#Episode IV

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Anthony Daniels on the set of Star Wars (1976)

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STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE 1977 • dir. George Lucas

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It’s already a tradition...

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LEIA ORGANA Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

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MARK HAMILL as LUKE SKYWALKER ↳Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) · dir. George Lucas · Sci-Fi

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Star Wars (1977)

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God, the pain Leia is in during the whole franchise. She didn't heard about the destruction of Alderaan. She was there.

She watched her whole family, her whole legacy, her whole people, her whole culture destroyed in seconds.

Imagine the little spark of hope when she said Dantooine. The Empire bought it, they sent probes... She pulled the fucking lie off and even then...

She could do nothing but watch.

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Peter Mayhew and Harrison Ford - Star Wars scene rehearsal (1976)

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Star Wars, Episode IV  A New Hope (1977)

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Ya'll I paused New Hope at the best possible moment.

Why does it look like they just got engaged?

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So, the Jedi.

I first saw Episode IV back when it was just Star Wars, in the theaters, in 1977. I was eight, and it was the most awesome thing I had ever seen. Especially the Jedi (although for a long time I thought they were "Jet-Eye" knights) -- Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker, and lightsabers! And the Force! I wanted to be a Jedi so bad.

With that movie, George Lucas instilled in me a love of that universe so strong that not even George Lucas could destroy it.

So I love the idea of the Jedi. When I'm creating a character in a video game, I usually pick whatever option is closest to being a Jedi (e.g. Vanguard in Mass Effect.) TTRPGs often the same.

But at the same time I am aware that, holy cow, the Jedi collectively are as dumb as a bag of hammers.

(In their defense, they spent a lot of centuries being the undisputed baddest mofos in the galaxy; they didn't need to be smart. But as soon as they got some actual opposition, yikes.)

Like, consider Anakin. Here's this kid, he's six, which is older than we usually take kids in, think the Jedi. He's got this hard knot of anger and fear, because, duh, he's been enslaved his whole life and also because we just took him away from his mom and told him he can never see her again. What should we do with him?

I know, the Jedi say to themselves, we'll train him, but we'll be sure to remind him constantly that we're always watching him because we don't trust him, and we're suspicious that he might fall to the Dark Side at any moment. That's sure to solve those negative feelings! Nothing bad can come from this plan!

Or take Geonosis in Episode II. Oh no, some of our people are in trouble! Let's swoop in with a couple dozen Jedi, each of whom is a veritable typhoon of destructive potential, and then we will... stand in a circle in a literal killing field, where every single one of our hundred of enemies has a clear line of fire at us, and just bounce blaster bolts off our lightsabers. This is an excellent strategy and cannot possibly lose.

Or towards the end of Episode III, where Obi-Wan and Yoda have finally figured out that their primary enemies are Palpatine and Anakin -- who have, conveniently, separated themselves so that the two remaining Jedi masters can concentrate their force (and their Force, for that matter) and attack each of them two-on-one in succession. Oooooor they could split up and go one-on-one against each of them. Hmm. Which plan will the Jedi go with?

Or when that goes to shit, and they're like, "Well, I guess we're fucked now, we have literally no other option but to go hide out for the next sixteen years or so and do basically nothing. Hypothetically some kind of resistance movement might form against this new Empire that could benefit from the presence of two Jedi masters, but meh. Our best bet is to wait for a couple of babies to become teenagers and dump the whole thing on them."

(People gave Luke a lot of shit in the sequel trilogy for fucking off to the ass end of nowhere and hiding out from the results of his mistakes, but I don't know why anyone would be surprised. It's exactly what both of his Jedi mentors did.)

Anyway, my point: I love the Jedi and think they're all idiots. Force bless those empty-headed space wizards.

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Should have know Luke and Leia were siblings based on the look Luke shares with Han when Leia is berating them about how she's being rescued. Luke gives off big *my sister is being difficult* energy.