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LEWIS PULLMAN & BRIE LARSON as CALVIN EVANS & ELIZABETH ZOTT | Lessons in Chemistry | 1.2 Her and Him

need to unpack the way jyn was found by saw and abandoned, a failed attempt at protection from violence, kleya was found by luthen and trained, protected but not sheltered from violence, cassian was found by maarva and loved, but there was no protection from the violent death of clem. all these damaged children were shaped by the people who raised and mentored them, but also by the state of the wider galaxy, the inescapable violence and exploitation of the occupation. they all became killers, all basically condemned to use violence against to the existing social order in order to overturn it. they did not ask for the conflict, they were born into it, a generation who didn't know peace, from the core with jyn to the rim with cassian, it didn't matter where. they all came together to fight the same fight in the end.

Luke Wilson in BOTTLE ROCKET (1996) dir. Wes Anderson

I’m glad we didn’t see more of Blood and Cheese than we did.

Benedict is giving both Westley and Mr. Darcy this season prove me wrong

It is repeatedly emphasized in the show that the process of minining kalkite is invasive and risks destroying Ghorman’s biosphere, that the Empire had sought other options before committing to strip mining Ghorman, and that because Ghorman is a prominent Colonies world it would take time to turn public opinion against the Ghor - multiple years! - before they could begin. The entire point is that fascists can’t simply leave well enough alone - to get what they want they will eagerly manufacture consent for genocide. The Empire carefully manages public opinion to spin the massacre as a years-long terrorist uprising being put down, and it’s only Mon Mothma’s speech in the Senate that is able to blow a hole in that narrative.

This is just basic basic basic narrative analysis, but unfortunately we are dealing with Star Wars fans so that is not in their toolbox

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ph jai lennard, 2025