I just assumed that the clearing of his eyes was meant to be a visual metaphor rather than a literal healing. After watching the scene the first time, I don't think I would have said he "regained his sight" and that, had he survived that explosion, he would have been able to see. However, I will admit that since I'm not disabled, I probably don't key in on certain character cues in the same way as someone who is.
I was also super confused, and quite bothered, about Kanen "regaining his sight" but I watched an Interview where Dave Filoni (creator of the show) spoke about it and he said that making Kanen's eyes clear at the end was symbolic of the fact that he finally had clarity that this was what he was meant to do. He'd been meditating and seemingly having visions about this moment for the whole episode I think and this moment at the end was supposed to show that he finally understood what those visions meant. So I don't think they meant this as him being able to physically see again but rather that he now had clarity of vision in a more metaphorical sense.
Aniken was basically miserable as Vader; it's not the main focus of the original trilogy but you do see a few scenes along the way that hint at how being a quadriplegic burn victim holds him back. Such as the 'meditation chamber' which is the only place he can survive outside of his suit, and the only place he can remove it to eat. You also get to see a bit more in rogue one, with him in a tank that gives him a reprieve from his mechanical limbs and suit. They don't say it much on screen, but apparently Anakin's suit is hell for him to wear, his limbs put stress on his damaged stumps, even with painkillers and literal scifi 'healing fluid' he's in pain constantly which only serves to make him lash out more. You also have the end of ROTJ, where he gets Luke to remove his helmet; and in his weakened state it finishes him off just being exposed to non-sterile air. The comics and books do more to show Anakin's constant struggle both mentally and physically, since that takes a back seat to the main plot on the big screen. Kanan is at least the first visibly disabled protagonist; though I wouldn't write off Anakin entirely, since he was struggling between wanting to do good and the fear and emotional trauma he had. Vader is quite a tragic character when you get to the meat and potatoes; moreso than a villain like Palpatine.
@@KaminoKatie Canon wavers on that, but it's mostly because he took off his helmet; he was weakened by the lightning and his suit was damaged, but he might have survived if he didn't ask Luke to remove his helmet. Keep in mind Vader is a quadruple amputee with severely compromised skin and respiration, his suit is more or less a mobile hyperbaric chamber that also keeps him sterile. He also has to take regular breaks in a bacta tank, and can't eat without being in a larger sterile chamber that lets him remove his helmet safely. I'd sav Vader is the first visibly disabled character in Starwars we see on screen. His prosthetics give him some mobility, but not the same mobility he enjoyed as Anakin. He has to clean off necrotic tissue and rest his stumps, he can only eat via IV in his suit, and he's basically always in some form of discomfort due to his injuries. And his situation is never really just written off, not even with near magical space tech nor the magic of the force. He doesn't get healed when he sacrifices himself for Luke, he straight up dies due to exposure to what's outside his suit. And the maximum even the force can do is just barely keep him alive from his injuries; as Vader he could survive without the suit, but he's basically pouring all his vast space-wizard power into not dying of suffocation or infection. Vader has a lot of limitations put on him by being amputated and burned, even to the point he's not as strong with the force as he was pre-amputation; having to relearn how to fight, etc. Off screen there's a lot to his transformation to the cyborg we see in the OT that shows Vader has many limits due to his injuries, not to mention the emotional struggle of what Palpatine did to him to manipulate him against the Jedi. Vader is sort of all these traumas rolled into one when you look at his whole story, including 'curse as a disability,' given falling into the darkside fully is tantamount to a neurological disorder that seems to rob force users of their empathy and really mess them up, almost like a traumatic brain injury. Remember, anakin and Vader are almost like two different individuals, fighting over who's in control; Anakin regrets almost everything Vader has done, but isn't strong enough to stop after being corrupted by the dark side. In other media, using the Dark side to much has a similar effect and loss of sanity, and is often the result of torturing a force user until they mentally snap; very reminiscent of what happens to some abused people where they too become an abuser. And it's something that takes support and a lot of time to overcome; Luke bringing Vader out of the dark side was relatively fast compared to other stories in star wars, where it took years of mental treatment to remove what is essentially a magic-based mental disability.
In my understanding in starwars they in theory could make life reasonably ok for Vader but he’s miserable because it strengthens his connection to the dark side because you have to be miserable to use the dark side
Fun fact when he dies and there’s a his is return to how they looked before. It’s kind of clarified that he didn’t necessarily lose his blindness more than it didn’t matter for him at that moment. And something something the force
I feel the Kanan and Hera somehow not having actually said, "I love you," feels more of them having just fit so well in to being a couple that they forgot to actually do the normal relationship things and just took everything for granted. Like, Kanan knew Hera loved him and she knew he loved her, but it just never got explicitly said.
I never saw it has Kanan regaining his sight. we never saw though his eyes, they just changed colour. I always saw it as more of a metaphor for him "seeing" clearly that he was about to die and accepting it.
He's known about and accepted his death since the very beginning of their rescue mission. He was fully aware and prepared for going on a one way trip. It's why he kept talking so cryptically all throughout the episode.
Basically how it makes me feel when writers cure a character regardless of curing/killing is that the only valuable life is an able-bodied one . There’s no possible way that you can be sad about a disabled life. No the person must be cured because that’s the way someone should live or someone needs to die because they are no longer useful.
Well this is odd. Throughout the whole series I just assumed Kanan and Hera were a couple. They just didn’t show it constantly. They didn’t just hook up at the end. You pointed out how obvious it was, well, because that was the point.
"Kanan's the only visible disabled Jedi I've ever seen." Chirrut: *Am I a joke to you?* (Chirrut from "Rogue One" is a blind, force-sensitive character. Not a Jedi, but it's implied that he uses the force to see.)
Chirrut is not truly force sensitive. Technically any living thing in Star Wars can feel the force, "force sensitives" are just more naturally attuned to it in a way that lets them interact with it in their day to day life. Chirrut, using the kyber crystal in his staff/walking stick (and probably a hell of a lot of training involving meditation) can "hear" his surroundings.
I agree! That was sooo bad to do! I hadn't even considered that when I watched it! I hated how Kanan had just been healing from his trauma and then when he is finally in a good place, he dies! Especially since he was working oh his own PTSD! Like why! He deserved a happy ending in some way! Because that sends a harmful message that all he is good for is sacrifice with his death! Oh I agree about that mess with Kanan and Hera in Season 4! Like they are already married?? I didn't even consider how harmful his eye sight returning is super harmful! You are exactly right!
He really, really did. I would have loved to see him get a happy ending it would have meant so incredibly much to me but SADLY. Here we are. Just several incredibly confusing choices made here, really.
