#cool star wars fight

[mikartisa]

(through tears) WHAT IF THEY IDK. HAD A NICE LITTLE CHAT OR SOMETHING

#listen. the fight was cool but consider. emotional processing without the attempted murder #ahsoka #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #star wars #sw #ahsoka spoilers #they give me so many emotions #my art

[aj-artjunkyard]

I think even funnier than Anakin being a Big War Hero is if he was like. The Temple’s resident tech guy. Cal or Kanan find out who Darth Vader is and they’re like ‘the guy who reset my password???’

#anakin expains Microsoft excel to the 80 year old masters #and introduces younglings to Cool Math Games #obi wan is known for killing Sith and anakin is known for turning the wifi off and on again #Anakin is mad bc obi wan DIDNT EVEN KILL THAT SITH #Ahsoka being like ‘oh I get to be the tech guy’s apprentice. yay 🙄’ and is genuinely surprised that the Sith-killer taught him how to fight #star wars #anakin skywalker #cal kestis #kanan jarrus #Jedi order #Darth Vader #jfo #jedi: fallen order #jedi: survivor #rebels #Star Wars rebels #caleb dume

[swedenis-h]

The girls are figghtttinnggg!!!

June 13th prompt: Battle Couple (@dinlukeweek)

#I couldn’t think of anything super cool for this prompt so I just did some fighting poses! <3 #this isn’t very dinluke-y but uh #I didn’t wanna be too dramatic with it #I felt the black and white was dramatic enough so #art #fanart #digital art #fan art #star wars #sw #sw fanart #star wars fanart #dinluke #dinluke fanart #dinluke week 2023 #din djarin #luke skywalker #skydalorian #my art

[antianakin]

It's so interesting how people reacted so drastically to the criticism against the Prequels, disliking both Anakin and the Jedi while liking Obi-Wan, that Anakin and Obi-Wan managed to be basically merged into almost the exact same character.

Anakin has the "relatability factor" of being the protagonist who goes on a journey and has the flaws that are explored within the story. But he's COMPLETELY unlikable as a character, especially in AOTC (and I hear people find child actors grating in general which is a personal taste problem but caused people to dislike Anakin in TPM too). He's whiny, rude, disrespectful, awkward, unforgivably uncool, and comes with a HEFTY dose of secondhand embarrassment in nearly every scene he's in.

Obi-Wan has the "cool factor" of being the one who is the Adult most of the time who is there to showcase how far the teenaged protagonist has to go still, so he gets all of the clever quippy lines and the better fight scenes (and his actor was a little older and more seasoned which probably helped a bit). But he's not the protagonist and so his flaws are not on display and it's not his story being told at all.

TL;DR Obi-Wan is an actually likable character with redeeming entertaining traits, but Anakin had all of the character story beats and protagonist bias.

And this meant Obi-Wan got out of the Prequel Trilogy a lot easier than the rest of the characters, especially Anakin (and the other Jedi).

So then we got The Clone Wars. And TCW is a show that is much lauded for being the show that "saved" the Prequels, generally by "saving" Anakin as a character. How did they do that?

They took away all of those pesky uncomfortable qualities of Anakin's and instead just gave him all of Obi-Wan's more fun likable qualities. TCW Anakin is turned into a dudebro action hero, with tons of cool action scenes to show off just how badass he is, endless amounts of quippy dialogue so he can equal Obi-Wan in their scenes together, capable of flirting with a Queen SO WELL that she doesn't even realize he's faking it until he pulls out a lightsaber. Gone is that secondhand embarrassment, gone are the whiny moments, gone is the inability to have a cool fight scene to save his life. The awkwardness stays just enough to make him ENDEARING, but not enough to cringe at so much you want to turn off what you're watching or just fast forward to the next scene.

And this is the version of Anakin that feels more "right" to people, more true to what they anticipated in a baby Darth Vader. He's angry a lot, violent, prone to lashing out if things don't go his way, but he's also just charming and suave enough that it's mostly understandable why people around him are willing to write off his worse behavior as a momentary struggle. Gone are the tears, gone is the fear of loss being his most obvious motivator. Because THIS is how people expected a villain like Darth Vader to act in his youth.

And then you get fanon Obi-Wan. Because people hated the Jedi, rejected the warrior monks who destroyed their visions of gallant medieval knights, and created a whole new interpretation positioning the Jedi as the villains of the story in order to try to make their peace with that dissonance. But they liked Obi-Wan, and Obi-Wan CAN'T be the villain.

