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I'd rather he be a medic than take up arms against people he intellectually knows were kidnapped and forced to be child soldiers just like him. That's about a thousand times worse for me, and I don't understand why so many fics just casually have him be a resistance fighter without any acknowledgement of even a little bit of negative feeling. D:

I think it's for the same reason why so many fics portray the resistance as the ultimate good guys even though they've most likely killed innocents and done bad things too. A lot of people prefer to see it as black and white, good and evil instead of something more complicated and nuanced.

"black and white, good and evil" You have basically just described the Star Wars. It's not exactly nuanced source material lol

Isn't the point of fanfic to be more interesting than the source material?

I mean, it's nice if that happens, but you can't blame people for being on the same level as what they're given.

Sure I can! Watch me. :P

You know, I meant to mention that in my comment as one of the reasons why people ignore anything more complex but I'm tired and forgot. Guess it's time to go to bed.

Watched the original trilogy with a friend who's never heard of star wars before.

His reaction to the Rebels was: Wow these guys are blowing up government projects and setting things on fire and totally could be terrorists.

That's not counting the thousands of workers that they blew up who never stood a chance.

The poor poor workers. They were just there to feed their families.

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By that criteria, so could Jesus Christ and the Apostles.

Well, yeah, obviously.

And he was tried and found guilty, so point proven.

Which is probably why there's so much terrorism done in his name.

It really depends on who won at the end, long term.

The losers were obviously evil. And even Heaven was not on their side.

You've opened a can of worms, anon.

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Problematic!Jesus 2016

Do not use HIS name in vain, anon! Anooooooonnnnnn!!!

how the hell do you know someone who's never heard of star wars before?

i taught middle school in the projects 2009-2012, when star wars was effectively dead, and those kids had at least HEARD of it. "isn't that that movie in space? with darth vader?"

i knew homeschooled kids who'd heard of star wars.

nayrt

It's mostly a Western phenomenon. I went to undergrad at a university that had a lot of international students and it wasn't unusual to have people who'd never heard of star wars or star trek or other popular movies or shows from America.

Plus complex is hard to do.

Many people write to relax, to have fun, not to wreck their brains in self-inflicted pain.

I find writing things I'm interested in, like complex pain, fun. A lot of people do.

Which I am thankful for, because it makes for good reading.

But many people don't find it fun, or simply couldn't write at that level yet.

That's kinda what he did in the movie? He literally stabbed a stormtrooper through the chest like nbd.

I honestly don't even remember the movie anymore but that probably made me D: irl in the cinema.