#star wars rant

[momentov1vere]

ok i have some thoughts about andor and some of the themes im seeing (warning its very very long, sorry in advance lol)

ANDOR SPOILERS BELOW

i think the fact that all of the deaths so far being quick and almost meaningless in the grand scheme of things is so interesting because you’d think in a show about rebellion, everyone’s deaths will be in a big moment saving something important, but brasso and cinta’s deaths just… happen.

brasso was just trying to get away from the troopers and ended up dead simply for running away; he didn’t have a big moment of rebellion, he just tried to escape and they killed him for it because they saw it as instigation. he will only be remembered by the people who cared about him; his death didn’t do anything to help the rebels, and the empire didn’t even know who he was so it had zero effect on them.

and cinta… hers was even worse because like vel said, she was doing so many brave things and doing so much to fight against the empire with the rebels. even the heist she and that group were pulling off right before her death was something that was don’t to stick it to the empire, and her death wasn’t big or self-sacrificial or anything like that… it was just because someone made a stupid mistake that could have been easily avoided (“this is a tragedy because it didn’t have to end this way” or however the saying goes). the empire won’t remember her and the rebels will just move on and find someone to replace her; vel will be the only one to truly mourn her. her death was meaningless not because she never did anything for the rebels, but because it happened in such a quick, insignificant way that no one can use it for anything.

that’s why her and brasso’s deaths are “meaningless” to the empire and the rebels; there will be no pushing an agenda, no proving how dangerous rebels are, no turning her into a martyr to inspire people to fight the empire, none of that. they can’t use their deaths for anything so they’ll let them be forgotten.

it’s an interesting contrast to the end of rogue one; cassian and jyn go out in a big moment after giving the rebellion something they desperately needed. they go out heroes, while brasso and cinta will go on to be mourned by their loved ones, but not remembered for their sacrifice because in the grand scheme of things, their deaths meant nothing to the rebels or the empire. so you could argue that them dying “wasn’t worth it” because it didn’t mean anything. the only people who will remember them are their loved ones; history won’t remember them, so what’s the point? right?

wrong!

it made me think back to that girl in ep 1 asking cassian “if i die tonight, was it worth it?”

i think we’re going to keep seeing this trend of “meaningless” deaths and it’s going to feel like they’re killing people for no reason, but i think that’s the point— in war there is always death for no reason.

and in the grand scheme of things their deaths are “meaningless”, but the fact that they were fighting at all does mean something. and a simple death doesn’t make their life any less meaningful; they gave their lives for a cause and they knew the risk. sure, they didn’t expect to go out how they did, but that was always a risk. it’s war, death happens, no one is safe.

it’s like luthen said in s1: “i burn my life for a sunrise i know ill never see”. brasso, cinta, all the unnamed rebels we’ve seen die over the course of the franchise… history doesn’t remember them, but they sacrificed themselves anyway because they believed in their cause. every death for the rebellion is a sacrifice because they hope it’ll account for something someday, and eventually it does.

but even if it didn’t work, even if it took hundreds of years for the rebels to make a dent in the empire, even if the empire won and the rebellion was crushed, their deaths were not meaningless because they died for what they believed in.

their small contributions may not seem important in the grand scheme of things, but i think people don’t realize how important small acts are in a rebellion. they need the small things to keep happening so that no one feels like they’re doing nothing; without the small acts, nothing bigger would be able to happen.

they didn’t give up hope or surrender to the empire just because things felt hopeless; they died knowing people cared for them and that was enough for their deaths to not be meaningless. their deaths will inspire their loved ones to go on and fight to make sure they didn’t die in vain, but that almost doesn’t matter.

without the small acts of rebellion and the small people in the rebellion there would be no rebellion, which i think is what cassian was getting at in ep1. the rebels need everyone they can get, so even quick deaths from “unimportant” people mean something because they were brave enough to rebel and give their lives to the rebellion in the first place.

idk if half of that makes sense bc it’s midnight and i should be asleep, but i had to write this out bc my brain was thinking so many things. i could probably write an essay about this show but for now have my midnight thoughts !

[crim-bat]

Star Wars Rant: The Jedi Dogma Lie You Fell For

The older I get and the more of a movie centric perspective I take in star wars (books and comics and games are good, but they either tell stories that aren't relevant or fill in the gaps), the more I've come to believe that the writers lacked the media literacy as much as the fans in regards to how dogmatic the jedi actually were

Palpatine said the order had a narrow and dogmatic view of the force once and the fanbase and writers immediately went "YEAH HE WAS RIGHT" without understanding what was going on and 20 years of telephone later it's become accepted as fact so much that it's permanently poisoned the well.

