like instead of kylo actually doing anything that ‘redeems’ him in TLJ its just like ‘oh remember how he was a school shooter? sike that wasn’t his fault!!!’ like where is the growth? where is his active involvement in this story? why do you want his actions to be justified so badly
everything about kylo that’s supposed to make him sympathetic after TFA just comes across as apologia rather than actual character depth and development
it’s amazing how far they’re willing to hijack canon and every other characters’ development and history just to be like “see, kylo isn’t THAT bad” and it’s embarrassing. doing everything they can to make leia and han seem like bad parents to give him an uwu backstory despite it completely undoing all of their development and just shitting on them as people. luke is just utterly destroyed as a character to make his treatment of kylo seem Extra Mean and make it seem like he had nowhere else to go.
they literally brought palpatine back (thus essentially destroying anakin’s arc) so a. kylo wouldn’t have to be the main villain in TROS and b. to make it seem like he was “groomed” into being evil.
literally all star wars lore and character dynamics are being flushed by the books, comics, and movies just to imply that kylo didn’t really CHOOSE to be a fascist even though TFA starts with him, under no pressure from anyone else, order an entire village dead (though it’s since been retconned to “just” be a military base) and TROS starts with him as supreme leader ordering more children be enslaved to bulk up his army.
the entire third movie is about him saying “I’m gonna kill palpatine” while all of the comics and books are ripping their hair out, going batshit, trying to convince us palpatine mentally controlled him and FORCED him into being a fascist at the VERY tender age of… 24.
it’s fucking embarrassing that continuity and depth have been abandoned wholesale just because TLJ made his character popular with horny white women and hateful white dudes. the entire fucking franchise is being toyed with–retroactively fucking up shit established decades ago–just to be like “yeah he ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people but have you ever considered… it’s hard to have divorced parents?” which brings me to they literally divorced han and leia, han and fucking leia!!!!!, to justify his man pain.
