#Star Wars commentary

[hanasnx]

where the fuck did anakin get those credits to give to c-3po for his market run in tcw

i’ve been trying to find solid info about if the jedi get paid by the republic for being part of the grand army. it makes sense, to me, that the jedi (that are part of the war) have to be on payroll in some way and paid with currency they don’t use so they recycle it in some way. donate it to charity, back to the republic’s cause, to the temple, or just let it collect virtual dust.

but all i’ve found is flimsy quora shit i have no idea is sourced from somewhere and it might as well be someone’s opinion saying: “no the jedi don’t get paid because it’s against their code of conduct. they fight in the war because it’s for peace etc.”

i get that jedi in the order do not get paid simply for being in the order. their clothes, their food, their rooms are all provided for them. financed by something i have no idea what.

they have no need for money, which means that the republic could see them as a way to save a penny. but one of the benefits of paying someone to do a job is that if they screw up that job then there’s someone to blame. they’re registered, and they’re held accountable because they’re getting paid to do something and they didn’t complete it.

i know the jedi would never intentionally screw up things, but i’m thinking in the eyes of the corrupt republic.

but it makes sense that the republic is like, “since you’re a literal general, here’s your salary for being a general.” because that’s just the normal general salary ™, and it just so happens that a jedi is now allowed to be a general. what’s the jedi supposed to say? “no i’m just going to volunteer.” i guess that makes sense too?? there are volunteer soldiers in all kinds of historical wars. but if the republic has the funds to employ, would they not use those funds? volunteer soldiers were used when their side could not possibly finance them. at this point, the republic is still very much capable of employing soldiers with pay.

all this and it’s just to help me justify anakin gets paid and keeps money in an account somewhere because he feels like he’s not allowed to use it on himself but uses it on everything else. ship parts, droid repair, you, etc. he’s lowkey a sugar daddy you don’t even realize how loaded he really is bcos he never talks about it.

but he’s also got broke boy energy 😭someone fucking sedate me i cannot stop going back and forth

#help #indy shoots the shit #anakin #anakin skywalker #star wars #sw #anakin skywalker x reader #star wars fanfiction #star wars prequels #star wars fanon #anakin skywalker imagine #star wars writing #the clone wars #tcw #star wars commentary #sw commentary #tcw commentary #the clone wars commentary #sw meta #star wars meta #anakin meta

[dragonofthemountain]

I understand that The Mandalorian is attempting to bridge the events of the original trilogy with the events of the sequels and is clearly leading up to all that happens there. And for all you CAN say about the show (either what it’s doing poorly or well), I think that they are bridging that gap rather well.

So this isn’t a criticism of the Mandalorian but more pointing out a glaring flaw which is just how narrative unsatisfying the sequels are. After Return of the Jedi, no one was thinking: “hey, what if 30 years later in the timeline, everything happened the exact same way and everything our heroes worked for actually meant nothing?” No one wants that. We wanted a happily ever after. Were there going to be troubles in the galaxy? Of course! An galactic empire was just overthrown and they’re busy building a new government from scratch, that was always going to lead to some sort of narrative conflict.

But just rehashing the same story again is not only lazy but retroactively makes the events of the original trilogy seem pointless. Why care about taking down the Empire when in about 30 years, there’s just going be a new bunch of fascist dickheads in power?

#im not sure if i worded this the best way but yea #im holding off on thoughts about Mandalorian s3 and the individual arcs until the whole season is done airing #but i will talk about the way they bridge the two trilogies #which like i said. i think they do well. it just sucks that they have to bridge to something so narratively pointless #star wars #star wars commentary #star wars the mandalorian #the mandalorian #the mandalorian season 3 #no mandalorian spoilers

[queenofthereylodumpster]

I think we're all talking about Andor in a way that both encourages and condemns infighting and arguments.

For example, I've seen a lot of people say "man it just really didn't feel like a Star Wars show" which is a cool statement except it encompasses SO MANY INTERPRETATIONS because you have ppl on the one hand being like "there were screws and bricks and the blasters looked like guns" and then on the other hand you have ppl being like "there was no cosmic battle between sith and jedi; no mentions of the force" and THEN you have even more ppl on a nebulous third hand being like "something about the plot and the causes and effects didn't feel like Star Wars and the portrayal of the ISB in place of the Empire felt weird" but all can be encompassed in the one "doesn't feel like a Star Wars show" statement so everyones saying things and agreeing with each other in such mismatched ways thinking the person they are agreeing with are saying the same thing as them idk does that make sense?

