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But does Obi-Wan believe the time of the Jedi is over and that they lost because of his loss and (perceived) failure or is his loss and pain more because of the collapse of his support and belief system. The contrast between his views and Nari's are maybe too clear. Obi wan is there swinging the pendulum between pain and boredom contemplating writing his own Nihilistic philosophical masterpiece and saying to Luke a few years  “ you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view”

“The time of the Jedi is over.“ It’s painful enough that Obi-Wan can’t use the Force because people would know he was a Jedi, that he can’t even speak about the trauma of living through his people’s genocide, that he can’t even practice his own religious culture, but what’s really destroying me is that it isn’t just the Force stuff that Obi-Wan is no longer doing, it’s the Jedi philosophy of emotional regulation that comes with the Force and being a Jedi. Obi-Wan has fallen to his grief, it is consuming him, it is warping him, it’s not just that he’s turning away people like Nari, but that he’s also holding onto his pain, he’s not letting it go.  The Force is based on your emotional wellbeing, if you connect to the Force through anger and fear and pain, that is the dark side.  If you connect to it through compassion and calm and love, that is the light side.  Jedi have to accept the circumstances they find themselves in, they have to let go of their hurts, because their connection to the Force is fundamentally about that emotional wellbeing, it’s not just Jedi philosophy, it’s literally how the Force works. But Obi-Wan isn’t a Jedi anymore.  The time of the Jedi is over. So he holds onto his pain, he holds onto his hurt, he holds onto his attachment to Anakin, which is the inability to accept that life changes and you have to let go when it’s time, you cannot grasp onto something so hard that you crush it because you are afraid to live without it, that’s what attachment is.  It is everything the Jedi have trained against doing. But the time of the Jedi is over. The Jedi and their light and their teachings and their ways are gone, so he holds on because he doesn’t know how to let go of mourning Anakin and the Jedi, even when Bail Organa himself calls him desperately and pleads with him to help save Leia.  It’s not until Bail hauls his ass all the way out to Tatooine and tells him, right to his face, “Move on. Be done with it.” Those words brought me to tears, because Bail Organa isn’t just telling Obi-Wan to rescue his daughter to be a Jedi again, but telling him to let it fucking go, because that’s what Jedi do.  Protect people with your lightsaber when you can, love them and help them when you can, but when the time comes, if you can’t save them, you have to train yourself to let go. George Lucas says that’s how the Force and Star Wars and the Jedi work and I am IN PAIN because Obi-Wan truly believes that the Jedi are dead, that his old life is dead, and it’s not just swinging his lightsaber around or making people float that he’s buried in the ground, but his willingness to accept the circumstances he’s in and to move with the flow of what’s happened. The Jedi say you can’t destroy yourself in your grief–and Obi-Wan is destroying himself in his grief here, he is doing exactly everything that the Jedi warn will happen when you don’t let go.  He’s been unwilling to let go of his feelings, because he’s not a Jedi anymore. He doesn’t connect to the Force because that would mean he would need to let go of his feelings and he can’t do that. The time of the Jedi is over, he says, and we see what it’s doing to him, how it destroys him day by day.  He may not be sinking into the dark side, only because he’s not using the Force, but he is suffering all the same for it, because he has forsaken the lessons of the Jedi.  Because the time of the Jedi is over.

#obi wan #having something of a very understandable midlife crisis #reading schopenhauer #and making is really clear he is living for anakin's son and not a lot else #my heart #star wars #spin offs

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Hey, repost with how obscure your music taste is and your most listened to artist on this Spotify stats site. The higher your score, the more obscure your music taste is. I want to know what you all get :)

#89% #simultaneously surpringly and disappointingly high #its not obscure its just confused realky #and wtf is stomp and holler anyhow #they are just msking up these genders surely #music #tricksandnonsense

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Don’t say anything.

#lovely hugs #who needs words #lovely art #rogue one #jyn erso x cassian andor #don't say anything #perfect mood

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I love "how do you do math?" questions. Here's how my brain does it:

How about you guys?

#27+48=25+50=75 #no words needed

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A recent cartoon for New Scientist.

My next book ‘Baking with Kafka’ is available to preorder. Links here: https://www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2/

#no end of trouble #the effing state of effing uk science #when bloody politics gets involved #please the poltics is too complicated for me can i just stick to the rocket science! #personal #sigh

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being younger than your fave characters and then eventually becoming older than them is such a weird feeling

#this #star wars #but at the same time them being okder than you #these konterm franchise are so confusing #im really not sure who is okder or younger anymore #i just feel old #i've been in thus fandon sonce i was six years old #star wars original trilogy #star wars sequel trilogy #so confused #and ob mobike so darn you typis you stay!

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diego luna appreciation week day six: diego + fanboy moments Who is most likely to be caught taking a selfie? That wasn’t allowed. I did a few, I have to admit. Now that I can, and they can’t cut me out of the film. I did take a lot. And I shared them with my kids, and I’m about to start selling them. On eBay. Next year.

#mmm yeah not over that #hands #deigo luna #rogue on cast #serious one of the most #erm affecting #gifsets #totally not my type #honestly

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"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!"

