People have been telling me I don’t know what Star Wars is about, because it’s clearly about REDEMPTION and that’s why Kylo Ren is going to return to the Light somehow. With Rey’s help, obviously.
But the problem is…. it isn’t? Redemption is not really a major theme in Star Wars franchise.
Sure, Vader redeems himself, but he pays for it with his life. And by the time of TFA we are told his redemption appearently didn’t stick as common knowledge, because his own grandson hails him as some sort of Paragon for the Dark Side and asks him for guidance.
So… one (1) major villain who “redeemed” himself by dying. Two, if you count Ventress from Clone Wars. And that’s it. There is absolutely no “redemption theme” in the whole prequel trilogy, none.
You know what is a major theme in Star Wars franchise, Karen? Hope. Family. “Fascism is bad” is also pretty high up there. Redemption? Nah.
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if you need a pick-me-up put on the radio and sing along, changing all “baby”s to “buddy”s and “BB”s as warranted.
[No Church in the Wild playing muffled in the distance]
#just marry tchalla and u got it
Okay but can u believe that they just killed off admiral ackbar¿¿¿ a straight up icon had an offscreen death and literally no one cares like why are y’all sleeping on this it’s an o u t r a g e
My friend and I had a long talk about how great it would’ve been if he took over while Leia was in the hospital and he was the one at the end who sacrificed himself to blow up that ship. It would’ve had so much more weight.
My sister said Ackbar should’ve made the plan (and would have fucking told Poe btw) and then sacrificed himself as part of the plan, and as he turns the Raddus to face Snoke’s ship his fin hovers over the hyperspace controls long enough for him to whisper
“It’s a trap”
And then he just
Anyways,, I can’t wait for Finn & Rey’s kid(s) to continue the next trilogy xo
Why Luke Skywalker of ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Doesn’t Feel Like Luke
Another good article.
This big change to Luke happening without anyone around also feels like an invalidation of what he learned and went through in the original trilogy. Really, Luke already ought to know better about the hubris and personal pride of the Jedi, because nobody has been failed by the Jedi like Luke has. His most trusted mentors lied to him and held back key information about him and his family, in order to manipulate him into killing his father. Luke ends “Return of the Jedi” disillusioned by his elders, and spends most of that story in pain. Even after redeeming Vader, Luke seems nearly broken by his loss. The ending of “Return of the Jedi,” with his father’s quiet funeral, is a distinctly downbeat moment, during a party no less, because we see a pained Luke struggling with everything he’s seen and experienced.
Luke Skywalker knows better than anyone the failings of the Jedi, because he lived them. To see him repeat the same mistakes of Yoda and Obi-Wan feels like a backstep. The man we watched Luke become and the man he is in “The Last Jedi” are out of sync. We missed what could have made him this way, and a few short lines of dialogue in which Luke explains a moment of weakness seems insufficient when set against three movies of character development.
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By the end of “Return of the Jedi,” Luke isn’t a guy who sees darkness in someone and fires up his blade to strike them down; he’s a guy who sees darkness in someone, and reaches out a hand to help them.
LOUDER FOR EVERYBODY IN THE BACK
Why Luke Skywalker of ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Doesn’t Feel Like Luke
so how come everyone was able to breathe in outer space when the ships were torn apart and there was nothing keeping them from being sucked into outer space? like finn and phasma when they were fighting for example and everything around them was basically destroyed?
I’ve decided: they’re all force-sensitive. Especially Finn.
So we’re told in TLJ that we should fight to save what we love, not fight what we hate, right?? That this attitude is more moral and the Right Way to Rebel?? And yet when Finn tries to leave to protect someone he loves (Rey) from arriving back to a very dangerous situation, both Rose and the narrative frame this as cowardly. So then he somehow regresses and we’re told he’s become a character who fights what he hates (even though all TFA he never really showed a sign of wanting payback against the FO, except for that relatively benign scene with Phasma and the garbage chute). And then at the end he needs Rose to show him the Right Way, which is about protecting what we love. You know, that thing she tased him for trying to do at the start of the movie.
Like even if you want to say Rose’s character arc was about realising this too (which, let’s not lie, is executed pretty poorly, with her going from wanting to destroy the whole town of Canto Bight to only wanting to do so the save the animals in like 10 minutes, whatever epiphany she has not being clearly shown on screen at all), it’s pretty poor taste never mind bad writing to tell the audience Finn trying to leave is cowardly and him getting tased for it is funny, only to turn around at the end of the movie and have Finn act a completely different way and STILL find a way to frame him as being in the wrong by saying no, he should operate under the same perspective of protecting what we love even though he was admonished for it by Rose and the narrative like an hour ago
Right, that’s what I was confused with.
He didn’t go on the FO and fight Kylo at the end of TFA because he hated them, he canonically did it to protect and save Rey.
And he was also doing that at the beginning of the movie, but all of sudden it’s a bad thing now. But then it’s not bad when Rose does it? It’s just inconsistent and contradictory. There’s so much they could’ve done with Finn that would’ve made much more external and internal sense.
if mark hamill ever talked about me like this id fucking kill myself
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