oh its the pieces of the death star? oh they’re being inserted into this weapon of mass destruction in the most stunningly horrifying shot ive seen in my life? oh cassian and melshi were really building the weapon that would bring about their deaths all along?
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damn i didnt realise the gonchin scene was so divisive? like ok maybe its a bit tonally dissonant but the music slaps
every time I see a post about That Movie I go “damn I should find this it’s gotta be streaming somewhere” and every time the truth smacks me in the face just like Katya’s bourbon smashed into Andrey’s shoulder that night by the river
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Aliens have captured you, and placed you in one of their nature preserves. However, they have sorely miscalculated on two issues: The amount of calories needed to keep a persistence predator sated, and the lethality/brutality of a hangry human.
it occurred to me just now that living in horrible turbulent times means that studying your time period is likely to be the boring normie option in the future because that's what everyone studied
The thing that in the last episode of Andor a guy just casually whips out Luthen’s kriffing LIGHTSABER?!…I am…just….I can’t I just can’t….I have to go scream for a couple of hours I mean holy shit-
what day is it
I can’t get over the continued thematic follow-through of this idea that Jedi aren’t truly Jedi unless they’re standing up in defense of the innocent and helpless, they have to be active in the galaxy, they have to spread kindness and compassion wherever they go, it’s an uncontrollable urge, it’s an itch, “They cannot help it.“
And also the idea that it’s FORCE ITSELF that is whispering to them, calling them back, calling them home, telling them to take up their swords again, reach out in faith and find that the Light never left you, it’s still inside you and it needs you because the galaxy is so so dark and bleak and hopeless and there’s so much evil everywhere and the galaxy needs them to stand up and step out of the shadows and into the light so that they can reignite people’s hope.
It’s the pauses of awe and wonder in even the most miserable and selfish of underworld denizens because that’s a Jedi, the Jedi are back, the Jedi are here, everything will be okay now.
It’s F knighting herself, cutting her own padawan braid and proudly declaring she is a Jedi to save a frightened exploited village bride.
It’s Kanan igniting his saber for the first time in years to protect his future padawan and a clutch of Wookie slaves and the rattled composure in the Imperials when they realize, “Holy shit that’s a Jedi.“
It’s Cal and Cere deciding they were done hiding, done running from the Empire, they were going to fight back, and Saw gleefully pointing to them to inspire his band of Rebels.
It’s Obi-Wan unburying his lightsaber even after being so hopeless and broken and full of guilt and self-blame because people still need him, he’s the only one they can trust.
The whole Dark Times as a sloooooowly turning eucatastrophe, tiny lights of hope struggling to hold back the darkness long enough. Holding out. Buying time until the twin suns can rise. Until Luke and Leia and the destruction of the Death Star and the death of the Emperor and the glorious return of light to the galaxy.
I love it.
i want 24 blue checkmarks. twitter cannot get a dollar out of me but i want nothing more than a hoard of completely useless checkmarks that may or may not turn into crabs at any point.
sick of star wars theories. if you’re not here to talk about hondo ohnaka being a form of immortal chaos god manifested by the force then get out of my sight
Ezra Bridger was the most character ever. He was 14 and an orphan, he got adopted by some rebels in a mom van, he had a funky face scar, he unlocked his strongest abilities with compassion, he was courageous despite overwhelming anxiety, he was born to be an annoying little brother, he collected imperial helmets, he hijacked an armed tank to steal some fruit, his pseudonym was “Jabba the Hutt”, he was SWANA-coded*, he told off a Grand Admiral to his face, he fell into the Dark Side and pulled himself out of it, he handmade a lightsaber that was also a gun, he couldn’t fly a jetpack for shit, he was friends with 700 cats and several dozen whales, he survived encounters with Maul, Darth Vader, and Palpatine himself, he was buddies with Ahsoka Tano and Hondo Ohnaka, he couldn’t save his teacher, he let his adopted sister paint his helmets, he successfully liberated his home planet from a full scale fascist occupation, and every goddamn day I miss him
*disclaimer: I can’t find any actual details on which ethnicity Ezra is specifically based on/inspired by, but the majority of fan headcanons pertaining to this seem to fall under this category!
If I watch one more person die after yelling “climb” in Cassian’s general direction I’m gonna start throwing stuff
Listen.
LISTEN.
This is unhinged but Luthen and Kleya have been going around and around in my head and I’ve figured it out. She’s not his wife or his boss she’s his MASTER.
This show is too deliberate with its choices for it not to mean something. Kleya’s red outfit when she meets Vel and tells her to terminate Andor. The way they have Starkiller Sith Amor in the front and the back of the shop and constantly shoot it over Luthen’s shoulder. The Jedi AND Sith holocrons.
They’re being cute with Luthens costume and his *WIIIIINK* cane but he said he did the math 15 years ago and that’s solidly Clone Wars. He saw the writing on the wall and did a Dooku and left the order. Eventually meets up with a Nightsister who wants to bring the Empire (and prolly Sheevy Palps personally) down for genociding her people.
Luthen doesn’t FALL to the dark side so much as saunters vaguely downwards. He does what he needs to do, the whole goddamn episode is about One Way Out and the dark side was his way and Kleya showed him how.
His whole ass monologue to Lonni starts with there is no peace only passion and runs right down to through power my chains are broken.
Andor is full of echoes echoes echoes of Rogue One - not cutesy winky winky Easter eggs - but resonances and I KNOW this show will end the way the movie did.
Luthen’s gonna draw his (RED!) saber BUT instead he’s gonna go full Kanan and save the rebellion.
"And what do you sacrifice?"
"Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love.
I've given up all chance at inner peace.
I've made my mind a sunless space.
I share my dreams with ghosts.
I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion: I'm damned for what I do.
My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they've set me on a path from which there is no escape.
I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet.
What is my sacrifice?
I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them.
I burn my decency for someone else's future.
I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see.
And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude.
So what do I sacrifice?
Everything!
You'll stay with me, Lonni.
I need all the heroes I can get."
It has just occurred to me that Kino probably knew the entire time that he wouldn't be able to escape with the others. He knew the prison was surrounded by water and that he couldn't swim. He's always known that his only way out was to get to the end of his sentence and once that got taken away, he'd have been entirely justified in just giving up but instead he helps literally everyone else escape instead, without ever letting on that he knows he can't join them.
No way out, indeed.
Some Imperial somewhere: you're never going to believe who just organised a massive prison break
I always say morning instead of good morning because if it were a good morning ezra bridger would be back
I know I’ve already talked about this shot too much
BUT COME ON
Oh. OH. *sits here with eyes wet from emotion*
THAT’s why the colours of the Rebellion are orange and white…
me after episode of andor: this might be the best piece of star wars i’ve ever seen
me after episode 10 of andor: *shaking, crying, throwing up* this might be the best piece of star wars i’ve ever seen
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supernatural, love it or hate it, is the spectre haunting this website, it’s the phantom, the undead soul of the tumblr golden era, it trending higher than ryan reynolds joining tumblr is a reclamation and an affirmation, this is OUR land
TONIGHT. WE’RE DRINKING FROM THE POND.
sometime after scarif i sincerely hope that someone in the isb finds out cassian andor was involved in stealing the death star plans and is just so impotently mad because it’s that guy. funnier if dedra lives for this scenario.
there’s something so darkly funny about how cassian keeps saying that the empire doesn’t care about anyone when they care a great deal about his whereabouts specifically.
Adding the idea of ‘investing’ in a post at low notes to see if it will later get big has left the tumblr economy in shambles