So how do you save him from that fate? You make him more like Anakin. He gets to keep the cool fighting abilities and the fun quippy dialogue of course, but he's now completely repressed to the point that he never told Anakin he loved him until Anakin was burning in pieces on Mustafar. Now he's someone who can barely keep himself together and regularly forgets to eat and sleep like a normal person and has to be taken care of by other people. Now he's constantly being portrayed as just as attached to Anakin as Anakin is to him, just as co-dependent as Anakin is in that relationship, just as inclined towards anger and willing to walk away from the more stuffy traditional Jedi Order so he can have the more natural, healthier domestic lifestyle he's always truly wanted and never known he could have. TCW even decided to help out here by giving Obi-Wan a love interest who is for all intents and purposes just a knock-off of Padme, his own forbidden star-crossed love story. He takes on ALL of Anakin's flaws that make Anakin so "relatable" as a character, keeps his more charming likable traits, and loses all of those things that make him a Jedi, that make him Obi-Wan Kenobi.

So now Obi-Wan and Anakin are both cool, charming, suave, silver tongued, attached, repressed, struggling against the Jedi Code. They're effectively the same person, but one of them just happens to commit genocide and the other one... doesn't. What made each of them distinct and interesting characters in their own right is washed away in order to merge them both into two copies of the One Perfect Character and who you like better at that point is probably just down to who you found more attractive or something equally banal.

And through fandom osmosis, this is what is considered their true/"canon" interpretation, regardless of how inaccurate it actually is.

#star wars #prequel trilogy #obi-wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #the phantom menace #attack of the clones #revenge of the sith #the clone wars #star wars the clone wars #tcw #swtcw #i could probably add something to this about fan reactions to the kenobi show being so polarized #because so many fans just know the fanon obi-wan who is perpetually cool and perfect and quippy #and were so taken aback when what they got instead was an obi-wan who was depressed and lost and broken down #because this wasn't THEIR obi-wan #this isn't the obi-wan who had been so likable in the prequel trilogy #who had been the only redeeming factor of those movies even #this is RUINING obi-wan because now he's NOT COOL so what's the point? #clearly deborah chow just didn't understand obi-wan or why fans liked him because he's LOSING and he's BORING #the real obi-wan would never cower before owen lars or run from a fight or struggle to use the force

[to-proudly-go]

Star Wars has Force dyads and Star Trek has t'hy'la

Both concepts make me wanna take someone by the shoulders and shake them into oblivion if only to make them understand how I feel about soulmates

#THEY EXPECT ME TO BE COOL ABOUT THIS??? I THINK NOT #because #wdym our connection will span across time and space #wdym we'd be complete opposites but still complete each other #friend brother lover #parted from me and never parted #never touching and always touched #wdym we'll always always find each other in countless parallel universes #wdym our lives will intertwine and reflect each others #soulmates always get me crying #star wars #obikin #vaderwan #force dyad #star trek #spirk #k/s #t'hy'la #i staunchly believe obi wan and anakin are force dyads #fight me #my stuff

[cmbdragon98]

It was a mistake to try figuring out why people are so hesitant about the new star wars show.

The dudebros are reactionary, and only know how to repeat like, one joke based off of the beginning quotes of the trailer, ad infinitum.

Portions of tumblr star wars enjoyers are Too hung up on the whole..... anti/pro jedi mindset, falling into their own weird reactionary pitfall.

Fools, all of you.

Have you no simple adoration for Carrie-Anne Moss??? Dafne Keen??? Amandla Stenberg??? Fuck ton of lightsabers? The one cute alien youngling? What looks like a Star Wars mystery whodunit?

Fuck, you know what. You guys can just watch Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) eight times. Oh my god. I'm so over it.

#liveblogging #idk like have a bit of faith. have a bit of fun?? why are you so scared to enjoy a story that might be nuanced or like... #portray different people views or concepts than what you might be used to...? #oH nO iT lOoKs LiKe It MiGhT bE aNtIjEdI- girl get ahold of yourself #there are Pretty People to look at and there's Cool Fighting Choreography #enjoy your sci-fi opera for once puuhhhleeeasseeeee #star wars #the acolyte

[nightskyfoxyy]

....So I mightve read @niobiumao3 s Ao3 fic "Obliquity". Again. And I mightve gotten a bit inspired. What can I say, I see a powercouple and I suddenly cant be normal about them anymore. The "Phee is an ex-jedi in hiding" concept? The cherry on top.

