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OBI WAN KENOBI - EPISODE VI

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—Revenge of the Sith (2005) by M. W. Stover

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAURA! @lucrezia-borgia

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fr they’re doing so well at giving us an obi wan who genuinely wants to do the right thing, but is so debilitated by his fears and trauma that he can’t function nearly as highly as people him expect him to. he’s obi wan. he’s witty and quick and capable and arguably the best jedi of his generation but he can’t reach for his lightsaber first. he can’t talk about the family he couldn’t bury, and the brother he watched get consumed by flames and hate. he doesn’t want the responsibility of his name, or his order, bc if he couldn’t save anakin, how can he be trusted to save anyone else? he sees anakin in the desert. he almost collapses when he feels vader. he can’t fight him and hasn’t tried to fight in years and practically lets himself get caught. he hasn’t touched the force in a decade. he’s in pain, but he wants to be strong. for leia. for luke. they need him, but he doesn’t want them to. the galaxy needs him, but he cant. not yet.

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The devastation, the pain, on Obi-Wan’s face and in his eyes upon learning that Anakin is still alive has come for my fucking heart, gutted me, and left me broken. This is what I wanna see, the utter despair that these two men have caused each other. I hate them. I love them so much.

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manifesting 😫😫😫🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Robin Isely

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"There has never been another Steve Rogers, has there?"

Well, Zemo. You're wrong.

There is another superhuman who hasn't been corrupted by the serum. In fact, you are looking at him right now. Bucky.

When Zemo said this line I realized this narrative felt off somehow. Because going by what he said before about all superhumans being supremacists and inevitably ending up down that path, it would mean Bucky is like Karli, or like all the other "corrupted enhanced individuals". And there's nothing farther away from the truth. This may get a bit long so bear with me.

After Bucky was first captured and tested on back in Azzano, he already had a version of what would become the super-soldier serum. It was the one thing that allowed him to survive the fall. If we take Zemo's words as true, it means Bucky had to have been already different (personality-wise) ever since then. So, did he become a machine of hatred and jealousy? did he start killing people left and right? No. You know what he did? He followed his best friend and kept fighting alongside him against the nazis. He may have had to kill back then, but it was war so what are we expecting. Until the moment he fell off the train, there was no indication of something "evil" lurking inside him.

I have an issue with the way certain storylines regarding the Winter Soldier have been dealt with. Starting with the "make amends" notebook. You make amends when you've wronged someone. But Bucky's situation is different. Even if it was him physically doing this stuff, it was beyond his control. HYDRA is the one and only responsible for those horrible things, and yet no one so far (not even his therapist) has actually told him that, or at least reminded him of it. The only person who has ever said this to Bucky was Steve, back in Civil War. He even owns the insult "my people" as if he had truly been part of HYDRA willingly, even if he acknowledges he was captured, he still sees himself as a villain. Those killings were forced upon him. And still, we see him making amends for something he had no say on.

The single moment Bucky regained a small piece of his will, he saved someone. He saved Steve. The first moment he was able to be himself again, even if everything was confusing and scary, he still jumped after this man and pulled him from the river. Flashforward two years, in Bucharest. Is Bucky doing something heartless and evil like going on a murder spree? has he joined any fascist group? No. he's buying plums, living in a small apartment room, and writing his memories on tons of notebooks, trying to cling on to the only thing that reminds him he was, he is good.

And now, with Zemo's comments implying Bucky too is corrupted by the serum... it doesn't sit well with me. I don't know if this is Zemo being Zemo, or if this is the actual approach taken by the writers. Although I'm inclined to believe the latter, given that no one has said anything against it nor corrected Bucky or Zemo about it.

Which I find troubling. Because Bucky isn't bad. He wasn't corrupted by the serum. He's still this loyal, nerdy man troubled by his past. He has never done anything evil by his own decision. Hell, the first thing he did after running away from the countries trying to kill him was to ask to be put on cryo again. "I can't trust my own mind. So until they find a way to get this stuff out of my head I think going back under is the best thing. For everybody." And even in this episode, when he asks Ayo if she's sure about this. She replies with "I won't let you hurt anyone." Because that's what he feared the most. Hurting those around him.

So, I honestly hope this was just Zemo messing with his head again. And I hope the writers manage to acknowledge this before the finale. Because no, Steve wasn't the only superhuman who remained true to himself after the serum. Bucky is too.

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TORTURED TO FORGET  |  TORMENTED BY REMEMBERING

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The thing that gets me about Ric Grayson is that when Bruce lost his memory a couple years ago, everyone bent over backwards to give him an idyllic life. Including Dick, despite Bruce being his only connection while he was an a dangerous undercover mission while everyone thought he was dead. But the family can't even give Dick the courtesy of waiting until his bandages are removed to try to press him into service again. I'm sure it's been said before, but it annoys me every time I think of it.

Jesus, I hadn’t even thought about that. But you’re so right. Seeing Alfred gently talking Bruce through his history: 

Batman (2011) #43

And allowing him to make the choice to do what he wishes with his life, even if that means no longer being Batman, no longer even knowing about Batman and living with that weight, no longer being there for his own children...hell, Alfred even encouraged that choice, and everyone bended over backwards so that that could happen, wanting Bruce to be happy first and foremost. And he got to be an amnesiac billionaire, with all the money in the world, a fancy house, etc. 

And take that in comparison to Dick, who, yeah, is still in recovery, being taken down to the Batcave and abruptly told he was Nightwing and shown that video of him being shot in the head...unlike with Bruce, there is zero consideration about “what’s best for Dick here?” and “what would he want?” and “what does he need right now?” They really were just like, welp, have to get Nightwing back on the streets ASAP and this is the fastest way to do it. Don’t care if it might hurt him to make that happen. 

Nightwing (2016) Annual #2

Nightwing (2016) #50

With his family’s main concern being that the guy who was just shot in the head isn’t there for them when they need him...and then he’s homeless and alone. Literally night and day. Big yikes man. 

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Cygnus Hyoga and Sharks

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Cygnus Hyoga and Sharks

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Bunny day bunny day

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Alucard openly mocked Trevors family and made racist comments about Sypha's people, and Hector was literally the only person in Dracula's army to have even an ounce of sympathy for the human race, and has only ever wanted to live in peace with his pets, yet its the former who everybody thinks is entitled to a happy ending just because "he went through so much pain" and the latter is the one who's suffering everybody gleefully relishes and believes is justified. Sounds about