#sw salt

[phantom-of-the-keurig]

“Unmmmm there’s NO evidence Kamino CULLED clones who were different that would be MEAN and no clones were decommissioned it doesn’t exist!!”

Begging y’all to think before you speak please 😭 these are direct screenshots from the canon wiki, and I even have the actual source book where these come from

[intermundia]

friend texted me this and im dying. why on earth would the global south play as those fighting back against imperialism?? and the global north enjoy playing out imperialist fantasies?? i’m sure there’s no implications to this whatsoever

[short-wooloo]

LET. GRAHAM HAMILTON. PLAY. YOUNG. LUKE SKYWALKER!

[imfromthemiddlekingdom]

Felony saying that everyone in the universe can access the force if they tried hard enough makes me want to deck him in his fugly face

He’s ruining all established canon in real time. Speed running the absolute destruction of continuity of the SW universe and people are still rooting for him and his blorbo self inserts like there’s no tomorrow. Literally the whole reason I no longer engage in Ashoka content is because he massacred my girl and made her so one dimensional that my Mary Sue self insert fanfics OCs I wrote when I was 14 looks well developed compared to the absolute bland “girlboss kick ass take names” personality Ashoka has right now.

There were so many opportunities for him to explore the absolute potential of angst and conflict within Ashoka in this new series, to give her character a believable story of grief loss and growth yet he threw it all away because he wanted his OC to be the specialist girl that ever lived. This series could’ve been used to explore Ashokas conflicting feelings regarding the Anakin that taught her and was a mentor to her whilst trying to connect it to the monster that killed her family and hunted her culture into almost extinction and tried to kill her, a person he confessed to love as a sister, on Malachor. It could’ve been a good send off to a great character, to have her face that the Skyguy she put on a pedestal in her mind was in actuality the worst sort of scum and have her try to come to terms that just because she can forgive him for being the genocidal maniac he was and still hold love in her heart for who he used to be and also understand why the Jedi, her family, wasn’t the reason for their own downfall.

But alas. We got another series of “the Jedi caused their own downfall!!! Anakin did nothing wrong ever and him killing all my family and everyone I’ve ever known is so not his fault!!! It’s definitely the fault of the unbending stuck in the past council!!!”. Instead of a series that could’ve made Ashoka’s “departure” (literally never going to happen with felony at the helm, he’s going to find a way to make her immortal and then show up 200 years in the future to be the protagonist of another light v dark fight since she’s his special SI) from the series tie in nicely thematically and canonically with every other Star Wars media we have, he decided that the best way to have this series go down is 1) everyone is force sensitive if they tried hard enough ig and 2) the Jedi were bad!!! Their protocols don’t work! They were mean to my little meow meow Anakin Skywalker the greatest Jedi of all times™️ therefore he got to kill them all!!!!

Got a bit off topic but I’m still so mad that he had this chance to make Ashoka truly experience growth like the first 5 seasons of TCW yet he decided maintaining the badass rebel without a cause aesthetics for her was more important then good story telling.

Honestly though, my main problem with this series is that he decided that apparently everyone in the universe can be force sensitive if they “just tried hard enough”. Like your Midichlorian Count no longer matters since even if you were Force-Null you can still be special!!!!

This takes away any and all urgency in the Jedi Fallen Order games. It makes Cals journey absolutely redundant. It throws away all the tragedy contained in having inquisitors being force sensitive kids kidnapped from their parents and tortured till they give into the dark side. If all beings are able to use the force in his universe then there are no consequences to the inquisitors not finding the Holocron that holds the names to all force sensitive children in the universe. There would be no need to them to chase Cal and the Mantis Crew throughout the universe to obtain what they have. They could’ve just went down to any random level in Coruscant and take homeless Force-Null kids and train them.

Even better! It makes the entirety of the KOTOR games redundant!!!! Oh and I guess the hidden path is also redundant since everyone can be force sensitive and no one truly needs more saving from the empire over others :/ totally not like these kids that were saved by the path would’ve been taken and tortured into inquisitors, definitely not since EVERYONE is force sensitive nowadays or is it just the ones Ashoka trains herself because she’s the “living embodiment of the daughter uwu she’s so special and unique look how well she can train a non force sensitive to be force sensitive!!!”

Everyone in the Star Wars universe has Midichlorian’s in their blood. That is a fact. It is also an established fact that the amount each person has is different and is not determined nor dependent on lineage. Force-Nulls typically range in the 1000-3000 count and you need 7000 to be force sensitive and higher to be accepted into the order. (The order isn’t the end all be all of force cultures, Rouge One shows that Jedha’s force culture isn’t restricted to only force sensitives as the Guardian’s were never specified to be only a religious order of force sensitives. And high canon doesn’t depict many other force cultures but we know that there are many force cultures in the universe that co-exist with the Jedi with which the Jedi weren’t in opposition towards; literally not even the witches of Dathomir were oppositions anywhere outside of the battle fields.) You don’t need to be force sensitive to be part of a force culture (Jedha literally has pilgrims who come far and wide to make a pilgrimage to the holy site and not all of them were force sensitive), Sabine could’ve very easily been taught the tenets of the Jedi without retconning her to be force sensitive or making everyone in the universe force sensitive.

