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my dad and brother are watching through the clone wars for the first time and I’m watching some with them and

i cant stop thinking about how the war traumatised bariss offee and how it traumatised her in such a different way from ahsoka

like i know weapons factory is supposed to show anakins inability to deal with attachment and loss

but it’s also about how luminara is too easily detatched

bariss needed someone to see her and see her struggling and luminara was too willing to let go and let bariss operate on her own. she trusted bariss to the point that she couldnt see when she needed help when she needed support because she thought she was prepared enough, trained enough

ahsoka was trained enough. she was a child far too good at playing soldier, being supported by someone who would do literally anything for her, even if it meant destroying everyone in her way. and that was wrong of anakin. and she never stopped playing soldier. after the republic fell, she worked as a spy for the rebellion because thats all she’s ever known, she was prepared to be a soldier.

bariss was trained but that doesnt change the fact that she wasnt a soldier. she was a healer playing a soldier with a teacher who couldnt see her desperation. she needed someone to see her. and luminara couldnt do that

yeah i know this isnt a new take. all of this has been said before and all of this will be said again, all of it repeats itself, the story will never end

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U can watch Star Wars so many times and it doesn’t prepare u for how dumb Star Wars is. For one thing I think we gloss over how kenobi (who has definitely been at the club. Please.) describes the mos eisley cantina as the worst most villainous place ever and then u get inside and it’s a pack of muppets vaping

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One of the things I love about Rebels is that if you just watch the opening two-parter, it looks like it's going to be the story of a young orphan taken in and educated by a family of functional adults.

And then you keep watching (and reading the tie-in media), and you realize that Hera is still seething with resentment toward the parents she ran away from in her teens, Kanan spent years drowning his trauma (and connection to the Force) in the bottom of a bottle, Sabine is frantically avoiding coming to terms with more bad past life decisions than any sixteen-year-old should have had time to make, and Zeb is the only person in the entire crew who’s made it out of his twenties.

But goddamn it, Ezra thinks they’re functional adults, so they’re going to pull it together and pretend for his sake. And somehow, it works. Somehow, they all grow up together.

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kanan and ezra: not my circus, not my monkeys

ahsoka: my circus my monkeys 😔

absolutely losing it at the polar opposite perspective we get on darth vader during rebels. kanan and ezra encounter him and there's a dramatic lead up to the cameo and they're like "who the FUCK is that???". they fight him and lose terribly. at least until they drop several tons of heavy machinery on him. but then he survives! and then they're like "if that won't kill him what can?!" "not us. let's go!". there's no drama, no extremely emotional dialogue, no agony over the man he used to be and the monster he became. just "hey what is that? a SITH LORD? that sounds like 1-800-NOT OUR PROBLEM!!!" and then they go back to doing whatever they normally do

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can someone help me find this star wars fic I’m about to lose it. i cant remember too much but i remember a pair of clones going to a mandalorian grocery store on coruscant and trying to lie low, but the shop keep notices and helps them find the ingredient or whatever. i know there was more to it than that but i cant remember.

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Just Some Guy Joust - Side B: Round 1

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we see practically everything you put in the tags. don't say some shit that you wouldn't say to our faces. be respectful.

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the heart of a rebel

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I think one of the underlying themes of rebels, especially Kanan's story arc, is that tearing yourself down all the time hurts others, not just you.

Kanan at the start of the series thinks he's not good enough to train Ezra, which makes Ezra think he's not good enough to be Kanan's padawan. Later, in season 3 when Kanan is so focused on all the things he can't do because of his new disability, he furthers a rift between himself and Ezra, because Kanan lets his new excuse to look down on himself, ahem, blind himself to all the good he can do. It's only when he's got a real image of who he really is— flawed and broken, maybe, but not useless— that he's best able to help those around him.

Kanan's self-confidence issues, his fear of failure, as is with most people, stem not from thinking of himself too low, but from thinking he's capable of things he's not— he should be able to train Ezra and he should be able to take care of his crew and he should be able to get along just fine without his eyesight, and he should have stood with his master instead of running. Kanan has set himself up a standard that he can't live up to— no one could, and it make him feel awful for not being able to attain to it.

Worse than that, it makes Kanan assume he's letting everyone else down, when, really, it's his fear of not being enough for others that tears those others down the most. When the other members of the crew, especially Ezra, see Kanan holding himself to such an impossible standard, they're quick to assume he holds them to that standard as well— which, of course, he never does.

