#it's just a bunch of bad faith extrapolation from the dialogue of known antagonists

[bosooka]

whenever people say that satine made a huge critical mistake/moral failure by not "compromising" with militant mandalorians i wonder if i was the only person who heard satine say the words "even extremists can be reasoned with" or "concordia is under independent rule and we need to talk to the governor" or "there was a time we weren't enemies, perhaps that time has come again" or "there will be no bloodshed" when she literally surrenders to death watch (a terrorist group btw) because she knows she's lost popular support to them

idk i think there's sort of a satine horseshoe theory going on where people who hate her and people who Nuance Like(TM) her both have selective amnesia about how compassionate, observant, and willing to compromise satine actually is so they can paint her as either a genocidal dictator or an overly-idealistic stubborn bitch #GirlBoss with good intentions and in the end they're 3 centimeters away from each other in terms of how rancid i find their opinion to be

#satine kryze #idk i don't think anyone who is talking about compromising and not being pacifist is doing so in good faith #it's all with the same uncharitable premise that satine forced people to accept her rule #when we see she believes her legitimacy comes only from the people's desire to be ruled by her #it's just a bunch of bad faith extrapolation from the dialogue of known antagonists #like it's a tv show there's nothing beyond what we see on the screen #there is 0 indication that before the death watch arc people wanted satine gone quite the contrary #and going 'well but we don't know what the people REALLY wanted' is silly because the people don't exist and do not have a will #sw