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stairset · 2 years ago

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Love the idea here that the other rebels' problem with Saw is just that he blows shit up and not the whole "torturing prisoners and endangering civilians" thing

#the death stars were both military targets the only people killed in those explosions were military personnel #whereas saw and the partisans have demonstrated multiple times that they have zero regard for civilian life #they got a bunch of civilians at a festival killed on inusagi just to kill one imperial governor and put civilians in danger on jedha #he interrogates people with a telepathic squid monster that mind rapes you and leaves you insane #either that or he electrocutes you and threatens to shoot the queen egg that can save your nearly extinct species #and for every time he gets results there's also an instance of him accomplishing absolutely nothing #he bombs tarkin's base on eriadu and doesn't even succeed in killing him or any of the other officers #he just killed a bunch of easily-replaceable stormtroopers #and if tech really is dead then the only actually noteworthy person he got killed that day was someone that was technically on his side #even if he did kill tarkin or krennic or hemlock they can also be replaced cause everyone in the empire is expendable except palpatine #the empire has no shortage of other officers like them that could continue their work #saw just wants to hurt the empire right here right now and doesn't care about the consequences #he says sacrifice is required for the greater good which isn't wrong but doesn't care who makes those sacrifices for his cause #and no i'm not saying he's some evil monster with no redeeming qualities #we know his backstory we know why he is the way he is and i do think he's sympathetic #but i also think the whole mentality that he was Always Right Actually and the other rebels are hypocrites for no approving of his methods #is really fucking stupid #of course this all stems from tumblr logic that you can't have any characters who fit the ''well-intentioned extremist'' trope #cause if you have a character who has good intentions but goes about the wrong way #then according to tumblr that automatically means you're Demonizing Violent Resistance #even though the characters who disapprove of those extreme methods are in fact ALSO violently resisting #they're just not committing war crimes while they do it #i didn't think these tags were gonna be as long as they were but yeah #bad batch spoilers #in the tags #shut up tristan

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