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Prequel Trilogy: This ancient order was destroyed by their own arrogance and by the machinations of their enemies. They were blind to the trap that was being set and allowed one of their own be manipulated into darkness. Despite this, it was the fallen chosen one’s decision to destroy them, including the children. Still a few managed to escape to fight another day, placing hope in the twin children of their greatest failure.

Sequel Trilogy: Nooooooo! The guy who joined the genocidal fascicts can’t have murdered the Jedi! Fuck you, Lightning strike.

People gripe about new SW shows contradicting/retconning lower canon material (not a new thing, this is how it's always been), but you gotta understand it'll be worth it

Because one day something will wipe away that stupid Rise of Kylo Ren comic and its idiotic "akshully Ben Solo didn't kill Luke's students like the last two movies said he did, it was a magic lightening strike that instantly killed them all" thing

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Why can’t they in Disney be more creative? Thinking over the Sequel Trilogy – why Rey lives in a desert? Why not make her homeworld… a rainy world, like Kamino? Or jungles, like Endor? Why desert? Because ‘nostalgia’? It’s just repetition at best, plagiarism at worst. It’s just not interesting! Or – why Chewbacca? Nostalgia, yes, ‘connection with the past’, yes, but why not use an original furry and non-speaking character? A Jawa, for example (because I like Jawas)? We have some representation of the Tuskens in The Book of Boba Fett, so why not Jawas? Or an original race? Why liken the Sequels SO MUCH to the OT? Watching the Prequels didn’t cause the feeling ‘I’ve seen it already, meh, boring’ in terms of world building.

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Well, for starters, you got the entire point of Return of the Jedi wrong, so come back when you fix that.

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Please tell me what I got wrong, your anonymous so you can say whatever you want. You can even call me a dumbass. Don't leave it at that, give me something so I can rethink my interpretation of a film. Luke ignores Obi-wan and Yoda telling him his father is is completely fallen and deserves to be killed. He also resists Palpatine's manipulations and attempts to turn him to the dark side. Though his love for his father, he is able to save his father and the galaxy. Because he is the last of his kind and is not bogged down by the previous order's blindness and dogma, I do not think he will doom his New Order to the same mistakes. Is that wrong? Could you please elaborate on your reading of the Return of the Jedi?

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Damn, you actually say shit like this about real children. Wow... honestly fuck you. I honestly thought you where a fellow star wars fan with a different opinion, but you are genuinely a hateful person. I want to say more but I do not have the words. This sucks, I am sorry

I think one of the things I've found most frustrating about sections of Star Wars fandom since being more active in it (rather than just being a Star Wars appreciator) is that some folks are constantly looking for a reason that the Jedi "caused" or worse "deserved" what was coming to them with Order 66. It's hard and horrible to watch the Jedi get slaughtered in Revenge of the Sith, so people search for a reason that it was, in some sense, justified. But that's not what genocide is. No group can "bring a genocide on themselves." It doesn't matter WHAT mistakes they may make. The whole point of the Clone Wars all the way down to destroying Jedha City in Rogue One was to wipe out not only the Jedi themselves, but the memory of them, so that the empire can fully take root.

And this is why the end of the Acolyte finale felt so so so bad to me. It was meant to be, or so I believed, a show about how the Sith were getting closer to their goal of getting rid of the Jedi as we close in on the century before The Phantom Menace. I sat there, I waited for the narrative intention to set in, and that narrative intention surprised me by saying "ah yes, well, some Jedi made mistakes and it was fine for one to be murdered HORRIBLY as a result, and the subsequent cover up of all of it is just the Jedi wanting to avoid senate knowledge of what really happened because the Jedi are too powerful." It's like, nevermind that the SENATE is the power here, and the Jedi long-ago agreed to help them out but are being shouldered with more and more and more and they may have the Force but they are still only people (which the High Republic books show REALLY well). It's like, nevermind that Star Wars is about redemption and always trying to be a better person and learning from our mistakes! It wasn't a situation, when Osha kills Sol in a nasty and cruel way, where you see a person going corrupt and know the narrative behind it is like "oh shit, this is a bad turn for them!" It felt like the narrative was saying she was justified (at least to me) and that's just. Sad? Bleak? The end of the finale felt to me like "hey, some Jedi made some mistakes while trying their best once, and that's why these Sith get to do whatever and that's why the Jedi walked right into their own demise."

When the scene with the senator happened, I thought, oh, interesting, we're going to see the prejudice against Force-sensitives here that leads to the senate clapping in the face of genocide. That leads to the safehouse in Kenobi where we see Force-sensitives carving messages of hope into the wall while they're being hunted down and killed. But that's ... not what happened. In the end, it felt like the narrative said, "yep that guy is right, the Jedi are a power-grabbing cult." It just felt bad, man. I thought this was going to be a story about the lineage leading up to Plagueis and Palpatine and I thought, interesting, I'd love to see that, but it just ended up being this messy thing with clunky writing and a bunch of loose ends that teased me with Jedi characters and then said "eh, these guys deserved it."

We got to see a kyber crystal bleeding for the first time in live action, and I can't even be excited about it! Did we ever really find out how Osha and Mae were created and what weird stuff the witches were up to? Nope! Just woah disappointing as far as even learning new stuff about how the dark side corrupts the Force, and that was one thing I was interested in as the show started to go downhill for me in later episodes.