@@OakwyrmKanan fills the mentor (Senex) role of the series. This character always dies. This is true in Star Wars too- Qui gon dies in ep 1, Yoda and Obi Wan die in the OT, Luke dies in ep 8, Jaro Tapal dies in JFO, Cere in Jedi Survivor, heck even the Bendu for all intents and purposes dies. Ezra follows the heroes journey over the course of the series. The mentor dying is a key part of that. Blind or not, Kanan was fated to die from the very first episode- especially because they needed to get all Jedi out of the picture before the OT.
The MOMENT I saw this man pull out the saber in the pilot I actually paused the episode and said this is a dead man walking. This man was going to die by virtue of that and the fact they had to write out all jedi out of the original trilogy alone. I just had no idea how they were going to pull that off with Ezra since they weren't going to kill their kid protagonist off like that.@@Anonyomus_commenter
I like the idea that Kanan regaining his sight in his last moments was him keeping his promise to Hera that he would see her again, just before his duel with Maul.
Way late to the party but fun fact is that the 2008 Star Wars game, the Force Unleashed had a Jedi master with a similar role. Rahm Kota was the first boss for the main character and after the fight, his eyes get slashed and he's blinded as well. You find him later on in the game with a ragged appearance and rags on his face and bad alcoholism. He cleans himself up before the end of the game tho and uses the force to see.
I more see the eye thing as a metaphor or short hand for intenseness, that his "look" was so strong, his want for her to get to safety was so powerful, that for those seeing him as he was going to die, his eyes almost seemed like they could see again, that he was staring truly at them with a demanding glare. not that he got his sight back.
Damn. I hadn't even noticed that about Kanan's death. And like... I'm willing to chalk it up to "look he went 'force take the wheel' and it granted his wish", especially since we've seen that the Force can heal, but at the same time? Yeah, it's an awful vibe, especially for Star Wars and the way it's had an undercurrent of "you're fine the way you are" throughout the recent canon.
4:05 i mean it´s a cartoon for children so we obviously arent´t getting a burned eyes showing the insides of the skull design, but let´s give the benefit of the doubt and say that he wasn´t directly hitted by the lightsaber because he blocked at the last second but because the lightsabers produces energy strong enough to melt most metals i think it was either merely inches from his face and burned his iris and face, with would either be like staring directly to/ getting burned by high welding light or the lightsaber did touched his face but with no force behind it because he blocked so it was like getting touched by a hot metal bar
Talking about disabled jedi, there is also General Rhom(?) Kota who was also blinded by a saber in the games. Not sure that portrayal is really accurate, but it might be good to look at for you?
I really admire your videos and discussions of disability rep! You are SO RIGHT about Kanan's death, that drove me up the absolute wall. Re: Disabled Jedi..... Yoda. A cane user who also uses a hoverchair and with disordered speech.
I believe that at some point it was canon that Yoda is just so old that language has changed so much since he learned to speak that he sounds weird to us, but when he was a child, that was proper grammar. No idea whether that's still canon, though
Yoda doesn't have disordered speech, Yoda made the conscious decision to speak backward. George Lucas Explains Why Yoda Talks Backwards Apart from this possibly being a comfort thing for him, Yoda spoke backward to ensure that whoever he’s speaking to is giving his little gold nuggets of wisdom their undivided attention.
I just wanted to say, I've recently found this channel and I've been bing watching you a lot, also love the fact that your avatar has both the aro and ace rings
Afaik, Tahl (legends) was a blind Jedi too. According to Wookiepedia: "By 44 BBY, Tahl was sent to act as a peacemaker to the broken world of Melida/Daan, where the Melida and Daan people were murdering each other. She was caught in the battle and sustained injuries that caused her to lose her sight." She was assigned a navigation droid 2JTJ to help her. Again, according to Wookiepedia: "2JTJ, usually referred to as TooJay, was a navigation droid provided by the Jedi Order to Master Tahl after she was blinded on Melida/Daan. 2JTJ helped her with her new life, providing assistance so that she could start getting used to her new condition. However, the failed Jedi Xanatos installed an audio and video spying device inside the droid in order to track Qui-Gon Jinn and Tahl's investigations. When they discovered the trick, they prepared a trap for Xanatos. In the end, 2JTJ continued serving Tahl."
It's funny how I found this as my friends and I were talking about how it's weird there aren't more blind Jedi not too long ago. We didn't think it would let them "see", the force doesn't work that way, but it would give them a different way of observing the world around them and probably give them a use of the force that people with sight would probably not even think about. Blind force users should be doing fine and thriving. I'd like to see how other disabled force wielders would use it, like someone deaf or in a wheelchair. What about people who are missing their arms? Or someone who has multiple different disabilities! I'm curious how using the force would work for someone like me who has epilepsy. It's a side of The Force that dearly needs to be explored and would be super rad.
Star Wars has the technology to cure most of this tho. The clones are modified from Jango Fett, so they clearly have Gene editing (if you don’t think the regular clones are unedited- look at the Bad Batch). I looked it up and most blind people have a genetic condition (curable by gene editing) or it’s caused by an infection, and since we never see anyone die of illness (except maybe Yoda who was in isolation and people in very poor areas) in Star Wars they presumably have pretty good medicine. Similar is true for deafness, and they could probably regenerate or replace a burst eardrum so it shouldn’t be a problem. Since they have full functionality prosthetics, no one should need a wheelchair. Mental conditions would be trickier, although many could theoretically be edited out with gene editing, it feels like it would be mostly reserved for the rich- and probably be impossible after birth, and completely impossible for things like autism.
@@Anonyomus_commenter i'm equally annoyed and thankfull for your last line. because there is no reason to cure autism. an autistic person is just as worthy as any other being. the Star Wars Universe probably has the means to stop autism at a genetic level, but i'd like to think that they mostly don't bother. than again there is the Empire and they hate it when people don't fit the mold. But they like smart specialists that simply create what the Empire asks them to, without any regard of the potential uses. So probably those on the Asperger part of the spectrum that show interests that are usefull for the empire get all the cool toys to follow their passion. Like a fullblown Lab with all the bells and whistles. those like me that are more into history and ethics and stuff probably aren't treated as well, but the Empire needs them as well cause we are the ones that dive into the archives and find mentions of stuff that was hidden away or left behind.
@@jonasscheftner8545I was using cure for lack of a better word, I should have specified that in the comment tho. I think the different factions would probably view autism differently. The republic would probably just ignore it- by this point in technology the sensory issues and vocal difficulties that come with more severe autism (I don’t know how else to phrase it) could be either resolved or worked around, for the sensory issues the brain or organ in question could be tampered with to adjust the sensitivity and the vocal difficulties could be dealt with using a companion droid. The empire would probably have a mixed view on it. They would probably try to manipulate some into working with them- I find personally that autistic people are more trusting than most which could be exploited for the empire’s gain. They probably wouldn’t like more independent people or those like tech that went against them.
