#Star Wars is a tragedy

[keelifallen]

#Star Wars #Star Wars is a tragedy #star wars kenobi #sw kenobi #kenobi series #the clone wars #clone wars season 7 #Ahsoka #ahsoka tano #anakin skywalker #darth #Vader #rots #swtcw #illustration #art #artists on tumblr #keelidraws

[imfromthemiddlekingdom]

I love how stanikins bend over backwards to attempt to make Obi-Wan and the Jedi look callous and uncaring when all evidence points otherwise.

Obi-Wan is too harsh on him after he endangers his men and Ashoka to save a droid with confidential information on it which he didn’t wipe purposefully, oh no!!! He’s abusive!!!

Obi-Wan putting the good of the Galaxy above the ones he love because it’s his duty and philosophy to put the good of the collective above the good of the few he loves. Oh no!!!! He’s heartless!!! He should’ve let Anakin jump off the moving vehicle to save padme because muh love story!!!! He should’ve known that Anakin’s dreams about his mother dying was a vision and not a dream!!! Definitely not like Anakin told him it was a vision, “just a dream” verbatim from Anakin himself!!! Like if we take legends into consideration then Obi-Wan, someone who is strong in the Unifying force, would definitely have done shit if Anakin told him outright it was a vision but how was he supposed to know when Anakin himself 1) never had a vision before this and 2) never told his master what occurred in said vision?

Obi-Wan would’ve made Anakin fess up to the Tusken massacre if Anakin told him!!! He should’ve been a safe space for Anakin and been accepting like Padme and covered this horrendous miscarriage of justice out of love!!! He didn’t provide a safe space for a mass murderer therefore he deserves blame for it!!!!

The council didn’t want to admit a very clearly traumatized slave child who’s recently been freed because he would not be able to fully commit to their philosophy of non-attachment due to his experience and asking him to change how he viewed the world so shortly after being separated from his one support in life would be cruel so they denied him, therefore he was right to hate them!!! Especially Mace Windu because, checks notes, he was mean (???) to him (???) in the first act of the phantom menace???? Like have y’all not watched TCW and how Mace interacted with him????

Stanikins literally have every excuse under the sun to justify his every atrocity without giving him any agency in his own choice. His story is a tragedy!!! Let it be a tragedy!!! He was a slave boy with godly powers and traumatized beyond imagination! He could’ve been great if the circumstances were different, if one thing changed he would’ve been the greatest Jedi there were, but because he is literally doomed by the narrative, we cannot see him be the person he could be. He has great capacity for kindness of selflessness but because of his experience fear wins out and he desperately holds onto all the affection and love he could because his time as a slave taught him to do so. It’s a disservice to take away his agency, to make all his bad and disastrous decisions the fault of someone else, is to make him one dimensional. Let him be the villain he is and mourn the child he was and the person he could’ve been if he wasn’t doomed by the narrative before the prequels even came out. Let him be tragic. Let his decisions be tragic and doomed and unavoidable. Let him be sucked into villainy the moment he decided that his revenge is worth more than the lives of those that did not participate in the murder and torture of his mother. Let him be utterly unredeemable because of his actions. Let him doomed by his own actions as well as the narrative. Let him be himself instead of woobifying him into a victim of everyone else’s actions but his own.

He choose to massacre the Tuskens. He choose to massacre the Jedi. He choose to hunt any remaining Jedi left in the Galaxy for 20 years. He choose to put the life of his wife above the people who raised him and took him into their culture. He choose to do that himself. And it is tragic. It is sad. But it is no one’s fault but his own. His formative years shaped him into one who jealously hordes all forms of affection form those he loved most as a trauma response. He understands Jedi teachings (literally a whole arc in TCW where he teaches Ashoka what it means to be a Padawan and Jedi) he just doesn’t internalize it because of his trauma. He takes no one’s council but his own (showcased when he went to Yoda to ask for a method of cheating death and Yoda’s advice was sound if he were talking to any other Jedi other than Anakin).

Star Wars may be a a story of hope but it is also a tragedy. It’s about a boy how could’ve been great, it’s about a boy who was so full of hope and dooming himself because he’s too afraid and refuses to let the fear go so it turns into anger and hate. Taking away Anakins agency and blaming his actions on other people takes away the tragedy that is having someone great fall. A boy who was bad cannot fall and be doomed. It’s only those that have the potential to be great that falls the hardest and by taking away his own culpability in bringing in a genocidal empire (one he wished to rule no less) takes away the inherent tragedy of seeing someone so bright fall so low.

