#and also because he and palpatine fundamentally broke the republic

[princesssarcastia]

i think the fundamental thing people forget about star wars, which would clear up some things for many people, is that luke skywalker is the hero of the story

#it's all about Him in the end #why the fuck do we care about anakin skywalker's journey in the prequels? #because That's Luke's Dad!!! #and also because he and palpatine fundamentally broke the republic #in a way that luke and leia (and the rebellion) then eventually fix #but it is....in the end....all about our very special farmboy #the sequels much less so #although there's an argument to be made even there #it also means that when luke throws away his lightsaber #and THEN says 'no. i am a jedi. like my father before me' #it is in fact an indictment of 'this weapon is your life. don't lose it' #idk #husborth is making me think about star wars #luke skywalker #listen i love my other star wars characters #i love them to bits #but i also know they are not Thee character #that has ALWAYS been george lucas' self-insert specialist little boy

[gffa]

[ Star Wars - Jedi of the Republic - Mace Windu #3, #5 ] I’M GONNA YELL ABOUT THIS because I read the last two issues together and it really put into focus how this is one continuous story with a whole lot of deliberate themes.  I’ve talked a bunch about them already, including how this is a story about emotions and the mastery of them, a story about good and evil, and now a story about the Jedi and their compassion. All of these tie together, the flashbacks and words chosen are all part of a greater narrative whole, the people who say the things they do and why they do, who fails to understand the people they’re scorning, are all important. And here’s where we see the culmination of everything with Prosset, who has accused the Jedi of falling into being war-mongers and killers.  Prosset seems like he might be coming from a reasonable place at first, but he attacks first.  He punches Mace first, he draws his lightsaber first, he started this.  And when he has a chance to defend himself (FOR TRYING TO MURDER MACE WINDU) he devolves into frothing about it, he literally says he’ll laugh over their corpses.  This is not someone who sees the truth, as the comic so directly put a lampshade on.  This is someone who has lost his way. The reactions between the two are telling.  He does not try to talk to them, he only rants at them and says, oh, well, surely you’re going to kill me now, because that’s what murders do!  He says they won’t tolerate dissent, yet they hear him out.  And his punishment?  HE HAS TO WORK IN THE LIBRARY.  Where he’s still free to talk about his dissent all he likes.  Prosset was ready to turn his back on the Jedi, to scorn them and LAUGH OVER THEIR DEAD BODIES, rather than actually trying to do anything about it. Prosset is not a blind man who sees the truth.  He is simply a blind man who has fallen. (You want to laugh over someone’s corpse?  You have fallen.) And, oh, the Jedi.  Whose aim is always and forever to try to reach out and bring someone back to the good.  Mace explicitly says that Prosset’s feelings, while misguided, are understandable and that they value him and want him to come around. As @glompcat says in their fantastic meta about this issue, this also pretty definitively shows that Anakin’s fear about what the Jedi would do to someone who broke the rules (kick him out or lock him up or whatever) is entirely laid at Palpatine’s manipulative feet because it’s demonstratively not true.  Prosset TRIED TO MURDER MACE WINDU (and continued to express a wish for violence upon him!) AND THEY JUST SENT HIM TO THE LIBRARY (I cannot get over this!  How deeply compassionate the Jedi are, even when directly attacked and spat upon!), where he could still talk about whatever he wanted to talk about. I was wary that this mini-series would be able to do justice to a character I really loved or a people that I really loved, but instead it knocked it out of the park.  The Jedi are forever compassionate, caring, and often misunderstood about how fundamentally good they are.  And Mace Windu is absolutely one of the best of them and I’m so glad that this comic did justice to thim. ABSOLUTELY A MUST READ.

#jedi of the republic #mace windu #jedi #jedi order #meta #comics #wednesday spoilers #last one! now back to gifs and stuff!