STAR WARS: Solo

[Mark S.]

Originally Posted by Milky Way Resident

Star Wars has always adhered to traditional black and white morality where heroes are venerated.

Not wrong, but a vast over simplification.

STAR WARS does indeed exist in a world of black and white, where wrong is wrong and right is right. There is Objective Good and Evil. But that's okay, because that is the real world, like it or not.

But the characters themselves are not strict "guys in the white hats" and "guys in the black hats." Luke is constantly struggling with temptation to the Dark Side. When we first meet Han Solo, he is an outlaw and a drug smuggler who'd be more comfortable hanging around Gus Fring than Roy Rogers. And the climax of the entire story is not killing the Bad Guy, but saving him, recognizing good in the villain and sacrificing yourself to save him.

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by Mark S.

Not wrong, but a vast over simplification.

STAR WARS does indeed exist in a world of black and white, where wrong is wrong and right is right. There is Objective Good and Evil. But that's okay, because that is the real world, like it or not.

But the characters themselves are not strict "guys in the white hats" and "guys in the black hats." Luke is constantly struggling with temptation to the Dark Side. When we first meet Han Solo, he is an outlaw and a drug smuggler who'd be more comfortable hanging around Gus Fring than Roy Rogers. And the climax of the entire story is not killing the Bad Guy, but saving him, recognizing good in the villain and sacrificing yourself to save him.

Yeah, there was no difference between Han Solo and Kas Anvar. The arcs of their character transformations were the same.


Han did, after all, shoot first.