(RIP Sol, Jecki, and Yord. You deserved better than that, and Vernestra, so did you)

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You have no idea how much I want Ladybug and Chat to slowly turn on each other while staying in a relationship in their civilian identities.

Things Adrien/Cat Noir will learn in the next Miraculous arc:

Ladybug lied

His Father was Hawkmoth

He Fatally injured his Father (cataclysmed him) so his death was inevitable

Natalie knew and helped him

Is part sentimonster (was controlled all his life)

Mother died from using a broken miraculous

Got akumatised and nearly destroyed the world

Mother was in his basement the whole time

Plagg, Ladybug, Natalie, Felix and Kagami are all hiding Gabriel’s secret from him.

Ladybug, Natalie, Felix, Kagami are all hiding his origin from him.

Will be sending him hopes and prayers 👩‍⚖️

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Guys I thought the point of ROTJ was that Luke understood the problems with the jedi order and would go on to remake it into something that was less corrupt, understood repression is unhealthy, understood that the dark side is something people can come back from and allow attachments. But no, he somehow makes the same exact mistakes as the old order and then goes shocked Pikachu when the same outcome happens. He is so befuddled by this, that for some reason he forgoes his duties and fucks off to a jedi planet. You know, instead of trying to save his nephew WHO HE WAS CHARGED WITH CARING FOR. Then he is shocked when his flawless plan of hiding on a planet accosted with the Jedi, leads to him being found by someone who wants to be a Jedi. And then he spouts some shit about how the Jedi are actually not based but instead are cringe. I could understand this coming from Dooku Ahsoka or Anakin, three Jedi who where fucked over by the order, but it is kinda weird that the fucking GRANDMASTER OF THE JEDI says this. My brother in Christ, YOU ARE THE LEADER OF THE JEDI. YOU CONTORL HOW THE NEW ORDER IS TRAINED AND STRUCTURED! Seriously, I am sick of the "Jedi are bad" narrative because it is being put in places it does not belong. It belongs in stories like the Prequels or the Acolyte because it is either about the fall of the Jedi or the Sith. Like it makes since in those stories. But in the sequel trilogy it makes no sense because 1. The New Jedi Order is new and thus will the problems of the Order, because it is lead by different people who where raised in different times.

2. It is a continuation of the OT. The end of the OT paints Luke's victory as not because of the Old Order's teachings but because of his belief in his father. Luke's compassion is what saves the day and HE is the grandmaster of the new order. 3. Motherfucker it is the RETURN OF THE JEDI! Not the The Short-Lived Comeback of the Jedi.

4. Telling the same story over and over again is boring. The ST is just a worse OT to me. It just feels like all the original stuff from the ST is either watered down (Poor Finn, you deserved more screentime) or mangled to resemble the sacred cow that is the OT (By the time of ROS they made Rey a worse version of Luke)

The Disney Canon had the chance to play with one of the most influential franchises out their and they went the safe route. But what can you expect from the company that churns out Live action remakes of their best hits instead of doing what they did with Enchanto.

On a less insane note, at least the Force Awakens introduced me to star wars. And I can see why some enjoy TLJ, it has interesting ideas and I'm a prequel girlie so I can't judge. I have no such niceties about the Rise of Skywalker. The film itself, I am sure its fans are lovely people

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Damn the force family is older than I thought.

from the (Legends) SW Essential Guide to Warfare.

good pottery that – Legions of Lettow was one of the names envisaged by Lucas for the Sith (in the revised first draft i think) and then years later someone thought it would be a great idea to call another splinter group born of schism in the Jedi Order like that (and it was)

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*epically ignores the pain just to annoy his younger brother*

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Tia Fashion Aesthetic🎀

More Tiabeth (The Werewolf Boyfriend) fashion aesthetics.

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Jason's little smile :(

I know it was probably said like a million times since the movie came out, but my favourite detail in the whole movie is in the DNA numbers with Red Hood's 635 being the issue number when he appears under that name while Jason's 428 is for the issue in which he dies

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Vampire Dad♥️

How does one go from being an 80’s rock god vampire to a single dad🖤

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I liked the thrawn trilogy, its fun, it had introduced of my favorite star wars characters in it (Mara Jade my beloved) but holy hell, I did not expect for the EU to be so whacky. A Jedi married the EMPEROR of THE FUCKING EMPIRE. Oh and this is not just any jedi, this is the daughter of leia and han. Oh and she was sent her twin brother after he became a sith, tortureded his padawan/cousin and murdered Mara Jade (rip). Luke Skywalker told her to do this. Oh and her younger brother is kinda a gary stu and is named after the Anakin but dont think about that, he's dead. Oh and Mara Jade and Lando where a thing, I guess. Oh and Luuke. That was not a typo, Luke Skywalker has a clone named Luuke. Perfect, I want to read more.

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henry going to prison because he was framed for william's crimes just makes sense. it was mentioned in the first game and it explains why he was away for most of the series.

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perfect colors

@buggachat's ghost au phantom pains (and other hints of you) has been bouncing around in my head rent free <3

+ the older doodle from november that spiraled out of control tonight:

Oh and some from today I didn't add more too:

Gotta love Adriangst. Adrien Angstagreste. It gets real Adriangsty, this isn't even the adriangstiest part

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Darth Vader interrogating : Listen well, all of you Rebel scum

Also Darth Vader almost immediately: Except for Luke Skywalker, he's an absolute angel and a delight to be in company.

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May the forth be with you all

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