#these star wars powerpoint transitions...

[glindaupland]

팬텀 / Y&K Phantom - 내 사랑 (My True Love)

이지혜 Lee Jihye

EMK released a studio recording music video for Phantom with Lee Jihye! ❤️

[korrasamibottles]

Scene transitions I hate you I hate you I hate you tossing you into the fires of Mount Doom

[littledragonkana]

So I am watching Star Wars Episode 1 rn and like. The voices for the different species are a choice.

Why are the...the guys on the ship Qui Gon and Obi Wan are on in the beginning of the movie speaking with a French accent? This implies French exists in the Star Wars universe and its spoken on an entire planet if not a system or more

[cr1ms0n5]

So my sibling and I made a deal years ago where I would watch Star Wars if they watched Avatar: The Last Airbender. Mind you I had already watched Episode I and today we decided to watch Episode II.

So…

SPOILERS FOR STAR WARS MOVIES ESPECIALLY EPISODE II

Yoda: the dark side sees everything

Me: he speaks normal?!

Yoda: impossible to see the future it is

Me: nevermind

*Jar Jar shows up*

Sibling: fucking jar jar

Me: why is hated on so much??

*a few mins later*

Me, for no fucking reason: I don’t know why but fuck u jar jar

*Padmé sleeping gracefully*

Me: who the fuck wants to kill her and why? Aside from the fact she is a senator and- WHY IN THE FUCK IS SHE SLEEPING LIKE THAT??

Sibling: sleeping like she’s one of his French girls

*Chasing killer scene*

Me: is the killer a woman? Girl power, feminism.

Sibling: the bitch tried to kill Padmé??

Me:

Sibling:

Me: Girl power, feminism. She’s standing up against the senate.

Obi-wan: Anakin don’t do anything without consulting me or the council

Sibling: knock Padmé up

Me: consult that with the council first tho

*a PowerPoint like transition happens, I have made several jokes about it*

Sibling: next slide

Me: huh?

Sibling: next slide

Me: okay?

Me:

Me: OH SHIT IT’S A POWERPOINT JOKE!

Sibling: *face palms*

*Anakin meeting his new daddy*

Me: hey u got a daddy

Sibling: he didn’t have one

Me: now he does

Sibling: wanna know who his real daddy is?

Me: *not serious* sure why the fuck not?

Sibling: Palpatine

Me: I’M SORRY-?

*Anakin finds his mom*

Me: she’s gonna die isn’t she?

Sibling: *says nothing*

Me: she’s gonna die for sure

*Shmi fucking DIES*

Me: AYO SHE’S FUCKING DEAD

*Count Dooku and Obi-Wan scene*

Dookie: I wish Qui Gon was still here

Me: DOOKIE BITCH YOU’RE THE REASON HE’S DEAD THO??

*R2 and 3PO arguing*

Me: why is 3PO like an angry wife?

Sibling: there’s fan art of him in a maid outfit

Me: eXcUsE mE-

Me:

Me: why am I so surprised, I use tumblr almost daily?

Padmé: I call it aggressive negotiations

Literally Padmé:

*Yoda coming in clutch like the king he is*

Sibling: Yoda is like a mafia boss

Me: I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THAT!

*Anakin loses his arm*

Me: OMG LIKED DADDY LIKE SON

*Yoda being a badass*

Sibling: *has a Grogu plush*

Me: LOOK IT’S YO DADDY

*Darth Sidious shows up*

Me: that’s fucking Palpatine, Sidious is an alter-ego

Sibling: yeah he’s going through his emo phase

Well that's it, we finished the second movie. When will we watch the rest? Idk and I'm too tired to think of that right now anyways. Goodnight!

[meiloorunn]

the acolyte did stay true to star wars in the purest way possible by incorporating multiple powerpoint style transitions

[valencians]

sex doesn’t exist in star wars. i don’t mean that they’re not allowed to show sex in the movies because of the age rating i mean in-universe, diagetically, watsonianly, there is no sex. people get horny but they don’t understand what they’re horny for so they try to burn the energy off via meditation, bounty hunting, old west saloon shootouts, etc. you can be married and as soon as your wife takes her pants off there’s a powerpoint scene transition to her holding a positive pregnancy test. you meet a hot blue woman in the back of the club and it cuts to a shot of a nearby lighthouse and then cuts back to the two of you standing next to each other fully clothed, like in casablanca

[truetgirl]

You know it's a good Star Wars book when reading the last line immediately makes the mental images and sounds you're imagining involuntarily powerpoint transition to a starfield and the end credits music.

