you're a daisy if you do

“This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever: The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain. The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon black glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew upon your flesh.”

“This was not Sith against Jedi. This was not light against dark or good against evil; it had nothing to do with duty or philosophy, religion or morals. It was Anakin against Obi-Wan. Personally. Just the two of them and the damage they had done to each other.”

“But even in the deepest night, there are some who dream of dawn.”

“In the end, the shadow is all you have left. Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself—And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame.”

“This is Obi-Wan Kenobi: A phenomenal pilot who doesn’t like to fly. A devastating warrior who’d rather not fight. A negotiator without peer who frankly prefers to sit alone in a quiet cave and meditate.”

“Everything dies. In time, even stars burn out. This is why Jedi form no attachments: all things pass. To hold on to something—or someone—beyond its time is to set your selfish desires against the Force.”

“Obi-Wan looked down. It would be a mercy to kill him. He was not feeling merciful”

but on a broad level, i think what's going on here is the intersection between the character of disney in both their expansive monopoly and the specific brand of content they produce, and consumerism as identity/activism.

disney as a brand is characterized predominantly as childrens media, or at the very least media you wouldn't mind watching with your kids. kids media is generally prescriptive, at least to some degree, trying to teach kids how to behave, what is right and wrong, etc. in essence, trying to make kids into 'better' people. this is disney's goal too. because of this public perception, and because their power is contingent on consumer satisfaction, disney is almost diametrically opposed to genuine moral ambiguity. they cant be subversive because, as the most giantest media conglomerate in the universe, all their content is intentionally created to uphold traditional morals and live up to consumer expectations. if they suddenly decide to start making really subversive, really out-there content, people are gonna be pissed. their formula ensures their power.

at their core, all disney media must be formulaic and morally prescriptive.

now. many people today have been raised with these disney morals since their childhoods (with ppl who were kids during the disney renaissance now in their adulthood). and now that disney is making content geared toward older teens and adults, audiences aren't being forced to transition away from those simple moral principles as they grow up. now they make disney princess movies for adults too! people continue to be inundated with what are superficially complex, but fundamentally black-and-white morality tales, because as i said, disney cannot introduce real ambiguity into their products without threatening their brand. this creates a false sense of relativity of what complex media actually look like, and what they should be. if the height of moral ambiguity to you is the new mcu miniseries, you're going to be soooooo out of your depth if you suddenly decide to watch like. the sopranos or something. disney content have moral safety nets built in, where if you start to think too deeply about the implications of certain characters/actions, don't worry, they'll catch you. if you've rarely encountered stories that don't adhere to disney's moral code, which again is the moral code you've been prescribed since childhood, those stories might feel wrong, and they might feel scary, and they might feel categorically immoral.

and now, too, is this pervasive sense that you are what you watch. that watching the 'right' movie makes you a better person and watching the 'right' tv show makes you an activist. and luckily for all these people who only watch disney, they've been told their whole lives rather explicitly that what they're watching does, functionally, make them better people. it teaches them moral lessons that are applicable to real life, so surely it must be actively progressive, actively moral, to watch. implicit here is the other side of this belief, that media lacking clear moral principles must be actively harmful. because if your perception of media is that it should be prescriptive, as disney is, you might start to think that content with genuine complexity is telling you that becoming a mafia boss and destroying your family and killing people isn't that bad, actually.