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Then why can’t all the times Kylo isn’t being unquestionably evil just be thrown under “Ben Solo?” Why couldn’t someone say; “it wasn’t Kylo feeling the call of the light side, that was Ben Solo momentarily showing through. Kylo is 100% evil.”
There is no indication that the First Order knows who Ren really is. Conversation about Han is left between Ren and Snoke.
Outside of the movie, I mean. Why couldn’t someone watching the movie say the above?
And besides that, we’ve had at least 4 unquestionably evil characters in the franchise, 2 in the OT alone; why would you want another?
Yes. That’s the way the Dark Side works.
Not always. There’s an argument to be made that Dooku isn’t unquestionably evil, and I still don’t agree that Vader is unquestionably evil. And, of course, Kylo himself!
You don’t think it’s been played out?
No. Star Wars is fantasy. It’s also a longstanding franchise with certain tropes it has created for itself to follow. To stray too far from them is not understand what makes Star Wars what it is. This is why so many longstanding Star Trek fans hate Star Trek: Discovery.
Apparently not in this case, though. To go back to what CHEWBAKA said, they clearly did break (at least slightly) from the ‘unquestionably evil cartoon villain’ trope, and yet the biggest complaint about TFA is that it adheres to the formula too much. Sure, there may be a formula, but having an unquestionably evil villain is not part of it.
Personally, I think if anything the “there is no good or evil; everyone is flawed” trope that has been popular lately (The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, ST:Discovery, Game of Thrones) has been overused.
There’s your problem. TV sucks.