#anti anakin skywalker #Anakin skywalker critical #Star Wars #Star Wars is a tragedy #the only way for Anakin to fall from grace is if he had the capability to be kind and compassionate #and that’s what makes it a tragedy #jedi positive #pro jedi

[bufftat-junkie]

it be 3:41am and i’m laying here obsessively thinking about how close the light and good in star wars were to winning and crushing any chance for evil to continue.

the part im talking about is when mace windu is about to end palpatine’s life in one swing and if it weren’t for anakin��s intervention there, it’d be all over. the jedi would have continued on, padme would give birth to her twins and live, anakin would come stumbling back from the edge of darkness, and the galaxy would be able to heal before the blade that sat between it’s proverbial ribs was twisted.

#star wars #star wars is a tragedy #im sure there are a few more near miss moments like this i just cant think of #star wars episode iii: revenge of the sith #mace windu #anakin skywalker #palpatine

[smallandangry24]

Current mood is listening to the Pride & Prejudice soundtrack while looking at Codywan

#no i didnt plan this #but i couldn’t have done better #also now I’m crying #Star Wars is a tragedy #and no one shows it better #obi Wan kenobi #commander Cody #codywan #pride and prejudice #Elizabeth Bennet #mr darcy

[lifblogs]

I’m not ready for the finale. I know what happens. No, no, no!

#star wars #the bad batch #tbb #star wars is a tragedy

[kryzekatan]

welcome to my ted talk, today i will be talking about how star wars is a tragedy. now you might have read that and instantly jumped to the story’s defense with “oh but what about happy moment #13!!” well since you bring that up let me go over something my autistic ass heard once and has been unable to remove from my psyche ever since(paraphrasing here):

every story is either a comedy or a tragedy.

just take a quick look at the movies, literally nothing else just to make it simple. How many of the movies end on a happy note? Let’s say three and those three being A New Hope, Return of the Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker. If you have a basic grasp on math you’ll realize 3/9 aren’t great odds(even 3po would agree). After looking at the films maybe try going deeper, being more granular about it. characters! how many characters in star wars have a happy ending or at least a hopeful one? pretty easy to say not a lot right? how many characters lives don’t echo some kind of greek tale/tragedy(looking at you every single main character)?

i’m losing my coherent train of thought here because i have so much to say on this yet my adhd doesn’t allow me to make sense for very long.

with everything else i stuck up on the wall with this post, i dare you, the reader of this, to go watch all of star wars, or hell, just your favorite part of star wars(be it a movie, a trilogy, a season of one of the shows), and write a list as you go of moments where what you’re watching are not conducive to the makings of a tragedy. i openly and willingly accept constructive criticism on my ramblings here and welcome anybody to share your thoughts.

P.S. how many times has star wars made you sob and cry huh? a lot, yeah?

P.P.S. imma go eep and hope that when i wake up the toxic fans haven’t found this and torn me a new one.

#star wars #star wars ramblings #just star wars fan things #im the silly obsessed with star wars kind of autistic btw #star wars is a tragedy #change my mind #my first thought goes to the semblance between anakin and that of a fallen angel #star wars has such beautiful ties to religion and mythology #using my knowledge of star wars to blab and escape fr

[pumpkinrootbeer]

Maybe the most devastating element of the prequels

#:v #star wars #Obi-Wan Kenobi #Anakin Skywalker #liiiike. just how desperately Obi-Wan loves and cares for Anakin #and how Anakin is blind to all of it #THE TRAGEDY #book is revenge of the sith by matthew Stover

[bolithesenate]

What happens when a Jedi Initiate dies?

It cannot always be prevented, the galaxy is a dangerous place, especially for children, and the Jedi are still only mortal.

Accidents happen. Illnesses exist.

Tragedies do too.

The Crèchemasters are highly trained to prevent that, of course, but they too are only mortal. They too can fail.

The death of an Initiate is a heavy burden, for the entire Temple. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it is a heavy burden. It is from that burden that one of the Order's most sacred traditions stems from.

They may die an Initiate, but they will not join the Force without guidance.

When an Initiate dies, they automatically gain the rank of Padawan – no matter their age. They will posthumously be taken in by a Master and be gifted a braid and a lineage. If they already found their crystal and built their saber, these too will be taken care of by their new Master.

Some Masters of such Ghost-Padawans, especially those who had a bond before their passing, will live the following years as if they had a living student. They will not take on another until the Force or they themselves deems them ready, at which point the High Council will hold a honorary Knighting.

Because while the Order might lose an Initiate, no Initiate will ever be left alone.