In the prequel trilogy list of things "explaining" jedi dogma, we have...

The jedi did not want to train Anakin as he was a ball of Trauma. This is fair when your magic system runs on being able to not need let your emotions control you. Anakin needed help, not jedi training.

The jedi not believing Qui Gon when he said there was a sith afoot. The sith have been gone for a thousand years, or so they think. That, enough, is reason to not be sure about it. In the EU/Legends, Dark Jedi cropped up every couple of years so it could have easily been one of those instead. One of them was Qui's former student. AND the jedi didn't just say "that's not a problem, ignore it". They very pointedly say to go investigate the problem. And Qui is good enough at his job that they kept him on the case

The jedi don't allow marriage. It's a monastic order and they are free to leave. There is literally no penalty for just bouncing as long as you don't burn the bridges yourself

In AOTC, we see Obi Wan being especially down on Anakin the whole movie and the other jedi in the scenes, Mace and Yoda, express concern and try to defend Anakin from his own master. Genuinely, Obi Wan is the bigger problem here than any other jedi. He's my favorite, but he's an asshole in AOTC

On Dooku, Mace doesn't think Dooku would do assassination because that is, at that time, super out of how the jedi operate. Dooku was a jedi so it should not have been in his character.

In Revenge of the Sith, Anakin goes to Yoda for advise about Padme but is vague as fuck so he gets vague jedi advise about detaching yourself from the situation and being happy they're going to jedi heaven. He Cannot Give Better Advise because Anakin is being Anakin.

Same movie, Mace says he doesn't trust Anakin with spying on Palpatine because he doesn't think he can handle it. And Anakin is only treated like a shitheal in the film when he acts like one. Yes, there's the undercurrent of him trying to save Padme but the movie doesn't at all explain that he's trying to get into the archives. No one can help him because he's not letting them.

Same movie, Palpatine points out the Dogmatic and Narrow view of the jedi according to the force.

There is really no part of the prequels that doesn't make sense and doesn't exonerate the "dogma" of the jedi in some way unless you're looking at what writers did after the fact.

Do the jedi have issues within the films?

Yes

Are they too beholden to the state?

Probably

But those are different issues and the official writers and the fans have both permanently poisoned the well because they took the big bad of 9 films at face value without criticism

[vaultedoverthehorse]

Being a psych student and a Clone Wars girlie is so fun because what do you MEAN genetics aren’t everything and the Kaminoans can’t possibly make the clones completely identical because their environments are different. What do you MEAN the Jedi they were assigned under fundamentally decided how independent and individualistic they’d be because they may or may not be in an environment where they’re allowed to be. Nature and Nurture, you can’t modify the nurture out :)

[dimbulbstudiosinc]

I don’t think we realize how big of a threat the Empire really was. In the span of a decade they manage to conquer the ENTIRE GALAXY, build a planet killer, and turn Mandalore into a glass ball. The sheer power that one unit had was insane! And on top of that, you have the Inquisitors who are basically psycho baby Vaders running around doing essentially whatever they want AND they had such a political grip on the galaxy that they were able to REPLACE THE ENTIRE CLONE ARMY WITH ENLISTED TROOPS AND CONSCRIPTIONS! That’s some insane numbers! They had a galaxy spanning army and navy that could shut down an entire star system in days, and some how the Rebellion, the “people’s army”, a guerrilla warfare militant group that was out gunned and had every single off against them managed to take down the Galactic Empire with the leadership of a amateur Jedi who was making shit up along the way because his only formal teachers died or were to busy smoking pot in a swap to train him properly, a wookie clone war veteran and escaped war prisoner, a smuggler who has a bounty on his head from one of the biggest crime bosses in the galaxy, and the embodiment of Anakin’s boldness and Padmé’s idgf attitude wrapped in space cinnamon roll hair with political backing from the most respected figures of the Republic and the burning passion of vengeance for her destroyed planet. How did the Empire lose?!? And twice?!? You had the opportunity to orbitally bombard Hoth and defeat the biggest pain in your ass and you still drop the ball and let them escape?!? Either the Empire’s logistics department is run by Rebel spies or they went out of their way to let the Rebellion keep fighting on the less than 1% chance that Luke would join them! The last of the Jedi was in a bacta tank on an ice ball!!! You could’ve ended this war in a single movie!!! But no! You had to let it drag out! The empire is the least efficient political entity ever.

