What if it were Star Wars?
Correct me if Iâm wrong, but the message I got from last nightâs episode was that people donât change and you canât escape your past/family history. Not only do I feel like this is a really problematic message, I canât help but feel really disappointed after watching characters grow and develop for 8 seasons only to take them right back to the beginning.
For example, I really didnât like Jaime Lannister towards the beginning of the show (for obvious reasons), but over the course of the show we watch him grow as a person and do the right thing in situations where maybe he wouldnât have before. For Jaime to go running back to Cersei after everything he has been through really just reverses all of the growing that he has done. I mean to say things like not caring about the innocents when he literally had just gone to fight for the living at Winterfell so the innocents could be protected just doesnât make any sense. Not to mention the progression of his treatment towards Brienne (to what I thought was LOVE but I guess not??). I just feel like leaving Brienne to go and save Cersei, and D&Dâs justification that Jaime would always go back to Cersei after EVERYTHING disappointed me more than I thought was possible.
Then, there was the whole thing with Danaerys, which like there are NO words. I mean how does one go from fighting a war against the dead to protect her future subjects to carelessly murdering those subjects is BEYOND me. I mean, the past few episodes really painted Dany as having rapidly declining mental health, but for God sakes, she had just found out that the man she loves is her nephew (and has a better claim to the throne than her) and had lost two of the most important people in her life. I understand that she was hurting, but for the writers to justify burning down all of Kingâs landing simply because itâs a Targaryen thing to do just really sent me into a rage.
So can you imagine if this is how they decided to write Star Wars? I mean, I have to admit, Iâve really got my fingers crossed for the redemption of Kylo Ren, because throughout the last two movies, theyâve painted him as a guy who is deeply struggling. Sure, he has made awful, terrible choices, but we want to see him do the right thing. To continue to portray Ben Solo as a villain after everything we have seen so far, is basically like saying âThis is a bad guy, who has done terrible things, and because of that he is a bad guys who will never change and he will ALWAYS be a bad guy.â I mean, I sure hope that isnât the case, because the point of the whole trilogy is to show that in fact people CAN change, for good, and for bad, including someone like Kylo Ren. I mean how many times have they said âNo oneâs ever really gone,â and that âKylo still has light in him,â I mean COME ON. They would never ruin his character arc by continuing to portray him as a bad guy, SO WHY DID GOT DO IT WITH JAIME.
Can you imagine if Star Wars said âWell Darth Vader is a bad guy, and has done terrible, horrible things, and thatâs just who he is, full stop?â Yet he literally saved his son from the Emperor, proving that he COULD escape his history and change to do good. AND imagine if Star Wars portrayed the message that you canât escape your family history, then Luke would have embraced the dark side just like his dad! I mean come on, how disappointing!!
I just feel like they could have done a lot better with these characters that we have grown to care about.