[anthonycrowley]

something really beautiful about star wars is that one of the few constants regardless of plot, quality, characters, i think even style is that they just refuse to use any transitions except the ones that look straight out of a powerpoint presentation.

[one-hit-boy-wonder]

Wilhelm scream. Casino scene. PowerPoint transitions. Oh Star Wars is so back baby.

[kixthecondomfairy]

Drinking game idea: watch star wars and take a shot every time there is a PowerPoint-like transition

[pinoruno]

i think we should all take writing inspiration from the star wars prequels. don’t know how to end a scene? bad powerpoint transition as abruptly as possible

[gadmiral-thrawn]

’marvel has the best transitions’ fuck you guys I’d rather stay with Star Wars and it’s 8th grade convincing ur parents to get a pet PowerPoint transitions

[thevibraniumveterans]

STAR WARS — The Acolyte

EP 4 - Day

MAIN THOUGHTS:

Very curious title, I wonder what that means in the context of this episode… would that mean that the next episode’s title would be “Night”? I mean, I’m speculating. I wouldn’t know, but would also not be surprised if that turns out to be the case.

Seeing Mae spooked was unexpected.

I love that this episode had its moments of brevity.

This episode also had some pretty deep insights into how the Jedi (as people) thought, but also how the Jedi (as a whole) operated.

Spoilers in my notes below.

- Dawn on the mountainsides of Khofar, a planet last seen in Ep2. Clouds hang low, and Kelnacca heads home. He is wearing his robes. On the walls of his abode are symbols of pseudo-yin/yang imagery. Kelnacca takes what looks like his food off the stove, and the camera zooms in on a dotted outline of two yin/yang circles, one big and one small.

- One classic Powerpoint transition later, we open on Coruscant during the day. Jecki and several other padawans are practicing their forms using training sticks while their teacher provides pointed advice. Osha stands in the doorway, silent. Jecki greets Osha, who says she’s leaving. Jecki is surprised. Long story short, Osha thanks Jecki for aiding Osha in finding and apprehending her sister Mae, whom she long thought dead but was and is still alive. Jecki says she was just doing her duty. Osha doesn’t want to find Mae (as she’s already done that), so passes the responsibility on to the Jedi, as in Osha’s own words, “I’m not a Jedi.” She can’t deal with having to apprehend her own sister, as Mae may view it as further betrayal. Osha wants to leave and not cause further “trouble” for Master Sol.

- On Khofar. Mae and Qimir unpack, but Mae stands up to walk away, something Qimir warns against. He tells her that Osha being alive “doesn’t change anything”; Mae being Mae, she pointedly ignores the comment, bemoans the lack of sunlight left (“three hours”, she says), and says to get going before it gets too late to kill Kelnacca.

- TITLE CARD!!

- In the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, the Masters gather around a holoprojector, analyzing a recording of Mae’s attack movements. All, except Sol, do not know who she is. Sol notes that not even Mae knows who trained her, just that she has training, and must be stopped. Vernestra reminds the gathered Masters of how dangerous Mae is, pointing out how she targeted Kelnacca, Torbin, Indara, and Sol. “The four Jedi stationed on her home planet when she was a child,” says Vernestra. “How odd.” Does she notice the irony? Of going somewhere they should never have stepped foot, and removed a child from her sister and community? Vernestra thinks that a rogue Jedi has trained Mae, saying “even a hologram can tell” her that. Other Masters raise concerns, but she knows that raising this concern to the Council would lead to the Council informing the Senate, and that’s something nobody wants. Supposedly this is the first seeds of what will be, in decades to come, an entanglement of the Jedi with politics; hence why Vernestra wants to keep this off the books, so to say. She wants Kelnacca taken back to Coruscant and Mae intercepted. Hopefully before Kelnacca is accosted. Vernestra and Sol speak in the corridor; he insists to be the one to bring Mae in, but Vernestra knows that’s not gonna happen without a price.

- On Khofar. Qimir and Mae trek along a path. They speak; Mae brings up her sister Osha and Master Sol in the same breath, and Mae stares at him.

