I want to feel bad that I hate Kylo Ren so much. I do, because I know some fans genuinely like him/think he is cool/excited about where his character is going. I just hate, hate what the fandom has done to him. A great consensus of Kylo fans ship him with Rey, they don’t care about Finn’s arc whatsoever, he was “abused by his parents”, they woobify his choices and evil deeds in TFA (like senseless murder and genocide lol), they try to make him out to be the main character of this franchise and cancel out his role as the primary antagonist… I could go on. Don’t get me wrong, I would hate Kylo even if the majority of his hardcore fans weren’t like that. But it would be an endearing hate where I could at least appreciate his character for what he is, and not groan when I see his stupid helmet on the front of some kid’s lunchbox. Now I just see his entire existence in SW as outright obnoxious. I can’t take people seriously when they say “Kylo was sooo cool!” And I hate that. I would love to appreciate him for the villain that he is, but even that seems like giving him too much credit when I would rather dote on Rey, Poe, or Finn. tl;dr this fandom has killed Kylo Ren for me. And unless he does something crazy awesome/has a compelling backstory/stops throwing stupid temper tantrums by the end of VIII, I will probably always feel this way.
I would never feel bad for hating him.