@@Anonyomus_commenter This is true, but I have two counter points! 1) Many people still experience traumatic-onset disabilities, such as Kanan with his blindness. Could they have the technology to heal or replace damaged eyes/ears/etc? Sure, probably, but also Bendu said Kanan's sight could not be returned, period. So there are some exceptions, whatever the reason. 2) There are so many different planets with different levels of technological access, I find it totally believable that someone might simply be from a place that doesn't have access to advanced medical technology, or doesn't have the resources or connections to access it, or is oppressed and not allowed to, or even experienced an otherwise-curable injury in a setting far away from these technologies, and by the time they were able to access it the disease or injury had progressed too much and become too late to fix, etc. As soon as I started watching Rebels, I got hooked and became a Star Wars fan that all the 6 movies, Rogue One, and Clone Wars had failed to make me 😂 But I immediately started conceptualizing a fan fiction with a character who goes blind (much to my disappointment at its unoriginality once I reached the end of season 2 lmao), and I had to get around the "plot hole" of it not being fixed by medic droids or something. It wasn't too hard to explain why they didn't immediately have access to one and couldn't show their faces anywhere nearby that there might be one, and after a certain point the story provides a natural explanation for why he wouldn't *want* to fix it even once he does finally get the opportunity :P
About the Hera and Kanan thing- in the novel A New Dawn there’s a whole thing where Hera is completely uninterested in being in a relationship with Kanan largely because she was so focused on the rebellion and had no room for that and there’s some things in rebels that hint at the fact that she was confused about her feelings for him so it’s not difficult to believe they may have been together and broken up a few times maybe because of her confusion about her feelings or smth IDK
It also creates a bit of a plot hole, because bendu ( that’s how you spell it right?) someone so old and with so much knowledge of the force said he couldn’t regain his sight, but the writers decided that no, they have to give him his sight back to make it more “tragic “ I just made it my personal headcanon that his eyes only regained their colour because of how annoying it was
I do also think Kanan's eye color changing back was more a metaphor, IE in his last moments, the last thing he "sees" are his loved ones escaping. Also, it reminded of how like, trauma induced blindness is a thing, but apparantly its usually temporary. There was actually a Filipino movie about this, where a woman in Japan becomes blind after she finds her boyfriend of about 7 years is cheating on her. Another Filipino guy, who she unknowingly helped once, befriends her, and eventually, the two fall in love. She gets her sight back....just in time see him get run over on the way back from getting some food.
I don't think he *really* regained his sight right before he died. I'm pretty sure that's just supposed to be Hera imagining his eyes the way she remembered them for most of their time together.
Something I want to mention is in legends (idk if they have been made canon yet) but his eyes are completely white which is Simlar to kreias and also how she sees (force sight) and also there is a blind person who also sees through the force and sees the alignment which you can learn
Hello. I've only recently found your channel through this video and now I'm newly subscribed. For the longest time, as an able-bodied person myself, I've always wondered what kind of take did the blind/disabled community had on Kanan as a character, but I've never thought that Kanan's eyes getting cured by Force magic literally seconds before his death was actually so messed-up. I cannot be grateful enough for the enlightenment. Speaking of which, I wonder if you would do a review of another blind character from Star Wars, Chirrut Îmwe from Rogue One (the "I am one with the Force, and the Force is with me" guy who fights with a stick). You might have forgotten him or his name tho, which is understandable, as he sadly appeared in only one movie. (Because, you know, everyone dies in Rogue One.) But he started out as blind and stayed that way all throughout the movie, even to his very last breath, unlike Kanan. In addition, I believe there is missed opportunity for gay representation in Star Wars with Chirrut and his gun-carrying longtime partner Baze Malbus. Many people think of them only as best friends or brothers-in-arms, but I feel like they acted very much like a married old couple who had known each other for years. Can't wait for your reply. ;)
Hi ^^ Welcome, I'm glad to hear that. And yeah I'm familiar with Chirrut Îmwe. He and Baze and the only two characters from Rogue One that I actually properly remember, so while I'd have to do a re-watch to refresh myself, doing a video on him is actually not a bad idea. And yeah I hard agree on Chirrut and Baze having been a massively overlooked opportunity for representation.
Lmaoo I didn’t even notice when I watched that episode a few days ago... didn’t stop me from crying through the next couple episodes tho (so yeah the eye thing rly is unnecessary). But fr It’s really weird and really not cool that they did that. Also like the thing abt Hera saying she had never told kanan she loved him confused me so much, and then when I found out they had a kid together it confused me even more. Literally makes no sense. for the entire show up until that moment I viewed them as a married couple (and Ezra, Sabine, and zeb as their adopted kids ofc) so it rly weirded me out, like how did u not say u loved each other????? Also u have a (biological) kid now?????
There have been some highly questionable decisions regarding representation in Filoni's works. And to all the people in the comments here quoting him on Kanan's miraculous last minute recovery of his sight being "symbolic"...yeeaaah, no. If that kind of explicit symbolism had already been overtly established throughout Rebels, I could give it a pass. But as it is, it's just confusing as hell and feels completely out of place.
Man, I did *not* remember Kanan getting his sight back. I guess the point of that was just to be romantic? Maybe they didn't realize what they were doing?
4:00 Actually it's pretty clear why he doesn't die here. It quick and only lasts a few frames but Kanan puts up his lightsaber to defend his face at the last moment, but since Maul got a running start and slashed at him so viciously it still damaged him but not enough to kill him. 9:50 Okay, I think you're focusing WAY too much on Kanan as a "disabled" hero. Even after becoming blind I never saw him that way, in the same way I never thought of Toph as disabled character either, they're just people who happen to be blind. And I don't know ANYONE who didn't ball their eyes out when Kanan got to see Hera one last time, no joke tears are forming in my eyes now thinking about it. What makes this moment work so well is how at peace Kanan is about it. Throughout the whole series Kanan has been learning to let his family make their own choices. He had to learn to trust Ezra and understand that he won't always be able to protect him. He had to trust Sabine with the responsibility of the darksaber even though she's not force sensitive. Even with Hera he's butted heads with her on occasion because he didn't want to relinquish full control over to her and he had to learn to do that too. They obviously have loved each other for a long time but with everything going on they never made it official, but once Kanan finds out he will die soon he decides not to hold back anymore and confess his love, which she of course returns, and it's so unbelievably tragic that only shortly after they stop beating around the bush and are completely honest with each other about their feelings does Kanan meet his end. Again Kanans identity is more than his blindness and just because he got to see Hera one last time that shouldn't be taken as a flaw.
