This is interesting! Your and others' thoughts. But wait, what are my thoughts?
I dunno if I'm a shipper here. Romance in the SW-verse kind of terrifies me because it's been done so badly on screen. I was okay with Leia and Han, but I don't feel that was exactly centered.
What was centered was that gen family. Luke, Leia, Han, R2, Chewie. That who I always wanted together, no romance.
In these three films, they tried go give me Rey, Finn, Poe, the droids. But the other family was still there. And where does Ben Solo fall into this? He's an antagonist, but he's also Princess Leia's baby boy. We can't ever forget that. He can't ever forget that. So yes, I wanted Kylo-ben do rejoin that family. Very much.
Maybe in Star Wars I 'ship' a family unit. So yes, I wanted Ben to join the family. Ben. And Ben and Rey were connected and that was interesting. So were Ben and Leia. Rey and Finn. I cared about these relationships.
Ben Solo. So much confusion and rage. All that youth and raw power and no one, not one of my beloved three could guide him. They did better with Rey but Rey's parents were partly responsible for that. She was forced to be on her own, relying on no one to guide her. And she did okay on her own. Space orphans often do. (This is not how real life usually goes, but I'll give our orphans the benefit if the doubt.)
I don't think he's pathetic. He's broken. Incomplete. And he can't be fixed. He wanted so do be like Vader (and no one was ever anything like Vader) and he succeeded in going to a point of no return. I was never really that frightened of Kylo Ren. Only frightened of what Leia, Han, and Rey's connection to him would do to them.
It's not the use of Kylo Ren (I love that my autocorrect calls him Kylo Gen, lol) that forces Rey to look at her dark side, it's Palpatine that does that. I could have had a bit more of that exploration. I was a teeny bit afraid of Sith!Rey. But I digress.
Kylo shows us about redemption and how there are some things you cannot be redeemed for no matter how many times you die, save lives, or are died for. Don't know whether either director intended that but that's what I learned from him. How far can you go in your power? What if Rey had left him dead? What would that have done do her and Finn who would never given up on trying to save her and all those who would never give up on trying to saving him?
These questions are Star Wars at its best! Well, in my opinion. ;-)
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This is interesting! Your and others' thoughts. But wait, what are my thoughts?
I dunno if I'm a shipper here. Romance in the SW-verse kind of terrifies me because it's been done so badly on screen. I was okay with Leia and Han, but I don't feel that was exactly centered.
What was centered was that gen family. Luke, Leia, Han, R2, Chewie. That who I always wanted together, no romance.
In these three films, they tried go give me Rey, Finn, Poe, the droids. But the other family was still there. And where does Ben Solo fall into this? He's an antagonist, but he's also Princess Leia's baby boy. We can't ever forget that. He can't ever forget that. So yes, I wanted Kylo-ben do rejoin that family. Very much.
Maybe in Star Wars I 'ship' a family unit. So yes, I wanted Ben to join the family. Ben. And Ben and Rey were connected and that was interesting. So were Ben and Leia. Rey and Finn. I cared about these relationships.
Ben Solo. So much confusion and rage. All that youth and raw power and no one, not one of my beloved three could guide him. They did better with Rey but Rey's parents were partly responsible for that. She was forced to be on her own, relying on no one to guide her. And she did okay on her own. Space orphans often do. (This is not how real life usually goes, but I'll give our orphans the benefit if the doubt.)
I don't think he's pathetic. He's broken. Incomplete. And he can't be fixed. He wanted so do be like Vader (and no one was ever anything like Vader) and he succeeded in going to a point of no return. I was never really that frightened of Kylo Ren. Only frightened of what Leia, Han, and Rey's connection to him would do to them.
It's not the use of Kylo Ren (I love that my autocorrect calls him Kylo Gen, lol) that forces Rey to look at her dark side, it's Palpatine that does that. I could have had a bit more of that exploration. I was a teeny bit afraid of Sith!Rey. But I digress.
Kylo shows us about redemption and how there are some things you cannot be redeemed for no matter how many times you die, save lives, or are died for. Don't know whether either director intended that but that's what I learned from him. How far can you go in your power? What if Rey had left him dead? What would that have done do her and Finn who would never given up on trying to save her and all those who would never give up on trying to saving him?
These questions are Star Wars at its best! Well, in my opinion. ;-)