All of this boils down to why Ezra's frustrated "I don't want the best teacher, I want you," is exactly what Kanan needed to hear from him.

Kanan didn't need to hear that Ezra held him on a pedastal like where he'd always put himself.

Kanan didn't need to hear that he needed to be the perfect shiny version of himself that he wanted to be.

What Kanan needed to see was that his padawan saw him for all he was and all his flaws and chose him for who he was, not for who he was expected to be.

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You guys don’t understand this comment has sent me spiraling

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I'm just gonna go ahead and say it

The Star Wars girlies do not give the OG characters HALF the analysis they deserve. Where are my long, angsty metas about Luke, Leia and Han?? About LANDO?? Because compared to the amount that Prequel era characters get...there aren't many.

I don't even know how to explain it, but I feel like there is this tendency to reduce the OG characters to mere archetypes (uwu farmboy, badass girlboss, flashy loverboy (Lando isn't even afforded an archetype--)).

It's like the OG Trilogy is glorified, yet overlooked at the same time. It's a constant presence in Fandom talk, but in a very abstract way, like it's never actually delved into. Not in the same way Prequel era arcs and characters are delved into.

No shade to all the wonderful Prequel analysts, love me some Obi-Wan and Anakin angst... but I'm dying to see the nuance of the OG characters explored more as well. There's so much to unpack. They're such complicated characters PLZ

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I saw some people arguing about this and I'm curious.

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LOOK AT HIM HE LOOKS THE EXACT SAME AS HE DID 18 YEARS AGO 😭

Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker you will always be loved.

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Rewatching Andor and it really strikes me the use of rebellion in the preservation of culture. Fascism is the regimentation of society and anything outside of the system built on autocracy and militarism is a threat. Culture and heritage and religion are threats because they are beliefs and belief breeds ideals and the last thing you want in a tyranny is people with ideals.

The very use of rituals on Aldhani with the Eye and the funeral rights on Ferrix are not just a means to spark rebellion but they are acts of rebellion themselves. The Empire seeks homogeny and the very persevering existence of “the other” is something it deeply fears.Cultural memory and significance lends people purpose and identity,and you don’t want anyone in your machine to have a purpose or identity beyond the cage of hierarchy you provide.

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i don’t care what anyone else says luke skywalker is a mamas boy through and through.

like someone at tosche station makes a shitty remark about beru never having her own kids? decked right in the face no hesitation. something inside the homestead breaks down? lukes got it fixed in an instant. beru hasn’t had enough to drink one day? he’s topping up her glass from his if he has to. a fight with biggs? he’s talking to beru about it the second he’s home. they spend hours together in the evenings reading or discussing droid upgrades together and luke always brings her back little trinkets for the kitchen and living room whenever he goes to town. holding her arm whenever they go into town together, strolling through the stalls aimlessly, pointing out things and chatting. beru teaches him about different star patterns, sitting out together, laying on the domed roof of the homestead, a tradition they carry on even after luke has far surpassed her in knowledge of the stars.

and later, luke taking every spare second he can to read books about the history of naboo and it’s young queen. tracing his fingers over the pages of her painted face and trying his hardest to pick out features similar to his own. how he’ll sit and reach into the force and try to find another scrap of memory about her, reaching for a flash of a feeling, a fleeting imagine, anything but the nothing he remembers. how luke will travel to naboo once a year to visit the tomb of the mother he never got to meet, but loved him enough to give her life, and lay flowers at the feet of the statue there in her honour. how he slowly works small pieces of naboo culture into his everyday practices, taking silent moments to sketch and compose poetry once he learns how important art is to its people.

because dont get me wrong, i love talking about the various father figures he’s had in his life and how owen, obi wan and anakin have all played their part in his development as a character, but i think it is a great tragedy to overlook how important beru and padme are to what makes luke luke as well and damn it if it doesn’t just make so much sense for his character because of how he interacted with all the paternal figures in his life that luke is just much more of a mamas boy at heart than anything else.

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Since Disney owns both, they could do somethingly that'd be quite amusing and remake the Star Wars original trilogy with the Muppets.

You could either do "Kermit is Luke" or do the one-human thing and make Han Kermit, with Luke played by some human actor.

But there's one thing they have to do to do this:

45 minutes into Muppet Empire Strikes Back, we finally meet Jedi Master Yoda... And it's just some guy. A human actor, not wearing a mask or anything. "hey. I'm Yoda. Nice to meet you, Luke was it?" he says.

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Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia

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Jedisona moment