#actually care about the story they were telling but y'know. 'why' best conveys my bafflement with the thematic flops situation | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

the-hawks-rye · 2 years ago

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i know it's been said a gazillion times and said more eloquently than me but god the amount of missed potential in the sequel trilogy. thinking about how anakin became a villain because he felt he had no other choice (and the tragedy being that he always had a choice, and his character arc concluding with him deciding to stand up for what's right by saving luke), meanwhile kylo grew up surrounded by a loving family full of positive role models and chose evil knowingly because he craved power for power's sake. kylo idolizing the tragic figure of darth vader all the while burning the world around him. there was so much you could do with that but instead they had to sacrifice rey's character to make the movies about her fixing the genocidal white boy who never wanted to be saved

#rereading tfa junior novel...#tfa wasn't perfect but it really did set up a lot of interesting stuff! that never got proper attention (if it did at all)!#mitch rambles #sw #sw negativity #and of course the nature vs nurture with kylo vs finn. why the hell did they never get a rematch after tfa. like that would have so good #having finn now on solid footing knowing that this (the fate of the galaxy) is worth fighting for and his now realized self #kicking kylo's pathetic ass into the next galaxy #also why tf did rey get force healing in tros when finn was ren's (characterized by destruction) narrative foil #like i know it's sidelining finn bc racism and making rey super special and powerful in lieu of actual characterization & bc they didn't #actually care about the story they were telling but y'know. 'why' best conveys my bafflement with the thematic flops situation #anyway back to kylo. u could have him tentatively going lightside-ish at the end of the final movie bc star wars redemption themes and all #but you'd have to have him very very very clearly giving up power (or accepting a forced loss of it) for it to work! like themes 101 people #like 'oh i did a bad thing by killing my dad :(' cool but are we gonna address the root cause of why you did that? (or your other crimes)#it's bc he was representative of how morals still had some power over you and u hated that because u need to be stronger than anything else #i don't think any of this ground-shaking breakthroughs like your room full of writers couldn't work out any of that. does nobody know what #a theme is? people were payed big money to make those movies??? (this is not about set/sound/costuming/etc you did great)#*sigh*#store wore posting

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