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More links! :D
I am off to see The Last Jedi again in a little while (\o/), but before I go a few more links (all via my flist - thank you!):
Star Wars: The Return of the Stakes, or The Failure Frontier
(Fascinating. And long. But seriously. Fascinating.)
Luke Skywalker Isn’t Supposed to Be “Nice”
This one almost made me cry. It also pointed out how Luke hiding away is not 'running away' (which it looks like), but actually makes sense. Plus, it provides the best summary of the movie's themes that I have seen: the film is examining heroism as a concept, as a systematic construct that binds the very people it should comfort.
Also a very thought provoking vid, mostly focussing on the original 6 movies (no spoilers for TLJ except for a few shots from the trailer):
ETA: Also one of the best explorations/explanations of Anakin's fall to the dark side.
(I think I will be making a master post with all the links I have posted so far...)
Star Wars: The Return of the Stakes, or The Failure Frontier
(Fascinating. And long. But seriously. Fascinating.)
Luke Skywalker Isn’t Supposed to Be “Nice”
This one almost made me cry. It also pointed out how Luke hiding away is not 'running away' (which it looks like), but actually makes sense. Plus, it provides the best summary of the movie's themes that I have seen: the film is examining heroism as a concept, as a systematic construct that binds the very people it should comfort.
Also a very thought provoking vid, mostly focussing on the original 6 movies (no spoilers for TLJ except for a few shots from the trailer):
ETA: Also one of the best explorations/explanations of Anakin's fall to the dark side.
(I think I will be making a master post with all the links I have posted so far...)
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Mmmm. And this time, it's not what Ben has done but what-he-might-do... Would you kill bb!Hitler? And it's not even that he does it, but that he - for a tiny moment - gives in to temptation. And then in the most painful catch-22 he creates the monster he wanted to avoid. (Although, as I observed to sea_thoughts, his temptation wasn't misguided as such - Kylo Ren burned down the temple, and killed the students who didn't go with him... The darkness was there.)
TLJ gives us something slightly different to think about: what we do with the bad worth being terrified of that lies even in people like Luke and Rey.
I like it so much - they are all human, and flawed. There is lightness in Kylo, and darkness in Rey. Nothing is simple.