I personally fundamentally disagree with her. Kanan regaining his sights adds so much to his death. Kanan is able to keep his promise to Hera, "we'll see each other again, I promise." And it makes his death a bitter sweet one. In terms of how he did it Bendu says, "you must be empty, only the force." Kanan in his final moments was completely at one with the force, he was fulfilling his destiny. He was completely selfless, letting go of his attachments for the bigger picture. That the force gifted him his sight back. So he could see the love of his life and Ezra being all grown up one last time. The force has no real limitations as we don't understand it fully
ok but I'd argue his death would have been BETTER if they didn't magically cure him in the end. think about it; he was just expressing how he wished he could see the love of his life again, and now he's sacrificing(? it's been a while since I've watched it, & the EDS/ADHD brainfog is REAL) himself to save her and all that. he looks back in her direction, maybe - just maybe - hoping that he *could* see her one last time. *but he doesn't*. he can't! and bam we have decent disability rep & no magic cure all
That healing thing at the end did bug me. It was so unnecessary. I can’t begin to comprehend how confusing and maddening it would be for someone who identifies with the character because of his disability. I agree it wasn’t cute and didn’t add anything good but made the moment distracting. Now we’re talking about the implications of force sacrifices and force healing instead of how amazing and powerful was that moment for those characters.
9:14 I think that's just haras pov, being she meet him and has known him to have teal eyes. I don't remember anything indicating that he was cured or he could see her. She's just reflecting on something from her past that she doesn't want to let go. But that's just a theory and my opinion, I don't actually know.
Ok, so, insight from someone with a decent bit of unnecessary star wars lore knowledge, whether it's relevant or not is up to you: I don't think his eyesight was actually properly 'healed' at the end there. Not in a permanent, or even a long-term temporary sense. I believe he was using the ability of Force Sight, a rather self-explanatory ability. It was once used by Obi-Wan in a comic when he was temporarily blinded, by a flashbang iirc. The whole thing of Kanan's eyes returning to how they normally look is most likely a mediocre visualization of him being able to see again, despite the fact that Obi-Wan's eyes did not change at all when using Force Sight. The fact that Force Sight requires an active effort to function also makes me think that there may have been a chance for him to survive this, had he focused fully on that. The force can do near-enough anything, afterall. He may not have 'seen' (pardon my lack of synonyms) any way to survive it, but that doesn't necessarily mean there was none. He *chose* to sacrifice his life, by allowing himself to see his partner one last time. Whether this makes it better, I can't say. All I can say is that it feels like something most people would've done in that situation, it feels more compatible with how people tend to act and with the universe's rules.
I'd push back a little bit on Kanan being the only disabled Jedi; Anakin was an amputee. I just think that Kanan was the only one of the two disabled Jedi the writers decided to show drawbacks and challenges for, even if Kanan's mostly just lasted for one episode.
... I know nothing nothing about Star wars I watch this for you because I like your voice and like watching you review s*** but holy s*** what the hell Basically the only word I have for that ending is just... How? And on basically the only person superpowered blind person I've ever heard of using their hands Damn
Yeah. I don’t like Kanan regaining his sight. I think they could have given both him and Hera some better closure in a lot more moving way. Like, Imagine: Kanan dies in this fiery explosion after losing his sight. Then, in Star Wars fashion, he eventually sees Hera as a Force Ghost. Being dead, he’s regained his sight - because, as we see in other movies, the ghosts don’t seem to always take the form they died as. Since Kanan is used to seeing, he probably wouldn’t manifest as a blind ghost. Alternatively, Kanan leaves some kind of sentimental message about inward vs outward beauty. Kind of a ‘I can’t see your face, but I’ve always seen you.’ Type message. Would have to add a few more hints that Kanan’s still coming to terms with his blindness. It’s hard to adjust to any major life change or world shift. When that change involves losing one of your senses while you’re still expected to fight a war? Yeah. That’s going to be hard mentally and physically to a point where the stress is going to show. Maybe it’s affecting his relationship with Hera and that’s part of the problem. Could also tie into Hera’s never getting to say ILU if they really wanted to play that narrative. Maybe she never says it, but she doesn’t have to. Kanan just knows, because he knows her and he knows it’s hard for her to say it (could pull in some interesting culture. Wasn’t her species canonically often trafficked as s*x slaves? It’d make sense if parts of romantic relationships hold a lot more weight.) Give a message about meeting people where they are and how actual love is more in the exchange of actions, understanding, and care. Would be really powerful. Usually I try not to comment on disabilities besides my own, but it’s more about the bigger picture here to me than the actual disability. I’m partially deaf, but I actually lost my hearing at a young age. Not the same as blindness, but the concept of losing a sense you had before is there. Granted, I’ve been deaf longer than I ever was hearing by this point, but there are some childhood stories about adapting to it all. So while I can’t really speak on blindness specifically, I can kind of relate to the basic concept of ‘I could do this before, but now I can’t. How do I go from here?’
I… _would_ argue that this was symbolic and that he didn’t actually regain his sight, but one, this interpretation has no basis and two, even if it was supposed to symbolise something, I wouldn’t be able to tell you what.
I need to watch this show now. I wonder if they just didn't have the balls to kill a disabled character because people would complain? Maybe that's why they decided to make him not disabled before he died ?
Probably because of how batshit bizarre, inconsistent, and silly it often was. Like don't get me wrong there were some gems like Kotor, Darth Bane novels, The Force Unleashed, Darth Plagueis, Legacy, and pretty much anything written by Timothy Zhan. But other stuff like the craziness that was the Yuu Zhan Vong and the over 20 novel series that was the New Jedi Order would give ANYONE a headache.
Well you ruined a show for me. I genuinely never realised / noticed he got his sight back at the end. It was fine until now. This makes me annoyed. I will drift back to my ignorance and belief of what it was. Edit. This raint actually any critique forwarded at you. Important stuff to talk about but yeh, I'm just gonna enjoy the show imagining they didn't do such a pesky thing
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I just assumed that the clearing of his eyes was meant to be a visual metaphor rather than a literal healing. After watching the scene the first time, I don't think I would have said he "regained his sight" and that, had he survived that explosion, he would have been able to see. However, I will admit that since I'm not disabled, I probably don't key in on certain character cues in the same way as someone who is.
I was also super confused, and quite bothered, about Kanen "regaining his sight" but I watched an Interview where Dave Filoni (creator of the show) spoke about it and he said that making Kanen's eyes clear at the end was symbolic of the fact that he finally had clarity that this was what he was meant to do. He'd been meditating and seemingly having visions about this moment for the whole episode I think and this moment at the end was supposed to show that he finally understood what those visions meant. So I don't think they meant this as him being able to physically see again but rather that he now had clarity of vision in a more metaphorical sense.
Aniken was basically miserable as Vader; it's not the main focus of the original trilogy but you do see a few scenes along the way that hint at how being a quadriplegic burn victim holds him back. Such as the 'meditation chamber' which is the only place he can survive outside of his suit, and the only place he can remove it to eat. You also get to see a bit more in rogue one, with him in a tank that gives him a reprieve from his mechanical limbs and suit.
