Also I’m curious if Kylo will be in Star Wars Resistance at all ? They’ve maintained him as a very illusory figure in expanded materials (sometimes he attends meetings, sometimes his name gets dropped as a scare tactic etc…), but they could pull something similar to Vader’s inquisitors or perhaps they’ll continue idea that really Kylo is an anachronism that has shaky footing at the beck and call of Snoke.
I certainly hope so. I’m not sure about this season, but maybe we’ll get something. If not, if we get at least one more season, then I think that closer to Episode IX there’s a better chance we’ll get something like how we’re at least getting a Kylo Ren comic next year, but of course it’s the last issue of the Age of comic series.
Perhaps we’ll get something or not, but the comic series Star Wars Adventures #16 which comes out next month, will be stories about the characters from SW: Resistance. (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Adventures_16) I don’t know how long they’ll continue to do so, but possibly we could get something there. Also from last month in the Star Wars Adventures comics, LF included the mini-series Flight of the Falcon which will be about various stories involving the Millenium Falcon, so maybe something there. (Crossing my fingers.)
Kylo cries a lot in the films and that’s just good shit right there like it’s beautiful. Adam Driver cries beautifully.
OKAY SO, those of you know I was never big on the whole ‘Ben Solo’ thing – I liked imagining who he WAS, but I didn’t like the idea that once redeemed he’d just be Ben Solo again. I was on the side of ‘he’s Kylo Ren and whomever he evolves into he’ll never go back to being Ben Solo so stop calling him that’ – but my goodness the movie changed that stance thoroughly.
I think…Ben Solo is quiet, but traumatized and emotionally unstable just like Kylo Ren, meaning he still carries that darkness, those outbursts. We see it in TFA when he attacks inanimate objects instead of people – that’s a really important distinction that they made in his ‘tantrums’.
I think he’s troubled, but kind. Honest and blunt, definitely a little awkward around people.
Desperate to fit in – throws himself into the hunt for Jedi relics, writes and muses about the philosophy, all in an attempt to fit what he thinks Luke and his mother/parents want. Because he knows, has always known, that deep down inside he’s not Luke – there’s something inside of him that’s dark, and scary. And it’s not just Snoke, who was trying to get to him even in Leia’s womb, it’s the Force in general – he has such a great power, a prodigy like Rey, but the Force is both Light and Dark and when you have great capacity for one you have it with the other. And so I think he sees Luke as this great, mythical, pure Jedi and wonders – angrily, probably – why he can’t be more like him.
So I think he also has cultivated a superiority complex based on that, his parents, his upbringing (nobility), his ‘rightful’ place in a destiny that the Force has shown him, etc. and this is all stoked and turned into flames by Snoke.
I think he’s always been alone, if not physically then emotionally separated from those who were supposed to care for him.
I think Kylo Ren is…all those things, but suppressed through years of abuse, manipulation, dark side use, emotional trauma, etc. by Snoke & religious (FO) fervor. He found someone – Snoke – who gave him a place, told him a grand story about how he was the next coming of Vader – a LEGEND in the galaxy. And Kylo found a place where his skills were to be applauded rather than feared, where he could ascend to rightfully rule, yadda yadda.
So when we see Kylo Ren ‘turn’ or become Ben Solo, we’re not so much seeing a new person – but we’re seeing the persona lift up. We see it with Rey. Ben’s curiosity, studious nature, he’s very calm with her, his honesty – and we see his compassion for her. He listens to her worries, really listens. To what she needs: to not feel alone in this effort, with this Force power. And he gives it to her freely, no strings. That’s Ben Solo.
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