EVERYONE GO READ IT. ESPECIALLY IF YOURE STILL IN DENIAL ABOUT THE SEASON 2 FINALE.

#I stg niobium your writing is god tier #its pure crack to my eyeballs HOW DO YOU- #excuse my gushing I just love it so much #so anyway I hope you like this little sketch ;w; #their fight scenes were so so cool #fanart #fanfic rec #star wars #tech #phee #phee genoa #tech bad batch #the bad batch

[kazoosandfannypacks]

Favorite ship trope: Awkward Jock X Cool Nerd

(this is not my own idea; shoutout to the mml fandom for making me aware of it)

#zalissa #milo murphy's law #sabezra #(i will fight you on this. sabine built a complex superweapon at 13 and is assumed to speak multiple languages and is SO cool) #(meanwhile Ezra is a Jedi padawan who spends much time training and is ALSO the most awkward person in the galaxy) #star wars rebels #nacy #i think that's the ship name??? #for nick and macy from jonas???? #like nick is a songwriter and does pretty well in school! and he's the cool broody one!!! #meanwhile macy is captain of every single team at their school and is SUCH an awkward fangirl #anyways feel free to fight me on this. or tag your own. or do both. #shipping #shipping tropes #an argument COULD be made for saltinna as well #bettina is the coolest girl on the planet and her hobbies include books and finances and talking about books and finances with her dad #meanwhile dunstan is constantly described as being absolutely JACKED and he also spends an entire chapter pretending to be a gamekeeper bec #use someone THOUGHT he was the gamekeeper and he wasn't gonna tell her otherwise #however it is also quite evident that dunstan is the biggest nerd in history so i think he's disqualified #tropes #otp: im counting on you #otp: this feels like a beginning

[hailperseusjackson]

in the cooler better version of ezra’s adventures in wild space, he’s trained in vaapad by windu’s force ghost

#and he would construct a new gunsaber of course #idk if a gunsaber would even be the best hilt for vaapad but i believe in him #i just think that shatterpoint lineage 💜 #genuinely filoni could’ve done so many cool things with wild space #and instead he gave us a boring planet in a boring second galaxy with boring fight choreography for Ezra’s enhanced force use #ezra bridger #swr #star wars rebels

[acewizardinspace]

I haven’t seen anyone talk about this, but I think it is important to note that Nari didn’t turn Obi-wan in, and he could have.

Nari is young, was probably still a padawan at the time of his people’s genocide. Nari knew Obi-wan, recognized him, probably looked up to him, respected and trusted him, he was a member of the high council! When Nari spots Obi-wan again he looks relieved. He has been scared, running and hiding alone all while trying to continue to live up to his people’s beliefs by helping as many as he can. And then he sees Obi-wan and thinks, “finally, I am not alone anymore. I am saved.” Only to have his hopes dashed.

He would be justified in feeling betrayed and abandoned. He could have in his last moments told the inquisitors where Obi-wan was, maybe to try and save his own life, maybe just to get revenge. But he doesn’t.

Nari’s final act was protecting Obi-wan’s location. He died saving someone else. He lived and died a jedi.

#obi wan kenobi #obi wan series #kenobi series #nari star wars #nari #star wars nari #Nari deserved better #i want to know more about him! he seems really cool #like for 10 years he never stopped fighting #never stopped trying to help others #what a great jedi #jedi love #my thoughts

[theydoctor]

Luke Skywalker for @finn-shitposts

#YOOOO #HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYY #i know i already said it but you're a super cool dude and i'm so glad i know you! #enjoy this little gifset! ^^ #it's really not the best but the wifi is horrible here and i was fighting for my damn life with those gifs akshjshs #will make you smth better once i'm home though i promise <33 #star wars #luke skywalker #leia organa #han solo #a new hope #anh #starwarsedit #my gifs

[a-wisebear]

imagine if pre-teen anakin actually had friends his age and those would be like 'friends w your master? fine, but the chancellor????' and the rise of the empire gets fucked by some kids judging the fact that he counted old-man-and-politician as a friend

