Tag / SW:TLJ

by crowfooted

mindfulwrath:

Here’s a hot take: villains should be relatable.

Not every villain, not every time, and certainly not to everyone at once, but there should be moments. We should, occasionally, be able to see ourselves in the bad guys, be able to understand how they got there.

Because it reminds us not to fucking go there.

Antis who get upset about villains having relatable qualities (often couched as being “romanticized” or “woobified”) are people who cannot bear to ever think of themselves as having the capability of being wrong.

Every human alive is capable of being a horrible person. Relatable villains remind us to keep an eye on that shit.

by crowfooted

reserve:

i still don’t think kylo ren killed all those kids. 

Reblogging again because I had a thought:

What if, after the confrontation with Luke, Ben/Kylo went to the temple and told the others that Luke had tried to kill him. Some believed him and joined him (the soon-to-be KoR), while others assumed that he had flipped to dark and killed Luke and so they tried to kill him (since they trusted Luke’s judgement, and if he did try to kill Ben then clearly that was the right thing to do). Maybe Kylo and the KoR killed the others out of self-defense rather than because they were trying to eliminate the Jedi.