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#the confused Skywalker

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Bro was burned to a crisp.

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Qui-Gon's force ghost every time someone survives a lightsaber stab through the stomach

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God we had it good back then even when the Fandom Menance was concerned

“Well, when I said I was going to do the prequels, everybody said, ‘That’s great, we get to see Darth Vader kill everybody.’ And I said, ‘That’s not the story.’ When I announced that the first story was going to be about a nine-year-old boy, everybody here said, ‘That’s insane, you’re going to destroy the whole franchise, it’s More American Graffiti all over again.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, but this is the story.’ I don’t have energy to just make hit movies. I’m not going to make James Bond Pt. 21 – I’m just not interested. Everybody said to drop the stuff about the midichlorians, it makes it too confusing. But it’s a metaphor for a symbiotic relationship that allows life to exist. Everybody said it was going to be a giant turkey: ‘This isn’t going to help LucasFilm at all.’ I said, ‘This is about the movie and the company is just going to have to deal with whatever happens.’”

— George Lucas on audience expectations, George Lucas and the Cult of Darth Vader, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2005 (via catie-does-things)

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Since the release of Tales of the Jedi, there's been a lot of discussion the racism surrounding Mace's character both in fan and in pro works. There's been a lot of focus on how he's changed or made to look worse or viewed in bad faith in order to make Anakin or Dooku seem more sympathetic.

But I want to address something that's actually bothered me for a long time: that both fans of Mace Windu and Anakin opt to ignore that in AOTC, Mace actually seemed to like Anakin, and that Mace actively defended Anakin to Obi-Wan.

There's this school of thought that's been popping up more and more recently, that either Obi-Wan defended Anakin all the time from the Council's criticism, or that he was too much of a shrinking violet to ever criticize Anakin out of fear of Anakin's temper. Neither of these are true, and when I see either take, I have to wonder if we watched the same movie.

Because the truth is, Obi-Wan was the one to criticize Anakin. And Mace was the one to offer up justifications for Anakin's behavior.

Let's review that conversation again:

Obi-Wan: My Padawan isn't capable of the mission you assigned him.

Mace: He's actually really talented.

Obi-Wan: He's arrogant.

Mace: Okay, but he might turn out to be this super special person, so.

What we are seeing here is Obi-Wan doubting Anakin as his student and as a Jedi, and both Yoda and Mace telling Obi-Wan to lay off. There is no ambiguity to this dialogue.

And that's why it really bothers me when I see Mace portrayed as some hardass who always resented Anakin, or when there's this strange revisionism where Obi-Wan never has a harsh word to say about Anakin but Mace is all too happy to do so.

Because it means taking the faith Mace had in Anakin and giving it to Obi-Wan. It means taking the generosity Mace was demonstrating toward Anakin here and giving that to Obi-Wan. It means taking the canon evidence that no, this black character didn't, in fact, hate this white character from the very beginning--and giving it to another white character.

It's honestly just so, so weird to me that fans have this weird insistence that Mace and Anakin have some kind of longstanding rivalry or dislike of each other, when there's this movie right here, set when Anakin is still a Padawan, but on the cusp of being a Knight, to demonstrate that no, they got along fine.

And yes, it is frustrating that almost all of fandom ignores it. But I'm still glad we got these couple moments.

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Q: What's the difference between Sabine, Youngling Reva, Inquisitor Reva, Darth Maul, The Grand Inquisitor, Kylo Ren, Fennec Shand, and Cobb Vanth vs. Qui Gon Jinn?

A: Good writing

#star wars

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#star wars #ahsoka trailer #ahsoka tano

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Anakin's voice: "As your Master it's-"

Me:

#star wars #ahsoka series #ahsoka trailer #ahsoka tano

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The Fandom Menace did more damage to the perception of Star Wars than Disney could ever dream of competing with lol!

#star wars #anakin skywalker

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1. It's associated with Rings of Power now

2. It's associated with Rings of Power now

3. It's associated with Rings of Power now

4. It's associated with Rings of Power now

5. It's associated with Rings of Power now

6. It's associated with Rings of Power now

7. It's associated with Rings of Power now

8. It's associated with Rings of Power now

9. It's associated with Rings of Power now

10. It's associated with Rings of Power now

There you go. That's all the possible reasons.

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Thinking about this scene and, sure, it's a reference to the line "a more civilized age" in the original trilogy but also I really fucking love it as a metaphor. The Jedi are known for using their lightsabers, the weapon that is nearly synonymous with them, the one that takes a lifetime of training and the kind of precision that can only come from someone using the Force, that a lightsaber is a constant reminder that a Jedi must have care with everything they do because of their abilities, the things they can do. There's a reason the story group commented that, almost any time a lightsaber ends up in the hands of non-trained Force-sensitives, it ends badly. Here you have the final fight of the clone wars, this is General Grievous, this is the end of this war that has dragged them all through hell for the last four years, Obi-Wan was specifically sent because, with Dooku dead, Grievous was the last one standing that could rally the Separatists, this was it, this was the end. This is how the Clone Wars ends--with a Jedi stripped of his precise, controlled weapon and grasping for a less than perfect solution because this needs to finally fucking be over, he needs to goddamned finish this. I love this as a metaphor for the Jedi's position in the war--if Obi-Wan doesn't grab that blaster, Grievous is going to hit him with that Electrostaff and he's going to die. His lightsaber is flat-out not an option. The Jedi's choices are whittled down to: Imperfect solution or die. So he chooses the imperfect solution because it's better than death, it's better than letting Grievous go, and there's still so much to be salvaged from this. He doesn't use his Jedi weapon, but it's not like he's suddenly no longer a Jedi because of it, he will still be a Jedi at heart and will still go back to doing his best to hold up their ideals. This is why Lucas says, "Are [the Jedi] going to stick with their moral rules and all be killed, which makes it irrelevant, or do they help save the Republic?“ (Star Wars Archives 1999-2005) I like this moment as a metaphor because I see it as illustrating the point of the Jedi's involvement in the war: It's not perfectly the Jedi way, it's them stripped of their preferred methods, but the heart of the reasoning is the same, that if they don't fight, if they don't take the less shitty option, then everyone dies. Obi-Wan ending the war with a blaster rather than a lightsaber, because it was either that or die, is a fun callback to the OT, but also shows the two paths placed in front of them, the lack of options available, and just what exactly was on the line.

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seeing things…

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So I finally finished Mando S3 today...

#star wars #the mandalorian season 3 #din djarin #grogu #swtcw #the clone wars

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Star Wars has one of the starkest lines between fannon and cannon that I’ve ever seen. It makes for some really funny moments like this one.

There you have it folks. 72% of the Star Wars fanbase forgot about Return of the Jedi.

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There you have it folks. 72% of the Star Wars fanbase forgot about Return of the Jedi.

#star wars #luke skywalker #darth vader #anakin skywalker

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When I tell you I snorted!

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Luke attempting the "assert dominance" pose but ending up just looking like "happy special boy with a slight case of T-pose" instead.