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racism in star wars will have wikis saying shit like "this species that is inspired on a real life non-white people is just too stupid to use the Force"

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reblog if you prioritize women to the point you mock people for liking m/f or m/m ships. im insane

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

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that sand movie

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andor (2022-present) dir. tony gilroy / the sparrow (1996) by mary doria russell

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nothing more embarassing than when you develop personal beef with a piece of media thats entirely petty. like sorry no i cant talk about that show it. bit me.

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I never, ever say the Jedi were flawed, and here's why.

It's not because I don't think people can BE flawed, or that I don't think GOOD people can be flawed, of course they can. Even people who are genuinely doing good things and making good choices and trying their best to be selfless and kind and compassionate can make mistakes and have a bad day.

But there's really only two reasons I see anybody bring up "the Jedi were flawed."

The first is from Jedi fans who are trying to stave off the Stanakins and the anti Jedi crowd by adding that in as a disclaimer. "OF COURSE the Jedi are flawed, but it doesn't mean they aren't good people!" It's a meaningless statement because the side saying it doesn't even really believe it to be true and the side they're saying it TO thinks the Jedi being flawed means they all deserved to die. This is the kind of statement that leads to people deciding that individual Jedi are okay but their culture needs to be completely reformed in order to allow people like Anakin to just do whatever they want whenever they want and then they can all live.

The second is from people who DON'T really like the Jedi much and will insist that "the Jedi are flawed" is part of the whole point of the narrative of Star Wars, especially the prequels. This is the kind of statement that leads to people like Leslye Headland INSISTING that George Lucas intended for the story of the Jedi to be one of failure and criticism and casting the Jedi as "the evil institution" in her interpretation of Star Wars. This is what leads to stories like the Ahsoka show insisting that the Jedi were elitist bastards whose arrogance led to their own genocide. These people usually try to claim they like the Jedi, but they'll still cast the Jedi as the bad guys in the story instead of, say, Anakin. These are the people who genuinely have no idea what attachment is and don't care to learn. These people believe that, at best, the Jedi THOUGHT they were doing good, but that they had completely lost their way and were truly not that much better than the Sith anymore and their destruction was necessary to create balance in the galaxy.

I have no desire to appease people who don't like my interpretation of Star Wars, and I don't think that "the Jedi were flawed" was ever the point of Lucas's story and I genuinely think it takes a lot AWAY from his story to say that it does. So while I am perfectly happy to admit that people in general, even overall GOOD and kind and selfless people, are always flawed and can make mistakes, I will never, ever say that the Jedi were flawed. The Jedi lost, yes, but not due to their own flaws. They lost because of EVERYONE ELSE'S flaws, so what does it MATTER if the Jedi were flawed or not? If you truly believe the Jedi were good people who did everything right and simply lost due to other people's selfish choices, then what does it add to the story to insist the Jedi were flawed? How does it change anything, for the better or otherwise? The Jedi were right IS the point of the story, so insisting they were flawed actually takes away from that by distracting from how the Jedi were RIGHT, and it's people choosing not to listen to them or trust them or act like them that brings about the downfall of an entire galaxy.

The Jedi weren't flawed. The Jedi were RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING and that is the hill I will die on.

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I love The Clone Wars series. I love the clones. I like both Rex and Cody. But since the very beginning of watching the series, I felt like smth was kind of off about them. Specifically, why do we have so much content about Rex? Why at least part of these clone-centric moments are not given to Cody? He was there first! He’s the only clone in the movies who has some semblance of characterization and he’s actually very important for Star Wars.

Like, the episodes about a clone deserter – why not give them to Cody instead of Rex? Why not use the 212th instead of the 501st? If you imagine Cody instead of Rex, the plot won’t change, the message of the episode won’t change – they both would have similar attitudes to the situation. But we would know more specifically about the most important clone of SW. And I’m not exaggerating this claim – Rex’s presence doesn’t change the movies narrative in any way. I’m not saying they should’ve cut him out completely – just divide some adventures between Cody and Rex.

Being a Filoni original character is very advantageous.

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"You see, the reason the Ahsoka series couldn't show her meet Luke, tie up the Bariss (dang it Dave) plot, or show her at Rex's deathbed, etc is because casual viewers might be confused because they didn't watch the animated shows."

