#then second trilogy is a prequel trilogy

[probablygayattorneys]

@vaptainhammer explaining the timeline of the Professor Layton games to me the only way he knows how

[hayden-christensen]

PREQUELS APPRECIATION WEEK 2024 DAY 3: LOCATIONS ▸ NABOO AS VINTAGE POSTCARDS FT. FILMING LOCATIONS

Many scenes for Naboo were filmed on location at Plaza de España in Seville, Spain; Villa del Balbianello on Lake Como, Italy; Royal Palace of Caserta in Italy and Whippendell Wood, England, UK.

[burntblueberrywaffles]

Scarred and disabled Vader my beloved ❤️❤️❤️

[animazi]

funerary preparations i revenge of the sith // attack of the clones // ‘medieval death’ by paul binski

[catchcrows]

Whatever you choose, you lose out in the long run—the goal I was aiming for was the wrong one

[backpackingspace]

Vadar: who can still feel obi wan even if he can't find the bastard: he's alive and we're going to tare the galaxy apart till we find him and crush him like the bug he is am I understand

Cody: general kenobi is dead I killed him myself

Vadar: who can feel that his old master is alive

Vadar: who knows exactly how unkillable obi wan is.

Vadar: who knows for a fact Cody shot once, missed , and declared him dead.

Cody: who is perfectly aware of all of this: I shot him myself. He's dead. I never fail a mission objective

[psychomusic]

so. I've been reading some posts on the jedi order tag AND i won't talk about my opinion on "are jedi good or bad discourse" BUT i wanna point out some lore to everyone who's complaining about the jedi taking kids into their order: (in the EU) it wasn't always like this.

if you take swtor era (more than 3000 years before the prequels) there were many jedi who joined at an older age. like, for example there was a guy who broke his engagement to become one. most jedi remember their families because they were old enough when they decided to go.

THEN in darth bane's book trilogy (circa 1000 yesrs before the prequels) there is a passage where two sith lords are talking about taking bane, already an adult, to study at korriban. one doubted him because he was too old, ans the other told him he sounded like a jedi, and that ONE DAY jedi will have to accept only kids into their ranks if they really want to find "pure" people that can learn their lessons quicker.

one day!! so it wasn't always like that!! the ongoing wars with the sith, who corrupted and killed many of them, had pressured them into taking always younger people into their ranks.

also, consider a thing that this video explains super well: training to become a jedi is not like exercising, because there is a transformative lesson at the end of the training that changes everything. you can't just do as much as you can, but not finish.

the transformative lesson, as the video explains, is that through the force, everything is the same - from rocks and ships to life and death. at the end of the training you have to understand this fundamental truth.

yoda says "you have to unlearn what you have learned". during times where they were constantly killed off or corrupted by the dark side (and if you haven't learned this lesson you are more susceptible to this corrupting), younger people were taken in to actually finish their training (a training that was ultimately about being a good person AND that you could leave at any point if you weren't sold on that, too)

(remember that for the sith failure = death. like. that was the alternative for force sensitive kids. it's not like sith had any moral problem with taking kids away without consent. sith don't have moral problems: they believe that them being stronger in the force means they can do whatever they want as long as their strong enough to go and do it. there are MANY passages in many different star wars stories, even in different mediums, that say this out loud)

AND (this is more of a critical thought than just stating the lore) the fact that they started doing it out of necessity doesn't mean it's 100% good BUT you know. the whole set up of the prequels is that we're starting off the story in a period of crisis and decadence all around. most of the systems of the times were about to fall. OF COURSE they had problems. if they didn't, we wouldn't have the story to begin with.

