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It's all worth it if more people fall in love with Ouanni.
I will never care about Star Wars but this is my blorbo now after the Jenny Nicholson essay
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Writer deeply confused why a character called The Mandalorian, who spent a season learning different ways to be Mandalorian before coming to posses magic sword that usually denotes rulership over Mandalore, could possibly be construed as a leader of a resurgent Mandalorian people
The Mandalorian showrunner Jon Favreau has defended the decision to make Bo-Katan Kryze the new leader of Mandalore, explaining that Din Djarin was not supposed to be an "Aragorn" for Star Wars.
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To be read in the The Clone Wars announcer guy voice.
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Grey Jedi fans are the kind of motherfuckers to put one of these stickers on their car.
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Where are the frame-by-frame fight analysis guys when this impact should have reduced half the bones in Obi-Wan's body to powder?
Kinda crazy that George couldn’t think up anything better for this situation than dropping 5,000lbs on Obi Wan without repurcussions lmao
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And then we finally got a krayt dragon on screen after 40 years and it didn't make any of these sounds or look like the one established rendition of a krayt dragon.
Star Wars, baby!
I love how Obi-Wan's Krayt Dragon call gets more & more outlandish with each successive release of Episode 4 lol
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Yet another YouTuber shocked to find that when you slow down a fake fight to examine it frame by frame, it looks fake.
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Happy one year anniversary to Star Wars looking you directly in the eye and telling you armed revolution is the only way anything will ever get better.
One Way Out (Andor, Season 1, episode 10) was released one year ago today.
I didn't know which of the two wonderful monologues to highlight, so I put both.🤗
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With no explanation from Luke how and why Grogu came back when he did, I bet Mando thinks he passed Jedi school with flying colors.
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Hey, Ahsoka showed those tapes she has to Luke, right? Luke has seen his father life-sized, in his prime, actually not fucking up for once, right?
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This is genuinely the greatest Star Wars book ever written.
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My kid just asked if we could watch the last Star Wars movie to finish our live action watch-through.
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The frustrating thing is Luke's entire plot in this movie is written expressly for dudes like this.
My guy, Luke Skywalker is trying to teach *you* something! Pay attention!
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The fact that Alec Guinness fully sells a knowing look at Darth Vader that is equal parts pride, hope, and "you have no idea what's coming for you you dumb bastard" despite NONE of that being written is remarkable.
hey y’all - do ever think about how the last thing Obi Wan sees is Luke and Leia finally reunited after 19 years?
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Imagine how delighted Artoo must have been to hear Lola's story once she got back to the palace.
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The decision to have Threepio be able to read Sith but not speak it aloud, necessitating a 15 minute detour from the main plot, is the most baffling plot choice in genre fiction I can think of.
i would give any amount of money for an interview with the most junior editor that saw all the cuts. i need to know when they Knew. did they know? i’d never run out of questions. explain to me in detail the chain of decisions that led to chewbacca being fake dead for 56 seconds
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Bo-Katan works as a character because Sackoff carries, but there's definitely a version of all this where Din gets stuck with a crown he's pretty sure he doesn't want and has to figure it out. That's a story I would like to see.
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Tales of the MASSIVE FUCKING FLEET WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT
Tales of The Jedi
Tales of The Empire
Tales of the (SEQUAL TRILOGY RELATED)
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It's very funny that this was Zahn's public take on Thrawn and Ezra, while the reality ended up being that Ezra had made himself a mail shirt from an absolutely insane number of stormtrooper dogtags because he spent the last decade putting up video game numbers against the Empire
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The reinvention of George W. Bush, a war criminal with monstrous domestic policies whose damage to the nation had thus far been permanent, as America’s goofy uncle has done a lot to show me how ex-Confederates reentered polite society after the Civil War.
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For all the great monologues in this show, Maarva's hits the spiritual core of this whole saga the best & most directly. It's also the only one the fascists hear, and of course it sends them immediately flying into a rage.
