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shot composition that makes you insane

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Nick Gillard, the Revenge of the Sith choreographer, on how he wrote the Obi-Wan vs Anakin fight in a 2019 interview. He’s described it in these terms before, that he wrote it as a fight between a romantic couple, in that:  “My take on the whole duel was that Obi-Wan is the central character in that duel. He wouldn’t try and kill Anakin. The way I saw that fight was like having a fight with your girlfriend. That she’s just lost it and that she’s coming at you with everything she’s got. […] So you try to defend her as long as you can until she breaks down. Then you can give her a cuddle.“ Obviously he doesn’t mean it literally and I think that goes hand in hand with how I don’t think Anakin saw Obi-Wan as having a sexual affair with Padme, but instead one more of loyalty, but also that there is a strong element of how Obi-Wan and Anakin’s relationship is one that’s of partners, and that I very strongly do see Anakin’s feelings on this being a complicated, tangled mess that aren’t just platonic or just romantic, they’re a jumble of a bunch of different things. Even more importantly is how the entire fight is structured around that Obi-Wan didn’t want this, that he was doing everything he could to give Anakin time to come to his senses, that that was the mindset Obi-Wan want into this fight with and one of the biggest narrative takeaways of this part of the story.  That nothing Obi-Wan could have done (or Padme, for that matter) could have changed this, because Anakin had the time to come back, he had people reaching their hands out to him, that Padme literally begged him to run away with her, that Obi-Wan tried to talk him down/didn’t go at him with full force because he was trying to get Anakin back. But Anakin is so stuck on the idea that anything less than full agreement with him and what he wants to do, is a betrayal, that they’ve gone behind his back despite that there’s no real evidence for this, other than that they had a conversation one time he wasn’t in the room (which was about him, as Padme told him), and that Obi-Wan came with Padme to Mustafar. That Anakin cannot see that both of these people are entirely about him, that they love him and want him to come back, shows just what the dark side does.  It doesn’t make anyone happy, instead it lies and divides and inflicts nothing but suffering, when it’s embraced like this.  Despite all evidence to the contrary, Anakin couldn’t see how much they loved him. And he’s so enraged by a perceived betrayal, from Padme, but also from Obi-Wan, that it’s looked at as being like an affair, that the writing for this fight is centered around that concept and the sense of hurt and fury that comes with it, showing that Obi-Wan and Anakin being the climax of this movie and, in a lot of ways, this entire trilogy, is there for a reason.

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Been thinking about Grogu a bit recently, and isn’t it weird that he can’t talk?

He seems to be developmentally around toddler age in Book of Boba Fett/Mando Season 3; he can walk, he can perform complex motor functions like jumping, flipping, and balancing on one leg, and he can effectively communicate with his assistive device. He is able to make noises—you can hear him making cooing sounds in his training montage with Luke—but he doesn’t ever try to speak, or even communicate verbally. We never see/hear him trying to form words, he doesn’t scream or cry, and he never babbles.

Which is fucking weird, for a baby. Babies are literally wired for language comprehension and learning; it’s one of the main things their brains do. Learning to communicate verbally is a vital stage of infancy/early childhood, and it starts only a few months after birth. Babies, infants, and toddlers, unless they have some kind of speech-language disorder or other disability, are constantly talking.

So Grogu should absolutely be talking throughout the Mandalorian, even if he’s just babbling. But Grogu’s not a Human child; while most of the species in Star Wars function more or less like Humans with superficial differences, we famously know nothing about his species, and thus can’t really assume that human standards apply.

And once you think about it, there’s good evidence that human standards around speech don’t apply. One of the only things we know about his species is that they struggle to speak normally. Both Yoda and Yaddle, the two members of his species that we’ve seen in canon, have an extremely distinctive speech disorder, consistently misordering words and phrases.

So, given this common difficulty and Grogu’s unusual lack of speech, it seems entirely plausible that the species as a whole might have language difficulties. Maybe their brains, unlike Human brains, just aren’t wired for verbal communication. They can do it, eventually, but it doesn’t come naturally to them.

However, it does seem like they might be wired for a different kind of communication: telepathy. Immediately upon meeting Luke and Ahsoka, two Jedi who are not telepaths and who don’t communicate using only the Force very often, Grogu is able to have full conversations with them. He’s not just relaying sensations or feelings, like we most commonly see with mind-to-mind communication in Star Wars, but actual words and sounds (see: him telling Ahsoka his name).

That’s not super common in Star Wars. Most Jedi don’t hold full conversations telepathically, yet Grogu’s able to converse like that extremely easily 30 years after the last time he could’ve conceivably talked to anyone in that manner. He seems naturally very good at mental communication, something that we can see from very early on in the series: one of the first things we see him do in Season 1 is use a primitive kind of Beast Control, a form of telepathic communication, to hold the Mudhorn in place (there’s definitely some telekinesis going on too, but he holds up his hand like Jedi do when communicating with animals, so I’m guessing he’s using both to keep it from moving).

Additionally, every single member of Grogu’s species is a Jedi/is Force-sensitive (and I believe this goes for Legends too, where there’s more of them), and extremely Force-sensitive at that. It seems quite likely that they would all be able to communicate through the Force, and given their difficulties with verbal speech, it’s probably their preferred form of communication.

That would also explain why Grogu, who at the time would’ve been developmentally a newborn (aka way younger than the 1-3 year olds the Jedi generally seem to adopt), was in the temple during Order 66. His species doesn’t seem to be very common, and the Jedi are the only other large culture that could communicate with him in his native mental language.

Because kids absolutely need some kind of language in order to develop normally, Grogu’s people might generally give their kids to the Order. This could be another reason Grogu is so slow to develop throughout the Mandalorian, and starts advancing much quicker after he interacts with Ahsoka and Luke: he’s been deprived of his natural language for most of his formative years.

Not sure how to end this, it’s just a thought that I had that kept on making more and more sense as I kept thinking about it

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Two Young

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Rebel

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Quinlan: Isn't he supposed to be a twenty years old femboy who likes lingerie?..

Obi-Wan: Come on, a twenty years old femboy wouldn't be able to afford lacy panties for 200€.

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Love love love this little guy

Ref under the cut

Ref:

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i think he’s pretty 😔

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I love how you draw Anakin in these frilly little outfits 🙏🙏🙏 he looks so good in them, I wanna steal his gender (and his incredible hair)

Thank you!

Here is Anakin in another frilly little outfit for you.

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Colored pencil scribbles with Clone Wars gang, later added some digital colors.

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Nasty behavior in question: had a fight with a manager over inadequate project schedule and called him a tree stump with eyes.

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everything is fine.

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Mixed media (Watercolor, alcohol marker, gel pen, and colored pencil) Kanan and Hera J.C. Leyendecker study original under the cut

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"How long can I stay?" "A hour." "Are you kidding?"

ANDOR S02E05 I Have Friends Everywhere