transboba:

transboba:

look barriss and slick both end up being very ‘cool motive still murder’ since even if slick didn’t directly kill anyone his actions fucking led to their deaths anyway, and if we look at that from within the narrative, it’s a bad choice. it’s a terrible choice, on both their parts. 

but like … if we look at it from the perspective of a critical audience, or try to analyze it as writers, we see a young woman speaking out against the lack of seperation between – basically church and state, and the jedi becoming a paramilitary force, and a slave rebelling out of frustration against the system that holds him

and they’re both written to be seen as villains and as abjectly wrong, so that the narrative remains: the jedi are good. there is a clear good and bad here. people who think that the clones are slaves or that the jedi shouldn’t be in charge of the war are violent and crazy. 

and it’s no mistake that they’re both characters who are or are coded as poc, either, which really doesn’t help the whole … people of oppression speaking out against something is painted as an overreaction and inherently violent

also fucking … boba

he’s a traumatized kid being groomed by INCREDIBLY shady bounty hunters and acting mostly under aurra’s orders because he’s a Child. an impressionable child who is clinging onto like … the one person who’s There, right now

he wants revenge for his father! of course he does! he’s ten years old and saw him killed in front of him! jango was like the Entirety of boba’s universe, almost, and suddenly he’s just – gone. and jango was raising him to be a bounty hunter, so he’s going to see revenge as the right path to take.

but the narrative doesn’t let him be a kid. they treat his actions the exact same way they treat slick’s – total condemnation, paint the person involved as a total villain.