#Episode IV: A New Hope

[darkeyedreamer14]

Every once in a while I think about all the Alderaanian people who managed to survive the planet blowing up. Maybe they were on vacation or away for work, but just imagine their pain upon learning of the destruction of their home, that all their family and friends are dead. Imagine them realising that they have nothing to return to and need to start over where they are. Imagine them telling their new neighbours or new colleagues they're from Alderaan and hearing an 'I'm sorry' almost every time. Imagine one of them creating a forum on the holonet for them to connect with eachother, to share holidays and native recapies and generally keep the culture and traditions alive. Imagine how hopeful it would make them to learn that Leia is alive, that their princess has survived and is helping overthrow the government that took their people. Imagine Leia finding it and being reminded of all the things she and her family did that she was too busy helping the galaxy to remember, and also seeing how much hope her survival brought to those people.

Those thoughts have been in my head for a while now, and since my mind has been occupied, now yours will be as well

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Star Wars: Episodes I-VI

By Lyle Cruse

[burningfudge]

seeing mon and kleya’s thrilling escapes from coruscant makes leia’s first reaction to luke and han even funnier. leia must’ve heard about these highly skilled rebels but then when she gets captured, she gets a hillbilly farmboy and an idiot smuggler to rescue her

[sabictlali]

Perfect interaction with your kiddo

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford on the set of Star Wars in 1976

[digital-cryptid]

star wars episode iv: a new hope (1977)

[weepingwiener]

he tosche on my station till i power converter or something

[shitpostingkats]

Gods I forgot how chronically 19 Luke is in a new hope. His parents tell him he can't do something so he goes outside and kicks rocks. He tugs on the bartender's sleeve and asks for milk. He interupts a very serious negotiation to exclaim "TEN THOUSAND???" with a wide eyed guilelessness only matched by kittens who've just today learned how to walk.

[incorrectstarwarsquotess]

[Luke’s First Time Fighting Stormtroopers]

Obi-Wan, nervously: I-I can’t control them. They’re not responding to my Jedi Mind Trick.

Luke: Maybe they’ll respond to heavy scolding?

Luke, pointing and yelling at one: YOU ARE BEING VERY DISRESPECTFUL! ! !

[alphamecha-mkii]

[gusaedong]

[jastervhett]

STAR WARS (1977): The ONE…that started it ALL….

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….

The classic film Star Wars was released in theaters, 48 years ago….

[queenwendy]

God, the way all the prequel star wars media (i.e. set before episode IV) makes the death star dreaded is amazing.

Imagine showing star wars in chronological order to someone who didn’t know what the death star was. It’s shown as blueprints in episode II, as a shell in III, and then hinted at over and over in Bad Batch, Rebels, and Andor with increasingly frantic rebels. “Project Stardust”, a “superweapon”, giant crystals, etc. You see it half built at the end of Andor season one and you don’t know what it does but you know it’s bad. And then in rogue one you see it.

Jedha City is destroyed. So is the database on Scariff. All with the imagery of nuclear bombs. And come A New Hope, it destroys Alderaan. We care about Bail and Leia by now, and we realize this isn’t an oversized laser nuke. Krennic was right; it can destroy planets. The stakes have never been higher. The joy and relief at it’s destruction is overwhelming. The horror is over.

And then two movies later they fucking make another one and in the next movie there’s a planet one that destroys an entire system we’ve never seen and then in two more movies there’s a fucking fleet of star destroyers that do that and you realize the galaxy will never be free from the increasingly ridiculous power creep lmao.

[slyandthefamilybook]

[atomiccollectionanchorme]

Star Wars

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope; art by Noriyoshi Ohrai

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher on the set of Star Wars in 1976