Daring, spur-of-the-moment plans?One of these ends up causing more harm than good when Poe, Rose, and Finn's efforts to save the Resistance fail and ruin the much better plan Leia and Holdo had.
Indy Ploys are not something that's inherent to Star Wars nor something SW used particularly often in the first place. Even if they WERE used they routinely had consequences. Leia's rescue had succeeded but also led the Empire to the rebel base, in fact, they only succeeded because Vader let them. Luke trying to save his buddies only ended up getting him disarmed, and he was the one who needed saving and his major part of Character Development was thinking before acting, as shown during Han's Rescue mission which worked because it was preplanned, and Luke already had several people placed where he needed them before he even came into action. One other I can remember was Obi and Anakin trying to rescue the chancellor, who was playing them all along. How an Indy Ploy backfiring is supposed to internally deconstruct a series where Indy Ploys backfire more often than not?
The only other example of the Lovable rogue in Star Wars is Han Solo. and even he is only an actual rogue in part 4. At best, that would be deconstructing this particular trope.
A single individual destined for greatness?Rey isn't apparently from a special bloodline or ancestry and wanted a Changeling Fantasy because, deep down, she knew her parents were long-dead junker traders who sold her for booze money. She's a nobody who just happens to be Force-sensitive and became the central character of the sequel trilogy through sheer luck.The Rise of Skywalker partly retcons this, but takes the central theme even further: Rey's destiny was to follow in her grandfather Palpatine's footsteps, and learning this causes her to rebel against her destiny.
Anakin was already a deconstruction of The Chosen One, while Luke was never an example in the first place. If anything Rey is the ONLY straight example of the trope in the series.
Ignoring that Black-and-White Morality was already deconstructed in The Empire and Return of the Jedi, Jake (or whoever that Luke-shaped thing is) is clearly not a good guy, considering that he wanted to murder someone in his sleep when said someone did nothing wrong. Therefore Black-and-White Morality in the context of the conflict Kylo found himself in the middle of was never in play.
Villain redeeming himself through love?Kylo Ren's affection for Rey only convinces him that they can only count on each other. He kills Snoke not because he has turned to the Light, but because he wants him and Rey to co-rule as Supreme Leaders of the First Order.The Rise of Skywalker yet again plays on this where Kylo is still trying for the We Can Rule Together route after taking out Palpatine before he finally redeems himself out of love, both his affection for Rey and the familial love of his parents (though it takes his mom dying, being stabbed and healed by Rey, and having a hallucination of his dead dad before he sticks with it).
If Kylo never redeemed himself, then Love Redeems was never in play, and ROS seems like a straight example rather than a deconstruction. Besides, the only character in SW who actually redeemed himself through love was Anakin... who became evil in the first place BECAUSE of love, so in the context, love had always been a double-edged sword that needs to be handled carefully.
Yeah, no.
Indy Ploys are not something that's inherent to Star Wars nor something SW used particularly often in the first place. Even if they WERE used they routinely had consequences. Leia's rescue had succeeded but also led the Empire to the rebel base, in fact, they only succeeded because Vader let them. Luke trying to save his buddies only ended up getting him disarmed, and he was the one who needed saving and his major part of Character Development was thinking before acting, as shown during Han's Rescue mission which worked because it was preplanned, and Luke already had several people placed where he needed them before he even came into action. One other I can remember was Obi and Anakin trying to rescue the chancellor, who was playing them all along. How an Indy Ploy backfiring is supposed to internally deconstruct a series where Indy Ploys backfire more often than not?
The only other example of the Lovable rogue in Star Wars is Han Solo. and even he is only an actual rogue in part 4. At best, that would be deconstructing this particular trope.
Anakin was already a deconstruction of The Chosen One, while Luke was never an example in the first place. If anything Rey is the ONLY straight example of the trope in the series.
Ignoring that Black-and-White Morality was already deconstructed in The Empire and Return of the Jedi, Jake (or whoever that Luke-shaped thing is) is clearly not a good guy, considering that he wanted to murder someone in his sleep when said someone did nothing wrong. Therefore Black-and-White Morality in the context of the conflict Kylo found himself in the middle of was never in play.
If Kylo never redeemed himself, then Love Redeems was never in play, and ROS seems like a straight example rather than a deconstruction. Besides, the only character in SW who actually redeemed himself through love was Anakin... who became evil in the first place BECAUSE of love, so in the context, love had always been a double-edged sword that needs to be handled carefully.