Anyways I Have Thoughts About Redemption Arcs - Tumblr Posts

The fact that they did this is so real of them. I love it so much!

I appreciate that Crosshair’s redemption arc still allows for the people he’s hurt to express their grievances and come to a conclusion about his growth on their own terms. A lot of similar arcs will either have the redeemed character die immediately after or during their moment of redemption leaving their sacrifice hanging over every possible discussion of their wrongdoings, or strong-arm the entire cast into forgiving them as soon as the main characters do. Crosshair may have been forgiven by Omega (and the audience for the most part) but he’s also done a lot of things that give characters like Hunter and Howzer valid reasons to be angry with him. He told a group of soldiers under his command to shoot at Omega specifically to get a reaction from Hunter and the Batch. Howzer’s entire squad on Ryloth was killed for questioning orders. Of course Crosshair should be shown having to earn their trust rather than simply leave his previous actions out of sight and out of mind