I hate watching space battles. I am watching the season 3 finale of Star Wars: Rebels and all the ships getting blown up 🥺 it seriously makes me tear up. All those people 😭 I hate it.

Obviously a story has to have stakes, and I guess this story has done it’s job in upsetting me because I care, but ugh! I like it when the good guys win and some pain and bruises = fine, but death 😔 no.

So often it seems like the shows leave the main characters alive, and they kill off the background ones to show the stakes like they don’t matter. They do matter! I mean obviously I don’t want the main characters to die and I am very ok with plot armor, but I wish the poor “redshirts” didn’t pay the price.

That really bugged me in season 3 of Picard. They literally showed the bodies, the blood on the walls. It was graphic. But the characters own words didn’t make any mention of it. It was like the bridge crew was all alive so that was ok. I know the trope ‘redshirts’ came from Trek but that doesn’t make it right.

So yes I am sad. All those ships 🥺