40 YEARS OF STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (21 MAY 1980)

#sorry couldn't resist #jez I feel old #empire strikes back #original trilogy #stars wars #40 years

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40 YEARS OF STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (21 MAY 1980)

#40 years #empire strikes back #original trilogy #stars wars #jez i feel old

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TFA Countdown - Favourite Cast Relationship.

I had a feeling, I said, ‘You know what – if there’s a weak link, if Carrie or Harrison decides they don’t want to do it, there’s an out. Because it’s all or nothing. It should be all of us or none of us.’ -  Mark Hamill.

#so this honestly sums up my whole feeling about feeling about the sequels so perfectly it is untrue #it makes me nostalgic #it makes me feel old #it makes me happy #it makes me sad #but most of all #these three! #star wars original trilogy #star wars sequels #star wars #first and last and no more

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Rogue One Tidbits!

So the writers of Rogue One did a live Q & A here which is summarized here but here’s a post including the tidbits I found interesting/I hadn’t heard already from the Reddit post:

the Rebel base was set on Dantooine in the film, but they changed it to Yavin as the movie takes place just before ANH and it would mean there would have to be an evacuation at some point during the movie (I’m glad they kept it on Yavin!) They had to cut out a planet for budget.

This one is interesting: Bor Gullet was supposed to exchange memories for info. Jyn was supposed to offer up her traumatic childhood memories (which Bor Gullet enjoys???) in exchange for information, but Bodhi ends up being the victim instead :( This was cut.

In one version of the script, Jyn is the one responsible for discovering the Death Star (ie. no message from Bodhi, potentially no Bodhi at all :( ). The Death Star dish was being built on Eadu near the start of the film, and that’s where Jyn finds out about the project

(This is me making an assumption but I guess this is where Sergeant Jyn Erso comes from - she was already with the rebels and presumably went out to meet Galen?) 

Leia was supposed to be in the War Room scene but they decided her presence was more impactful if she was just at the end - so Jyn got to give her speech in the War Room instead. 

original idea (Gareth and Gary) was to have everyone die, they didn’t think Disney would approve of it, so they had everyone live except… Kaytoo. Who apparently dies on the beach in a blaze of glory. Tony and Chris decided everyone should die and Disney approved it.

Everyone splitting up and going undercover as seen in the movie was also in the original version. Jyn and Cassian climbing up the tower was also in the original version.

Tony Gilroy added Cassian’s introduction scene as well as the use of “Stardust” 

Jyn says “I’ve got a good feeling about this” en route to Scarif. This was reshot and replaced with Kay’s line (OH MY GOODDDDDDD) 

Jyn facing off against the TIE fighter was never part of the movie, it was filmed for the trailer alone (??!??!?!!!!!?!??!!) Same goes for that shot of Jyn in the Imperial outfit in the tunnel with all the glowly lights where all th promo pics are from.

Early versions of the script had a Jyn/Cassian canon, on screen romance that was written out over the versions (honestly fair - as Jyn’s role changed so would their romance, plus I’m cool with the final. But deleted scene pls)

Originally the vault and the tower were two separate facilities on Scarif, which is why we have all those shots of people running around and fighting on the beach, but Tony decided it was too complicated and combined them into one building (WE WERE ROBBED OF CASSIAN AND BAZE FIGHTING SIDE BY SIDE) 

Vader was supposed to be on the beach (atually I think Gary told me this on twitter when I asked one time??) and had to “mow down” a bunch of rebels to get to Jyn & co. scary.

#a universe of possibilities #rogue one alternative plotlines #i kinda want to kniw how the whole Sargent Erso storyline would have gone #but we're here because of what we got #how can it be wrong #you know we'd pay for the cutting room floor sweepings though #jyn/cassian #well obviously

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chrisjen avasarala » season 4 trailers

#working at home with the family problems #my daughter has instigated a swear jar #on the basis of the last week this is going to cost me considerably more than I'm saving in gym fees #chrisjen would understand #chrisjen avasarala #the expanse #actual role model #yeah I'm a bit ashamed of myself

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#star wars behind the scenes #star wars original trilogy #empire strikes back #leia #my heart #carrie fisher

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30 Favorite Pairings

Day 17: Han x Leia (Star Wars)

#lovely art #star wars fan art #han x leia #first and last and nomore #oh

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From the book “The Princess Diarist” (2016)

#a new hope behind the scenes #star wars behind the scenes #these three #and this picture #looks like Leia's just put forward one hell of an idea #luke is totally onboard and han really doesn't know where to look #Harrison Ford #mark hamill #Carrie Fisher

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- Don’t give me hope.

- I’m sorry I couldn’t give it to you sooner.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME (2019) dir. Joe and Anthony Russo

#natasha romanoff #clint barton #I like them just the way they are #were! damnit #lovely gifs #but #ffs mcu #like 2019 needed the grief #black widow deserved better #from start to finish I guess #avengers endgame #yeah thanks for that

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#chrisjen avasarala #my hero #this is what control looks like #can we just appreciate that for a moment #whilst simultaneous appreciating her ability #to get fucking angry when it counts #and possibly channelling for that next meeting #helps to have a bobbie draper at your back #the expanse