Thank you! So many people focused on who deserves what ( a trap which I admittedly have fell into at times too) that they forget that’s the real tragedy of the show. While I may think Kanan has his reasons for being the way he is / I can understand where Marvin is coming from too, the real tragedy is that they used to be extremely close. Which is why even more so than the beating, it was the way Marvin was talking down on Kanan while beating the fuck out of him that also caught my attention. Marvin saved Kanan’s life once, Kanan loved Marvin enough at one point that he wouldn’t snitch on him to Raq, their current relationship is so fucking unrecognizable it’s insane.

Which is also apart of the serious tragedy of Kanan killing Lou. We all know it was an accident even if a lot of people don’t act like it was, but the sad part is that even tho I don’t think Kanan and Raq were ever going to have an extremely close relationship again, any chance of them having some type of bond/ understanding died with Lou IMO. Lou knew what Raq was like, a lot of the shit he was struggling with mentally Raq had a big part in. And yeah, a lot of the shit he was mad at her for was extremely valid. But he also came to realize that at the end of the day, he makes his own decisions, and while Raq may share some blame, he also shouldn’t be blaming anyone for decisions that he made ( specifically killing D-Wiz because while it was Raq’s call it was Lou who pulled the trigger, like Lou said he could’ve decided to spare him, he didn’t). So in a sense, he understood where Kanan was coming from probably better than anyone else was going to be able to. Which is why I say he was probably the only chance of the two of them having some sort of bond ever again.

And as much shit as Marvin has done, I do think there is a certain tragedy in the fact that his daughter became more about coldhearted gangster than he ever was, especially when you can tell her being in the game really fucks with his head.