No where in either the EU or High Canon did anyone ever say that you have to be force sensitive to be a badass or to make a difference. Hera did not hold the title of the best pilot in the universe just for some rat of a man to come and say that Anakin was the best because *muh force sensitivity!!!!* Some of the most heroic and most influential (good or bad) people in the franchise are Force-Null! And that’s great! It means that the force doesn’t make anyone better than anyone else! It’s a quirk of the universe! To retcon that everyone can and is force sensitive if they tried hard enough is literally cheapening everything the franchise stands for. Andor did not literally give us an entire story about how Force-Nulls in the Galaxy makes just as much of a difference as force sensitives for felony to come out and say that “you know what??? Midichlorian’s are a scam! You get a force sensitivity! You get a force sensitivity! Everyone gets a force sensitivity!!!!”

Sabine was great as she was in rebels, why cheapen it with “oh she’s actually force sensitive all this time!!!” When we could’ve stuck with badass Force-Null Mandalorian can kick your ass five ways to Sunday with her paint bombs and blasters you force wielding asshole!!! Like why even do that felony. Do you want people to hate her??? Nvm ofc you do, you need Ashoka to be the best in every way possible even if it means ruining every other beloved character in this franchise👍

[benkenobee]

Look I totally get how Obi-Wan and Anakin/Vader are intertwined as characters, that they’re “two halves of one warrior” and “the only person who can hate you so much is one that loved you deeply as well” and stuff, but complaining about how Vader is getting sidelined in a show titled Obi-Wan Kenobi??? It’s likelier than you think.

Also did we not just see the “tell me it’s a force dyad without telling me it’s force dyad” bacta tank scene?????

[aces-to-apples]

one of the many writing fuckups surrounding the nightsisters is that they clearly tried to make an OwO Vewwy Scawwy Matwiarchy but all they managed was prototypical Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss (derogatory) and Political Lesbianism In Space

[surprisegents]

man i wish i could be excited about thrawn (looks at the steaming mess that was the book of boba fett) (watches mando s3 fold in on itself) (knows disney hates paying author royalties) (observes the graveyard of screenwriters that have quit the movies) (sees legends plots recycled after they deemed it non-canon so they can just regurgitate the plots for more money) (remembers how awful the grand inquisitor's makeup was)

[ilummoss]

The Wrong Jedi arc is some of the most frustrating writing of The Clone Wars, because what happens onscreen and what some characters (+the narrative) says happened does not match up. Which makes me wonder why they didn’t just write it so that it did??

[everyfandom-girl]

Where the "Kenobi" series says "look! The old white man oppressors from the 70s! Remember them? Well because you love diversity, the fascists can be a black woman now!"...

..."Andor", in contrast, starts out with a big flashing neon ACAB sign, police brutality, the oppressing class does not need a tragic backstory when they have the conviction they are right, the show is three episodes in and I trust it to feel grounded already,.,

[phantom-of-the-keurig]

Because media comprehension and critical thinking is so dead I hope bad batch season 3 has a scene where Dave Filoni, in animated form, walks into frame with a chair where he then sits down and makes direct eye contact with the viewer as he says, “This next scene was directly influenced by the current day veteran crisis and the difficulties many ex-military members face while trying to integrate back into the civilian world. In fact, many of the themes and stories within the bad batch are reflections of what many service members experience, told through a Star Wars lens-”

And I hope he doesn’t blink once the entire time

[intermundia]

filoni is so weird about the jedi. he just is. i could probably speculate about why for ages but it's unimportant, the result is such a strange mix of adoration of their aesthetic and their powers, both in and out of combat, mixed with bad faith interpretation of their philosophy, and almost lazy, facile criticism of the order. he both wants the jedi in his stories, but he also wants to criticize them, to have the best parts about them, the superficial and flashy parts, without the difficult eastern philosophy and monasticism. he loves individual jedi, but he does not love the order. it's like he feels entitled to play around with the jedi's legacy without respecting who they were and why they died. he wants all of the sugar without any of the medicine, and it shows lmao

[short-wooloo]

Unless new actors (Graham Hamilton, Billie Lourd, Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover) are cast in the roles, I do not want the ot characters to appear in ahsoka or filoni's heir to the empire movie, you have actors who can fill the roles perfectly, cast them if you want those characters, but do not use cgi puppet ai voice deep fakes who can't even emote, if not then leave them out of it

[imfromthemiddlekingdom]

I am going to refuse to engage in any content felony makes. I am not going to engage in media that makes me angry. I am not going to punch him in his stupid fugly face if I ever meet him irl because that will be assult and I do not want to go to jail. He deserves it but I will not jeopardize my own freedom to take him down a peg. Fucker needs to wake up and read the source material. The universe is not your sandbox to play with Dave. Write fanfics like the rest of us if you want an ultra op girlboss that will willingly ignore the atrocities her master committed because she is too busy blaming the council for her own actions during the wrong jedi arc.

[krownest]

mandalorian rose tico. we could have had it all

[benkenobee]

They had the Great Purge of Mandalore right there. RIGHT. THERE. Like would it not have been interesting if Sabine had to contend with the past and current active destruction of her people and culture. Just a thought y'all.

[cabdane]

“filler” have you ever touched a book