Kanan’s death will always be something that I will be salty about til the day I die but regardless I can still find beauty in it.
For example; Kanan gaining his sight back; what I find the most heartbreaking about it is that not only was it Kanan final time seeing Hera again after so long but ERa as well.
People tend to forget that Ezra was there too. In almost every frame before it focuses on Hera and Kanan together and even afterwards when Kanan pushes her back.
Ezra’s right there too from start to finish, deliberately he is put there along with Hera, in almost every shot to show the audience that Kanan isn’t just seeing Hera, but Ezra too.
Kanan is seeing the two most important people in the world to him, the two people that have him a second chance, that gave him a purpose and a family. He’s seeing them for the first and last time and he has clarity. And he’s loosing them both, but all he wants to do is save them, so he does.
And Ezra? He’s just as catatonic as Hera. He’s horrified as he watches Kanan sacrifice himself
And what is the most heartbreaking, is this moment. They both just watched those flames engulf Kanan, watched that explosion consume Kanan in a fiery inferno of death.
And they are horrified
They watch him die, as Hera desperately reaches out for Kanan screaming “No! NO!” and Ezra is yelling for Sabine to “Go!”, his expression turning distraught at the last second, as he feels his bond with Kanan snap in two.
In that moment, it isn’t just Hera that loses Kanan, that watches him die, but Ezra too.
