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"The Jedi should have gone to Tatooine and stopped slavery!!!"

........... You want the Jedi to go to another planet, that is not part of the Republic, is run by another government, and they have no political power on, and...... What? Force them to follow the Jedi's rules and laws? When they say no should the Jedi kill the dissenters?

There are words for that behavior actually. Conquest. Imperialism. Dictatorship. These things are generally frowned upon.

Ignoring how impossible it would be for a small group like the Jedi to control every planet with slavery.... The "nice" dictators with "good" laws are still bad actually.

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Ahsoka should have died fighting Vader. Her story would still be far from perfect, but much much better than what we have now.

Please let Ahsoka retire and have someone else take over.

Aight Star Wars nerds:

What's your thoughts on Modern Ashoka, and Dave Filoni's refusal to let her story end?

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Interesting character! But the fandom has ruined him for me.

Everyone focuses on his good looks and "sad traumatic past" (in quotes because people focus on his struggles in the Order and not his, y'know, slavery), and forget that he's literally Space Hitler.

It's hard to love him correctly in this fandom.

Hey fellow Star wars nerds!

What's your thoughts on Anakin Skywalker?

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“When the Jedi High Council arrives for the funeral of Qui-Gon Jinn its members make use of a turret room in which to mourn privately and celebrate the life of their fellow Jedi.” You ever think about how the Jedi Council could have just had Obi-Wan come back to Coruscant and dealt with whatever this shitshow was from there?  But that instead they came to Naboo for Qui-Gon’s funeral there, because they took the new information they received seriously–but also because they wanted to honor someone they cared about? Yes, Qui-Gon argued with other Jedi sometimes, but he also loved them, they were his family.  He wanted to bring in more people to the Jedi Order, he wanted more Jedi, he loved being a Jedi, he loved the life he had.  And even after his death, he wanted to help Yoda and Obi-Wan over to the other side, you can hear the affection and love for Yoda in his voice when he speaks to him during TCW.  Qui-Gon loved them!! And the Council loved him, too!!  They gather together specifically to mourn his loss and celebrate the life he led.  They may not do so screaming it from the rooftops, they do so in private, but they do so together.  They don’t get sucked into a doom spiral over it, they’re not going to kill a thousand people in their grief, but they loved him and they took a moment to celebrate what he meant to them and how they cared about him. I’m just!!  Feelings about how much the Jedi Council loved Qui-Gon!!  Yeah, he was kind of a pain in the ass sometimes, but he was their pain in the ass and they loved him!!

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Hypothetical question for you

Assuming Mace manages to Kills Palps and it's not a mutual kill or Mace isn't killed by Anakin. How do you see Mace and the other Jedi managing the Senate and the other Republic institutions without things devolving into a War of the Diadochi esque situation between Palps cronies like Tarkin and Armand Isard and the Senators? The Episode III novel isn't really specific beyond this one passage.

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"Have you considered," Ki-Adi-Mundi said carefully, from faraway Mygeeto, "that if Palpatine refuses to surrender power, removing him is only a first step?"

Mace looked at the blue ghost of the Cerean Master. "I am not a politician. Removing a tyrant is enough for me."

"But it will not be enough for the Republic," Ki-Adi-Mundi countered sadly. "Palpatine's dictatorship has been legitimized— and can be legalized, even enshrined in a revised Constitution—by the supermajority he controls in the Senate."

The grim future inside Mace's head turned even darker. The Cerean was right.

"Filled with corruption, the Senate is," Yoda agreed from Kashyyyk. "Controlled, they must be, until replaced the corrupted Senators can be, with Senators honest and—"

"Do you hear us?" Mace lowered his head into his hands.

"How have we come to this? Arresting a Chancellor. Taking over the Senate—! It's as though Dooku was right—to save the Republic, we'll have to destroy it..."

Yoda lifted his head, and his eyes slitted as though he struggled with some inner pain. "Hold on to hope we must; our true enemy, Palpatine is not, nor the Senate; the true enemy is instead the Sith Lord Sidious, who controls them both. Once destroyed Sidious is... all these other concerns, less dire they will instantly become."

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Keep up the good work!

I have honestly no idea of how they would handle it. In my headcanon, Mace would probably just give himself up, confess, explain his reasoning and hope it doesn't backfire on the Jedi.

That's the brilliance of Palpatine's plan. He won the 4D chess match before the Jedi even realized they were not playing checkers.

At that point the only thing the Jedi could do was damage control.

