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BROOKLYN NINE-NINE 3.02 The Funeral

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STAR WARS: ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002) dir. George Lucas

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a luke/padmé parallel that always fucks me up that i've barely ever seen anyone talk about is that beyond thinking there was good in him,they also constantly reaffirmed directly to him his humanity.like in ep 2 padmé tells him he's human,just like everyone else,as a comfort to him.then in rotj luke tells him that he's something beyond serving the emperor,beyond being a weapon,that his true self is anakin,a person just like everyone else,and his father,the only title that hadn't been thrown at him by someone else,but that was borne directly out of love.

and to me that's so important,cause anakin increasingly felt less and less like his own person and more like an ideal (the chosen one,the hero with no fear,darth vader),and so him being reaffirmed as his own human being beyond that,just like he told padmé in ep 1,shows so much about why he listened to luke.he was the first person after padmé to see him beyond his crimes,beyond his past,beyond his destiny,and accepted him as he was.

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i knowwww the running joke in the fandom is that obi wan is space jesus,but are we for real glossing over the fact that anakin is LITERALLY space jesus

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"I think Buffy was greatly in love with Angel. It will always be Angel! Nothing in her life will ever compare to that..." - Sarah Michelle Gellar

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"I miss you"

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Star wars

There’s good in him. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) 

 There is still good in him. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)

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“Coruscant was out there. Padmé was out there. There was a heart in his chest, beating, but it was only an echo. She was his true heart. She was his home.” — Karen Miller’s Clone Wars Gambit: Siege

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#so unserious #I love them

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David Corenswet & Rachel Brosnahan for EW. (Photos by Amber Asaly)

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#"i have no idea where he gets it from," says area jedi knight still picking glass out of his robes from leaping out of senator amidala's window earlier in the evening.

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the way the jedi and sith both used padmé and anakin’s love for their own gain— palpatine manipulated anakin into falling to the dark side in order to save padmé's life, and obi-wan did the same thing by tricking padmé into going to mustafar and using her as bait so he could kill anakin.

the jedi and sith both pulling the same move is a perfect illustration of how far the order had fallen— how they were willing to sacrifice others when it benefitted them, for the 'greater good'— and how in the end, they had ultimately become what they sought to destroy.

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Paul Duncan: It is clear that you had precise ideas from the very beginning. George Lucas: There was no room for me to put the backstory in those films in an organic way. Also, if I had started talking about the backstory, the Whills, and the midi-chlorians, and all that kind of stuff in Star Wars, people would have gone "Oh my God!" and backed off. It wasn't until Jedi came out that I realized I'd lost the tragedy of Darth Vader. In Star Wars, it's set up as "What is that guy? Is he a monster? Is it a robot?" They didn't know what he was. Over the three films his story dissipated. He was the chosen one of the prophecy, yet the irony was lost that it was the son bringing humanity back to the father. It wasn't clear. I felt the story of Anakin Skywalker had enough pathos and enough of a story to enrich the prequels: how Anakin became a Jedi; how he learned to use the Force, and midi-chlorians; this is where Obi-Wan came from; this is what their relationship was; how Anakin turned into Darth Vader. When I told Fox the next film is about how Darth Vader got to be Darth Vader they got all excited. I told them, "in the first movie, he's 10 years old." Fox, and also people at Lucasfilm, said, "You're going to destroy the franchise; you're going to destroy everything! You can't do it; this is terrible!" Everybody was upset, and I thought, "This is why I own the films, and I own the company, because if I didn't, this movie would never get made." If I went to a studio with this story, it never would have existed. I know everybody wants to have Darth Vader in his black suit with his lightsaber, but the whole point of it is: how does this little kid, who has good intentions, is just like us, go wrong and become Darth Vader? And the second point of the story is: how does a democracy become a dictatorship? I told people at Lucasfilm that they're going to have to face the reality that I'm making a movie that nobody wants to see, but I want to tell that story. I'm more interested in telling the story than I am in just doing a franchise where you tell the same story over and over again. -- from The Star Wars Archives, Episodes I - III, 1999-2005

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THE RED SHOES dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948

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Casino Royale (2006) dir. Martin Campbell

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'Cause the sign on your heart Said it's still reserved for me Honestly, who are we to fight thе alchemy?