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Maarva richly deserves to be the first person in Star Wars to say fuck.
minor
#andorspoilers
i will go to my grave convinced she's saying "fuck the empire" here but they dubbed in "fight" later
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Ahsoka: [slices six people the fuck apart]
Anakin, trying his hardest to be helpful: boy, this looks traumatic.
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Boba Fett trying to set up a crime-free crime syndicate on Tatooine both makes no sense and is considerably more interesting than anything else that has been done with both the planet and the character.
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I'm never leaving this fucking website.
you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.
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One of the most potent tools in the arsenal of any cult is there ability to quickly shower love and acceptance onto new arrivals and redeemed penitents. It's easy for existing cultists to go from hostile to loving; all that matters is if another person is part of the cult.
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One of the great strengths of Star Wars is that Cassian Andor (town dirtbag who owes everyone money and isn't over his ex) shares a universe with Anakin Skywalker (once fought his best friend with laser swords while Tarzan-swinging over a volcano).
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Lovingly bombarding a city of innocent civilians to blackmail a child into having a Zoom call with Satan.
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Summoning circle around this tweet.
my tongue is sacred i speak upon what i like
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The Delaware House will vote today on a bill that would allow hundreds of LLCs to vote in local elections in the small town of Seaford.
In the town of 8,500, hundreds of businesses voting could be the deciding factor in every election.
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[Bolts upright in a cold sweat]
If they're not bringing Mara back, but still want Luke to have Chemistry with a slightly older woman* with a complicated relationship to her combat-centric lightsaber training...
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Boba ending a decade of debate over his status as a Mandalorian with an empathic statement of his Mando-ness delivered by Actual Temura Morrison is just.... really good.
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Yoda choosing to die rather than talk about feelings with a Skywalker is both a mood and an inspiration.
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"Somehow, Palpatine returned" works because even IF someone had all the knowledge of these many secret parts, you can't stop a film to say "using M-count stabilization techniques first developed with Boba Fett's trans sister and a baby Yoda, Sith cultists cloned Emperor Palpat-"
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I have lived long enough to see a Golden Globe winner give the technical designation for a starfighter.
as a fan of the comics i would like to throw my hat in the ring to voice shara bey, mother of poe dameron, because her ship was an RZ-1 (my initials!) for green squadron
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Conversely, building off a wildly successful TV show whose star is one of the hottest names in the business instead of throwing the ball back to a cartoon character seems like it would have made good business, but that it definitively not my lane.
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"You'll notice how a new skill was hard for him the first time. You may have expected him to overcome this through practice and confronting the aspects of his personality that made it hard for him to weild the sword. We thought it'd be more fun if he just gave up immediately."
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I will never understand how someone saw this and said "yeah, this guy deserves to write the end of the Skywalker Saga."
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There has never been a stronger argument for droid autonomy than Chopper being forced to scab.
#nomeatnomasters
Chopper is on stage to promote
#Ahsoka
instead of the cast since studios refuse to pay their actors fairly.
#DestinationD23
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Dave Bautista's character in Glass Onion having this tattoo is such a searing, detailed indictment of his character.
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The funniest part of Ahsoka so far was Ryder Azadi absolutely refusing to give this show a concrete timeline placement by saying Lothal defeated the Empire "several years ago."
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I can KINDA accept Luke's attempt at building a Jedi Order not working out. But there should be Jedi offshoots sprouting up all across the galaxy after Endor. You've got a generation of of uncollected Force sensitives bouncing around the galaxy, running into Order 66 survivors.
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Listen, does
#TheMandalorian
(spoilers) sometimes give in to Star Wars’ most hollow, fanboyish instincts? Yes.
Is Bo-Katan accidentally joining a cult both horriffic and the funniest thing to ever happen? Yes.
But we got a whole episode set on New Republic-era Coruscant. Home
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"On the flip side, the character with the birthright and obsession with ruling seemed naturally talented, so we thought we didn't need to complicate or challenge that at all."
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@brodiewankenobi
Anakin wanted to stay with his mom. Luke didn't want to go with Obi-Wan. Rey gave Maz the lightsaber back.
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Everyone who complains about Luke dying in TLJ is clearly ignoring Mark Hamill being a leader of the real-life Resistance.