#anakin skywalker #star wars #jedi #i know my hs friends wouldnt let it slide if i was friends w some random old man WORSE if it was a politician #imagine aayla going ani your other only friend is old and not cool #and the chancellor never heard of anakin again #palpatine #dark side #jedi temple #fix it #i just want like 5 other padawans w bad disguise attending the wedding #some pantoran and a rodian fighting for the co pilot seat #anakin calls them all serious just to shout KID ACQUIRED and introduces ahsoka #give the kid some friends fr

[argonapricot]

very funny things to say

#sabine did not go to the ICU or the ER she got magic space healthcare in her sleep #also. shin could have very easily fatally stabbed sabine and did not #keep in mind that sabine was the one who attacked shin after shin took the map #once ahsoka arrived on the scene shin actually had to incapacitate sabine somehow to make an escape #pls also keep in mind that shin looked very turned on during the entire fight and it WAS homoerotic actually #i guess some people out here are just straight and/or vanilla and/or virgins #im sorry but if a girl gazed into my eyes while bearing down on my body with her body like that. and then stabbed me. i WOULD appreciate it #especially if i could then proceed to get magic space healthcare in space like sabine did #the ER does indeed suck a lot IRL but that is so... completely irrelevant... #“it's not thrilling or cool to chase someone in a spaceship in star wars bc car crashes r actually rly traumatic” that's the argument here #wolfren #shinbine #shin hati

[kaxtwenty]

I think the thing I like the most about Mandalorians is how much it sucks to be one.

Like, the older I get the more I understand Satine. A society that revolves around fighting and conquest as much Mandalorian society tends to probably sucks to live in.

Pretty much every major Mando character has this moment where they’re just like, “Why are we like this?” And it feels real in a way that few bits of SW lore ever come close to.

To gloss over it a bit. Nearly every planet they’ve inhabited has been glassed 1-12 times. The foundling system, while cool, has its roots in slavery and forced assimilation (which can still be seen in some cases). Pretty much every major clan or house are the descendants of people who were forced to assimilate to Mandalorian society (not even that far back in Clan Wren’s case). They fought so much that the original Mandalorian race, the Taung, went extinct.

And to top it all off the literal inception of their entire culture was when they saw a planet full of Kaiju and one guy decided they should subjugate and hunt them to extinction. Which is to say nothing of all the civil wars their whole feudalistic house/clan system practically encourages; along with the ever lingering question of how often do Mandos who aren't soldiers get to have full citizenship?

Hell, there was one time a Mandalorian straight up became a Jedi, ruled as Mand’alor only to have his kids steal his saber from the Jedi Temple and use it as a symbol of violence and supremacy.

I’ve always liked to think of Mandalorians as the sort of “wildcard” faction of Star Wars. They can be either the heroes or the villains and vary wildly in how they fulfill those roles, you never quite know what you’re gonna get with them on an individual level. But just about every one of them has had to confront their history and how it affects them now. And their views are often informed their upbringing and different experiences.

There's this constant through line of characters trying to reinvent what it means to be Mandalorian, all of them coming to their own conclusions, usually with the help of a Jedi or two.

Idk, I wouldn't say I'm an expert on Mandalorians or anything (I'm much more of a Jedi guy), but I got a lot of thoughts about them and how their current culture is informed by their history of imperialistic warfare.

"I think... I think I need something more than killing and fighting in my life." - Canderous Ordo

#me rambles #Mandos are so cool but damn does it suck to be one #Can't say I blame Boba for deciding that he doesn't want much to do with these guys #his life is chaotic enough as is #star wars #mandalorians #I'm still wondering how exactly they operate when they ain't using slave labor cause no way in hell is EVERYONE fighting during a war #cause who the hell is making you food? #anyway play KOTOR 1 Canderous Ordo is the definitive Mandalorian #Sabine is the best one tho (at least before Ahsoka but I've had that rant already) #may or may not be projecting somewhat but hey that’s what fiction is for sometimes

[beskad]

Anyone saying to viewers or fans confused or dissatisfied by Bo-Katan's character in S3 "to understand Bo in The Mandalorian you need to go watch Rebels!" is, I think, missing the bigger issue.

Maybe Rebels addresses her arc really well and builds on TCW characterization? That's great! But the writers of Mando are not addressing it. They even appear to be currently, actively ignoring and/or retconning large portions of TCW and Rebels.

