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Let’s talk about Luke’s behavior in the sequels. Other than Padme, Luke was the only person who believed Anakin could turn back, even Obi Wan believed he failed. Despite all that Vader did, Luke brought him back. So why did he act that way towards Ben Solo?

From what I remember, Snoke/ the dark side was whispering to Ben, slowly turning him. Luke sensed that, and his immediate reaction was to:

pull out a lightsaber on his teenage nephew in the middle of the night

This action jumpstarted Ben’s turn to the Dark side. He murdered the other Jedi students and took off. Luke later did admit his fault and showed regret, but the damage was done.

What would the real Luke Skywalker do?

Luke and Leia are literally the galaxy’s new hope (it’s in the title). They persisted and believed. Luke believed that his father was still good, Leia believed that evil can be destroyed. Luke Skywalker would never have attempted to attack his nephew, not until he was sure that there was no looking back. Obviously Ben had problems since he killed all the other students, but that doesn’t mean that Luke was justified in what he did. The real Luke would’ve tried to help Ben until the end. He would never give up on him, never disappoint Han and Leia, and most important of all, he would never abandon them out of shame and guilt.

In ESB, against Obi Wan and Yoda’s advice, he left to rescue his friends without completing his training. It turned out his teachers were right and he was unable to help them, but he still fought Vader for them. In ROTJ, when they were flying into Endor, Luke was worried that he might’ve endangered his friends by coming along. Earlier in the movie he concocted a plan a bit ridiculous to save Han, and he succeeded. Even in ANH, when he was still so young he flew along others and blew up the Death Star. Luke never chickened out of fear and he cared for his friends and family very dearly. Luke Skywalker, who was ready to die to save his father, who’s sole role in the entire franchise was to save people, would’ve saved (not tried, he’d do it) his nephew to the best of his ability.

Even if she was the most horrendous fictional character to ever exist( she most definitely was not) bullying her actress and making her deactivate her instagram solved nothing.

Anakin, the man himself, is Star Wars. It doesn’t matter if it’s a show, movie, book, comic, game, or fanfic, Anakin Skywalker will haunt the narrative because everything is about him, as it should be. He is an amazing character, on par with Shakespearean writing. He’s the good guy turned villain with beautiful storytelling. All of that was ruined by the phrase “Somehow Palpatine returned”.

A child slave who longed for freedom for himself and his mother and then eventually gaining a form of it at the cost of leaving his mother behind, Anakin decided to be good. A Jedi knight, still under control of some in power, he fell in love against the law. A ruthless, cruel, and evil dictator still obeying a master, Darth Vader was freed by his own son.

Anakin wasn’t perfect. He was powerful, and that made it easier for him to be corrupted by a man he trusted. A Sith Lord who manipulated him since childhood to be groomed into the most evil being in history. That evil being turned to the light and did bring balance to the force by making sure the Sith Lord never harmed the galaxy again.

“Somehow Palpatine returned” disrespects a man who loved and lost, who protected and killed. After all that Anakin did, bringing back the one demon that enslaved him for his whole life is simply garbage. He threw him down a reactor shaft out of love for his son, knowing he would lose his life in the process. He fell into the man’s trap to save his wife and children. He wouldn’t leave Obi Wan behind on a crashing ship. He was loved by his padawan, his soldiers.

He destroyed his daughter’s planet. He killed millions. Out of rage and hate he force-choked his pregnant wife, slaughtered children who trusted him, murdered the man he once thought of as a father. Luke Skywalker understood that and still believed in him. He was right.

Bad writing

Character inconsistency

plot holes

Palpatine’s return

Disliking Rey because of her writing

Being unoriginal/ a carbon copy of the OT

etc

Invalid reasons to hate the sequels:

Hating Rey being the main character simply because she’s a woman ( people will say they hate her because of her bad writing/ Mary Sue but I will never forget a comment from 2019 saying why does Rey have to be a woman because women already have Disney princesses so keep Star Wars for the men?????? And that’s just 1 example of of thousands)

This is gonna be a long one and I still can’t cover everything.

Finn is probably the most original and unique character in the entire sequel trilogy and the way his character arc ( if they even wrote one for him) took place was a slight disgrace.

He was taken from his family at a very young age and trained to be a faceless and order-following no questions asked killer. FN-2187 was his call sign, so he had no name. One day he sees his friend killed on the battlefield and realizes the ruthlessness of the first order when he was asked to murder a bunch of innocent villagers. This mission changed his life trajectory and he decided that he would start a new life by doing a good deed: saving Poe.

No hate to Poe or Rey, but compared to them he had one hell of a backstory.

Let’s look at his relationships with other characters and how he was treated in the series. He found Poe, who gave him a name and a way out of the terror. Then he thought Poe died in the crash, which is a really big loss considering the above factors. He found Rey and BB8, who he decided to help reach the resistance. Keep in mind that he thought Poe was dead, so he could’ve just found another way out. Instead he wanted to fight for the cause. When he found friendship in Rey, he was ready to die fighting to protect her from Kylo.

I think in a way the original plan for the trilogy was for him to be the lover boy but that storyline fell off the train like Bucky Barnes. The man was kind, fair and just despite his upbringing.

We all know he was sidelined and John Boyega does too.

Finn is wasted potential. Back in the day people pointed out that large number of his lines was just him screaming REYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

One reason for the sidelining is probably racism( as said by Boyega himself. Despite being a very interesting character, he didn’t have a satisfying conclusion to his story. His relationship with Rose was thrown away (Rose deserves another rant), and that one plot point in tros where he met Jannah, who was also a stormtrooper that defected from the order, was never explored.

Speaking of wasted potential, there is a deleted scene in TLJ where he confronts and berates Plasma, saying something along the lines of “ When a blaster was pointed to your bucket of a head you screamed like a whoop dog”. Like this dialogue was cut but they kept the porgs and Luke drinking that disgusting milk from whatever that thing was.

I don’t think people would’ve minded if he was the main character instead of Rey (not 100% for a multitude of reasons) because he had a lot of depth and originality to his character, whereas Rey was a tragic desert Jedi like Luke and Anakin.

Its been a while since I’ve seen tros so i might miss a few details.

Armitage Hux was main leader of the First order, not Kylo. Just like the big guy of the Death Star was Tarkin and not Vader. In TFA, Hux was a leader filled with hate and ambition. He wasn’t on the same wavelength as Kylo. In tros he lost his status since Kylo Ren became supreme leader, which lead Hux to leak information to the resistance.

The year is 2019/2020 and I just witnessed Rey kill Chewie with force lightning. For a full 30 minutes I absolutely hated Rey ( I was and still am a staunch Rey defender simply because men hate her, though I acknowledge that she is a very flawed character and a victim of terrible writing) .This simple act made Rey an unforgivable character in my eyes until it was revealed that Chewie was alive and I was relieved.

They should have kept him dead.

Don’t get me wrong, Chewie is everything to me and millions of fans, which is why him being killed by Rey’s hands was such a big deal and it wasn’t even her fault. The drama and tension it added to the movie would have been beautifully and horribly cinematic. By reviving him ( and making Hux the spy but that’s another discussion) they cheapened their entire story and threw away the consequence and curse of Rey being Palpatine’s descendent.