They don't say it much on screen, but apparently Anakin's suit is hell for him to wear, his limbs put stress on his damaged stumps, even with painkillers and literal scifi 'healing fluid' he's in pain constantly which only serves to make him lash out more. You also have the end of ROTJ, where he gets Luke to remove his helmet; and in his weakened state it finishes him off just being exposed to non-sterile air.
The comics and books do more to show Anakin's constant struggle both mentally and physically, since that takes a back seat to the main plot on the big screen. Kanan is at least the first visibly disabled protagonist; though I wouldn't write off Anakin entirely, since he was struggling between wanting to do good and the fear and emotional trauma he had. Vader is quite a tragic character when you get to the meat and potatoes; moreso than a villain like Palpatine.
Didn't Vader die because his suit is vulnerable to Palpatine's force lightning?
@@KaminoKatie Canon wavers on that, but it's mostly because he took off his helmet; he was weakened by the lightning and his suit was damaged, but he might have survived if he didn't ask Luke to remove his helmet.
Keep in mind Vader is a quadruple amputee with severely compromised skin and respiration, his suit is more or less a mobile hyperbaric chamber that also keeps him sterile. He also has to take regular breaks in a bacta tank, and can't eat without being in a larger sterile chamber that lets him remove his helmet safely.
I'd sav Vader is the first visibly disabled character in Starwars we see on screen. His prosthetics give him some mobility, but not the same mobility he enjoyed as Anakin. He has to clean off necrotic tissue and rest his stumps, he can only eat via IV in his suit, and he's basically always in some form of discomfort due to his injuries.
And his situation is never really just written off, not even with near magical space tech nor the magic of the force. He doesn't get healed when he sacrifices himself for Luke, he straight up dies due to exposure to what's outside his suit. And the maximum even the force can do is just barely keep him alive from his injuries; as Vader he could survive without the suit, but he's basically pouring all his vast space-wizard power into not dying of suffocation or infection.
Vader has a lot of limitations put on him by being amputated and burned, even to the point he's not as strong with the force as he was pre-amputation; having to relearn how to fight, etc. Off screen there's a lot to his transformation to the cyborg we see in the OT that shows Vader has many limits due to his injuries, not to mention the emotional struggle of what Palpatine did to him to manipulate him against the Jedi. Vader is sort of all these traumas rolled into one when you look at his whole story, including 'curse as a disability,' given falling into the darkside fully is tantamount to a neurological disorder that seems to rob force users of their empathy and really mess them up, almost like a traumatic brain injury.
Remember, anakin and Vader are almost like two different individuals, fighting over who's in control; Anakin regrets almost everything Vader has done, but isn't strong enough to stop after being corrupted by the dark side. In other media, using the Dark side to much has a similar effect and loss of sanity, and is often the result of torturing a force user until they mentally snap; very reminiscent of what happens to some abused people where they too become an abuser. And it's something that takes support and a lot of time to overcome; Luke bringing Vader out of the dark side was relatively fast compared to other stories in star wars, where it took years of mental treatment to remove what is essentially a magic-based mental disability.
In my understanding in starwars they in theory could make life reasonably ok for Vader but he’s miserable because it strengthens his connection to the dark side because you have to be miserable to use the dark side
@@jenc9532 Palpatine didn't seem to have to be miserable and in constant pain to use it. Nor did Maul, Dooku or Ventress.
Fun fact when he dies and there’s a his is return to how they looked before. It’s kind of clarified that he didn’t necessarily lose his blindness more than it didn’t matter for him at that moment. And something something the force
I should also mention that the answer given was still very vague. Doesn’t redeem it though
I feel the Kanan and Hera somehow not having actually said, "I love you," feels more of them having just fit so well in to being a couple that they forgot to actually do the normal relationship things and just took everything for granted. Like, Kanan knew Hera loved him and she knew he loved her, but it just never got explicitly said.
I never saw it has Kanan regaining his sight. we never saw though his eyes, they just changed colour. I always saw it as more of a metaphor for him "seeing" clearly that he was about to die and accepting it.
He's known about and accepted his death since the very beginning of their rescue mission. He was fully aware and prepared for going on a one way trip. It's why he kept talking so cryptically all throughout the episode.
Basically how it makes me feel when writers cure a character regardless of curing/killing is that the only valuable life is an able-bodied one . There’s no possible way that you can be sad about a disabled life. No the person must be cured because that’s the way someone should live or someone needs to die because they are no longer useful.
Yeah it's incredibly depressing to see, honestly. Just being constantly rather un-subtly told you're worth less than others. Really not a fun time.
Well this is odd. Throughout the whole series I just assumed Kanan and Hera were a couple. They just didn’t show it constantly. They didn’t just hook up at the end. You pointed out how obvious it was, well, because that was the point.
Kanan’s lack of disfigurement is probably due to Disney XDs age rating.
"Kanan's the only visible disabled Jedi I've ever seen."
Chirrut: *Am I a joke to you?*
(Chirrut from "Rogue One" is a blind, force-sensitive character. Not a Jedi, but it's implied that he uses the force to see.)
And that Chirrut died as a disabled hero unlike Kanan
@@KaminoKatie
True.
Rahm Kota, Lucien Dray, Proced Dib and pretty much his whole species the miraluka. Kanan is far from the first.
@@baki484 cool!
Chirrut is not truly force sensitive. Technically any living thing in Star Wars can feel the force, "force sensitives" are just more naturally attuned to it in a way that lets them interact with it in their day to day life. Chirrut, using the kyber crystal in his staff/walking stick (and probably a hell of a lot of training involving meditation) can "hear" his surroundings.
I agree! That was sooo bad to do! I hadn't even considered that when I watched it! I hated how Kanan had just been healing from his trauma and then when he is finally in a good place, he dies! Especially since he was working oh his own PTSD! Like why! He deserved a happy ending in some way! Because that sends a harmful message that all he is good for is sacrifice with his death! Oh I agree about that mess with Kanan and Hera in Season 4! Like they are already married?? I didn't even consider how harmful his eye sight returning is super harmful! You are exactly right!
He really, really did. I would have loved to see him get a happy ending it would have meant so incredibly much to me but SADLY. Here we are. Just several incredibly confusing choices made here, really.
@@Oakwyrm I agree! Sadly that is what happened!
@@OakwyrmKanan fills the mentor (Senex) role of the series. This character always dies. This is true in Star Wars too- Qui gon dies in ep 1, Yoda and Obi Wan die in the OT, Luke dies in ep 8, Jaro Tapal dies in JFO, Cere in Jedi Survivor, heck even the Bendu for all intents and purposes dies. Ezra follows the heroes journey over the course of the series. The mentor dying is a key part of that. Blind or not, Kanan was fated to die from the very first episode- especially because they needed to get all Jedi out of the picture before the OT.
