I never thought Star Wars was primarily about redemption. It's always been the kind of epic, like superhero stories and also ancient myths, where people are so larger than life that they can be extremely bad and extremely good. This is why Ben doesn't really get a"redemption arc"https://twitter.com/BadassCharlene/status/1216269164303638530 …
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The point isn't to teach us to follow the code of the Jedi; everyone who worked on the series pretty much went with some version of "the Jedi failed, you don't want to be one." The Emperor is never a character who changes or grows, so he's not a candidate for redemption
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The original six movies (and Clone Wars) are an epic about a great hero who has a family who also become great heroes, and they have to take him down. The sequel trilogy is just more about that family and the conflicts they get into
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Anakin's "redemption" is not all that narratively different from Hector's last stand, it's just there to add to the epic drama
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Ben switching sides at the end without really doing anything to atone except indicate he regrets killing his dad is something I've seen a lot of people complain about, but it's totally in line with that sort of epic. And, as I said, with superheroes
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Also, no version of Star Wars asserts that it's the Jedi way to offer everyone redemption at the cost of lives of others; that's just a misconception from how they keep writing the Emperor, who lest we forget is a master gaslighter.
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Anakin was supposed to kill Palpatine according to Lucas, first in Revenge when he failed, then in Return when he succeeded. I'm pretty sure Abrams intends for Rey killing Palpatine (again) to be good, and there was no ambiguity about whether killing Snoke was good
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Obi-Wan doesn't try to Steven Universe Maul in TPM (arguably he does in Rebels, but that's a pretty complex narrative and again not really about redemption so much as shared trauma)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
And maybe a little bit “Ugh how many times do I have to kill you. Whatever.”
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Replying to @MichaelOfHealy @MichaelHealy18
Hey, he doesn't get to complain, he shuffled off the mortal coil before they killed Palpatine the first time
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I can't imagine how he lived it down that he smirked and said "Sith Lords are our specialty" TO PALPATINE I would change my name and move to the desert too
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