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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2qhewW3:
tobermoriansass:
I know you hate the EU and I generally tend to treat it as a garden to be culled from at will but also, this quote from Rebel Rising preceded by the fact that Saw tells a tiny jyn about how his sister had to die a martyr before Onderon could be united and free themselves from the Separatists is the greatest thing:
“ The resistance needs a martyr. A tragedy. Something so horrific that people can’t help but stand up and fight, too. You understand?…… All you need is one good, solid tragedy, and the people will flock. Nothing unites people like that. If Idryssa wants to really rally people behind her, she needs to do it while standing on some graves.“
…. and I refuse to believe that there wasn’t a part of Saw who wanted to be a martyr just like his sister, to be something grand and symbolic they would all rally around - more so as he began to slide further into paranoia with that inkling of self awareness that told him this was him reaching the end of the line and the fear that came along with it, that he had somehow essentially failed in a way his sister had not.
#idk i look at saw and see simultaneously the best and the worst of the left embodied in him#and its hard to believe with all that exaggerated pantomime re bodhi#that saw had not in some way fallen prey to the gnawing insecure narcissism#of wanting to be a martyr. like his sister. to unite the rebellion.#to be meaningful and be a meaningful memorialized catalyst and symbol for rebellion#but nope. his sister’s shadow lingers over his life and ultimately overshadows him#bc jedha disappears in a mining accident and it’s alderaan and the organas who become the symbols#and there’s actually something deeply ironic and perverse about that#that chamerionwrites pointed out - that the outer rim had already been ruined was already a mass grave already filled with martyrs#but the one which stuck was the core world one (via @tobermoriansass)
THE ONE WHICH STUCK WAS THE CORE WORLD ONE
YES
oh my god that is such a bitter and true detail of the whole thing.
tobermoriansass:
I know you hate the EU and I generally tend to treat it as a garden to be culled from at will but also, this quote from Rebel Rising preceded by the fact that Saw tells a tiny jyn about how his sister had to die a martyr before Onderon could be united and free themselves from the Separatists is the greatest thing:
“ The resistance needs a martyr. A tragedy. Something so horrific that people can’t help but stand up and fight, too. You understand?…… All you need is one good, solid tragedy, and the people will flock. Nothing unites people like that. If Idryssa wants to really rally people behind her, she needs to do it while standing on some graves.“
…. and I refuse to believe that there wasn’t a part of Saw who wanted to be a martyr just like his sister, to be something grand and symbolic they would all rally around - more so as he began to slide further into paranoia with that inkling of self awareness that told him this was him reaching the end of the line and the fear that came along with it, that he had somehow essentially failed in a way his sister had not.
#idk i look at saw and see simultaneously the best and the worst of the left embodied in him#and its hard to believe with all that exaggerated pantomime re bodhi#that saw had not in some way fallen prey to the gnawing insecure narcissism#of wanting to be a martyr. like his sister. to unite the rebellion.#to be meaningful and be a meaningful memorialized catalyst and symbol for rebellion#but nope. his sister’s shadow lingers over his life and ultimately overshadows him#bc jedha disappears in a mining accident and it’s alderaan and the organas who become the symbols#and there’s actually something deeply ironic and perverse about that#that chamerionwrites pointed out - that the outer rim had already been ruined was already a mass grave already filled with martyrs#but the one which stuck was the core world one (via @tobermoriansass)
THE ONE WHICH STUCK WAS THE CORE WORLD ONE
YES
oh my god that is such a bitter and true detail of the whole thing.