And FURTHERMORE ppl are saying statements that have been co-opted by the general narrative and collective understanding of what the statement means (e.g. most ppl equate "doesn't feel star wars" with the screws and bricks comment and not the other options) but meaning it in a different way and are then dogpiled upon when the public thinks they mean it that way

And yeah yeah it's a problem everywhere I get that but something about the way that (at least from what I've seen) the show has been quite polarizing (in a way that reminds me of the initial reaction to The Last Jedi but more localized) makes it feel idk worse? Or at least just more frequent/pervasive

#i don't like where they took Cassian's character #two opinions can exist simultaneously #zeph speaks #andor #star wars #i also have seen arguments based on the statement too #idk i feel like this is one of those thoughts that feels revolutionary to me but really isnt lol #if you couldn't tell im one of the ppl that has been known to say that andor didnt feel like a star wars show #but not in the way ppl have been known to say #ultimately i was disappointed with andor but i could really see the potential for a really great show that fell juuustt short of phenomenal #like just a few minor changes and it could've been amazing #but we got what we got and diego luna is smol bean i love him #also i think this issue is entangled with the issue #star wars commentary #star wars theory #screws and bricks #star wars shows

[bikiniarmorbattledamage]

This is truly stiff competition for the worst case of willful false equivalence we've ever seen.

So, for those not aware: Ongoing embarrassment to gamers and the gaming industry, Mark Kern (former lead on FireFall), has been desperately trying to get Gamergate 2 going on X/Twitter... well after others have given up. If you need to get caught up on Mark, I recommend this video by documentary maker and experienced game developer, Dead Domain:

One of the latest fiascos in this mix has been the comparison of responses to character designs from Hades 2 (Aphrodite, left) and Stellar Blade (protagonist Eve, right). The post isn't by Mark, but is part of the general harassment campaign he's trying to lead.

If you're somehow not familiar with Aphrodite, she's the Ancient Greek goddess of love, lust and hot girl shit. It is absolutely perfect characterization for her to show up to a battle (or anything else) nude but for her hair teasingly covering the intimate parts of her body. But the buried lede here is, you don't fight her in Hades and nothing about Hades 2 indicates she'll fight there either, she just likes the aesthetic and has no reason not to indulge.

Stellar Blade will release on 26 April 2024, so we can't really give an informed discussion of her character. But what we do know is the studio head is the illustrator from Blade & Soul, Eve is described as being a member of "the 7th Airborne Squad" engaged in an "operation to reclaim the planet from the Naytiba", and the promotion material promises "an enthralling narrative filled with mature themes, mystery and revelation. Embrace the relentless pace, with no time to pause between moments where critical, story-changing decisions are made."

It's to be compared to games like Nier: Automata, Devil May Cry 5, Jedi: Fallen Order and Sekiro. And the screenshots look like this:

And yeah, unlike Bayonetta she's not supposed to be an unstoppable force of nature (and fashion) who is immune to self-doubt, she's supposed to be the scrappy underdog last survivor of her team.

Weird they gave her a costume that conveys... the opposite of literally everything they're supposed to be trying to tell you about her.

-wincenworks

#stellar blade #hades #hades 2 #aphrodite #character design #costume design #commentary #mark kern #gamergate #dead domain #video games #false equivalence #blade and soul #nier automata #devil may cry #star wars #sekiro #bayonetta #firefall #science fiction #mythology #Greek #image #video #bikini armor battle damage #bikiniarmorbattledamage #babd #Youtube

[heyclickadee]

