{"id":13754,"date":"2021-08-17T10:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=13754"},"modified":"2021-08-17T10:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:35:13","slug":"from-villain-to-hero-the-redemption-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/08\/from-villain-to-hero-the-redemption-arc.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;From Villain to Hero: The redemption arc&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019m at <em>The Tablet<\/em> (UK):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think I first noticed it when the Star Wars sequels were coming out. Fans had strong opinions, as fans will, about the character Kylo Ren, a son of two heroes who turns to the Dark Side. But they expressed their hopes and fears in strikingly similar language, as if what had once been an array of diverse authorial choices was hardening into a trope: \u201cI hope they don\u2019t redeem Kylo.\u201d \u201cC\u2019mon, they\u2019re clearly setting him up for a redemption arc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I love stories of personal change: the cracking of a carapace of wrongdoing, guilt, complicity, despair. I love stories where wrongdoers learn a good, hard lesson; I love traitors to the bad side; I love penitents; I love careening disasters who somehow become indispensable; I love ambivalent change punctuated by relapse and change so extreme it scares or annoys the people who once begged you to get your act together. I love what the wrestling world calls \u201cheel-face turns\u201d in all forms. So why did this language of the \u201credemption arc\u201d feel so wrong?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/features\/2\/20468\/from-villain-to-hero-the-redemption-arc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m at The Tablet (UK): I think I first noticed it when the Star Wars sequels were coming out. Fans had strong opinions, as fans will, about the character Kylo Ren, a son of two heroes who turns to the Dark Side. But they expressed their hopes and fears in strikingly similar language, as if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[38,41,299],"class_list":["post-13754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-forgiveness","tag-reading-and-repentance","tag-use-each-man-after-his-desert-and-who-shall-scape-whipping"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;From Villain to Hero: The redemption arc&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;m at The Tablet (UK): I think I first noticed it when the Star Wars sequels were coming out. 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