#palpatine + his sith rebirth grew in power bc the darkness welling made it more unsafe and harder for an untrained kid to manage -> more li
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sorry star wars is my new archie sonic
#long sprawling mess of a canon that retcons itself into a glorious mess of worldbuilding and cycles of growth and decay#and then funny guy saves the day !#so so funny to me that OG star wars (e4 ANH) was just a silly little derivative hero-saves-the-princess story#and then lucas reverse engineered DESTRUCTION OF A GALAXY WIDE SOCIETY BY ONE GUY PLAYING BOTH SIDES OF A WAR THAT COST MILLIONS OF LIVES#from a single line saying ‘i served with your father in the clone wars’#like a) clone wars as a phrase. without knowing what it means now. fascinating worldbuilding tidbit i wonder where they’re going with it#b) the OG movie handles the force like it’s *genuinely* a rare mysterious thing no one’s ever heard of. jedi really ARE rare wizards like#arthurian legend n shit. and since then that’s been completely changed into a once galaxy spanning religious order that adopt/rescued#children who were different and kept the peace of a galaxy for better of for worse (h. hey you think more kids had to be taken the more#palpatine + his sith rebirth grew in power bc the darkness welling made it more unsafe and harder for an untrained kid to manage -> more li#ely to lash out -> more likely to be kicked out/abandoned/mistreated unrelated anyway)#c) the OG movie presents the empire as terrifying and unstoppable and then the prequels completely recon it as a shadow of its former self#limping along in a mockery of the republic’s splendor with the remnants of their ships and armies with shittier training and shittier soldi#hm. this is not what this post was about . oops#posts from a galaxy far far away
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