It's So Frustrating That A Majority Of Analysis Of Padme's Character Is Measured By The Metric Of How

"The Jedi gatekept the Force"

Oh, are you from the Path of the Open Hand? You know, the evil anti-Jedi cult?? Cuz that's what u sound like

"The Jedi gatekept the Force!"

Ah yes. That's why they coexisted very peaceably with the Baran Do sages, the Bardottan Dagoyan Masters, the Guardians of the Whills, the Church of the Force, the Lasat, the Mirialens, and hell even the Nightsisters.

......I'm not actually sure you know what gatekeeping means.

yes yes acts of violence often evoke eroticism and stabbing someone is potent penetration imagery but sometimes when i kill someone it's just because i want them to die

see at some point post-ROTJ luke's gonna have to fill the droids in on the whole Situation and then this must have happened

Threepio: *full-on gibbering breakdown*

Artoo: *unfazed beeping*

Threepio, cutting off mid gibbering breakdown: you knew?

Artoo: *continued beeping*

Threepio: what do you mean, you were there?

Luke: wait what

Artoo, rolling away to go do droid things:

Luke: Artoo get back here right now

Artoo: *innocent whistling*

Luke: Artoo??

A gender? *Glances around, reaches into trenchcoat* yeah I think I have one of those. But it's gonna cost ya

"Nice characters are boring" to YOU. I love characters who no matter what, will always have genuine love for humanity in their heart. Characters who dance and laugh and sing with sincerity. Characters who believe in others, and are willing to extend a helping hand to people when no one gave them the same luxury. Characters who have gone through so much but believe, no matter what, that humanity and life is something beautiful and worth protecting

i love sith!obi-wan as much as the next person but also, consider: obi-wan being the most stubbornly light-side jedi of all time

through a holocron, anakin and obi-wan come face-to-face with the darkest versions of themselves. anakin, of course, sees a monster. darth vader at his most extreme, murderous and even sadistic in his cruelty, not just violent but enjoying the vicious power his violence grants him. he's like a demon brought to life, the dark side in its purest form, malevolent and evil

meanwhile, obi-wan is still obi-wan just slightly worse. obi-wan but with like a bit of a drinking problem and he's let himself go a little. obi-wan but he's gotten addicted to world of space warcraft and is chugging more space mountain dew than might be ideal. The Darkness Within is just obi-wan indulging his self-destructive tendencies and maybe being a bit more of a bitch than he already is, turning up scruffy and less well-groomed than og obi-wan but still absolutely, unmistakably in the light

dude is incorruptible. a beacon of light, stubbornly staying light no matter what life throws at him.

(naturally, obi-wan is still horrified by "evil" obi-wan. dude is listening to his albums on speaker phone. he is so inconsiderate)

Just discussed Star Wars with a friend who has never watched the German dub, but since we were speaking German they didn't want to switch languages so they just very confidently called Sidious "Kaiser Palpatine"

These are the hands of fate

You’re my Achilles heel

State of Grace by Taylor Swift

chalactan formalwear round 2 :^)

george lucas couldn’t do it