"Well I guess that makes-"

Dave Filoni: "Hey, remember that weird Mortis arc I did where I personified the Force into three gods and a planet? Well guess what, I'm bringing it back! It's the main plot of the show now! Sure hope you've seen TCW or you're going to be hopelessly confused."

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I've got to say, Ahsoka's cultivated the most excuses for anything she does over the course of her story. And by excuses, I don't mean valid and logical explanations, just the fandom picking up on the way the meta justifies everything she does and doing the same thing in turn.

-Ahsoka acts rude throughout the Clone Wars.

"She's so young and inexperienced. She doesn't know any better!" :(

-Forty-something Ahsoka acting the same way.

"She's been through so much!" :(

-Ahsoka makes herself look super guilty and thus draws the Jedi Council's suspicion during the Wrong Jedi Arc?

"What else was she supposed to do? NOBODY (Except Anakin and the Council initially) trusted her!!!" >:(

-Ahsoka loses all personality and becomes as a dull as rock.

"The Jedi Order BETRAYED HER! How can we expect that to have not wiped out her personality for thirty years?" :(

-Ahsoka forgives Anakin for slaughtering the Jedi, becoming a tyrannical Sith Lord, and trying to kill her. While refusing to forgive the Jedi and implying they deserved their genocide?

"She's completely right! The Jedi didn't trust her one time! So they had it coming!" >:(

-Ahsoka abandons the Rebellion to go off and do her own thing, something that's never specified?

"She had good reason to ditch the Rebellion unlike those stinky old Jedi!" >:(

-Ahsoka encounters and survives every threat in her lifetime? Be it Grievous, Ventress, Cad Bane (I'll give her this one), Sidious, Vader, Maul, Baylan, and even knocking Anakin and Obi-Wan around in the Mortis arc. Either by extraordinary luck or literal magical intervention in the form of the World-Between-Worlds?

"She was trained by the Chosen One! And she's really good for her age." :D

-Ahsoka kills an Inquisitor in one move after lazing around on a farm for years, letting her skills get rusty. After having only received about three years of battle training?

"Awesome!" :D

-Ahsoka holds a spark of the Goddess of Light's power within herself and is followed around by her pet bird despite constantly acting out of passion, fear, rage, etc?

"She's the purest of all Jedi and what they should really be!" :D

At this point, Ahsoka could appear in a pillar of light in the middle of Return of the Jedi and scream; "I AM YOUR GODDESS NOW!" kill Sidious, and rearrange the cosmos into her image and people would find an excuse for it.

Obviously, I'm not referring to normal fans of the character and I honestly don't blame the superfans either. This is just how Dave Filoni's written her and its rubbed off on the fandom.

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Ahsoka Tano: *Killed by the literal embodiment of the dark side just to be resurrected by the embodiment of the light side.*

Ahsoka Tano: *Stays behind to fight a doomed battle with Darth Vader in the middle of a Sith Temple that's about to explode just to be saved by a time portal.*

Ahsoka Tano: *Loses a battle and falls off a cliff just to wake up in a realm suspended between time and space.*

Okay, is the Force itself an Ahsoka stan? Just one of these things happening to her would be a stretch, but it's happened to Ahsoka and Ahsoka alone three times already.

And that's not counting how the random appearance of Morai allowed her to survive Darth Sidious.

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Ahsoka Tano: *Survives encounters with General Grievous, Ventress, Cad Bane (who's absurdly on the level of Obi-Wan), Darth Vader, Darth Sidious, Darth Maul, Order 66, the literal embodiment of the dark side, and one-shots Inquisitors.*

Will no one rid me of this parasite!?

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I love how SW has to constantly dance around the fact that Ahsoka's half responsible for the deaths of Rex's entire division. Normally you could tell a story based off her reckless decision to release Maul causing a divide between her and Rex...,

But since they already reunited in Rebels with no bad blood between them they're stuck with Rex kind of awkwardly acknowledging and yet never blaming her for anything. Even though she deliberately released Maul on his friends.

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I love how SW has to constantly dance around the fact that Ahsoka's half responsible for the deaths of Rex's entire division. Normally you could tell a story based off her reckless decision to release Maul causing a divide between her and Rex...,

But since they already reunited in Rebels with no bad blood between them they're stuck with Rex kind of awkwardly acknowledging and yet never blaming her for anything. Even though she deliberately released Maul on his friends.

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Here’s my Barrissoka version of that novel cover that’s been trending over at Twitter.

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Sabine Wren hairstyles