The MOMENT I saw this man pull out the saber in the pilot I actually paused the episode and said this is a dead man walking. This man was going to die by virtue of that and the fact they had to write out all jedi out of the original trilogy alone. I just had no idea how they were going to pull that off with Ezra since they weren't going to kill their kid protagonist off like that.@@Anonyomus_commenter
I like the idea that Kanan regaining his sight in his last moments was him keeping his promise to Hera that he would see her again, just before his duel with Maul.
Way late to the party but fun fact is that the 2008 Star Wars game, the Force Unleashed had a Jedi master with a similar role. Rahm Kota was the first boss for the main character and after the fight, his eyes get slashed and he's blinded as well. You find him later on in the game with a ragged appearance and rags on his face and bad alcoholism. He cleans himself up before the end of the game tho and uses the force to see.
I more see the eye thing as a metaphor or short hand for intenseness, that his "look" was so strong, his want for her to get to safety was so powerful, that for those seeing him as he was going to die, his eyes almost seemed like they could see again, that he was staring truly at them with a demanding glare. not that he got his sight back.
Damn. I hadn't even noticed that about Kanan's death. And like... I'm willing to chalk it up to "look he went 'force take the wheel' and it granted his wish", especially since we've seen that the Force can heal, but at the same time? Yeah, it's an awful vibe, especially for Star Wars and the way it's had an undercurrent of "you're fine the way you are" throughout the recent canon.
4:05 i mean it´s a cartoon for children so we obviously arent´t getting a burned eyes showing the insides of the skull design, but let´s give the benefit of the doubt and say that he wasn´t directly hitted by the lightsaber because he blocked at the last second but because the lightsabers produces energy strong enough to melt most metals i think it was either merely inches from his face and burned his iris and face, with would either be like staring directly to/ getting burned by high welding light or the lightsaber did touched his face but with no force behind it because he blocked so it was like getting touched by a hot metal bar
Talking about disabled jedi, there is also General Rhom(?) Kota who was also blinded by a saber in the games. Not sure that portrayal is really accurate, but it might be good to look at for you?
And kreia
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I really admire your videos and discussions of disability rep! You are SO RIGHT about Kanan's death, that drove me up the absolute wall.
Re: Disabled Jedi..... Yoda. A cane user who also uses a hoverchair and with disordered speech.
Yoda along with Obi Wan basically groomed Luke into patricide his father
@@KaminoKatie That doesn't mean he's not Disabled!
I believe that at some point it was canon that Yoda is just so old that language has changed so much since he learned to speak that he sounds weird to us, but when he was a child, that was proper grammar. No idea whether that's still canon, though
Yoda doesn't have disordered speech, Yoda made the conscious decision to speak backward. George Lucas Explains Why Yoda Talks Backwards Apart from this possibly being a comfort thing for him, Yoda spoke backward to ensure that whoever he’s speaking to is giving his little gold nuggets of wisdom their undivided attention.
I just wanted to say, I've recently found this channel and I've been bing watching you a lot, also love the fact that your avatar has both the aro and ace rings
Afaik, Tahl (legends) was a blind Jedi too. According to Wookiepedia: "By 44 BBY, Tahl was sent to act as a peacemaker to the broken world of Melida/Daan, where the Melida and Daan people were murdering each other. She was caught in the battle and sustained injuries that caused her to lose her sight."
She was assigned a navigation droid 2JTJ to help her. Again, according to Wookiepedia:
"2JTJ, usually referred to as TooJay, was a navigation droid provided by the Jedi Order to Master Tahl after she was blinded on Melida/Daan.
2JTJ helped her with her new life, providing assistance so that she could start getting used to her new condition. However, the failed Jedi Xanatos installed an audio and video spying device inside the droid in order to track Qui-Gon Jinn and Tahl's investigations. When they discovered the trick, they prepared a trap for Xanatos. In the end, 2JTJ continued serving Tahl."
It's funny how I found this as my friends and I were talking about how it's weird there aren't more blind Jedi not too long ago. We didn't think it would let them "see", the force doesn't work that way, but it would give them a different way of observing the world around them and probably give them a use of the force that people with sight would probably not even think about. Blind force users should be doing fine and thriving. I'd like to see how other disabled force wielders would use it, like someone deaf or in a wheelchair. What about people who are missing their arms? Or someone who has multiple different disabilities! I'm curious how using the force would work for someone like me who has epilepsy. It's a side of The Force that dearly needs to be explored and would be super rad.
Star Wars has the technology to cure most of this tho. The clones are modified from Jango Fett, so they clearly have Gene editing (if you don’t think the regular clones are unedited- look at the Bad Batch). I looked it up and most blind people have a genetic condition (curable by gene editing) or it’s caused by an infection, and since we never see anyone die of illness (except maybe Yoda who was in isolation and people in very poor areas) in Star Wars they presumably have pretty good medicine. Similar is true for deafness, and they could probably regenerate or replace a burst eardrum so it shouldn’t be a problem. Since they have full functionality prosthetics, no one should need a wheelchair. Mental conditions would be trickier, although many could theoretically be edited out with gene editing, it feels like it would be mostly reserved for the rich- and probably be impossible after birth, and completely impossible for things like autism.
@@Anonyomus_commenter i'm equally annoyed and thankfull for your last line. because there is no reason to cure autism. an autistic person is just as worthy as any other being. the Star Wars Universe probably has the means to stop autism at a genetic level, but i'd like to think that they mostly don't bother. than again there is the Empire and they hate it when people don't fit the mold. But they like smart specialists that simply create what the Empire asks them to, without any regard of the potential uses. So probably those on the Asperger part of the spectrum that show interests that are usefull for the empire get all the cool toys to follow their passion. Like a fullblown Lab with all the bells and whistles. those like me that are more into history and ethics and stuff probably aren't treated as well, but the Empire needs them as well cause we are the ones that dive into the archives and find mentions of stuff that was hidden away or left behind.
@@jonasscheftner8545I was using cure for lack of a better word, I should have specified that in the comment tho. I think the different factions would probably view autism differently. The republic would probably just ignore it- by this point in technology the sensory issues and vocal difficulties that come with more severe autism (I don’t know how else to phrase it) could be either resolved or worked around, for the sensory issues the brain or organ in question could be tampered with to adjust the sensitivity and the vocal difficulties could be dealt with using a companion droid. The empire would probably have a mixed view on it. They would probably try to manipulate some into working with them- I find personally that autistic people are more trusting than most which could be exploited for the empire’s gain. They probably wouldn’t like more independent people or those like tech that went against them.
@@Anonyomus_commenter This is true, but I have two counter points!
1) Many people still experience traumatic-onset disabilities, such as Kanan with his blindness. Could they have the technology to heal or replace damaged eyes/ears/etc? Sure, probably, but also Bendu said Kanan's sight could not be returned, period. So there are some exceptions, whatever the reason.
