#Lightsaber fighting

[bikananjarrus]

can i just say it felt so fucking GOOD to have good, well-executed, fast-paced (!!) lightsaber fight choreography. the fights were exciting! each character had their own distinct style that matched their abilities and size! they were fast!!!!!! hands down the best saber fights we’ve seen in live-action sw in a long time.

[magicalplaylist]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Taylor Swift and the Pure Vessel from Hollow Knight were fighting for the ownership of Homestuck via lightsaber duel. Pure Vessel won and rebooted the webcomic.

[stealingpotatoes]

Oh my GOD I've fallen down the rabbit hole of your glorious skywalkers apart AU and quite apart from being ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED, I have to know if my boy Cal is around in it?!

yes but i never really developed it!! ok we all know i'm never gonna finish that comic script i'll just tell u guys -- in said script, after leia and anakin free Padme, they find out Luke was taken somewhere else which, after a family recon mission, they find is FORTRESS GODDAMN INQUISITORIUS! (which they assume is bc luke tried to use the force to stop the initial arrest, big mistake huge)

anyway all this to say cal's involvement was a tiny-mentioned cameo to explain why anakin knew how to infiltrate nur (the exact line i wrote in the never-finished-script was "we met this jedi survivor a few years back" + comments abt said survivor inflitrating nur 10 years ago yes it was that unsubtle) -- the idea was they had run into one another on a short mission in the past and then gone their separate ways!

[certainwizardlady]

Careful showing your borrower friends certain shows. I now have to have a steady supply of glow sticks on hand.

[dragonstar2568]

You can’t tell me that Peter and Harley didn’t fight with lightsabers at their wedding.

[starwarjotta]

Day 6 - resolve the resolve to protect those you care about even against impossible odds

[symbioticyautja]

“The Yautja culture will make their first galactic EMPIRE”

[politicalprocrastinator]

some bitches would appreciate the prequels better if they accepted that qui gon jinn is a hard working single mother who braided obi wan's padawan braid every morning and obi wan is that stoner babysitter that didn't graduate college but constantly gives you insane life advice

[somewhereincairparavel]

the best bts detail I've read so far is that the duel between obi wan and anakin in ROTS didn't need any digitized speeding up because hayden and ewan were going so unnaturally fast (that they literally broke multiple prop lightsabers in the process, and they kept getting told to slow it down) they'd even make lightsaber sound effects subconsciously because they got carried away and got scolded for it XD

[redbean-nom]

fascinated by the implied fennec-ventress-phee friend group in tbb. even more interesting (funny) when you add boba in there during the tbobf era.

[string-puller]

tell me I look pretty and I'll smile and say thank you

tell me I fight like ahsoka tano from clone wars season 7 and I'll pledge my loyalty to you forever.

[insomnova]

star wars is so good because it has a built-in deus ex machina trope that is frequently referred to by people in that universe. "there is no such thing as luck" there sure isn't buddy!! the cosmic forces that be specifically designed YOU as their special little blorbo for the next 15 consecutive minutes!!! have fun!!

[dont-let-me-eat-pears]

gonna treat myself to a rewatch of 1x05, i say as if i don't already do this weekly. qimir has the most mesmerizing combat style i've seen in star wars, even when he's mercilessly mowing down jedi, including ones i like, in the dark. the hints of oshamir are just icing on the space cake.

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

^ Darth Maul 002 (2017) drawn by Luke Ross & Nolan Woodard.

[kcrabb88]

Leslye Headland did a lot of Crimes in the Acolyte, but one that had me wilding personally was the small glimpse we got of Plagueis in the show because I was like okay first of all, lol, if you think THAT guy is idk, living in a cave, you don't know him. Second, the idea of him taking on someone like Quimir as an apprentice is just. Laughable. Leslye claims to love legends, and in the Plagueis novel, one of THEE most beloved legends books, he has a whole thing about how fallen Jedi don't make good Sith. Basically, he thinks fallen Jedi can never really BE a true Sith. Sure, he intends to make an ally of Dooku in that book, but that's all he would be--an ally. Someone for him to use. He certainly didn't expect to be murdered and have Palpatine take on Dooku as an apprentice (and, still, a stand-in apprentice to be used and discarded before Palpatine got his hands on who he really wanted, and even then, Anakin was more like, enforcer than a real apprentice. Palpatine had no need for a real apprentice because he intended to live forever much like his master, who also used HIM and then accidentally turned him into the ultimate Sith).

Anyway. Plagueis is a scarily smart, coldly brutal guy who finds "common morality" beneath him. This man captures another secret Sith and medically experiments on him for decades. He's not taking on some ex-Jedi who is mad at his master for unknown reasons. Plus like, Quimir was really scary actually UNTIL he got that backstory. Then he simply wasn't anymore. Oh Acolyte, the show I thought you were until about halfway through episode 5 when you wiped out half your main characters. The show I was trying to hang on to liking until the finale and also reading that Leslye thinks the Sith are stand ins for queer liberation. I'll never 4get.