Star Wars couldn't rescue Darth Vader or Kylo Ren in the end

From the moment he walked on the screen The Army Awakens, some Star Wars fans feel like they have a handle on Kylo Ren: he was clearly a good guy.

Or at least, he would just explode that way toward the end of the trilogy. The original trilogy ended with the rescue of Darth Vader, so logically, Kylo Ren's story would end that way.

That thinking turned out to be false for me, and not because I doubted that anyone would return to kill his father, Han Solo, who is one of the most beloved characters in Star Wars history. That's because Star Wars is all about redemption – not in the original trilogy either Return of the Jedi.

Only it seems thus.

(Vol. Note: This section contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Awakening of Skywalker.)

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Return of the JediThe third act of Immortality sets the three-dimensional structure of all future Star Wars weather battles: ground combat, air combat, and Jedi emotional combat. As his friends sadly try to destroy the Second Star, Luke Skywalker stands on the Emperor's throne and meets Darth Vader. The figures are his life and the future of the Festival.

Just when it seems like the Emperor's power is unbelievable, his trusted partner, Darth Vader, betrays him. Inspired by his son's example and Luke's true belief that he can no longer save, Kader throws the Emperor down a shaft, taking a human blow as he does so. He dies in Luke's arms. After running away from Death Star, Luke gives her a hero's arm.

But here's the thing …

Darth Vader was not redeemed

In the meantime Vader enlightened the Emperor, himself you have repented. He saw the error of his ways. Perhaps most importantly, he realized that it was still possible for him to make a lasting good by saving his son, the only creature in the galaxy who truly loved him.

The original Star Wars trilogy wasn't about Darth Vader redeeming himself in the eyes of others – about the impossible task of making thousands of dead, lives irrevocably changed, families, including his own, demolished – and they shouldn't. It was Luke growing up his own.

Empire Rebels Back sees our hero embarrassed at the direction of his Jedi trainers, and suffers terrible consequences. Luke not only saves Han from carbonite, he waits a bit to deal with Vader for his life, and he has to be saved by the very people he went to Cloud City to save. In Return of the Jedi, when Luke insists to Yoda and Obi Wan that it's still good for Darth Vader, it's his first pay-per-view rebellion.

Luke grew up guarding his father's image as the clone of the Clone Wars hero, and has the emotional, emotional and emotional training of Kader. Vader’s turn is a confirmation of Luke’s forgiving nature, as well as his influence as a person who can no longer make the Jedi order.

But asking for forgiveness and actually making amends for your actions is something different. Vader's death almost caused the emotional delusion that ended in Luke's character satisfactorily. The audience is easily that that's the real thing.

Vader's repentant act meant he could no longer stand in the middle of a series of other bad guys, though Return of the Jedi he never tried to figure out if that alone was enough to let him stand next to the heroes.

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Imagine, for a moment, that it's your end Return of the Jedi It would have been as if Luke had left the big party on the arm of Endor Month with captain Darth Vader. Vader tormented Leia from the inside A New Hope, and Han inside Empire Rebels Back. He forced Leeia to watch as Gogo Moff Tarkin destroyed her home planet.

But we were never forced to watch as Leia looked Darth Vader in the face, knowing his blood was running through his veins, while deciding what the new Republic should do with its second largest boogeyman.

This is a good thing. For the purpose of that kind of story Return of the Jedi trying to say, this is a good conclusion. Vader's death is genuinely necessary.

So, naturally, The wake of the Skywalker

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Discarding anything from the expanded Star Wars media, Kylo's version of "The Empire" ran a direct campaign to kidnap millions of children into canon resources, and used a superweapon to destroy the multi-millionaire star who served as the galaxy's centerpiece. He personally abused both Rey and Poe and killed his father, Han Solo, in the The Army Awakens. He attempted murder and indirectly caused the death of Luke Skywalker inside The Last Jedi. In The rise of the Skywalker, the exasperated Leia Organa sacrificed her life-force to do it … something to do with turning Kylo off, causing him a direct cause of his death.

The scene in which Kylo turns around is really emotional. In contrast, his talk about (memory?) Of Han Solo is a great way to acknowledge how difficult it can be to recognize when someone has done something really wrong, and how hard it can be to find work to abuse you.

However, like his grandmother before him, Kylo never had the opportunity to do any of that work. He turns to the Light Side of Power, but eventually gives up his life to save (or possibly resurrect) Rey. He dies without ever having to face the consequences of his actions, and without looking at what it will take to fix that.

He turns around, reaffirming Rey's belief that he always had the seeds for that. However, like Darth Vader, Star Wars doesn't redeem him. Everything is a logical jedi trick.