- Back at the Temple, Sol meets up with Osha as he requests her to join him on his mission to intercept Mae. Osha declines this offer, but Sol insists otherwise. He tells her how he knew Mae still had something of a soft spot for Osha. “There is still good in her,” Sol tells Osha. “The part of her that loves you.” (This was also evident last half-scene when Mae had asked Qimir about Osha.) Osha knows she still loves her sister, but states the cold truth that Mae is a murderer. (Which in some sense is true.) Sol is optimistic and says, “But she is still your family.” Osha finally agrees, oddly stating “I am not wearing that civilian robe.”

- …Which is EXACTLY the thing she ends up wearing the immediate scene later. (This trope is hilarious.) Yord briefs the room aboard the transport ship, and refers to Osha as a “civilian”; she snarks back and says it’s “very comprehensive”. Jecki wants to laugh, but doesn’t. On Khofar, Jecki asks for directions, and is told not much of Kelnacca’s solitude. The group of Jedi, including Sol, Jecki, Yord, including Osha, come to a precipice overlooking the dense forest. Sol says he knows Kelnacca is within said forest. Regardless, they begin to trek in the direction of the forest. Osha tells Yord of her concern that she might not be of much help, but Yord says, “Mae has always been your wound. Maybe Sol brought you here to face her, but maybe he brought you here to face yourself.” (Which on a meta level is hilarious because Amanda Stenberg does play Osha AND Mae.)

- Elsewhere on Khofar, Mae and Qimir run into the dense forest, reaching a seemingly dead end that isn’t a dead end. Without Mae and Qimir knowing, the Jedi group also trek deeper into the woods. Osha finds the group surrounded by flying, multi-segmented, arthropod creatures (I don’t know what they’re called — the subtitles say this is an umbramoth); Sol deals with creature and warns the group to keep moving.

- Still on Khofar, it’s sunset. Qimir and Mae keep running; he seems overexcited. Mae says killing Kelnacca is “not a test” but the “final lesson” that she has to “teach herself.” But if she has four Jedi to kill, two of which she has disposed of, that means that she has two more to kill, with one literally finding his way to her. Mae is befuddled by the impossibility and ironic juxtaposition of killing an Jedi, unarmed, and the Jedi not being able to kill her unarmed.

- The group of Jedi continue to trek forward, when they hear Mae screaming for help. Qimir, somewhere nearby, hears it too. Might this be part of Mae’s plan? To appear in need of help and vulnerable and when people least expect it, to aim and swing? Turns out that was half right; she’s lured a trap, and inadvertently trapped Qimir. However; what she tells him next, I did not expect in the slightest (although it makes half sense): “After running through that forest for an extremely long time, I realized something. I don’t need to do this anymore. I don’t need to kill a Jedi without a weapon. I don’t need to keep this deal. You were wrong. Osha being alive changes everything. My loyalty is to Osha. Not your Master.” Mae states that she will surrender to Kelnacca and turn herself in. Qimir warns her against this, saying the Jedi would imprison her, but Mae has a plan for that. (Is this part of her plan? To appear harmless? Does she really want to up and surrender, and not fight for her Master? If this is true, then the Acolyte is in fact NOT Mae but her Master, who serves somebody else. If this is the case then Mae is a red herring, a plot device to lead us astray into thinking she’s the acolyte when in fact she is not who we think she is.)

- Somewhere nearby, the group of Jedi remain on the search. Osha tells Sol she’s ready to face Mae, but similar to what Yord told her earlier, Sol tells Osha, “You’re not going to face her, you’re going to face your past. Both of us will.” (Meaning, Osha will face the sister she thought she lost but knows now is alive, and Sol will face again the young woman he couldn’t save but hopes to save now.)

- Mae keeps running, and eventually finds Kelnacca’s abode. She falls, only to look up and see a tracker, who tells the group of Jedi, who are now hot on her heels. Here’s the thing. They don’t know Mae’s plan to surrender herself. Whether she is actually going to surrender herself, we don’t know now, but will know soon. She runs into his abode, only to discover he has been murdered, a smoldering slash across his chest. Mae starts panicking, knowing that her Master is planetside and that she has failed. The Jedi come to a stop outside Kelnacca’s home, and call Mae by name, knowing she is inside. She however, is afraid, not knowing where her Master is but knowing he could be very close by. Sol turns around, and a dark figure floats menacingly behind Osha, who has a “he’s right behind me isn’t he” moment. The other Jedi turn around, and so does Osha. The helmeted, black-clad figure comes face to face with Osha, who is frozen in fear, and ignites his blood-red saber. The Jedi ignite their lightsabers too, and shout for Osha to run. The figure uses the Force to shove Osha aside, and to blast the approaching Jedi back in a cloud of dust.

