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Post #1415998

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Servii
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Unpopular Opinion Thread
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8-Mar-2021, 11:20 PM

Okay, back to unpopular opinions:

Kylo shouldn’t have been redeemed. If Kylo was going to have an arc that was a reverse of Vader’s arc in the OT, like JJ Abrams said he would have, then Kylo should have started out TFA as a weak and struggling POV character we’re made to empathize with. He could have been someone who was fighting for the wrong side, but was held back from being truly evil by his attachment to his family and the good he still had in his heart. Then, by the end of TFA, he would have solidified his alignment with the Dark Side (which is what him killing his father was likely supposed to do), and instead of becoming unraveled over the course of the trilogy until he suddenly turned good at the eleventh hour, he gradually progresses his way to becoming a truly formidable main villain of the story, entirely consumed by the Dark Side. This also would have made him a great foil for Finn. Both were raised in opposing environments, one in a place of privilege and the other a faceless drone, both filled with doubt and a lack of clear identity, and both would ultimately find their place in the world on the opposite sides of where they started. Finn embracing the Light, and Kylo embracing the Dark. (Kylo murdering Han really should have put an end to the question of “will he or won’t he?” as far as redemption was concerned. Since he rejected the offer of redemption from his own family, then that should have been the end of it.)

Either that, or they could have just gone with the idea of Kylo being a double agent trying to get close to Snoke/Palpatine so he could kill him, finishing what Anakin started. That would have worked, too.