[padmeanddorme]

I’m watching the Zygerria arc rn and it’s making me so angry 😒

It’s not Anakin, it’s an imposter. Like come on, this man would not flirt with anyone but Padmé (she’s literally the love of his life he would not dis her like that), he can’t flirt that well in the first place, and even if he’d flirt for the sake of a mission- he would NEVER flirt with a SLAVER. And like joking about the role of master coming easily to you???? I mean I know people use humour to cope with their pain but the way he says that is so Chad-like and I’m not here for it.

Anyway if you have a different opinion, I respect that!

[astrangeroftides]

Ghorman Twill

Okay, so we got some info on Star Wars textiles

AND THEY DON'T MAKE SENSE

"Ghorman twill available in all weights and weaves."

That's not how twill works. Twill is a weave you can't do a twill in all weaves, it's either a twill or it isn't.

They then show footage that is clearly silk taffeta. (below will be terrible photos I took of my computer screen)

Look I'm not even going to comment on them congratulating the ghorlectipods (spiders) for being good at capitalism.

This fiber is clearly being hinted at a silk adjacent material (potentially more durable?) however we got some close ups of them spinning the fibers and it looked wayyyy too thick also that was a wool/cotton blend. It was not silk in my opinion

Do better Star Wars

[illustratingari]

STAR WARS RANT

Subject: REPRESENTATION ❤️

As an East Asian person, it is so refreshing to finally see an Asian Jedi in a leading role. How I’ve WAITED for this moment. Star Wars has taken loads of inspiration from Asian culture so it’s really nice to see actual Asian people in the franchise recently like Lee Jung Jae, Ming Na Wen, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Natasha Liu Bordizzo.

The Acolyte features a very diverse cast and it’s so wonderful to see people from different communities being represented and celebrated in such a huge franchise like Star Wars.

Also, I’m very much enjoying the show right now. It’s original, it’s expansive and it’s thought provoking. We’re finally getting an original tale, in an era which we’ve never seen before that is giving us a “why-dun it?” mystery. And the fan boys are mad about it??? Like what???

Lee Jung Jae is a legendary actor and I’m so glad he’s apart of Star Wars. This man has made me shed tears as Master Sol and I’m looking forward to the rest of the Acolyte series.

My uncle made a comment about how he can finally cosplay as an Asian Jedi cause he looks like Sol! Representation doesn’t stop at children, it extends to older adults as well.

In conclusion: to be represented in media, means you exist.

Representation allows us to see ourselves as heroes, villains and everything in between. Without representation, how could we ever dream of being more?

[darth-prequelist]

The acolyte is cancelled?!?

Excuse my french, but WTF. Honestly.

I suppose the whiny idiots on the internet won. Why can we not have nice things? Why can't you just let people enjoy a show?

It felt like Star Wars to me. And we rarely get any Sith shit at all and once we've got it...Boom its gone. Evil twin trope and seduction to the dark side (very literally)? Amazing. Wonderful fight scenes, compelling characters. I must say I was so invested in Sol and Osha's relationship, the twins, and Qimir and Osha's.

We were going to have Plagueis (maybe?)! And now he's gone. Osha's lightsaber turned crimson??? And we're simply left with THAT! No conclusion. NO NOTHING!

And the author, Headland, had a plan. A whole overarching storyline and now we're left with one season and more than a handful of unanswered questions.

This is why we can't have nice things. Because of those pesky whiny, loud fools on the internet. It disgusts me that they're cheering over the fact that its cancelled. If you don't want to watch it, don't. Let everyone else enjoy it who does want to watch it.

Don't shit on what other people like. Its disrespectful, its immature and its unbelievably uncool.

I'll admit it. I love everything Star Wars. Sequels and all. Flaws and all. The Acolyte had its flaws but even the Original Trilogy had its own. Example: Luke became attached to Obi-Wan within a day and become a Jedi within a few days. The end result: no one cares. But the second its a new show, everyone cares about every little mistake.

And I was rather excited to explore a world set in the High Republic. Now its gone. GONE GONE GONE! We've only seen it through books and through other media. I cannot tell you, I followed this show the second it was mentioned and announced. And the fact that its ending like this is so unbelievably frustrating.

Season 1 was for sure just a setup and I don't mind that but now that's its cancelled. Just...why. The children storyline was a bit annoying and there was for sure more to the story. Why did Torbin kill himself? There had to be more. There was so much guilt and I don't believe that's it. Something to be explored in Season 2 which will never happen.