[starwarsdinosaur]

Say what you want about The Acolyte, but I, for one, VERY MUCH missed the classic Star Wars PowerPoint transitions between scenes

[skyburger]

the real reason the star wars sequels suck is because they stopped using the powerpoint transitions in-between scenes. they dont want you to know this but its true

[topsy-cryptid]

I expected to go into the Acolyte hating the broad strokes but appreciating the minor details, but this show surprised me by reversing that expectation! So, here's my review of the first two episodes.

The Broad Strokes:

The gorgeous visuals. Dare I say it? On par with Andor.

The pacing. Intrigue was set up and maintained! I'm not entirely sold on this show (see: Minor Nitpicks) but I'm still curious enough to see it through to the end.

The characters. Sol is the most likable character so far, with Osha and Jecki as close seconds. I dislike Mae, but that's just because she's a well-written villain.

White and gold color schemes my beloved. So elegant and dignified!

The premise. Most of the other Star Wars shows released this year were building upon previous shows (Bad Batch – Clone Wars :: Ahsoka – Rebels). The Acolyte is the first time the High Republic has been shown on screen, which is a tremendous undertaking. I think they did a fantastic job with the setting.

The fight scenes! Indara's fight with Mae is particularly memorable because it's so cool to see Force-enhanced battling in real life. Like, oh! Now I see what the prequels Jedi meant by "the Force is clouded"! This is what it looks like when they're at their peak!

PowerPoint transitions.

Balancing plot, action, and character moments. This is part of pacing, but it deserves it's own bullet point because this is massively hard to do.

The Minor Nitpicks:

"Our political enemies might use this against us." Tell me you didn't put any effort into political worldbuilding without telling me. What political enemies? I don't expect names, but I would like to have a broad idea of what the stakes are, especially if this is going to be an ongoing issue for the Jedi characters in this series.

Jecki was talking to Osha on the ship and even smiling, then Sol and Yord walked in, and Jecki's smile dropped, like she was doing something she wasn't supposed to. Why?

I've been getting into East Asian cinema, and going from that to The Acolyte makes it extremely obvious that these actors are Westerners. Something about the way they bow, and the way they request permission to speak. The Jedi's respect-based culture is not natural to any of these characters.

Every guy I went to high school with acted like that apothecary owner. I don't understand why Hollywood is obsessed with this character archetype, but honestly, I wouldn't mind never seeing it again.

Does Indara not know anything about tactics? Obviously Mae threw the knife at the bar owner to distract Indara. Really, Indara should have killed Mae when she had the chance, but her guilt and shock understandably stopped her. In that case, she should have changed her position on the battlefield to prioritize protecting the bar owner until Mae gave up and left.

Torbin's death had "video game player character commits suicide when their constitution gets too low" energy. It isn't insensitive to do it this way, it's just not how I would've done it. Suicide is not a foregone conclusion for poor mental health.

I'm sorry, I have to bring up the attachment discourse. The characters in The Acolyte are far too preoccupied with it. The Late Republic (prequel era) Jedi had the same rules against attachment, but they trusted each other to know what they were doing. For example, when Obi-Wan defends his former Padawan (Anakin) against Mace Windu in ROTS, Mace is skeptical but holds his tongue. When Master Sol does the same in The Acolyte, Vernestra immediately accuses him of attachment. Why? Why doesn't she trust Sol (a Jedi Master who has proven himself) to mind his own attachments?

Master Sol is moderately shocked that his former Padawan was accused of murder, and Vernestra goes, "I didn't know you still had feelings for her. :/" Not even the prequel Jedi were this critical. Yes, even Luminara.

Overall, I did like the show, and though my standards are low for it, I am excited for the next episode. I probably won't be reblogging much about it, but so far I appreciate this show as an addition to the Star Wars canon. Well, it's better than Ahsoka and Book of Boba Fett, which is good enough in my book.