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sexy as hell

Sometimes I forget just how much gymnastics is involved in lightsaber fighting

Like

Obi-wan is dodging sabers with a kick up…sick as hell.

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Gap moe

I really love characters who give false first impression. I mean like... Obi-Wan, for example. At first glance he is super nice and distinguished Jedi Master, he is The Negotiator. But actually he is unhinged dude who jumps from skyscraper window, stubs someone with a fork and flirts with his enemies (while being distinguished Jedi Master, of course).

Amazing character! 10/10!

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“but—but—mace windu was soooo mean to anakin🥺🥺he didn’t let him be a master🥺🥺”

buddy I wouldn’t care if mace windu hit anakin with a chair.

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"Anakin tries so hard"

Does he though?

Is he trying really hard when he spends the entirety of AOTC refusing to accept it when Padme says no and keeps making moves on her instead?

Is he trying really hard when he abandons Padme mid-mission before her assassins have been found because she's really put her foot down about not being in a relationship with him?

Is he trying really hard when he murders all of the Tuskens, hunting them down one by one, down to the last child?

Is he trying really hard when he blames Obi-Wan for what happened to Shmi?

Is he trying really hard when he marries Padme anyway at the end of the film?

Is he trying really hard when he spends the next three years doing nothing but lying to the Jedi about all of the oaths/rules he's broken?

Is he trying really hard when he keeps abandoning his own responsibilities to go play house with Padme in the middle of a war?

Is he trying really hard when he can't even show up on time to his own student's assessment, refuses to praise her for how well she did, and then secretly forces her to undergo his own abusive assessment?

Is he trying really hard when he teaches his student that it's totally okay and even PREFERRED to lie to the Council instead of questioning them openly?

Is he trying really hard when he parrots Jedi phrases at his student when he so clearly doesn't believe any of them and certainly doesn't apply any of them to himself?

Is he trying really hard when he demands that his wife obey him on everything simply because he is her husband?

Is he trying really hard when he nearly beats a man to death in front of his wife as a punishment for her because he thinks she MAY have been unfaithful to him (she wasn't)?

Is he trying really hard when he accepts a promotion through pure cronyism and then throws a tantrum because people don't like that he got a position on pure cronyism rather than earning it through his own merit?

Is he trying really hard when he refuses to accept any criticism towards a clearly corrupt politician simply because that politician is the one who got him a promotion through pure cronyism?

Is he trying really hard when he apologizes to his teacher for embarrassing him but not for accepting a position via cronyism and not for mistrusting the people who told him that the clearly corrupt politician was clearly corrupt?

Is he trying really hard when he commits a genocide, murders children, enslaves an entire population, destroys a democracy, and supports the rise of a fascist dictatorship all for selfish greed and power?

Is he trying really hard when he tries to kill his own pregnant wife because she's not happy that he committed a genocide, murdered children, enslaved an entire population, destroyed a democracy, and supported the rise of a fascist dictatorship?

Is he trying really hard when he blames the people he genocided for having caused their own genocide?

Is he trying really hard when he spends the next twenty years continuing to persecute the survivors of the people he genocided and enforce fascism and dictatorship on everyone else?

Is he trying really hard when he intentionally maims his own son to try and force him to become another evil dictatorship along with him?

Because personally that's too many times when he's clearly not trying all that hard for me to feel like he's actually trying all that hard.

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Remember that if you tag your post as "pro jedi", it has to be positive about Jedi, not about bashing a Jedi.

Or at least put the "anti x" or "x critical" tag.

Be respectful

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No, Star Wars is a kid show. That's why children are the protagonists and more competent than they should be. Bc that's what children want to see

Words from George Lucas, creator of Star Wars:

"The movies are for children but [the opinionated fans who want the films to be tough, like Terminator] don't want to admit that." BBC interview, 1999

"I don't think [Phantom Menace is] any more kid-friendly than the other films. When I did the other films, I said, 'Yeah, this is for 12-year-olds. It's a kids' movie.' [...] The Phantom Menace is the perfect title for a film like this one. People forget what the movies actually are. Star Wars is for 12- or 13-year-olds." Starlog Magazine #265, 1999

The people who loved I, II, and III the most were 10- and 12-year-olds. They loved Jar Jar. There was a completely different reaction from the critics, who loved Star Wars when they were 10 years old and wanted to feel the same way about the new films. Twenty years later they never understood that it was a movie for 12-year-olds." The Star Wars Archives: 1999-2005, 2020

It's not a word where things are so desperate that children are forced to act. It's a world where children CAN act. Period. Nothing more, nothing deeper, nothing tragic.

"[Star Wars] is a fairytale." Story conference, transcribed in The Making of Return of the Jedi, 1981

Padmé is not a "doll". She's a competent leader trusted by her people. Everyone follows what she says, and the only who don't are the corrupted Senate and a Sith (+ the evil corporation that hates her personnaly bc she doesn't bend to their will). The idea that Naboo used young girls just to seem superior is stupid and come from nowhere. Don't use your headcanon in this kind of discussion. Be for real.

Jedi don't "stuff" a weapon in children's hands. They trains them to defend themself. Even in real life, some people train children since they're young. Also, the main reason why kids have lightsabers is because of the rule of cool. It's cool to have a lightsaber, so children want to see children protagonists with lightsabers. Nothing deep. At which point does the Jedi kids seems stressed or in danger or pressured to have a lightsaber?

Here Filoni who wanted TCW treatment of Ahsoka to be darker but was stop by George Lucas

I don't care about what's not in the movies or TV series. Didn't read, don't care.

And please, don't respond to this. I will not even read it. You're clearly in a completely different planet of headcanons and other stupidity. You will not change my mind and I will not change yours. Stop making a fool of yourself.

