#bringbackbensolo

“My son is alive.”

#SAVETHEHUNTFORBENSOLO

#BENSOLOLIVES

#BRINGBACKBENSOLO

I even miss Kylo Ren.

On reddit recently there were a number of people arguing that there was no way Ben/Kylo could survive the end of the sequel trilogy because of 'what he had done.'

This is not reality. This is fantasy.

It isn't an autobiography. It isn't a film inspired by true events.

It is a fantasy.

Fantasy is about escapism.

It is about dreams coming true, the impossible becoming possible.

If you apply the laws of reality to fantasy, then Han Solo would have been jailed for piracy, Leia would not have been allowed to marry a 'commoner', Poe Dameron would have been court martialled and not promoted, and Rey would have been refused entry into an order which valued perfection because of her kill list and her fondness for attacking unarmed opponents.

And we wouldn't have been laughing at the antics of Nandor, Nadja and Laszlo in What we Do In The Shadows because all three of them are remorseless killers.

Anyone remember the tv series Once Upon A Time? Two of its most memorable characters - Killian Jones, aka Captain Hook, and Mr Gold, aka Rumplestilskin, were also two of its most vicious.

Killian murdered Prince Charming's father in cold blood, as well as being a ruthless pirate for years. Mr Gold murdered countless innocents as well as his own wife. But both characters redeemed themselves and got their happy endings with the women they loved - Emma Swan and Belle.

Because fantasy isn't the real world but a place we can go to feel good.

Supreme irony....Disney made OUAT. The same Disney that also made films like Beauty and the Beast, a truly beautiful film with perhaps the happiest ending of all time.

Disney were the home of happy endings.

What has happened to them?

Some people are they've gone 'woke'.

Some argue it's the influence of Iger and Kennedy.

Whatever.

But at the end of the day the 'whys' don't matter.

All that matters is Disney have forever tainted themselves by taking one of the greatest space fantasies of all time - and turning it into a horror story.

The demonic uber villain rises from the dead and finally achieves his goal of killing off the Skywalkers (and Solos).

And Disney breathtakingly feel that replacing them with the demonic villian's granddaughter is a 'hopeful and satisfying' ending.