Tag: jedi night

slytherclawpadawan replied to your post “i’m still not sure i fully buy the idea she never said that before or…”

While I def think that’s an outdated cliche, I think its not so bad here because they’re trying to show one of her (very few) character flaws, in that she can sometimes be tunnel visioned. I can personally attest to how easy it is to take loved ones for granted when you have a very strong goal orientation, and that’s where I think they were going with this, not so much a “career vs fam” thing because no one was really asking her to choose

@slytherclawpadawan yeah i agree, it does make sense for her character.  it’s still a little off-putting for me, even so, but it fits pretty well with what’s already established.

we’ve seen hera’s sometimes single-minded focus on the rebellion cause tensions between them (‘siege of lothal’ the obvious example).  i think her resistance to accepting kanan as even just a temporary partner or crew member in ‘a new dawn’ because she really needs a certain sort of person with certain priorities if theyre getting at all involved in her rebellion stuff also showed that.  so it makes sense that would also extend to their romantic relationship.

and i think, while they CAN be the poster children for open, positive communication between partners,, it’s not ALWAYS the case. ‘the mystery of chopper base’ showed that when things are REALLY dire that communication can break down.  and that was something that really centered on both their feelings for each other and ezra, so there’s a precedent. it’s almost like they reach a certain threshold of Things Getting Really Serious and things get….. difficult for them.

with stuff like that i GET why this is the direction they take them – especially with the way they kiiiiiiinda wrote themselves into a corner by playing so coy with their relationship for 3 whole years.  it would be jarring and honestly kind of anti-climactic if they suddenly flipped a switch and started explicitly showing them together, without showing any sort of character development that drives that change.  so they had to come up with SOMETHING.