Good bye or I block you

Before anti-jedi scream at them for "putting children in danger", remember that Padmé was FOURTHEEN (14) when she was a QUEEN leading a whole planet and dealing with invasion.

Children are more competent in Star Wars. It's just an universal rule.

At least, Jedi have Masters with the kiddos to protect and teach them

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"No, the Jedi are not pure and virtuous"

Yes they are

"No, the Sith are not inherently evil"

Yes they are

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"No, the Sith are not inherently evil"

Yes they are

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The Jedi serve the same function as a character like Superman: to represent the ideal person/group that may not be actually possible in 'reality' but it's a fantasy we all desperately need.

And seriously, I get it! I get the cynicism that people project onto them. Our real-life religious orders have been historically responsible for such much wickedness and corruption.

But the Jedi are supposed to be an example of what a religious group should be, in that they are consistent with their values, they try to do as much good as possible in their lane, and they consider themselves humble servants of the common people, not their lords (there's a reason Sith proudly call themselves 'lords' as a mark of superiority over others).

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What if, instead of Rex, it was Cody in Rebels?

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Oversaturating current SW media with certain characters leads to these characters becoming annoying, which leads to my disliking them. Mainly it’s about Filoni’s faves Rex and Ahsoka.

Rex seems to be the only really important clone – most action includes him; of course, he survives until the Battle of Endor and fights alongside Luke Skywalker and the Rebels. The others – well, one short cameo in a single episode, and be happy he isn’t killed. WTF happened to Cody? Howzer? Where was Wolffe during the Battle of Endor? What happened to Echo since he wasn’t in Rebels? They could retcon Fox – that’s the guy who isn’t new, but absolutely not explored! But noo, let’s stick to the luckiest clone ever – Rex! Of course, it was him who was de-chipped and didn’t lose his time within the Empire! Of course, it was him who started the Clone rebellion! (btw, what happened to it?) He even has more scenes with Obi-Wan than Cody! Come on, it’s not even logical!

But Rex is at least nice and likable when he’s on screen. And it’s impossible to say the same about Ahsoka.

She was all right in first seasons. Buuut then Filoni and Co HAD TO write the Wrong Jedi arc. Of course, Jedi are so political – it’s clear Anakin was right not to trust them! Of course, Ahsoka becomes the author’s mouthpiece to bash the Jedi. And of course, she continues to bash them 10 years after the Battle of Endor. She’s THE ideal the Jedi should’ve strived to be. Sabine’s attachment to Ezra? Heck yes! Don’t worry, people of our galaxy will make smth up to oppose Thrawn again. Don’t forget about her perfect Master who taught her everything a Jedi should know! Of course, she’s among the greatest Jedi to call for Rey – and quite possibly, still alive by then! And of course, she’ll appear in Rebels to have a cool fight with Vader, in The Mandalorian for cameo sake, she’ll get her own series where she meets her Master again and is even watched by him! Even his children didn’t get such grace.

Not so honorable mention – Bo-Katan Kryze, infamous for her reclaiming Mandalore thrice at least and failing twice of them, hijacking Din Djarin’s series and being portrayed as a perfect Mandalorian Princess (who despises clones, but who cares about them anymore, right, Filoni?) Obviously she’ll appear in an upcoming ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ movie to represent Mandalore (leaving Din the be a shiny babysitter for a main cute comic relief in the face of Grogu).

Seriously, Filoni did with them the same thing that unexperienced ficwriters do – their OCs are the best and most influential ever. Kinda reeks of Mary Sue-ism a bit. I’d think a ‘real writer’ would know better than unprofessional fans and wouldn’t stick his faves everywhere possible up to rewriting the narrative.

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george lucas, remarkably unsubtley, over and over again: the fall of the republic was because of corporate interests interfering with politics and increased complacency with fascist ideas in the face of a manufactured war

everyone, for some reason: so the jedi were the REAL villains because they didn’t get married

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Thinking about how each of TL4J got their lightsaber crystals and how each situation is unique to them, and then there's Din doing his best to get rid of the Darksaber and no one's taking it

i can think of one person who might wanna take it off his hands...

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Repeat after me:

The Jedi taught emotional control, not repression.

The Jedi took kids with parental consent, they did not kidnap them.

The Jedi did not hold people against their will, they could leave the Order at any time.

The Jedi were not "just as bad" as the Sith.

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I'm just gonna say it. Antis are wrong. The Jedi were the heroes and near (if not fully) perfect. Anakin was a whiny bitchbaby who selfishly decided to murder the people who raised him lovingly bc he couldn't bear the thought of giving up his Jedi status inorder to be with Padme. Anakin was wrong, the Jedi were right. End of story.

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The options for TLJ are as follows.

Luke is intended to be wrong about everything he says and the message is that the Jedi are and always were fundamentally good, but he still spends two hours shitting all over a culture that's been completely genocided for decades because he feels guilty about how he invaded his own nephew's mind while he was sleeping and then wanted to kill him for a moment because of how dark said nephew's mind was.

Luke is intended to be RIGHT about the Jedi and he failed specifically because he repeated their mistakes, but he's wrong to have lost hope entirely and realizes by the end that Rey can become a "new source" of light that will only succeed because she'll be different from the old Jedi.

So the options here are either that Luke was character assassinated in such a dramatic way that it's impossible to really pick up on the real message of the movie, or that Luke's storyline WAS intended to be Jedi critical the entire time. Both options suck. Both options completely sidelined Rey in her own story and made her character completely flat and pointless.

I'm sorry, but you cannot convince me that this movie was good or had anything kind to say about the Jedi since it spent the MAJORITY of its runtime talking about how awful the Jedi are and blaming them for everything that's gone wrong in the galaxy, turning one of the most beloved Jedi in the entire franchise into a mean spirited mouthpiece.