Still Awaiting Due Process: Kristin Anderson-Mariah Billado-Lisa Boyne-Rachel Crooks-Tasha Dixon-Jessica Drake-Jill Harth-Cathy Heller-Samantha Holvey-Ninni Laaksonen-Jessica Leeds-Melinda McGillivray-Cassandra Searles-Natasha Stoynoff... (continued) /1
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Eck not flirt with the most debased and horrific segments of fandom while actually talking about something substantive challenge (impossible)
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George would have ditched the EU, the Sequels would still have a female lead, Luke would probably have been even sadder, & the dialogue/directing would still be Prequels-era bad. The films would (probably) have been more coherent & definitely more interested in saying something
Here's a genuine question for sequel deniers:
Say George Lucas doesn't sell and instead makes his own sequels, do you honestly believe that he would remain loyal to the expanded universe?
Of course he wouldn't, he'd have overwritten it just like Disney did.
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Making Kylo Ren a huge dorkass loser in a silly mask was a perfect choice for a movie series releasing roughly concurrently with the ascendancy of a real-life neo-fascist movement, and making Ben effortlessly cool, competent, and a little funny in his few scenes was brilliant.
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This is "Rey lived alone on Tatooine forever" logic.
Wasn’t the whole thing with Plagueis and Tenbrous their political influence in the background being their strength?
The shift with Tenebrous was the Sith’s move to influence over explicit strength right?
Why is this dude lurking in a cage? Shouldn’t he be expanding his reach?
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“peak character design” and it’s just someone exhausted from work
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Have these dorks met Luke Skywalker? He'd be as hard as he'd ever been in his life if this happened to him.
@ScriptTrooper
"Quite possibly the best portrayal of Luke Skywalker that could have possibly been achieved"
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This goes all the way back to Heir to the Empire, where Luke noted that Yoda and the Emperor were both so powerful they didn't e even bother carrying lightsabers.
Finishing Tales of the Empire, it’s become very clear that Filoni is adopting a perspective that a Jedi of certain maturity or training will rely on the Force before turning to a lightsaber, if at all.
See Ezra and Barriss.
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There's a million legitimate things to freak out over in this episode, but HOLY SHIT ACTUAL CORTOSSIS AS DESCRIBED IN LEGENDS!
Even Legends fucked up how cortossis ore was supposed to work. KotOR treated it as another in a growing list of materials that could block lightsabers.
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Zahn: I think we can do like a buddy cop thing!
Ezra: I have killed so many stormtroopers over so much time that their names have slipped from living memory. I armor myself with the only proof that their worthless lives came to an end in these haunted wastes.
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Just saw one of these on the way to the supermarket and I am delighted to announce I have a new Enemy.
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Happy birthday to the EU becoming completely unfilmable.
October 5, 1999: The iconic New Jedi Order series began 24 years ago today with "Vector Prime" by R.A. Salvatore hitting the shelves!
Introducing the notorious Yuuzhan Vong, new Jedi, and original favorites, this book raised the Star Wars universe to new heights.
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@zonaizelda
This game had the opportunity to play with the entirety of Zelda lore and instead did its own thing. As a guy who likes Zelda lore, I'm... conflicted.
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Luke Skywalker voluntarily becoming One with the Force while smiling into a twin sunset was the best ending anyone could have thought of for him. It is unbelievable that people are mad about this.
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I can hold two truths:
1) Alicent Hightower has been failed and abused by every single person in her life, and deserves our sympathy.
2) Alicent Hightower would be really mad about student loan forgiveness.
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Famously restrained filmmaker George Lucas.
Lucas gets grief for this sometimes, but his natural sense of restraint is a crucial ingredient to his work that none of his modern surrogates seem to know how to replicate or, indeed, even be aware of in the first place.
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No one knows what the Chosen One prophecy means, least of all George Lucas.
In one of George Lucas's sequel trilogy concepts, Princess Leia was revealed to be the real Chosen One as Supreme Chancellor
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Maybe this was the moment Zahn started getting Too Weird about Thrawn.