2) There are so many different planets with different levels of technological access, I find it totally believable that someone might simply be from a place that doesn't have access to advanced medical technology, or doesn't have the resources or connections to access it, or is oppressed and not allowed to, or even experienced an otherwise-curable injury in a setting far away from these technologies, and by the time they were able to access it the disease or injury had progressed too much and become too late to fix, etc.
As soon as I started watching Rebels, I got hooked and became a Star Wars fan that all the 6 movies, Rogue One, and Clone Wars had failed to make me 😂 But I immediately started conceptualizing a fan fiction with a character who goes blind (much to my disappointment at its unoriginality once I reached the end of season 2 lmao), and I had to get around the "plot hole" of it not being fixed by medic droids or something. It wasn't too hard to explain why they didn't immediately have access to one and couldn't show their faces anywhere nearby that there might be one, and after a certain point the story provides a natural explanation for why he wouldn't *want* to fix it even once he does finally get the opportunity :P
About the Hera and Kanan thing- in the novel A New Dawn there’s a whole thing where Hera is completely uninterested in being in a relationship with Kanan largely because she was so focused on the rebellion and had no room for that and there’s some things in rebels that hint at the fact that she was confused about her feelings for him so it’s not difficult to believe they may have been together and broken up a few times maybe because of her confusion about her feelings or smth IDK
It also creates a bit of a plot hole, because bendu ( that’s how you spell it right?) someone so old and with so much knowledge of the force said he couldn’t regain his sight, but the writers decided that no, they have to give him his sight back to make it more “tragic “
I just made it my personal headcanon that his eyes only regained their colour because of how annoying it was
I do also think Kanan's eye color changing back was more a metaphor, IE in his last moments, the last thing he "sees" are his loved ones escaping. Also, it reminded of how like, trauma induced blindness is a thing, but apparantly its usually temporary. There was actually a Filipino movie about this, where a woman in Japan becomes blind after she finds her boyfriend of about 7 years is cheating on her. Another Filipino guy, who she unknowingly helped once, befriends her, and eventually, the two fall in love. She gets her sight back....just in time see him get run over on the way back from getting some food.
Rebels is my favorite starwars show tbh I like it more then the movies it's amazing.
I don't think he *really* regained his sight right before he died. I'm pretty sure that's just supposed to be Hera imagining his eyes the way she remembered them for most of their time together.
He could also be using the force to find where someone is in tight spaces
This is one of my favorite Star Wars characters I'm excited to hear what other people think about him
Something I want to mention is in legends (idk if they have been made canon yet) but his eyes are completely white which is Simlar to kreias and also how she sees (force sight) and also there is a blind person who also sees through the force and sees the alignment which you can learn
Hello. I've only recently found your channel through this video and now I'm newly subscribed. For the longest time, as an able-bodied person myself, I've always wondered what kind of take did the blind/disabled community had on Kanan as a character, but I've never thought that Kanan's eyes getting cured by Force magic literally seconds before his death was actually so messed-up. I cannot be grateful enough for the enlightenment.
Speaking of which, I wonder if you would do a review of another blind character from Star Wars, Chirrut Îmwe from Rogue One (the "I am one with the Force, and the Force is with me" guy who fights with a stick). You might have forgotten him or his name tho, which is understandable, as he sadly appeared in only one movie. (Because, you know, everyone dies in Rogue One.) But he started out as blind and stayed that way all throughout the movie, even to his very last breath, unlike Kanan.
In addition, I believe there is missed opportunity for gay representation in Star Wars with Chirrut and his gun-carrying longtime partner Baze Malbus. Many people think of them only as best friends or brothers-in-arms, but I feel like they acted very much like a married old couple who had known each other for years.
Can't wait for your reply. ;)
Hi ^^ Welcome, I'm glad to hear that.
And yeah I'm familiar with Chirrut Îmwe. He and Baze and the only two characters from Rogue One that I actually properly remember, so while I'd have to do a re-watch to refresh myself, doing a video on him is actually not a bad idea. And yeah I hard agree on Chirrut and Baze having been a massively overlooked opportunity for representation.
Lmaoo I didn’t even notice when I watched that episode a few days ago... didn’t stop me from crying through the next couple episodes tho (so yeah the eye thing rly is unnecessary). But fr It’s really weird and really not cool that they did that. Also like the thing abt Hera saying she had never told kanan she loved him confused me so much, and then when I found out they had a kid together it confused me even more. Literally makes no sense. for the entire show up until that moment I viewed them as a married couple (and Ezra, Sabine, and zeb as their adopted kids ofc) so it rly weirded me out, like how did u not say u loved each other????? Also u have a (biological) kid now?????
Yeah the final few episodes really did make a bunch of really confusing choices, huh?
Again a case of overthinking things.
There have been some highly questionable decisions regarding representation in Filoni's works. And to all the people in the comments here quoting him on Kanan's miraculous last minute recovery of his sight being "symbolic"...yeeaaah, no. If that kind of explicit symbolism had already been overtly established throughout Rebels, I could give it a pass. But as it is, it's just confusing as hell and feels completely out of place.
Man, I did *not* remember Kanan getting his sight back. I guess the point of that was just to be romantic? Maybe they didn't realize what they were doing?
4:00 Actually it's pretty clear why he doesn't die here. It quick and only lasts a few frames but Kanan puts up his lightsaber to defend his face at the last moment, but since Maul got a running start and slashed at him so viciously it still damaged him but not enough to kill him.
9:50 Okay, I think you're focusing WAY too much on Kanan as a "disabled" hero. Even after becoming blind I never saw him that way, in the same way I never thought of Toph as disabled character either, they're just people who happen to be blind. And I don't know ANYONE who didn't ball their eyes out when Kanan got to see Hera one last time, no joke tears are forming in my eyes now thinking about it.
What makes this moment work so well is how at peace Kanan is about it. Throughout the whole series Kanan has been learning to let his family make their own choices. He had to learn to trust Ezra and understand that he won't always be able to protect him. He had to trust Sabine with the responsibility of the darksaber even though she's not force sensitive. Even with Hera he's butted heads with her on occasion because he didn't want to relinquish full control over to her and he had to learn to do that too. They obviously have loved each other for a long time but with everything going on they never made it official, but once Kanan finds out he will die soon he decides not to hold back anymore and confess his love, which she of course returns, and it's so unbelievably tragic that only shortly after they stop beating around the bush and are completely honest with each other about their feelings does Kanan meet his end.
Again Kanans identity is more than his blindness and just because he got to see Hera one last time that shouldn't be taken as a flaw.
Agreed, the force rewarded him.
