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As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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Happy 50k!! Are there any newer star wars characters (like post 2022) that have caught your eye or your ire?

many have caught my ire but one... one very special baby sonboy has caught my eye.... yes it's him. my GOAT...

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@dinlukeweek day 6: Hiding Injuries / Luke and Din on a Tatooine mission

slightly different reception on tatooine missions than in the rest of the galaxy

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thoughts on Vel and Cinta?

god i LOVE them such a brilliant dynamic such brilliant characters, honestly my only criticism of s2 is that cinta needed like. way more screentime

actually wait i changed my mind my REAL criticism is that when they kissed, the director clearly forgot the most important thing you have to have in a star wars gay kiss scene

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Incorrect Star Wars quotes

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Luke Skywalker - the Rebel soldier (ESB novellization)

Luke's characterization in ESB differs from ANH due to passage of time. Three years passed since he's destroyed the Death Star. He's not the same dreaming, inexperienced farmboy, but instead became an experienced soldier and a Rebel commander. I think that change in Luke is often overlooked, because of his friendly attitude towards other Rebels in the movie, but the novellization makes it very clear.

Luke was well-known on the base and, although barely twenty-three years old, he was addressed as Commander Skywalker by other Rebel warriors. The title made him feel a bit uncomfortable. Nonetheless, he was already in the position of giving orders to a band of seasoned soldiers. So much had happened to Luke and he had changed a great deal. Luke, himself, found it hard to believe that only three years ago he was a wide-eyed farm boy on his home world of Tatooine.

Luke is respected and has authority in the Rebellion now. The difference between the old and new Luke is further shown by his interaction with Dack.

Luke turned and hurried over to his snowspeeder. When he reached it, Dack, his fresh-faced young gunner, was standing outside the ship waiting for him. “How are you feeling, sir?” Dack asked enthusiastically. “Like new, Dack. How about you?” Dack beamed. “Right now I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself.” “Yeah,” Luke said quietly, “I know what you mean.” Though there were only a few years between them, at that moment Luke felt centuries older.

Dack is the greenhorn here, enthusiastic to fight the Empire, feeling invincible. He is exactly like Luke was in ANH. In comparison, the current Luke feels "centuries older" because of his experience. He was at war for 3 years, he's dedicated to the cause but he's not so rose-coloured as before.

Luke saw the explosion of his squadron’s first casualty as he looked from his cockpit window. Angrily, Luke fired his ship’s guns at a walker, only to receive a hail of Imperial fire power that shook his speeder in a barrage of flak.

I like how the novellization is so explicit about Luke's dark emotions. He reacts like a normal person in these situations. He's a soldier fighting a war and so he quite often feels anger and fear. Yoda is completely right when he hesitates to train Luke because of his strong negative feelings. Luke isn't a cinnamon roll that never gets angry. He has plenty of reasons to feel that way.

As Luke soared up and away from the walker, he looked back. “That armor is too strong for blasters,” he thought. “There must be some other way of attacking these horrors; something other than fire power.” For a moment Luke thought of some of the simple tactics a farm boy might employ against a wild beast. Then, turning his snowspeeder for yet another run against the walkers, he made a decision. “Rogue group,” he called into his comlink, “use your harpoons and tow cables. Go for the legs. It’s our only hope of stopping them. Hobbie, are you still with me?”

Luke is actually a really good, effective commander in battle. I like how he can think outside of the box here and quickly find a way to fight the walkers. He takes inspiration from his past experiences as a farmboy. That's a very neat continuity in his characterization.

Luke saw the disintegration and was sickened by the loss of yet another friend. But he couldn’t let himself dwell on his grief, especially now when so many other lives depended on his steady leadership.

Luke feels responsibility as a commander. Other Rebels depend on him. He has to master his emotions, like grief, so he could fulfill his duty as a leader. I say he already has makings of a Jedi in this aspect. This also ties with his portrayal in the movie. He doesn't show these negative emotions, because he needs to be an effective leader and keep up the morale. His subordinates rely on him, so he can't lose it in front of them.

Luke had not realized just how enormous these four-legged horrors were until, unprotected by the shelter of his craft, he saw one up close. Then he remembered Dack and returned to try and pull his friend’s lifeless form from the wrecked speeder. But Luke had to give up. The body was too tightly wedged in the cockpit, and the walker was now almost upon him. Braving the flames, Luke reached into his speeder and grabbed the harpoon gun.

