Bookoftheworm

I saw the movie this evening, and it was amazing! However, there is a lot of glitching, flashing colors, and other epilepsy inducing sequences. So if you or someone else you know is planning to go are vulnerable to stuff like that, it may not be a good idea.

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…seriously though. Out of the major male Force users we’ve gotten in canon, it’s like:

Kylo < Anakin < Obi-Wan < Luke < Ezra

Kylo is a mess. Doesn’t admit when he’s wrong or when he fails at. all. When MAUL. FRICKIN. MAUL. comes off more reasonable than you in rejection uhhhhhhhhhh you got some rethinking to do, my dude.

Anakin does admit when he’s failed, but it’s always an external failure. If it’s his fault, it’s his fault because he wasn’t strong/fast/powerful enough. He doesn’t take a critical look at the intent behind his actions. Anakin fails, but Anakin is never wrong.

Obi-Wan does take that critical look at his intentions. He recognizes and graciously receives correction when he acts in a manner outside of his internal compass. He acknowledges when he’s wrong and learns from that. But he never takes a critical look at his internal compass, to see if it got wonked somewhere along the way. (fortunately, his internal compass is pointed in the right direction… for the most part)

Luke takes that critical look at his intentions and his core beliefs. He receives correction, but also thinks about that correction. He acknowledges when he was wrong and when the things he was taught may have been wrong. But he’s not the best at processing it with others. He internalizes the heck outta it so that when he REALLY messes up, he nopes out to an island to hide. (God, that’s relatable)

Ezra takes a critical look at himself and at his beliefs and processes through them with Kanan or Hera or Sabine or Zeb. He questions, he makes mistakes, he recognizes that he was wrong. He did internalize the CRAP out of Malachor so that caused an issues for a season, exacerbated by Maul waltzing in every so often to make it worse, but like, he works it through. With Kanan, with Hera, with Obi-Wan, with firckin Chopper. He is willing to be vulnerable with others and have others be vulnerable with him.

And the funniest thing about this?

Ezra is the youngest. With everyone else, I’m talking about an adult in like their twenties or thirties or fifties. Ezra?

[screencap of Bones saying with heavy snark: “he’s seventeen.”]

I’d say this is a good argument for an emotionally supportive family - which it is - but Kylo and Luke also had good parents. They also grew up with a support system, and Ezra is leagues beyond both of them before they ever left their homes.

And moreso, Ezra was without that support system from ages 7 to 14. Major, formative years of his life, where he had to fend for himself and developed selfish habits. And yet he still became the most emotionally-mature of our major male Force users when he was still a teenager.

Zeb: I’m just holding my hand there. I’m not even touching him.

Ezra: I felt phantom flicks.

Chopper accompanied Ezra in almost every mission he participated in or when he traveled alone.  Chopper didn’t hesitate for long before wheeling across the Dune Sea, to the detriment his circuits, just to keep up with Ezra.

The way Chopper held Alora and Pypey and spun on the spot for their entertainment.

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