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I thought Kylo Ren was the perfect villain for a sequel trilogy, and maybe the best villain in all of star wars. Alienated young men with serious anger management problems, weird inferiority complexes, large collections of lethal toys, and who spend their days wallowing in homicidal ideation are a defining problem of our time. A person with a fanatical devotion to the OT in all the wrong ways, fixated on it's most surface level elements like "star destroyers cool!!" while failing to understand what the story is trying to tell you is a scathing critique of the worst elements of fandom, something Star Wars played a huge role in inventing. Kylo Ren's failure to live up to the legend of Darth Vader paradoxically makes him the true heir of his grandfather without him ever realizing it: A pitiable figure who's made all the wrong choices, who hates himself and the monster he's turned himself into, who's driven away everyone in his life who ever cared about him. Adam Driver is perfectly cast for the role, the moment he takes off his mask for the first time in TFA is such a shocking "letdown" most audiences in theater verbally reacted to it, its absolutely perfect. He's not the hollywood mangled monster or grizzled villain you expected, he's a nerdy kid cosplaying at being a Sith lord. Driver delivers a phenomenal performance in every scene he's in. Its an incredible shame the movies he's in aren't very good.
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