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Padmé | Anakin | Palpatine Parallels Using their fears, Palptatine manipulates Padmé and Anakin. A manipulation that will lead to them assisting him in consolidating his political power.

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It’s like poetry, it rhymes.

#Star Wars #reylo #Palpatine #death plagueis #the rise of skywalker #prequel memes

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the father, the son, and the holy spirit

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Look at prototype yoshi, he’s a long boi

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Dark Empire’s Clone army of Sheevs + Plageuis’ revelation that the Sith wanted to create life + ROTS’ quest for immorality = TROS: Palpatine cloned himself, essentially created Rey, who achieved his dream of cheating death.

#star wars #the rise of skywalker #star wars tros #rey #palpatine

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When I hear Star Wars music.

#star wars #john williams #prequels #star wars ost #star wars music #thx

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I wore the ROTS dvd extras out, especially this video

#star wars #rots #anikan skywalker #obi wan kenobi #battle of heroes #george lucas #prequels

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I wasn’t prepared for the emotions that came with this. Could hear “Battle of Heroes” swell up reading the 5th paragraph.

Sometimes I think about how little Obi-Wan knew about what happened with Anakin and what this must have looked like from the few things he knew and why he tried so hard to give Anakin every possible chance.  (I THINK ABOUT IT A LOT.)  Not just because he loved Anakin–though, that was very much a part of this, too–but because he believed in Anakin. Their last interaction is one where Anakin admits that he was acting arrogant and unappreciative of everything people have done for him.  Yeah, he can be a brat sometimes, he gets way too caught up in his own shit instead of realizing how it comes across to others (the whole thing with being put on the Council is part of this, that Anakin was late for meetings because he was off doing other stuff, that he refuses to stop and see how it looks from the Council’s side of things that Palpatine is forcing them to accept Anakin, that it looks really bad, because everyone knows Anakin wanted to be a Master, etc.), and Obi-Wan sees the good in him still.  He believes in Anakin, because he always comes back around. This is why Obi-Wan tells Mace, “He will not let me down.  He never has.”  Not because he doesn’t recognize that Anakin makes mistakes, but instead because Anakin always comes back around, he has never truly disappointed Obi-Wan before, it’s only ever that (as Ewan McGregor has said) Obi-Wan was disappointed for him, not at him.  Whatever minor disappointments are between them, it hasn’t touched the bigger picture Obi-Wan believes in for him, that he still believes Anakin can overcome. The last time they see each other, Obi-Wan tells Anakin how proud he is, all the more so because he sees Anakin come back to himself again right there.  He believes that Anakin, no matter what temptations he faces, no matter what troubles he faces, will always overcome. Then he comes back from Utapau, Anakin is pledging himself to Sidious, he’s choking Padme, he’s declaring that he’s brought peace and justice and security to his new Empire, he’s killing younglings, he’s quoting Palpatine’s words rather than his own.  And this is too far, they can’t truly go back, not to the way things were, but Obi-Wan still has to believe there’s a chance for something of Anakin to come back, that’s why the entire fight (as Nick Gillard, the fight choreographer says) is designed to show Obi-Wan giving ground at every turn, to try to give Anakin the time to come back.  The last time Obi-Wan saw him, he came back.  He admitted his arrogance, he smiled at the praise, this is how Anakin has always been! But this time Anakin refuses to come back, he just keeps doubling down on it, unable to admit to what he’s done, even to himself.  Until even the last moment, Obi-Wan is still asking him not to try it, to give him one last chance, because maybe maybe maybe Anakin might find it in himself to admit his arrogance, admit his mistake, and at least try to fix something of this. And this is why their ending means so much.

Because Anakin finally did come back.  It took him a very long time to be able to do it, to finally let go of all the hate and rage and pain he’d held onto all his life, but he did it.  That’s the person who admitted his arrogance and mistakes, the one Obi-Wan was so proud of, the wise and strong Jedi he loved. This is why, as Pablo Hidalgo once said, “I’ve heard it said that George thinks he had help from the other side after self sacrificing.“  This is why Obi-Wan helped him over, because he’s always believed that Anakin could do it, could come back, if he chose to do so.  This is why Obi-Wan kept giving him chances, as many as he possibly could, even on the Death Star, he lets it be Vader’s choice about how this ends, he warns him about the path ahead of them. And, when it’s all said and done, when Anakin finally rises above again, Obi-Wan is there, smiling to see him, helping him over to the other side, probably with a, “Hello again, old friend.”

#anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #rots #battle of heroes #prequels #starwars #star wars #this is love #feels

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Sometimes I think about how little Obi-Wan knew about what happened with Anakin and what this must have looked like from the few things he knew and why he tried so hard to give Anakin every possible chance.  (I THINK ABOUT IT A LOT.)  Not just because he loved Anakin–though, that was very much a part of this, too–but because he believed in Anakin. Their last interaction is one where Anakin admits that he was acting arrogant and unappreciative of everything people have done for him.  Yeah, he can be a brat sometimes, he gets way too caught up in his own shit instead of realizing how it comes across to others (the whole thing with being put on the Council is part of this, that Anakin was late for meetings because he was off doing other stuff, that he refuses to stop and see how it looks from the Council’s side of things that Palpatine is forcing them to accept Anakin, that it looks really bad, because everyone knows Anakin wanted to be a Master, etc.), and Obi-Wan sees the good in him still.  He believes in Anakin, because he always comes back around. This is why Obi-Wan tells Mace, “He will not let me down.  He never has.”  Not because he doesn’t recognize that Anakin makes mistakes, but instead because Anakin always comes back around, he has never truly disappointed Obi-Wan before, it’s only ever that (as Ewan McGregor has said) Obi-Wan was disappointed for him, not at him.  Whatever minor disappointments are between them, it hasn’t touched the bigger picture Obi-Wan believes in for him, that he still believes Anakin can overcome. The last time they see each other, Obi-Wan tells Anakin how proud he is, all the more so because he sees Anakin come back to himself again right there.  He believes that Anakin, no matter what temptations he faces, no matter what troubles he faces, will always overcome. Then he comes back from Utapau, Anakin is pledging himself to Sidious, he’s choking Padme, he’s declaring that he’s brought peace and justice and security to his new Empire, he’s killing younglings, he’s quoting Palpatine’s words rather than his own.  And this is too far, they can’t truly go back, not to the way things were, but Obi-Wan still has to believe there’s a chance for something of Anakin to come back, that’s why the entire fight (as Nick Gillard, the fight choreographer says) is designed to show Obi-Wan giving ground at every turn, to try to give Anakin the time to come back.  The last time Obi-Wan saw him, he came back.  He admitted his arrogance, he smiled at the praise, this is how Anakin has always been! But this time Anakin refuses to come back, he just keeps doubling down on it, unable to admit to what he’s done, even to himself.  Until even the last moment, Obi-Wan is still asking him not to try it, to give him one last chance, because maybe maybe maybe Anakin might find it in himself to admit his arrogance, admit his mistake, and at least try to fix something of this. And this is why their ending means so much.

Because Anakin finally did come back.  It took him a very long time to be able to do it, to finally let go of all the hate and rage and pain he’d held onto all his life, but he did it.  That’s the person who admitted his arrogance and mistakes, the one Obi-Wan was so proud of, the wise and strong Jedi he loved. This is why, as Pablo Hidalgo once said, “I’ve heard it said that George thinks he had help from the other side after self sacrificing.“  This is why Obi-Wan helped him over, because he’s always believed that Anakin could do it, could come back, if he chose to do so.  This is why Obi-Wan kept giving him chances, as many as he possibly could, even on the Death Star, he lets it be Vader’s choice about how this ends, he warns him about the path ahead of them. And, when it’s all said and done, when Anakin finally rises above again, Obi-Wan is there, smiling to see him, helping him over to the other side, probably with a, “Hello again, old friend.”

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Star Wars Celebration Chicago 2019 | Jason Palmer Complete Mural  (via JediNews + u/sebacote)

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“But if we work together, I know we could discover the secret…”

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Revenge of the Sith  - Matthew Stover

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star wars prequels appreciation week » day eight: the dark side

“The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural!”

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This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever:

The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain.

The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon black glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew at your flesh.

You can hear yourself breathing. It comes hard, and harsh, and it scrapes nerves already raw, but you cannot stop it. You can never stop it. You cannot even slow it down.

You don’t even have lungs anymore.

Mechanisms hardwired into your chest breathe for you. They will pump oxygen into your bloodstream forever.

Lord Vader? Lord Vader, can you hear me?

And you can’t, not in the way you once did. Sensors in the shell that prisons your head trickle meaning directly into your brain.

You open your scorched-pale eyes; optical sensors integrate light and shadow into a hideous simulacrum of the world around you.

Or perhaps the simulacrum is perfect, and it is the world that is hideous.

Padme? Are you here? Are you all right? you try to say, but another voice speaks for you, out from the vocabulator that serves you for burned-away lips and tongue and throat.

“Padme? Are you here? Are you all right?”

I’m very sorry, Lord Vader. I’m afraid she died. It seems in your anger, you killed her.

This burns hotter than the lava had.

“No…no, it is not possible!”

You love her. You have always loved her. You could never will her death.

Never.

But you remember…

You remember all of it.

You remember the dragon that you brought Vader forth from your heart to slay. You remember the cold venom in Vader’s blood. You remember the furnace of Vader’s fury, and the black hatred of seizing her throat to silence her lying mouth…

And there is one blazing moment in which you finally understand that there was no dragon. That there was no Vader. That there was only you. Only Anakin Skywalker.

That it was all you. Is you.

Only you.

You did it.

You killed her.

You killed her because, finally, when you could have saved her, when you could have gone away with her, when you could have been thinking about her, you were thinking about yourself…

It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith-

Because now your self is all you will ever have.

And you rage and scream and reach through the Force to crush the shadow who has destroyed you, but you are so far less now than what you were, you are more than half machine, you are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you can remember where the power was but the power you can touch is only a memory, and so with all your world-destroying fury it is only droids around you that implode, and equipment, and the table on which you were strapped shatters, and in the end, you cannot touch the shadow.

In the end, you do not even want to.

In the end, the shadow is all you have left.

Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself-

And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame.

This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker.

Forever…

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Super Mario World with Yoshi’s Island style.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)