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Ever since I finished Andor, I've been thinking about Kleya. Thinking about her being on Yavin when the first death star explodes. Thinking about her evacuating from Hoth among the AT-AT walkers. Thinking about her, standing in the Ewok village at the end of Return of the Jedi, watching the fireworks, and quietly feeling Luthen's presence standing there with her with her, quietly telling him that the sunrise has finally come.

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Rodimus #6: The Burden Hardest to Bear

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HOA (2014) — developed by skrollcat studio.

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Get these ai writing assistants out of my face!!!! I don't care if my writing is bad at least it is mine!!!!

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Rodimus #5: Why does he look like that?

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I NEED YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT NOT ONLY IS MACE WINDU A THEATER NERD, HE IS ALSO A FOOD NERD. (Star Wars: Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss | Steven Barnes)

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Transformers One fans, it's been an honor

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I think sometimes people forget just how old Alexsandr Kallus is.

Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide, which came out during season one, refers to him as “late 30s.” Season one of Rebels is set 5 BBY; if Kallus is 36-39 then, that puts his birthdate at 41-44 BBY, and makes him about a decade older than Kanan.

The Republic fell in 19 BBY. Kallus would have been 22-25 years old. The Clone Wars started in 22 BBY. Kallus would have been 19-23 years old. Academy service starts at age 16. Unless Kallus was a very late bloomer, it is extremely likely his recruitment and training happened not under the Empire but under the Republic.

I know Wookieepedia says “Kallus attended the Royal Imperial Academy on Coruscant, the main campus of the new regime's military training program,” but its source for that is the comic “Kallus’s Hunt,” and I have the comic right here and it never says that. Kallus talks a lot in the comic about what it means to serve the Empire and Imperial justice, but when he’s discussing his backstory with Jovan, it’s “We arrived on Coruscant and graduated from the main academy at the same time.” 

Not “the Royal Imperial Academy”; “the main academy.” We know from the High Republic books that there has been an academy on Coruscant since at least the High Republic era. There is no particular reason to believe from this comic that the academy was under Imperial control at the time Kallus attended it, and in fact his backstory with Jovan (they were friends at the academy, then had a philosophical difference later in life about what it meant to serve the Empire) makes a lot more sense if the “serving the Empire” part comes after their time at the academy together.

The other time Kallus references his academy days is in “Through Imperial Eyes,” when he asks Yularen if he remembers him “from the academy,” and Yularen says “Of course… I keep tabs on all my star pupils.” Again: “the academy.” Not “the Imperial Academy.” And we know from Clone Wars that Yularen’s career starts as a Republic Navy officer; why assume he was teaching Kallus under the Empire? Given how busy Yularen was in the early days of the Empire, it makes a lot more sense if his time teaching at the academy predates the Clone Wars. You know: back when Kallus was the right age to be at the academy.

Tl;dr: like Yularen and Tarkin, Kallus is probably a former Republic officer who stayed to become an Imperial officer after the change of regime. His intensely pro-Imperial feelings in early Rebels don't come from being indoctrinated from childhood; they come from having served under both the Republic and the Empire and concluding (or convincing himself) that the Empire is better. And I find that much more interesting as character backstory.

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in episode 4 of season 1, Partagaz praised Dedra on how she had “exceeded her quarterly arrest quota” in her sector; this was before the PORD allowed arrests without due process, but an arrest quota indicates an artificially inflated prison populace, and in this case, she was likely funnelling prison labour needed for building the Death Star.

we don’t know where all of Dedra’s prisoners ended up, but it’s entirely possible a lot of were funnelled to narkina. there’s probably prisoners there she put herself; people she never knew and will never know her, but the utter humiliation in being brought down to those she’s always resented? fucking brilliant. the fact that she thought she was exempt and immune from the same state violence because she was the one wielding the baton? BEST fucking ending for a villain of her calibre bar none.

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Andor stays a committed love letter to the unknown soldier. The rebellion’s lines have been pushed forward by hundreds who will never be recognized, even if their deeds are famous. Cassian has heard people claim to be at Aldhani, they don’t even know he was there. The money that bankrolled the rebellion, and no one knows who did it. Luthen will never get a medal of honor, or see the light of gratitude. Nemik’s manifesto comes back in both finales, reaching people across the galaxy. Whole battalions have enlisted because of him, and he’ll never be remembered. Without the unnamed soldier, we’d be nowhere

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i do think the ways fiction affects reality are really interesting and nuanced but its hard to talk about it without accidentally aligning yourself with the kind of people who think all problematic books should be banned or whatever. like no i don't care about all that, i wanna talk about how the the movie jaws affected public perception of sharks, or how a lot of shooter games seem to reinforce the othering of middle eastern groups, or how finding nemo apparently inspired a rise in demand for pet clownfish, which ironically were often taken from the wild. it's never as simple as 'consuming bad media will make you bad' but the ways fiction shifts the culture are genuinely so fascinating dang it.

*these examples are anecdotal and likely more nuanced than this. please don't murder me with fish facts.

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Rodimus #4: Dude who even let Whirl on the ship?

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people need to realise that a poor little meow meow must be a character who has committed atrocities you cannot poor little meow meow a good guy that’s not how this works

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Do you ever think about how Obi-Wan threw his padawan braid into Qui-Gon’s funeral pyre because he has such respect and love for his master, but Anakin gave his to Padmé or are you normal?

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After order 66, the surviving Jedi gained the habit of watching the Most Wanted list (expect those that can’t access the holonet), gain the habit of checking the Jedi Most Wanted list. (No one has ever beat Obi-Wan as number 1, but a few came close).

Now imagine one day when Kanan is checking it, seeing if anymore names have disappeared or even the very few times that new names were added, he sees a name and face pop up, one that he knows. Just imagine the relief of knowing that a fellow padawan, an age mate was alive, and then the immediate confusion on what the hell did Cal do that got him that high on the most wanted list.

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citationless behavior

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that's me in the corner