Jedi (Late) Night: Why Kanan’s Death Doesn’t Really Work
Jedi (Late) Night: Why Kanan’s Death Doesn’t Really Work How Do Heroes Die? Just like in life, nothing shakes the foundations of a story quite like death. Death can serve as a meaningful turning point in a story, altering the course of the plot or even the theme and tone of the story entirely. Death is as integral to life as survival - everything comes to an end eventually, for better or for worse. There’s a line from Guillermo Del Toro’s retelling of Pinocchio from 2022 where a blue sphinx that fulfils the role of Death in the movie tells the wooden boy: While tragically true to life, in stories the life and death of characters are determined by the author. This means that a character's death can be executed to varying degrees, whether to shock, sadden or vindicate the course of a plot. In that regard, a good character death is something that can often be hard to pull off, especially when it is a beloved character. The Setup To The Episode Episode 10 of Season 4 of Star Wars Re...