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Hello there!

I saw your blog and as a Jedi fan, I had to give you a follow. 😊

I am just curious, are you a member of this community? - Defenders of the Jedi | Tumblr Communities - if not maybe you can join? I just thought I'd help another Jedi fan out. 🙂

No, I'm not. But I'll probably join. Thanks.

I'm glad you're enjoying my content, it makes me really happy to share something I love with people!

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Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the explanation.

My main issue with Mandalorians in Legends is how nothing they do is treated as wrong in most cases, and in the cases it is fandom will glorify or victimize them (looking at you, Galindraan). The best word I have to describe them in English is frustrating. The dissonance between canon and fanon is headache inducing sometimes (mainly because people seem to believe it's canon when… it's not).

In five millennia, the Mandalorians fought with and against a thousand armies on a thousand worlds. They learned to speak as many languages and absorbed weapons technology and tactics from every war. And yet, despite the overwhelming influence of alien cultures, and the absence of a true homeworld and even species, their own language not only survived but changed little, their way of life and their philosophy remained untouched, and their ideals and sense of family, of identity, of nation, were only strengthened.

Mando'a, wookiepedia.

What kind of utter bullshit is this? This is impossible. Languages are in constant change, and even more so when they interact with others! That's how Spanish, Italian, French, and many others were born from Latin! How German, English and Swedish were born too!

I'm not a linguist so my knowledge of how languages work is limited, but I know this: language is in a constant state of change. I know there are words that are less than four decades old in English.

My own first language has had over a dozen words created in the past two decades. Many of them come from English, or were created for the Internet, and most of our words come from three or four different languages.

My country has many words used exclusively in certain regions. We like to joke about how difficult it is to learn our language, since so many words have multiple meanings and others only exist in limited places. There are over four regions where language is concerned, all of them with different accents and words exclusive to their respective region.

Languages and cultures don't exist in a vacuum, they are formed thanks to experiences and changes communities go through. Interacting with people from different backgrounds is how Ancient Greek philosophy was born! And that philosophy has shaped the whole Western world!

Nuclear family, despite being seen as the norm, is less than a century old. America's (the continent, America is a continent, US is the country) independance happened in recent memory as far as history is concerned, less than two centuries ago (the movement started in the early 19th cetury, but its main points were the 1870's and the 1890's, and it finished in 1898 when Spain's last two colonies gained their independance). The French Revolution that completely altered Europe's governments happened just a little over two hundred years ago, in 1789. World War II started eighty five years ago, and Hitler rose to power ten years before that. My country has been a democracy for less than fifty years, my parents are older than my country's democracy. The cold war finished in the fucking late 1980's. The "schools" in Canada that were used to forcibly convert/assimilate First Nation children were active until the last one closed in the 1990's.

This is just a very small glance at what has happened in the west (which I'm more familiar with, since I'm western) in the past two centuries.

If we have changed so much in just two hundred years, it's impossible that Mandalorians have remained the exact same in five, fucking, thousand.

And the most stupid for the end:

Nation: a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.

If Mandalorians don't have a planet to call their own, they are not a nation.

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Eh, guys? You do know you can like morally wrong characters, right? Like you have a right to your opinion and If you like the Jedi better, go for it! But it's not wrong to like the evil characters better

Wow. Just when I thought reading comprehension couldn't get any worse.

Yeah, of course people can like the Sith for aesthetic reasons. Of course people can like the Sith more than the Jedi. I'm not here to tell them they can't, I have no right to dictate what people enjoy or don't enjoy.

Fandom: I like the Sith better than the Jedi.

Self explanatory, really.

Canon/Logical Brain: Because of the sexy evil aesthetic, right?

I wrote it. Explicitly. Twice. People can like the Sith more than the Jedi for aesthetic reasons no problem. I have made posts about liking the Sith, because I do enjoy them as villains.

Fandom: *cricket noises*

It's not because of the sexy evil aesthetic. People genuinely believe the Sith are better as in more good than the Jedi. Considering the very nazi and fascist inspiration of the Sith (their Code is paraphrased from Mein Kampf), it's fucking concerning and terrifying.

I can't believe I actually had to write this.

Fandom: I think the Sith are better than the Jedi.

Canon/Logical Brain: Because of the sexy evil aesthetic, right?

Fandom:

Canon/Logical Brain: Because of the sexy evil aesthetic, right?

