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I also would like to add thate the whole "Marcia saved Star Wars narrative was highly exaggerated.

That she made them "watchable" is to some extent true, at least on a technical level, but in the end she was just doing the regular editing job which she was hired for. 

Whenever people are talking about how the movie was bad before she was hired, people are implying that it was ever intended to be released in that form. But it was just a rough cut that needed to be cut, like basically literally every movie ever.

And Marcia did not have the creative freedom to do everything with the material that she wanted, she was just mostly following the instructions of the director, George Lucas, who had the final say on all major decisions. 

Don't get me wrong, like all labor, editing is an important craft that deserves respect and recognition (she and the other two even received an award for their work) and obviously, you can see the difference between a good and a bad editor. But people are trying to mystify this process to imply that Marcia was the real secret author of Star Wars who had to save it from her incompetent husband.

Also she was not the only editor working on it. As mentioned above, there were two other guys: Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew. Heck, even George Lucas helped with the editing of the movie. So it is kinda ironic that people are acting like Marcia was this underappreciated figure behind the scenes, while always ignoring the other two (or three) people working as editors on the movie.

And I have the feeling they are ignored because it does not find into the whole "Man takes credit from a woman" narrative.

And to be clear, I 100% believe that this is happening in real life, I just think that Marcia and Lucas don't fit into this and that it is used as a tool to better spread the lie that George Lucas was secretly incompetent.

People tried to do a similar thing years ago but with Irvin Kershner instead of Marcia Lucas.

the internet consensus these days is that the george lucas hate of the last few decades was overblown which is kinda true but george still deserves all the shit for ‘fixing’ (aka removing and digitally redoing) the groundbreaking special effects work that won that team Oscars in 1978. 

because of this, you literally cannot buy a restored copy of the original theatrical release with the oscar-winning effects intact, and it’s because george always had beef with the original effects artists and wanted to discredit their work. it’s really sad because his revisions of history worked! one of those effect supervisors who got an Oscar, Robert Blalack, died this year and was honored in memorium at the 2022 Oscars. but the effects they showed to honor him (the death star sequence) actually weren’t his original work at all, but digital effects redone by george in 1997. george lucas was always too comfortable to discredit others work and legacy on the basis that it was his sole creative vision that others were merely working on. it was shitty to artists and shitty for the culture. Disney is a different type of evil toward creativity but george did more than his fair share of playing dirty too and that shouldn’t be forgotten

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The fact that they try to argue that somehow her head only works on men was such a big stretch.

TERFs: Medusa’s gaze only works on men!

Iodama and Ariadne:

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#What about the purple one :(

No thoughts, just slimes going wah

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Its okay, you are allowed to like a hetero couple.

just saw puss and boots heres my initial thoughts!

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Its the 2009 Middle-aged villain, right?

If you vote, reblog? Maybe?

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I know this is a shitpost but:

Tehutti: Gluttony (He kept trying to find exhibits to mark his name on, just for the sake of it)

Ehrye: Pride (Thinks he will become a seer through his intelligence, even though he is a loudmouthed Idiot.)

Orkham: Sloth (Said to be "slow, meticulous, and unimaginative")

Ahkmou: Greed (Nidhiki promised him he will get "well-paid" for helping him and he later becomes a scammy salesmen who sells, among other things, corrupted kohlii balls)

Each of the 2004 Matoran represents a deadly sin

Nuhrii: Envy

Vhisola: Lust

Tehutti: I dunno but this guy’s always rubbed me the wrong way

Ehrye: Philosophy bro

Orkahm: OSHA violations

Ahkmou: Ahkmou

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Yes, because that is literally how she is conceived by Laura Bailey.

Are you really telling me that pastry-loving, strongest-mother-fucker-in-the-group Jester isn’t chubby or buff. Are you looking me dead in the eye and telling me that she’s some kind of delicate petit baby. Are we doing this right now.

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As a kid i was always a fan of the earth characters. Now I got earth at my first try.

It's finished! Happy belated Bionicle Day!

The good news is: There are no song lyrics questions!

The bad news is: I have thought of several things that are considerably worse!

Friends, your journey of discovery will be long, and you will face many challenges: Turing testing a chatbot, sitting through the world's worst ethics committee meeting, an encounter with some very judgemental schoolchildren, and a friend with questionable taste in pets, to name a few. But if you endure them all, and answer truthfully, you shall be rewarded with... uh, some very bad puns and probably a personal attack, I guess.

Anyway, all canon Matoran elements are in this, with some of the secondary element personalities fleshed out from fanon discussions.

Special thanks to @wjbs-bonkle-au for letting me use her beautiful MOCs for the secondary element pages!

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The hate the Hbomberguy video often gets is comically inane tbh.

Like, the video isn’t some scathing critique roasting everyone involved in the show’s making, it’s not even particularly depthful. It’s more or less a compilation of issues the show’s just… had from day one that people have said.

I’m entirely convinced the only reason people get as uppity as they do about it is because Hbomb is the one who made it. If it had been any other randy RWBYtuber doing the video, it’d just be ignored and barely talked about. But instead it was a considerably Big League YouTuber with a much larger sphere of influence saying RWBY was mediocre this time instead of the other, smaller, easily ignorable YouTubers saying the show sucked.

I’d bet my kidney that if Hbomb’s video had been glowingly praising the show, FNDM would be going, “See! This guy with a sub-count of millions is praising RWBY! That means way more than Vexed being negative!” I doubt the SomethingAwful posts would have even been dug up if that were the case. Or if they were, FNDM would be adopting the obvious rebuttal of, “You think SA comments made 7 years ago are genuine? What a laugh.”

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They are called Mutos und you are 100% right.

Those fucking bug things from Godzilla (2014) are like prime girlboss and malewife

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"sex scenes have no narrative purpose" is such a funny take on so many levels. people will really believe that the whole human experience is valuable to portray artistically except sex, which of course has never held emotional weight or significance for anybody

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July 5th, 2021: A TERF-run historical girlboss account mysteriously fails to mention the French Resistance killed Violette Morris because they were a fucking Nazi.