Luke barely knew Dack but he still regarded him as a friend and went back for his dead body despite the danger. The symbolism of Dack as someone who was just like younger Luke, but died in his first battle can't be understated. This could have been Luke at anytime. The battles are chaotic and he's just a guy without any Jedi training. He survives thanks to skill, some luck and his friends' help.

There's also some nice contrast between Luke and Vader. Luke cares about his rebel friends, trusts them and is trusted in return (no one questions his orders), protects them and is willing to sacrifice himself for them. Vader is the opposite - he doesn't have friends, only underlings he doesn't care about, he kills them for failure, rules them through fear and isn't trusted by them (Ozzel questions him outloud and Piett in his thoughts). Luke going back for Dack's body reminds me that he acted similarly in ROTJ when he didn't leave Anakin's body behind. Luke dragged his father to the shuttle and after his death took him to the planet and gave him a funeral.

He gazed at the advancing mechanical behemoth and suddenly had an idea. He reached back inside the cockpit of the speeder and groped for a land mine attached to the ship’s interior. With a great effort he stretched his fingers and firmly grasped the mine. Luke leaped away from his vehicle just as the towering machine lifted a massive foot and planted it firmly on the snowspeeder, crushing it flat. [...] He climbed up to the machine’s hull where he had observed a small hatch. Quickly cutting it open with his laser sword, Luke pulled open the hatch, threw in the land mine, and made a rapid descent along the cable. As he reached the end, Luke dropped hard onto the snow and became unconscious; his inert body was nearly crushed by one of the walker’s hind feet.

Luke's insane, almost suicidal actions to destroy the walker with a landmine show even more about him. He knows the danger, he sees other Rebels dying around him, but that doesn't stop him. The way he jumps into action here makes me think that he's been doing life-threatening stunts like that regularly as a Rebel. He doesn't even think about self-preservation. Frankly, I don't think he ever fears death, based on this and ROTJ. When the ultimatum is "join or die", he chooses death. He fears losing his friends more which motivates him to go to Bespin or attack Vader on the Death Star II when Leia is threatened.

All in all, I think Luke's characterization in ESB as a Rebel soldier seems like a natural progression from who he was in ANH. Han still calls him "kid" as a nickname, but that naive farmboy is gone. Luke went to war, gained experience and became a respected commander. At the same time, he didn't forget his roots and is upholding his principles that made him a Rebel and would later guide him on his path as a Jedi.

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I don’t think I’ll ever get over renowned Star Wars Author Timothy Zahn, creator of Mara Jade and MFING THRAWN looking me dead in the eyes mid conversation and asking:

“can I tell you one of my headcanons?”

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The ocean is NOT a soup, a soup doesnt have ingredients that are still alive

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Something I loved about Andor 2.09 "Welcome to the Rebellion" was the focus on the senate security measures: all those shots of the scanners and badge checks and armed guards. When they're first introduced, we see them staged in the way such measures would appear in many real-world settings, with the purported aim of keeping the senate safer. But of course right away we see them fail to screen out a visitor with designs on Mon Mothma's life, because the would-be assassin is a state agent, sent by the ISB. And soon after that we see state agents arrest another senator, Dasi Oran, right outside the senate chambers, exerting their power to declare a former representative of the Empire a persona non grata. By the time Mon Mothma's escaping with Cassian, the security measures have become threats of violence rather than shields against it, which was true all along. The carceral apparatus of the security state is there not to protect its citizens but to impose disciplinary checkpoints at which citizens can have that status stripped from them.

This strikes me as one of the ways Andor registers the effects of the Imperial boomerang. The arrest orders once issued against "Kenari male" Cassian Andor are now aimed at the Chandrilan senator he's escorting, as technology developed to police the colonies is turned against the interior. The manhandling of Ghorman Senator Oran is staged as fascist muscle-memory: moves that stormtroopers practiced in "frontier" places like the Ferrix square get redeployed in Palmo Square against Ghorman protestors and then redeployed at the heart of the Empire against one of its own former representatives. Those rendered marginal by the state cannot identify themselves as in possession of legal rights in any way that matters, and the state is always redrawing the margins.

Your people will be next, yes, and also, many other people were first.

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Listening to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 soundtrack

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Adaption 4 (2025)

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thinking abt the skywalkers apart au again <3

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Just another Thrawn-based reaction image for y‘all to use

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Cassian and Melsh: we're going to imperial controlled Coruscant on a suicide mission to save someone actively being hunted by the ISB

K2SO:

Cassian and Melshi:

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doodle for my friend who put himself through rewatching TROS