For "cinematic universes" (*gag*) like this, it's important to either adequately recap relevant existing canon, or clearly restart from square one. That way, even a casual viewer can understand the characters and and their motivations relative to the show they're watching now.

It is not a reasonable expectation to have every viewer need to have seen 4 seasons of an animated show to adequately understand a character who's been dropped into the 2nd season of a completely separate live action one.

Some decent groundwork was laid in season 2. We can't, nor should we, have all information about a character revealed to us immediately, that would just be a sloppy infodump.

Bo-Katan is the leader of a faction of Mandalorians who want to retake Mandalore. Cool. She's got a grudge against Gideon who, as we found out via Din in season 1, is responsible for the Great Purge of Mandalore, a complete bombing that made an already inhospitable landscape completely unlivable. So on and so forth.

However, at the end of season 3—a season where Bo-Katan is heavily featured—we still have received no clear explanation or recap of her backstory outside of her surrender to Gideon. There have been many opportunities for different characters to know and address that she had a leadership role in a literal terrorist group, Death Watch. It's very relevant, but it's never addressed. Even if we're going with it being previously resolved, it's a very significant and relevant part of her backstory and Bo-Katan doesn't even have private moments of reflection that might explain that to us, the audience.

She preaches about the failures of a divided Mandalore, despite having explicitly and repeatedly contributed to that division in very recent history. There's no self-awareness. from her or the writers.

If Favloni & co. want to retcon previous material—it's annoying, but they're technically allowed to do that.

However, they are not clearly committing to previous canon, nor are they doing the work to clearly establish new canon.

Regardless of the why for any of this, the fence-sitting makes for a mediocre product that tries to do both. The end result is a messy and inconsistent characterization and half-baked backstory that feels incomplete and leaves me asking the show I'm currently watching, "wait, did I miss something?"

Some additional gripes/support for my opinion that the creative team isn't committing to a clear plan for her characterization:

Bo specifically states that the planet and city didn't always look like this. But—

Completely omits that she's a key reason why it was wrecked twice over. Seized once by Maul, which I don't fault them for not acknowledging in live action because casual viewers would be confused (though technically the Solo movie did it so like, pick a lane), then later bombed into oblivion by the Empire.

She mentions her father, and that he's dead. Completely omits that she had a sister who's also dead, and who technically also died defending Mandalore (Satine's cultural genocide against her own people, which also oddly resulted in a population of seemingly all-white pacifists, is a rant for another post). There is room for a compelling and clear in-universe explanation for this! Like maybe she's in denial or tortured about it, and that's why it's not brought up. But we the audience still need to know that. However, it looks like they've just written Satine out. Maybe it would too clearly place Bo-Katan as a Bad Guy which is inconvenient for them because they don't want to take the time to address it, despite this season spending a lot of screentime with her.

They're even ignoring her characterization previously established within this same show with her showing explicit disgust for Din's faction in season 2, then somehow being fine with joining them in season 3.

#liberally tagging this because this is my OPINION and my personal gripes here and i'm not trying to ruin anyone's enjoyment #i'm frustrated obviously but liking or disliking something is not a moral judgement and i'm not trying to fight anybody #long post #mando critical #the mandalorian spoilers #anti filoni #the mandalorian critical #i'm not loving filoni's whole 'everything and everyone is related to everything and everyone' approach #it makes for messy timelines and cheap nostalgia callbacks instead of focusing on fresh material and stories #mando s1 was particularly striking because everyone in it was brand new and Din is like 'what's a jedi?' #it had some nice classic star wars refs/jokes like with the scout troopers but it didn't RELY on them #the N-1 is a cool ship but like BRO between that and Cobb driving the literal engine from Anakin's literal podracer i am rolling my eyes #because filoni fails to actually connect things where it matters- like addressing existing characters' backstories shown in other sources #rray.txt #metas

[maulfucker]

Star Wars oc time part 4!!!! Long grandpa

#hm i should make an original art tag #star wars oc #jedi oc #apos tehr #pau'an #FINALLy remembered to add both pronouns and height to a character #he doesn't look nearly as lomg as it should because well my whole art style has fucky proportions </3 #but he IS tall #also i think his cane saber is cool. stands on its own AND guards the blade emitter. very versatile #it's probably a bit hard to fight with but well he doesn't like fighting. never did. the saber is like. just in case. #my ocs