Don't mind me, just thinking about the time Thrawn dressed up as Boba Fett in Legends
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This picture is what the death of progress always looks like.
@quantian1
the frustrating thing is that in reality the worst part of the northeast corridor Amtrak route today is the extremely curvy part that runs through some of the wealthiest parts of Connecticut who went full NIMBY when Amtrak tried to improve/straighten the track
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@GalacticaDrama1
She even, I think, was enjoying herself a bit fighting Mae. There was a growl in her voice, and genuine satisfaction at beating her, that told me this kid was a *fighter.*
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Imagine if this hadn't happened. Luke, Han, and Leia would be on their fifth retirement book by now. The Solos would have somehow lost another five kids. We'd have had two more "it's okay that they're Sith, because they're hot" stories.
30 October 2012
#TodayinStarWarsHistory
“Time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers.”
#GeorgeLucas
#Disney
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Barriss: Alright, this is all a little weird, but time for a new beginning. Gotta make the most of this chance while I have it. Gotta be open to new possibilities.
[Seven foot tall mecha-Anakin stomps into the room and everyone bows]
Barriss:
[every Star Wars promo in this era]
promo: “meet your new master”
me: UH OH WHO IS IT
promo: *Vader breathing, shot of his platform boots*
me: OH MY GODDDDD
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The success of Mario made this inevitable, but I cannot think of a studio less qualified to engage with Zelda than Illumination.
Universal and Illumination are reportedly closing a deal to make a ‘LEGEND OF ZELDA’ movie.
(Source: )
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If they had continued to film Luke's story in the 90s and Mark Hamill had said these exact words about filming with Mara Jade's actress, I would have dropped to the ground and had a frothing seizure.
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On one hand, breaking up Imperial ships to turn their components into Starhawks of Vesper-types is an insane way to use a decreasing defense budget. On the other hand, nothing makes the NR look like a weird parody of itself than an ISD with a smiley face painted on.
New Republic Imperial Star Destroyer! By JustTylo on DeviantArt.
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@TravisCurnutte
They block plenty of times during the fight. In this particular instance, the person retreated out of distance. Happens all the time in fencing.
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Bob Iger sitting in his office at the top of Cinderella Castle, ripping pages out of a copy of Vector Prime and throwing them one at a time into a roaring fireplace.
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The most effective Sith battleship wasn’t a mall goth-looking collection of spires and angles. It's the mass-produced geometric horror of the Imperial-class. Having the Sith fleet look like it did is fully as important as having the People's Fleet be an incredible hodgepodge.
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Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.
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One of the central tenants of living as a Jehovah's Witness is that I was really, really not supposed to miss any of the three meetings we had each week. Once a year, we'd be visited by a circuit overseer (bishop-level). To miss one of these meetings would be a near sacrilege.
Longtime Star Wars fans, what was it like seeing The Phantom Menace (posters, trailers, merch, the movie) in 1999?
Would love to chat with you for a fun story I'm working on! 🫶
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@shellshooked
These dudes devoted six years of their lives to Zonai theories and none of them hit on "beautiful goat people who drive monster trucks in the sky."
They might be in shock.
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@TheCountofS
Literally the first thing written about Halo was that the government abducted a bunch of children and conducted hideous, often fatal experiments on them in order to create super soldiers tasked with crushing internal dissent.
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"So we have to reset Threepio's memory? Will that give us a chance to have him suddenly become aware of his adventures in the Prequels?"
"✨No✨"
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There are Star Wars movies with better writing, bigger space battles, and better pacing. There is, however, only one where the final battle begins with a carnivorous teddy bear stealing a motorcycle.
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Mon Mothma, watching Hamato Xiono be a complete dick all the time and be consistently politically rewarded for it and thinking "I sold my daughter to a gangster in to make this possible."
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WHAT
Dean-Charles Chapman as Torbin in The Acolyte and Tommen Baratheon in Game of Thrones
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"If the Ghormans didn't want to get crushed, they shouldn't have been protesting on the landing pad."
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It should be pointed out that Star Wars visual media did not pass the Power Rangers test (two women on the team) until Rebels.
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