One last thing. For the folks that like guys, we've lost Qimir. Right when Star Wars is beginning to consider people who like men, they pull it right out from under us. We had Leia in a bikini in the Originals which I could care less about. Plenty of Padme in the Prequels. A bit of Kylo Ren. And now, Qimir. The pinnacle of perfection, those arms were just...hot. I'll admit it.

And now because of the haters, there will be no more. No one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans. I'm going to end this rant now before it gets far too long. All in all: I can't believe it.

I truly wish I could do anything. Something to bring it back.

[foundfamilynonsense]

I’m gonna just throw this out before it happens:

Even if Sabine somehow “unlocks” the force through hard work, the Jedi were STILL RIGHT to only recruit force sensitive children.

There has only been one episode of Sabine learning to be a jedi so far. Look at how terrible of a time she’s having. She’s making zero progress, and we know she spent a long time with Ahsoka before quitting because she was making no process.

Why is she putting herself through all this grief with no reward? No idea. That’s another post.

But the point is Ahsoka isn’t even teaching Sabine what younglings were usually taught. She’s not trying to get Sabine to deflect blaster shots (bc she’d never be able to) and she’s not trying to teach Sabine how to move things with her mind (bc she’d never be able to). It’s just lightsaber lessons. Something Kanan taught Sabine already just as a Mandalorian wielding the dark saber. Sabine would be doing so much worse if she was in a normal youngling group.

Sabine has only gotten this far because she is a natural warrior. And she still already quit once. Ahsoka’s really not helping at all. She’s just telling Sabine to “feel it”

And sure! The other jedi masters did that. But they did that knowing that their students actually had a natural ability to feel the force!! Their students knew what they were trying to feel.

For someone who went through the public school system with dyslexia I honestly felt so frustrated and bad for Sabine last episode. Ahsoka and Huyang are telling her to do things she just has no ability to do. At least Huyang is being honest with her about why.

There is nothing more frustrating when you’re struggling and someone tells you to just. Do it better. Huyang and Ahsoka are not giving her any real instruction. Bc there is no instruction. There is no shortcut like there was with reading.

But unlike me and reading, Sabine does not have to be a jedi. She does not have to learn how to use the force. So why is Ahsoka putting her through this? Why is she putting herself through this?

Imagine if the Jedi order did that with little kids? Kids who may not have the option to quit like Sabine did? That would so so terrible for them. It’s already terrible for Sabine. How long did Sabine try the first time around? How terrible did it get, not making any improvement for so long, before she quit the first time? She doesn’t have to be a jedi. If you’re not force sensitive there’s no reason to force it. (Hehe, get it? Force it?)

If Ahsoka wanted a padawan she should have found someone force sensitive and trained them. Honestly this whole thing feels like a cruel joke on Sabine: someone who works hard and is naturally talented at many other things.

[elena-loves-starwars]

RANT WARNING

I kind of feel like everyone is like "I love crosshair now" or "ever since the outpost I've liked crosshair" or "crosshair is finally a good character." And thats so cool! I'm so happy that more people like him now. But... who else has loved crosshair from episode one?

Crosshair has been my favorite member of the bad batch since the very beginning. I was like something is up with this guy and I'm not resting until I find out more. He's such a good character. The whole plot line about how he couldn't help turning on his brothers because of the chip broke my heart. Then he had his chip removed but he stayed with the empire because "loyalty meant something to me," which also broke my heart. He never had a choice. He loved his brothers, but he was loyal. And then he finally turned on the empire because they weren't loyal to him and not only did that break my heart, it also broke him. Through it all, he still loved his brothers. The whole time. And his sister, I think, though he didn't really know it. Yes, he had his inhibiter chip removed. But he never had a choice. Not really.

[clqoo]

star wars characters as music but it’s my music taste bc im obsessed w equating characters & music pt.3

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hear me out it makes sense ok

[wookieefan]

This is a bad angle it makes Harrison look really wide. Carrie looks like she about to fall backwards and the only support she has is holding Harrison's hand. Mark's face expression looks like a rat and the way he's holding his blaster lol. You can't even see Chewie's face kinda scary.

[river-from-alderaan]

Headcanon: Leia has curly hair, she just doesn't know it.

It sounds dumb, but it does happen. People will think they just have really frizzy, hard to tame hair, only to find out years down the line that they've been taking care of it wrong.