that doesn't automatically mean jedi = bad and sith are better, tho. you wouldn't take the last, chaotic and decadent period to jugde something, would you? it's like deciding that the athenian democracy sucked because people at the times of Demosthenes failed at recognizing the new schemes in which the world was evolving into, and still believed that their city would be important as it had been in the previous century. They just didn't fucking expect the Macedons would conquer half the world known and more, and have the subsequent political power. Still, their experiences in the 5th century with democracy were very good, even better than ours on many fronts, if you contextualize a little. the jedi had flaws, and most importantly, they didn't fucking know the future and everything that ever happened, ever, so they made mistakes. that doesn't automatically make the system ill, or bad, or not-working. systems can have setbacks when the world changes. (just like athenian democracy had one when they lost the empire that was funding the democracy. they even had a tyranny for a while and then fixed the problems. that doesn't diminish retrospectively their democracy)

[bumblebeebat22]

flying or high jumping is a common discussion with the jedi but i fully believe jedi have the capability to fly and also stick to walls like spiderman

let me explain

to fly a jedi would stand with their palms facing the ground, iron man style, and push the planet away from themselves as hard as they can

the planet would be WAY too heavy to move but there's still force pushing so they would go flying upwards

i guess it wouldn't be flying as much as it is keeping themselves from falling by continuously pushing the planet away but they'd probably move pretty fast if they pushed at an angle and basically jumped mid air

double jump but with the force

now, sticking to walls

the only way for it to work the wall, or any big object, would have to be very sturdy and heavier than the jedi can move. the jedi would stand in front of the wall and pull the wall towards themselves

again, it would be too heavy for themselves to actually move it so they would get pulled towards it

and as long as they continue to pull the wall towards themselves, they'd be able to scale it

and i guess this wouldn't be sticking as much as... suctioning(?) themselves to the wall

i know that's already kind of done in jedi fallen order and jedi survivor when cal does the wall run so it's not a far stretch

and it could even work the other way, they could get away from a dangerous situation by jumping out a window or something and push the entire building away from them so they shoot far away and then push against the planet less and less until they get down to the ground slowly and relatively safely

[kwanisms]

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[skippingdown16]

the thing is that tbosas really probably should have been two movies but there was so much pushback about splitting up mockingjay that they couldn't have done it. still fantastic though

[flibbertygigget]

denis villeneuve get to the sexy ninja nuns challenge

[daisychainsandbowties]

oh my god thank you..i too am a huge prequel fan and cannot stand when people shit on them. im just like but have u seen obi?!??? watch me get into aggressive negotiations over my sweet prequels

you 🤝 me

me when ppl say 'i don't like the prequels because they're silly/cringe/not as good as the originals'

like!!! the prequels gave us cute baby obi with his padawan braid. they gave and gave and gave. i'm kissing them on the mouth.

guys the delicious veggies you enjoy come from the GROUND and beautiful gorgeous lines like 'why do i get the feeling we've picked up another pathetic life-form?' and 'the negotiations were short' come from the same media as jar jar. fact of life.

MEANWHILE. if not for the prequels we would not have seen the debut of my precious babies: B1-series battle droids!!

a whole entire ECOSYSTEM grew from those movies. they're art. and unfortunately to make art you have to bleed everywhere i don't make the rules. but you know all the suffering (aka the immaculate conception of anakin skywalker, jar jar, i can't think of any others i love these movies shut uuuup) means that we get to experience the Pure Unadulterated Joy. aka obi draped against a pillar like the prettiest most sarcastic damsel in distress ever. natalie portman in the desert, in general. GeNeRaL kEnObI.

hello these movies serve so much cunt and for what?? they are the epitome for me of 'sit down with me and let's talk about the flaws in this thing i love and adore'. GOD yeah it's cringe sometimes but i cannot stress how much i LOVE that about it.

[mann-walter]

Palpatine might just be the most memed Star Wars character to date

I actually searched it up, and it's true, apparently. But I don't know what makes him so. Like, everybody pretty much got the same quality of dialogue within the films, right? What makes Palpatine's lines so... iconic?

[burntblueberrywaffles]

It’s doneeeee everyone come look at my Anidala edit!!

[catchcrows]

There are evenings I recall, I was older than your years—ram-headed son, prodigal gun, shot with mama's tears

[booksandpaperss]

Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one