forcevisions: (oh i hope you don't mind)
actual shounen hero ([personal profile] forcevisions) wrote in [personal profile] sololoquy 2018-02-20 08:17 pm (UTC)

[ His words resonate because of course they do; she had savaged Luke for running off and denying his responsibility to correct his mistakes. But confronting his problems seems a lot less to ask someone than imitating human connection and embracing self-denial.

(She might have asked what 'utopian' was, but as it turns out, Rey can do context clues, and 'fantasy' hits hard at her idealist heart regardless — just like with Luke, she's left feeling like a scolded child who was too romantic.)
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Responsibility to lead, yes, but what are they leading people towards? Some burdens seem too much to ask of anyone.

Maybe they'll choose to. Maybe they think like you do, like the Jedi. But I wouldn't ask anything of someone that I wouldn't want for myself. And political marriage, that asks them to be less than human.

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