With Ahsoka coming out, all I really have to say is that my approach to Star Wars is that sometimes Star Wars is good, sometimes Star Wars is bad, sometimes it’s just not for me, or so for me that I get a little mentally ill about it, but whatever it is, Star Wars is pizza. I like pizza. Almost universally. And sometimes pizza is this amazing stone-fired creation, a chewy crust topped with fresh mozzarella, prosciutto, and blackberries, and sometimes it’s a totinos pizza roll filled with cubes of something that’s kind of like pepperoni but definitely isn’t. The former is obviously better, but I can enjoy the latter, too. Doesn’t mean I won’t criticize it, that I’ll like everything about it, or that I’ll be satisfied with totino pizza roll Star Wars (heeeeeyyy Rise of Skywalker, you messy disaster), but it does mean that I will probably enjoy some small part of it on some level, and that I’ll probably talk about the parts I like more than the parts I don’t, mostly because I’m tired and complaining about things that ultimately don’t matter that much stopped being fun a while ago. Long story short: There’s probably going to be a lot about Ahsoka I like, and a lot I don’t—I wish it were animated, for one thing—but you probably won’t hear that much about the parts I don’t care for unless I actively despise it. I’m cautiously excited.

I’m also incautiously excited about the soundtrack. Because you know what’s always good? Star Wars music. More Star Wars music is ALWAYS a good thing.

#Ahsoka #listen I can tell you at least one thing I enjoyed #about every piece of star wars I’ve come across #even the ones I don’t like #including…the holiday special #which is objectively bad even by the standards of 70’s variety shows #and is completely unwatchable without the riftrax commentary playing over the top #push me and I will find something nice to say about it

[anakindoodles]

Back at it again with another DTIYS this time for @/libpaint on instagram

Please click for better quality! and reblog to support artists!

#star wars #sw #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #ahsoka #ahsoka tano #sith ahsoka #sith #tcw #the clone wars #dtiys #limited palette #star wars art #fan art #commentary: uhhh lighting go dummy #i just used the palette provided by the artists for the outfit and the colours popped off #i dont have much thoughts #please reblog and ill consider it a belated birthday present :)

[voidartisan]

finished rewatching the corruption arc and i can't believe i forgot so many amazing details. i can just imagine satine texting obi-wan and being like "when this is brought up to the council i need you to make sure i get a jedi who will Cause Problems On Purpose (non-violently)" and obi-wan immediately thinks of his chaos gremlin daughter-figure and texts back "say no more"

#also satine mentions that he told her about padme's reign as queen #so i've decided that he's her “intel” *cough cough* GOSSIP *cough* source for everyone on coruscant #she asks him about her new work friend senator amidala and he's like “how much time do you have bc this is going to be a LONG call” #cody provides commentary in the background #star wars #sw #tcw #the clone wars #obi wan kenobi #satine kryze #ahsoka tano #obitine #sort of

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

me, a future child psychologist, watching the bad batch:

#THIS KID #she’s like 10??? #she’s being raised by OUTLAWS #she’s a gambler and a mercenary and a rebel #she used to be a ‘medical assistant’…. which is a HUGE red flag for trauma #before pabu she spends most of her time in a seedy bar surrounded by criminals #the way they integrate normal child behaviors into her chaotic life is wonderful #she’s optimistic and resilient and gentle and wily #she was kidnapped by a fucking bounty hunter and escaped all on her own #her favorite possession is her energy bow which she uses to KILL PEOPLE #her loyalty and optimism is constantly mistaken for naivety but considering her strategic mind……. it’s not naivety #tbb omega #the bad batch #the bad batch omega #brooklyn 99 #thank you b99 for the commentary #omega the bad batch #star wars the bad batch #tbb hunter #tbb tech #tbb wrecker #tbb crosshair #tbb echo

[niobiumao3]

We were robbed of:

Hunter: Tech, we're ready for pickup.

Some Rando: Tech? Like, Riot Racer Tech?

Echo and Hunter: What?

Wrecker and Omega: <surreptitiously making themselves scarce>

Thus I demand:

<clone troopers tied up in a corner, the Batch are freeing Crosshair>

Crosshair: And just how are we getting out of here.

Hunter: Tech's going to free the zillo beast.

Tied up trooper: Tech? Riot Racer Tech?? Wrecker: Yeah!! One clone nudging another: RIOT RACER TECH IS HERE.

Hunter and Echo: <deep sighs>

Crosshair: ????????

#this was a really #fun episode and I am #deeply sad it doesn't #get more hilarious side #commentary about it #hunter and echo: you what #tech: I saved cid from a gambling debt #echo and hunter: by becoming a racing star #tech: I only won a single race it's hardly #<echo and hunter looking at a poster of him> #tech: a tolerable likeness but hardly my best profile #tbb tech #the bad batch #star wars

[my-last-brain-cell-is-socrates]

Okay, but can we note on the slight jab of Mon "I'm fighting for the oppressed and downtrodden people of this galaxy" Mothma snapping at her housekeeper??