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Kind of a vaguely tangential to Jedi meta comparison for you - I've been reading a lot of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels recently. It's canon in Discworld that wizards don't have sex or marry. The sex thing is partly bc an active sex life makes it hard to care about and practice magic. It's also implied that performing magic can be as good as sex anyway. In The Light Fantastic, Rincewind performs magic successfully for the first time: "Magic! So that's what it felt like! No wonder wizards didn't have much truck with sex!" In Mort, Wizard Cutwell hooks up with Queen Keli and implicitly never really does magic again. The no marriage thing is bc magic can be hereditary, and if a wizard who is the youngest of eight sons then himself fathers eight sons, the eighth runs a risk of being a sourcerer, a being of godlike magical power (Sourcery)

I basically thought it was an interesting point of comparison to the Jedi bc it's kind of just a fact in Discworld canon that wizards are celibate by choice and live exclusively in single sex communities (though that gets challenged as early as the third book in the series, Equal Rites), and no fans really freak out over it, or talk about how the Unseen University was wrong for having such restrictions. It's not a 1:1 obv, bc Pratchett was writing comedy, but clearly some fandoms can handle the idea of people living monastically and asexually for supernatural power reasons. Maybe celibate academic spiritual communities are only good for making fun of. Idk.

I haven't read any of the Discworld novels, but there is something similar going on with the Avatar (the last airbender not the one with blue people) fandom.

Air Nomads are inspired by Buddhist monks just like the Jedi (although the Jedi have a heavier philosophical inspiration). Air Nomads give their children to the Temples, children are raised communally and they are given to a mentor when they reach a certain age so they can learn airbending. Likewise, the Air Nomads focus not on obtaining earthly pleasures but spiritual enlightenment. Their similarities with the Jedi are stunning, but the hypocresy that gets me is:

If I posted an anti-Jedi argument with the names swapped about the Air Nomads, I would be skinned alive.

And the Air Nomads have more "shady" things than the Jedi going on! We have seen in all three other nations that not everyone is a bender and meanwhile all Air Nomads are airbenders? How is that possible? Do they commit eugenics or something? This is probably poor worldbuilding on the creators part, but still, easier to have bad faith interpretations.

And yeah, if sex does impact your magic negatively, it makes perfect sense that you'd either have no magic or be celibate. And if magic is as good as sex? Count me in, goodbye sex you won't be missed.

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There is a pro Sith tag on Tumblr. Also an "anti Jedi apologists" one.

Fandom: I think the Sith are better than the Jedi.

Canon/Logical Brain: Because of the sexy evil aesthetic, right?

Fandom:

Canon/Logical Brain: Because of the sexy evil aesthetic, right?

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Fandom: I think the Sith are better than the Jedi.

Canon/Logical Brain: Because of the sexy evil aesthetic, right?

Fandom:

Canon/Logical Brain: Because of the sexy evil aesthetic, right?

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Not to attack anyone or hate on actually valid takes, but a lot of you project your problems with real life religions/religious organizations into the Jedi and criticize them for things that they NEVER did.... Like babe, the Jedi never did that, the catholics did.

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Have you started Happy Ever After Are Earned Not Given Yet? If you haven’t, you need to check it out.

No I haven't. Thank you for the recommendation!

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Me when someone tells me Grey Jedi are cool, and should be canon:

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

GUYS LOOK I FINALLY GOT OBI-WAN!!!!

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This one friend of mine thought that the Prequel Trilogy should have been less black and white than the Original Trilogy because it dealt with politics. What do you think of that?

An idea is to have things start out black and white like in the OT, but make the Republic more morally ambiguous as time goes on. The PT is, after all, a story about how a democracy becomes a dictatorship.

But the Separatists should always be completely evil, because 1. Star Wars is for kids, 2. it makes the narrative simpler and shorter (the Prequels are packed enough as it is) and 3. Palpatine would want the Separatists to be enough of a threat for innocent bystanders that the Jedi saw no option but to join the war.

In the end, I think the Prequels are already very good as they are, and handling gray morality is very difficult even in the best of stories. There are many stories that could benefit from gray morality, but Star Wars isn't one of them.

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“I am a mother of three—Mohammed, Rami, and Julia—struggling to survive in Gaza. My husband left for Egypt to work before the war, leaving us to face death and hunger alone. We fled our home under bombing, but nowhere is safe. Julia’s chest allergy has worsened from the smoke, and I cannot ease her pain. My children are starving, and I am helpless. All I dream of is reaching safety with them, to reunite with their father and give them a chance at life. Please, help me save my children.”

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