winning to the extent that
they’re willing to go further than anyone else, in the sense that they
will do things in terms of just violence, intimidating, and general
nastiness.”
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