Something something liberal politicians something something she remains part of the privileged elite and is herself able to uphold the same structures of oppression within her own close circle

#star wars #Andor #This is the best sw series to date actually #can't believe it's not trending #shame on you all #i am in love your honor #Cassian Andor #Mon Mothma #political commentary #Diego Luna #rebel alliance #empire #Luthen Rael #Andor spoilers

[rozecrest]

the aldhani people were right. our ghosts have strong arms and long memories. the thing about andor is there is a wound in the center of the galaxy there is a darkness reaching like rust and it’s the empire creating ghosts every day under the guise of order and justice. it’s all smoke and mirrors of power reinforced by violence and that violence leaves scars, leaves people behind that will dream of vengeance and true justice and freedom! the memories of clem and salman paak, ulaf’s passing creating the chance for escape, cinta’s family, maarva’s funeral, nemiks manifesto and cassian’s family on kenari are all ghosts that haunt the present of this world and had the power to change the future through the people who loved them fighting for them !!!

#andor spoilers #THIS IS STAR WARS? WITH SUCH A NUANCED AND HARD HITTING POLITICAL COMMENTARY? #needless to say but this show is so the masquerade series sometimes #when the power of human connection and art in resistance hits #andor #chats #god. empire is unnatural tyranny requires constant effort

[hanasnx]

i do not think the jedi generals get paid like in any way. the jedi council would also never allow the jedi to receive the money imo. and idk if im remembering correctly but there was this episode in cw about the the banks raising taxes and the republic struggling to gather funds for the clone army? (idk if my brain is making it up but i vaguely remember an episode abt that) and also in the brotherhood book anakin felt bad that he couldn't buy any gifts for padme cuz he was broke! he instead gifted her his padawab braid <3 so no i dont think anakin has any money at all. padme is his sugar mommy and funds all of their dates lololol

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thank you thank you thank you for your input actually

so yes tcw did address the republic running out of money, but that happened within the series. whereas someone, such as anakin, was established as a general before the series took place. during a time where the republic still had funds.

it’s the war itself dragging on that drains the republic’s finances. which we see them tackle as a problem in an episode. what i was more so trying to think out loud on, was when the republic did have funds, that’s when jedi military personnel was added.

i do like the detail of the council being the ones to decide that the jedi enlisted will not be receiving financial compensation for their service.

i don’t know if it was the brotherhood book (thank you for bringing the books into this) but i remember that scene going differently. it wasn’t that anakin was necessarily broke, but he as a jedi he wasn’t allowed material possessions and was sad that he could only gift padmé his padawan brain which he kept. i also remember he made it into a necklace of sorts for her?

that detail, unfortunately, contradicts with his dorm room in tcw. when we take a look inside anakin’s room, we see posters and model ships etc. where did he get those? if they were gifts, why should he be allowed to keep them? they aren’t religious artifacts, or a part of his culture. why should he have them? if they weren’t gifts, how did he buy them himself?

how did obi-wan buy a drink at the bar in aotc when they chased down the bounty hunting shifter?

i like the idea of padmé being anakin’s sugar mommy, and she honestly probably does finance their outings. but what about his room trinkets? did she buy those for him too? again, why was he allowed to keep them as a jedi if material possessions are not allowed?

#anon #indy shoots the shit #thanks for the msg!! #anakin #anakin skywalker #star wars #sw #tcw #padme amidala #the clone wars #star wars prequels #star wars fanfiction #star wars fanon #star wars writing #the clone wars commentary #tcw commentary #star wars commentary #sw commentary #sw meta #star wars meta #anakin meta

[david-talks-sw]

Picture a sculptor.

He sculpts an animal... and it was meant to be an elephant for a kids zoo, but because of the limits of his tools at the time, he stopped at the skeleton only.

And it's a great fucking skeleton! It's got that old feel to it, like a Rodin sculpture, but with a modern vibe.

The skeleton even has fans and stuff, and the fans go "we love this badass mammoth skeleton you sculpted!"

And this sort of bothers the sculptor. Because he was going for an elephant, not a mammoth, right?

So when he finally has the right tools, he completes the sculpture, so the next generation of fans can enjoy the elephant...

