#i'm waaaay overthinking this but that's what i do when i make basically anything

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okay enough reblogging. what i originally opened tumblr for was to complain about being totally paralyzed by indecision because i have no idea what i want my restaurant theme to be in animal crossing happy home paradise. so.

augh i have no idea what i want my theme to beeeeee

maybe i'll just do like. a garden theme? because generally speaking when in doubt i throw plants at everything because i love plants and flowers. but i feel like there's just so many more interesting or outside-the-box themes to pick for a restaurant?

also what kind of menu would that place have? i feel like menu informs design so much, like maybe i should pick a type of food and build the theme out from there? that will definitely affect the kitchen construction if not the dining hall decor but probably both. like a sushi restaurant and a breakfast diner are not going to look the same

which reminds me of one of the only hard rules i have going into this, which is that i am not going to use any of the pre-canned restaurant theme sets, like diner or sushi bar, because i want to have fun toying with an original idea and make something unique

but first. that means i need to decide what idea i am actually going to build off of. ACK

[gffa]

I guess all the problems of the perception of Jedi by fans can be boiled down to Lucas' inability to write a human-sounding dialogue, and bastardizing a real world religion/philosophy in a way that is still recognizable and yet fundamentaly different and contradictory. Obviously, the authorial intent was to portray Jedi as good people, although tragically flawed, and I'm willing to follow that idea, although it sometimes makes Jedi look criminally unintelligent (1/2)

(2/2) But I can’t really fault them as the way they act fits the surroundings. Jedi are acting often in a way plenty consider inhumane - but it fits because nearly *every single character acts the same way*. It’s the style of the story. So,when I try to imagine who Jedi really are I have to filter out Lucas’ signature style of writing. Less ill-timed cockiness and more actuall depth. Jedi being less of a gimick and a signature props acting in uniform and more them being diverse people

There’s a lot to the point about the separation (and sometimes overlap) of Watsonian and Doylist perspectives when it comes to a lot of things in Star Wars, but especially with the Jedi.  And I don’t really have a problem with criticizing Star Wars on a Doylist level because, yeah, as much as I admire George Lucas’ work and it’s the best part of SW for me, there’s a lot of things that I think are worth criticizing.But within the world narrative intention actually is important in order to be accurate.  (In as much as we fans “have” to do anything, I mean, nobody can make anyone else be accurate or care about this kind of stuff!  XD)  The issue of the clones is one that really falls under this umbrella–and the issue that’s coming up in canon a lot lately, with the droids.  It’s pretty clear that, within canon, when the movies were first being made, the clones weren’t considered to be slaves, that they were basically organic droids.  And droids, although quirky, were clearly just machines.As time went on and social understanding evolved, the way people look at Star Wars elements changed.  But, within the narrative structure, those things were the intention at the time and so the characters were written according to it.  So, Padme owning a droid isn’t meant to be a social commentary on her condoning chattel slavery within the context of the actual story.  While we, as fans, can write that social commentary about SW as a fictional story and criticize it on that level, she herself wasn’t written to that standard, so her actions are not meant to be taken in that light.  It wasn’t meant to be part of the story when it was written, so her character doesn’t act like it’s part of the story.  Judging her character for not acting according to something that was not there is an inaccurate portrayal of her.And that’s what happens with the Jedi (and other parts of SW) a lot, too.  As well as that it’s a fictional story and that this is bumping up against something I was talking about with @glompcat the other day about the way the creators talk about the story.  It reminded me of Dave Filoni talking about Krell, how he showed the character as being Fallen right away, because he didn’t want to have kids in the audience become attached to one of their Jedi heroes, only to be crushed later on, when it was revealed that he was bad.  The way the show wrote the character wasn’t about trying to make some in-world commentary or being strictly beholden to how it would “really” happen, but it was about tropes and thinking about the audience’s reaction.  Sometimes they write things just because it’s SUPER COOL to have it in the movie/show!Writing on the show and movies is done in much, much broader strokes than we in fandom often think about, because we love focusing on characterization, we love marrying canon to our ideas about psychology and the human condition.  I’m just as much a part of that as anyone is!  But I also think we waaaay overthink some things and hold the writing to standards (not necessarily good or bad ones, just different standards) than the canon is meant to be held to.Which isn’t saying that we can’t talk about these things or we have to be a-okay with how they’re written, but instead that holding characters to standards that were not part of the narrative, judging the characters in universe for not acting on things that were never issues that were part of the narrative when written, just doesn’t really work for me.