A spin-off series about the man, Frank Castle, who was introduced as an antagonist/villain in Daredevil Season 2, known for his brutal crimes but haunted by a tragic past. He is a man full of rage and hatred, but he has his sensitive moments, particularly when he is around a character called Karen Page, of whom brings out his lighter side. The director and actors described the pair as being the only two in the series who can truly understand and show their real selves to each other, coming from similar places (much like Rey and Kylo). Similar to Kylo Ren, Frank has done some very dark things in the past under the command of somebody else, having been treated like a weapon, which he struggles to cope with.
Before watching this series, I would definitely recommend watching Netflix’s Daredevil first, so you can see how he (and Karen) are introduced and how they meet each other. All the other ‘hero’ characters in the series judge Frank’s actions and call him ‘unhinged’ while the media constantly demonizes him. Karen is the one to understand and defend him. I think Frank and Karen’s relationship is a great example of how two people can start out on opposing sides, pointing guns at each other, to bonding over their similarities until they realize they find belonging in one another.
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer… .” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune.
Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own “inner light” and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.
So when I went to the theater and saw The Force Awakens for the first time, I was excited, but not too
much. I was expecting lightsabers, desert planets and unrealistic space
battles, but beyond that my expectations were tempered. My mindset was
basically “so long as it’s not as bad as The Prequels, I’ll consider it a success,”
and TFA definitely was. But – and
this is a big but – it was more than that, too. The longer I watched the movie
– the longer I watched Kylo and Rey interact – the more excited I became. I
could barely sit still. All I could think was oh my god. Oh my god, they’re Bastila and Revan. They’re the same.
There’s so many similarities between the two there’s no way this echoing was not intentional.
What follows is an essay-length, in-depth, somewhat
disjointed comparison between the two, as I try to order my thoughts. It’s
actually a continuation of this thread. Major, major spoilers after the jump, for KotOR and TFA and the Expanded Universe (seriously, don’t click past the jump if you
want to keep one or the other a surprise – I basically spoil everything). I’ll
be focusing primarily on KotOR I, because that’s the equivalent of where Kylo
and Rey are in terms of character development, but there will be a bit of KotOR
II in this as well.
Monsters and Villains 