I personally fundamentally disagree with her. Kanan regaining his sights adds so much to his death. Kanan is able to keep his promise to Hera, "we'll see each other again, I promise." And it makes his death a bitter sweet one. In terms of how he did it Bendu says, "you must be empty, only the force." Kanan in his final moments was completely at one with the force, he was fulfilling his destiny. He was completely selfless, letting go of his attachments for the bigger picture. That the force gifted him his sight back. So he could see the love of his life and Ezra being all grown up one last time. The force has no real limitations as we don't understand it fully
@@toxiclegend3286 Well said, as I said there's more to that scene and Kanan as a character than his blindness.
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ok but I'd argue his death would have been BETTER if they didn't magically cure him in the end. think about it; he was just expressing how he wished he could see the love of his life again, and now he's sacrificing(? it's been a while since I've watched it, & the EDS/ADHD brainfog is REAL) himself to save her and all that. he looks back in her direction, maybe - just maybe - hoping that he *could* see her one last time. *but he doesn't*. he can't! and bam we have decent disability rep & no magic cure all
Yeah, that was a bizarre decision.
I think they were involved the whole time. Watch the Rebels, "Shorts."
That healing thing at the end did bug me. It was so unnecessary. I can’t begin to comprehend how confusing and maddening it would be for someone who identifies with the character because of his disability. I agree it wasn’t cute and didn’t add anything good but made the moment distracting. Now we’re talking about the implications of force sacrifices and force healing instead of how amazing and powerful was that moment for those characters.
I never noticed his eyes changed back until this video..... ignorance was bliss.
No Kayden was blinded because Mall through dirt in his eyes you can tell from the Dust that is around his face
9:14 I think that's just haras pov, being she meet him and has known him to have teal eyes. I don't remember anything indicating that he was cured or he could see her. She's just reflecting on something from her past that she doesn't want to let go. But that's just a theory and my opinion, I don't actually know.
Ok, so, insight from someone with a decent bit of unnecessary star wars lore knowledge, whether it's relevant or not is up to you:
I don't think his eyesight was actually properly 'healed' at the end there. Not in a permanent, or even a long-term temporary sense.
I believe he was using the ability of Force Sight, a rather self-explanatory ability. It was once used by Obi-Wan in a comic when he was temporarily blinded, by a flashbang iirc. The whole thing of Kanan's eyes returning to how they normally look is most likely a mediocre visualization of him being able to see again, despite the fact that Obi-Wan's eyes did not change at all when using Force Sight.
The fact that Force Sight requires an active effort to function also makes me think that there may have been a chance for him to survive this, had he focused fully on that. The force can do near-enough anything, afterall. He may not have 'seen' (pardon my lack of synonyms) any way to survive it, but that doesn't necessarily mean there was none. He *chose* to sacrifice his life, by allowing himself to see his partner one last time.
Whether this makes it better, I can't say. All I can say is that it feels like something most people would've done in that situation, it feels more compatible with how people tend to act and with the universe's rules.
I'd push back a little bit on Kanan being the only disabled Jedi; Anakin was an amputee. I just think that Kanan was the only one of the two disabled Jedi the writers decided to show drawbacks and challenges for, even if Kanan's mostly just lasted for one episode.
... I know nothing nothing about Star wars I watch this for you because I like your voice and like watching you review s*** but holy s*** what the hell
Basically the only word I have for that ending is just... How?
And on basically the only person superpowered blind person I've ever heard of using their hands
Damn
i never noticed that he got his sight back and so mad now
Yeah. I don’t like Kanan regaining his sight. I think they could have given both him and Hera some better closure in a lot more moving way.
Like, Imagine: Kanan dies in this fiery explosion after losing his sight. Then, in Star Wars fashion, he eventually sees Hera as a Force Ghost. Being dead, he’s regained his sight - because, as we see in other movies, the ghosts don’t seem to always take the form they died as. Since Kanan is used to seeing, he probably wouldn’t manifest as a blind ghost.
Alternatively, Kanan leaves some kind of sentimental message about inward vs outward beauty. Kind of a ‘I can’t see your face, but I’ve always seen you.’ Type message. Would have to add a few more hints that Kanan’s still coming to terms with his blindness. It’s hard to adjust to any major life change or world shift. When that change involves losing one of your senses while you’re still expected to fight a war? Yeah. That’s going to be hard mentally and physically to a point where the stress is going to show. Maybe it’s affecting his relationship with Hera and that’s part of the problem. Could also tie into Hera’s never getting to say ILU if they really wanted to play that narrative. Maybe she never says it, but she doesn’t have to. Kanan just knows, because he knows her and he knows it’s hard for her to say it (could pull in some interesting culture. Wasn’t her species canonically often trafficked as s*x slaves? It’d make sense if parts of romantic relationships hold a lot more weight.) Give a message about meeting people where they are and how actual love is more in the exchange of actions, understanding, and care. Would be really powerful.
Usually I try not to comment on disabilities besides my own, but it’s more about the bigger picture here to me than the actual disability. I’m partially deaf, but I actually lost my hearing at a young age. Not the same as blindness, but the concept of losing a sense you had before is there. Granted, I’ve been deaf longer than I ever was hearing by this point, but there are some childhood stories about adapting to it all. So while I can’t really speak on blindness specifically, I can kind of relate to the basic concept of ‘I could do this before, but now I can’t. How do I go from here?’
The short The Machine in the Ghost has Hera calling Kanan "love".
Thoughts on him seeing through light in S3 ep3?
I… _would_ argue that this was symbolic and that he didn’t actually regain his sight, but one, this interpretation has no basis and two, even if it was supposed to symbolise something, I wouldn’t be able to tell you what.
I need to watch this show now. I wonder if they just didn't have the balls to kill a disabled character because people would complain? Maybe that's why they decided to make him not disabled before he died ?
AHAHAHA fuck youtube notifications for not working ajadkaskfsdjdjsdsdsfjwj!!! I was waiting for this thx
this isnt directly aimed at you, but im really wanting a nice disabled perspective video essay about day of the triffids
Why do the star wars legends give you a headache?
Probably because of how batshit bizarre, inconsistent, and silly it often was. Like don't get me wrong there were some gems like Kotor, Darth Bane novels, The Force Unleashed, Darth Plagueis, Legacy, and pretty much anything written by Timothy Zhan. But other stuff like the craziness that was the Yuu Zhan Vong and the over 20 novel series that was the New Jedi Order would give ANYONE a headache.
@@MrEffectfilms Thank you, and that does make sense.
@@spartan7021 and thank you for not getting angry at me like most Internet Star Wars fans would these days.
@@MrEffectfilms lol you're welcome😁
Well you ruined a show for me. I genuinely never realised / noticed he got his sight back at the end. It was fine until now. This makes me annoyed. I will drift back to my ignorance and belief of what it was.
Edit. This raint actually any critique forwarded at you. Important stuff to talk about but yeh, I'm just gonna enjoy the show imagining they didn't do such a pesky thing
It is okay to not like this part and still love the show. Nothing in life is 100% perfect!