cunt dooku
Me: The Acolyte is the culmination of decades of thorough misunderstanding of the story Lucas was telling in his original six-part saga. And its depressing that at this point, the genie is out of the bottle and can't be put back in, with how pervasive the misreading of the prequels and the Jedi is.
Them: Sir, this is a Taco Bell.
Free my girl she did nothing wrong, except make terrible choices, which girls are allowed to do! Without consequence!
People hate too much... Star Wars is bad, we know this! Let's love together instead, let's search for the good in everything, and never give up on our dreams of what Star Wars could be. That's my Jedi way or whatever
Loving star wars is a curse and perhaps a mental illness of some kind
it’s been three whole entire years
I usually stick to canon, but the legends Jedi Apprentice series has a very special place in my heart partially because giving obi-wan a messed up apprenticeship where he was a child soldier several times adds so much to his character... directly informs his views on war and violence and a Jedi's role in those acts... anyway hey alexa play a pearl by Mitski
very much spitballing here, forgive me, but i think for the sake of the narrative needing a negative controlling idea and glucas’ use of obi-wan as a centering device in both his trilogies, obi-wan never really processes his role as a soldier and how that led to the fall of the republic. (obviously the jedi’s militarization wasn’t the only factor nor did they “deserve” their genocide. let’s be adults). because by the time of anh obi-wan is isolated, and regretful, but he still talks of fighting/war/battle in this either nuetral or valorizing tone. he hypes up both yoda and anakin as expert warriors. and when it comes down to it, 11th hour, he tells luke to kill vader. he tells him it needs to be done. BUT! when we meet yoda, he’s lowkey pushing back on that. he rejects the warrior label obi-wan gave him. even as he preps luke for what he knows is inevitable (a vader confrontation), he tells luke to forsake his weapons. you compare that to mr obi fuck-it-lightsaber-in-the-cantina wan there, that’s such an interesting divide. at the end of the day both yoda and obi-wan form a thematic block that luke needs to overcome, but they come at it from different angles. not to mention in the pt yoda is the only jedi with consistent lil moments of “hmm. fucked up we have”, and all those little moments coming to fruition puts him in such a deep shame that he fucks off to a swamp forever. with hindsight, his whole “wars not make one great” deal comes off very much like he’s processing the reality of counting on this kid to kill his dad and not feeling too good about it maybe
Got inspired, made something, hope you enjoy.
Pretty accurate if I do say so myself.
he consumes my every waking thought and most of the sleeping ones too
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