The Jedi Lessons Are Going Great.

he was the cool uncle

inspired by this post^

⚜️ what happens where we stand / will happen here again ⚜️

it’s big missing them hours...... at all hours........ :’)

vv star wars pilled atm🦐

I FOUND IT I FOUND THE DICK JOKE

Couldn’t sleep and didn’t wanna be productive soooooo….. these guys

Diagnosis: ✨ babygirl ✨ (in/sp)

Waiting for Shadow Lord is going to be my Lotho Minor arc. Just losing my mind until it gets here.

maul: crime lord, son of dathomir, king of drama

this sums up the entirety of star wars

The clones really are a fascinating contrast to stormtroopers. And I don’t mean Finn and the First Order because they follow in the wake of The Clone Wars; I mean Imperial stormtroopers who dominated the Star Wars imagination first and the longest.

For decades, stormtroopers basically functioned like clones: they looked and sounded the same, even though we knew there were different people underneath the helmets they never took off; different faces, same personality.

Then actual clones basically inverted the model: genetically identical men used every opportunity to differentiate themselves, from their armor to their body modifications to their behavior; same face, different personalities.

The one place where the Venn diagram intersected was loyalty, but even then, they still inverted each other’s models. Clones designed to be unwaveringly loyal and obedient consistently questioned orders and their place in the galaxy. Meanwhile, stormtroopers from disparate planets and cultures unfailingly followed the orders of an impersonal Empire.

For all of Star Wars’s faults, for all the ways in which they dumb down or gloss over traditional scifi modes and themes, I can’t think of a more thorough exploration of cloning, the attendant questions of identity and free will, and the sociopolitical and metaphysical implications of a race of genetically identical men, of sameness in difference and difference in sameness, than the clone troopers.