The one time we see Leia with her hair down, in Endor, she has some soft waves, right? Now, these waves do not look like natural hair texture, but rather what straight hair typically looks like after being braided for several hours. Which makes sense. Leia's hair is always braided.

But what if it's not that? What if that's actually the look of very neglected natural curls? Is it not in character for Leia Organa, the girl who joined a rebellion at 16, who was a senator by 19, who was physically and mentally tortured and didn't even get to complain, who lost her family and everything she knew and immediately supressed her feelings because there was still a battle ahead, who still worried about the loss of a boy she'd just met, who constantly refused to let herself be loved, to neglect not only her human and emotional needs, but also her very body?

Yes, you could argue that she still dedicates the time to put up these fancy hairdos to begin with, but I'd argue back that those she's been doing since very little. They remind her of home — of course she'd want to continue doing them, especially now. They're all she has left of it.

How would Leia know how to take care of curls? Both Bail and Breha have pin straight hair.

In my own personal headcanon, Leia realizes in her mid twenties that her hair needs a different type of care and starts giving it it. In time, it becomes bright, soft and full of life.

And when she finds out through Obi-Wan that Padmé had curls as well, she starts to observe hers more. She's always used her hair as a way of honoring the home and family she had, but now she sees it too shows her ties with the home and family she could've had.

She still does her signature hairstyles. But she also lets it down, now.

[dimbulbstudiosinc]

Just thinking about how Revan wears a Mandalorian helmet like it’s nothing. Idk if he has a 100% grasp on the significance of it. He just kinda took a ceremonial mask and just claimed it. It’s be funny if he interacted with the Children of the Watch in the Mandalorian and their reaction is just: “wtf? Why do you even have that?” But then the pivot to “oh you won it in combat. I guess you can keep it” would probably be so fast

[amandamadeathing]

I got the Black Series Tech. My thoughts about the action figure are below the cut, as well as the same rant I've been commenting and re-blogging are below the cut, if anyone cares.

I want Crosshair to join his Chaos Twin on adventures, but all that's available is at a reasonable price is in Imperial armor.

He looks confused or annoyed (did he get a leak of the season 3 script?). His hairline is even further receded. His features look more like Jango's than the cartoon character, but he is further white-washed. 🙄 He was not bank-breakingly exponsive, not as cheap as that loose die-cast K2-SO up there. I am tempted to double his cost to buy a 3D printed head off Etsy to give him goggles and darker skin, since he's never seen without them in the show. Why did this and the helmet-less Funko have him without goggles? (More season 3 foreshadowing).

Disney didn't care about The Clone Wars or The Bad Batch. I firmly believe the creators thought they'd get 4 seasons of 30 minute episodes, which would have neatly resolved things at a comfortable pace. It's not Disney's full IP, unlike Rebels- The Mandalorian and sequels. And it doesn't have the tested legacy of the Original Trilogy. It's animated, which everyone knows is not the very serious storytelling medium live action is (Ahsoka is a very serious show) . Part of my evidence is how many Black Seies Ahsokas and Reys are there? Why can't I meet Wrecker or Rex in SWGE?

[colection-of-chaos]

My thoughts on the Jedi MedCorps

I'm of the option that most Jedi healers should be part of the MedCorps instead of Jedi knights, mostly because the learning at the MedCorps starte around the same time as Padawan training and is more focused on medicine than the general Padawan training does.

I also think that the MedCorps has probably a good amount of medical resources specializes in different fields , that can probably be split in two groups, generall research for every thing that occurs but doesn't really cause epidemics and The ones specialized in epidemics that often leave the hall of healing and research sight while helping out.

I also think that the members of the Med corps have a verity of profession but a brought knowledge of different other professions.

Like The ones working more as nurses are also aware how to assist in emergency, the medical technicians also sometimes help out as nurses or even doctors.

There is also a part of the corps that specialize in crisis help on different planets. As surgeons, doctors, nurses and medics both in battle and in other crisis.

A also disagree with the thought that he medCorps is one of the smallest that is as if you said relief organizations are less because the generell infrastructure in normal places is better. Or to say the AgraCorps is smaller because there is already also to Farming happening even if (in my option) what they have over they export to places that really need help with their food supply.

+ 1 random other thought

I'm convinced that most of the Educational as well as Exploration Corps have a good basis in self defense, so do some of the more crisis focused MedCorps members, by fare no Jedi Kights but they could protect children/patients/them self incase of an attack on their class/filed hospital/research camp if in unstable area or war zone