One of my favourite parts of Desperate Souls (aside from other bits that I’ll talk about in my recap) is Rumple becoming The Dark One.
He had no idea that the action of killing Zoso (side-note: he’s one of my favourite parts too, hehe) would result in him becoming the Dark One. He was basically tricked into becoming The Dark One.
Looks like you made a deal you didn’t understand. I don’t think you gonna do that again.
That is BRILLIANT storytelling! How easy could it have been to just write this origin story as “oh, he’s power-hungry and he wanted the power himself so he intentionally took that power”? Yeah, it might have worked (…not so much in season 1-3 but that weird phase in season 4-6… yeah, I’m not a fan of those seasons for him) but that’s nowhere near as interesting or tragic as “it was a mistake”.
It’s one thing to be cursed because it’s a punishment, or being burdened with power because you feel you have no other choice but to turn to it… it’s a whole other burden to literally be tricked into having that power.
And I love that scene when he saves Baelfire… but you can tell he’s already being seduced by the power.
It’s so brilliant.
The disparity between the innovative twists on classic fairytale tropes in season one versus the gratuitous Disney plugs in later seasons is literally staggering to me.
You mean when you frame Space Nazis in your movies as cool and relatable you get a fan base full of people who harass minorities?
have you ever watched star wars in your life?
also blaming movies for the behavior of racists is ridiculous af.
The writer and director of The Last Jedi has said publicly that he thinks everyone can relate to his favorite Space Nazi (specifically being able to relate to being an angry and tumultuous young man?) but go off, I guess.
protip, @celeritaschronicles: the shitty racist fanboys don’t identify with Kylo Ren, they identify with Luke. they don’t see themselves as glamorous and tragic villains, they see themselves as beleaguered heroes fighting against an evil multicultural empire. They literally think that progressiveness and tolerance is the evil empire, and that they’re the rebels. They identify us SJWs as the evil space Nazis. If you seriously think that these blowhards see themselves as Kylo Ren with his doe eyes and windswept hair, you clearly don’t understand a single thing about how these people think. Go on their message boards. Read their posts. They do not think they’re the space Nazis.
Rian Johnson enjoying the craft of being a writer (yes, we writers enjoy writing villains, a good villain is a LOT of fun to write, that’s just facts) has not one goddamn thing to do with the shitty-ass fanboys who grew up thinking they were Luke (and who are sadly mistaken).
Stop victim blaming the creators and blame the deluded racists.
@bai-xue there were reactionary boycotts of Rogue One and TLJ because they hated that the rebellion was full of women/POC and thought the empire should’ve been the good guys.
@celeritaschronicles authors find writing their villains fun. That’s not unusual
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