... and the previous generation of fans, who grew up reading and dreaming about a mammoth for 30 years, they go "wtf". They hate it.

Now, the sculptor takes on an apprentice, who is also a fan.

The apprentice learns the technique, learns how to look at the clay, how to get the right texture... and is able to do all this without going "wtf" because he looks at this elephant sculpture through an anti-establishment lens.

"Yes, it has shorter tusks and almost no hair, but the purpose of the sculpture is to say that it should be hairier, taller and with longer tusks. The whole point is that this elephant is failing to be the mammoth it's meant to be!"

And y'know, it's art! If that’s what this elephant means to him, great.

But once the tools are passed down to him, the apprentice (along with other sculptors) takes some clay and makes the tusks longer, adds some fur, shortens the ears, etc.

Overtime, he makes it a mammoth again.

Of course, most fans are happy again, including many who were introduced to the elephant as kids, because the transition was a slow one, done carefully.

And, hey, it's a nice mammoth!

My only issue is that I grew up loving the elephant, just as it was. I think the elephant was friggin’ great.

But nowadays, whenever the elephant is brought up, it's always through the lens of "it's failing to be a mammoth" rather than what the sculptor said it's supposed to be: just an elephant.

#George Lucas #Dave Filoni #this is probably a stupid metaphor but it's what I came up with #I'm not saying Filoni's content is “bad” I just think it's a pity we aren't seeing the original narrative intent much nowadays #And to be clear #Filoni was NOT the ONLY one reframing the elephant as a mammoth #it's a whole bunch of authors who worked on SW post-Prequels #From EU writers to current canon writers #I'm not pointing the finger and saying “FILONI IS THE ISSUE” #On the contrary if you look at his early TCW stuff you see his portrayal of the Jedi is much more charitable than say Karen Traviss' #It's a whole generation of fans who wanted to still like Luke and Star Wars DESPITE the Prequels #and concluded the only way this was possible was to see them as a commentary on the Jedi's failure #When the fact is: y'all just didn't think the Prequel Jedi were likeably-written... you were hoping for more Luke Skywalker #instead you got a bunch of ambassadors mediating between corporations and politicians #And GL was adamant the Prequels were about Anakin and the Republic and how Sidious helped them both corrupt themselves

[tucbilo]

My Thrawn Commentary #2

Broke this up into 2 for clarity and also because as I was browsing through my screenshot folder and some passages I just rewritten for lulz (mainly stupid thranto shipping). Boi, that was fun hehe Part 1

#thranto #vanto #eli vanto #thrawn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #timothy zahn #mitthrawnuruodo #space autism #commentary #star wars: thrawn #sw #star wars #shitpost #just some shipping fun you know guys #all of this is canon

[thornescratch]

Author reveals are out for the @stardads 2023 Secret Santa, so here's mine, which you can read if you want. Or don't!

step we gaily, on we go on AO3, 30K. Din Djarin/Luke Skywalker, supporting cast Bo-Katan Kryze, Leia Organa, Han Solo.

Rated: Teen, mostly for cursing and some mild social/sexual harassment. Content is otherwise pretty much G.

Written for BoweKatan/@elicrumb, thanks again for the prompts!

Summary: The first comm message comes while Din's sitting in the hotel room, trying to get the kid to settle down after eating lunch so he can have an hour to work on cleaning his armor properly. He doesn't recognize the number, but Bo-Katan had said her contact would be in touch, though this is earlier than expected. By the time he's finished reading it, Bo Katan is messaging him as well, a quick string of short messages that come in one after another.

Bo-Katan says, "Call me first," and "Call me now," and "This is extremely important," and "I pulled a lot of strings for this and you cannot afford to blow this off," and "Djarin, if you even think of trying to escape, I will track you down and stab you at least five times, I karking well mean it."

#fanfiction #Star Wars #Luke Skywalker #Din Djarin #Dinluke #The Mandalorian #Someday I'll have to do a DVR commentary on this one because the process of writing it was very off my norm

[alabyte]

Don't get me WRONG but I'm just-

I'M JUST THIS RN

#WHY THESE LOOKS GUYS??????? #I have zero commentary to give at this point I'm just in my wth is going on era #sw tbb spoilers #tbb season 3 spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #the bad batch #star wars