for the 80th year in a row, the song of the summer is Everytime We Touch by Cascada

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Rogue One’s only been out a couple of weeks and I’m already 100% done with the Jyn Erso hate. So what if she isn’t ideologically driven when the movie starts, and is partially driven by her love for her long-lost father until the end? That sounds familiar… I think I’ve got it… Hey, Luke Skywalker was the same way! He was thinking about joining the Imperial flight academy and refused to leave his parents’ farm until the Empire killed his aunt and uncle; then he blew off his mentors to rescue his buddies; then he risked arguably the Rebellion’s best chance of defeating the Empire by refusing to fight his Sith-lord father. Frankly, if you’re as good as Luke Skywalker, you’re good enough for me.
And what’s with the people attacking her to make Cassian look better? She has every right to call him out for lying to her and using her to get a (literal) shot at killing her father. That he chose, at the very last minute, not to go through with it is to his credit, but that choice should be his defense– not the fact that he had orders. She’s not wrong when she notes that that’s some stormtrooper logic. You know how he says he doesn’t have to answer to her? Well, there may not be anybody there who can make him, but it would be the decent thing to do.
That isn’t to say that Cassian doesn’t have a point, too. As he later admits, he’s done terrible things on behalf of the rebellion. And, as he suggests during their argument, terrible acts are sometimes necessary. However, that doesn’t take away their innocent victims’ right to their emotions. It also doesn’t mean that, after years of warfare, he hasn’t started doing the expedient, dark things automatically, instead of carefully weighing his options. What he sees on the Imperial platform– the engineering team being lined up for execution– makes him realize that. Kudos: He gets character growth! And he’ll get more as he goes. But the fact that he a) has a Freudian excuse for his bad behavior and b) gets better with time doesn’t mean that, in the moment that he and Jyn fight, her anger is misplaced. HE TRIED TO MANIPULATE HER INTO CAUSING THE DEATH OF HER OWN FATHER, OK? That’s wrong when Obi-Wan and Yoda do it to Luke, and it’s pretty sketchy when Cassian does it to Jyn, too.
I appreciate both characters, but they work better if you accept them as a package deal. Each learns something from the other: Jyn learns how to participate in a community, and Cassian learns that he shouldn’t turn over his conscience to his leaders. She becomes part of a group; he learns to think as an individual. By the end of the movie, both of them have become better, stronger people and more effective fighters because they knew each other. Their shared arc isn’t “Cassian the cinnamon roll sets that bitch Jyn straight”; it’s that their partnership enables them to die as whole people, a theme symbolized by the shot of them, proud and accomplished and peaceful, awaiting the lethal shock wave while holding each other.

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