#a bit of #star wars meta #for your consideration :) #inspired by the concept of ghost marriages #and my staunch belief that the jedi are found family galore #for a people that has one of its core tenants be 'there is no death only the force' such a tradition would simply make sense #star wars headcanons #star wars #me writing #random boli thoughts #the jedi #jedi order #jedi padawan #also you know the inherent tragedy of other padawans of the same master having a lineage sibling that never was alive to meet them #and the beauty of them still counting as full members of a lineage #jedi as found family #to put it in ao3 terms :)

[manofbeskar]

yeah, you'll burn in hell for your sins

(4k version)

#insp: take a bow by muse #anakin skywalker #darth vader #star wars #my art #prequels #star wars prequels #the tragedy of anakin skywalker

[jabba-the-fett]

Here’s something terrible for everyone to know. Cal Kestis was probably the last Jedi to get his kyber crystal from Ilum.

He was one of the only people left who knew how to get into the caves, and no one else would dare go there to get one.

Just something to think about I guess.

The death of the Jedi was a tragedy, and to me nothing represents that better than this. Thousands of Jedi went there for their kyber, and Cal was the last of a dead people

#star wars #cal kestis #isn’t it terrible #I hate it #jedi survivor #my screenshots #bd 1 #photomode #jedi #kyber crystal #Ilum #lighsabers #cal is a pretty boy #tragedy

[thefrogdalorian]

Din Djarin + Chapter 14: The Tragedy

#HAPPY THREE YEARS SINCE THE TRAGEDY #this is for my people (din) who just lost somebody (the razor crest) #din djarin #grogu #din edits #my gifs #the mandalorian #baby yoda #clan mudhorn #pedro pascal #the mandalorian gifs #star wars #star wars edit #star wars gifs #mando #mando edit

[keelifallen]

Some happy ending come at a high price

#Ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief #Grief is the price we pay for love #But along the way there are some precious moments of happiness #And it's those fleeting moments that make life worth living #I swear I’m done with tragic Star Wars #I will make more happy content #it’s just andor is coming out soon #i can’t help myself #Star Wars #rogue one #jyn erso #cassian andor #Star Wars is a tragedy #jyn x cassian #rebelcaptain #star wars fanart #star wars andor #artists on tumblr #andor series #illustration #star wars rebels #andor #swr #keelidraws

[bufftat-junkie]

Was just listening to my music on shuffle when Star-Dust(a track from Rogue One) came on and near instantly made me so freakin sad cause I just remembered this scene

and how Jyn barely got to meet her dad for the first time in years right before he died!!!! LIKE OUCH, THANKS GARETH EDWARDS!!

HOW MANY TIMES DO I GOTTA REALIZE THE ENTIRETY OF STAR WARS IS JUST ONE BIG TRAGEDY???

#rogue one #rogue one a star wars story #star wars #jyn erso #galen erso #star wars is a tragedy #star wars made me cry again #lucasfilm owes me money for therapy

[smallandangry24]

Marigolds have always been a favorite of mine personally, though I don’t usually hear people mention them, and rarely do I meet someone who has them as their favorite flower. But I think their color and symbolism speak for themselves.

As far as grief, I’ve also seen that they are said to bring the dead to the altar in some cultures. I like how they contain life and strength and growth but also grief and loss. It holds them side by side instead of contrasting them as opposites.

#random flower appreciation #marigolds #commander cody #sue me he’s orange #Star Wars is a tragedy #they were my favorite before #but now i cant stop thinking about this

[hopeworth]

obi-wan & anakin: you are cain and he is abel and this is how it always ends

[star wars: episode iii - revenge of the sith novelisation // star wars: episode i - the phantom menace (1999) // john darnielle // star wars: episode ii - attack of the clones (2002) // dante émile, 'after abel' // star wars: episode iii - revenge of the sith (2005) // rosanna warren, gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths, 'turnus' // obi-wan kenobi (2022) 1x06 // richard siken, 'planet of love' // star wars: episode iv - a new hope (1977) // richard siken, 'war of the foxes']

#tragedy #the narrative #doomed by the narrative #brothers #anakin skywalker #obi-wan kenobi #poetry #star wars #prequels #kenobi series #web weave #web weaving #webweaving #my stuff #obi-wan & anakin #sibling dynamics make me insane go figure #thicker than water

[voidartisan]

underrated relationship dynamic is “i would do terrible things for you because I know you would never want me to” i would toss aside my entire moral code if you asked because i know you never will. i would choose you over everything because you would never make me choose. i give you this power because i know you would never abuse it

#this is about obitine but I like it in general #he would have left the Jedi order for her had she said the word BECAUSE she never would have said the word okay??? #that’s their appeal and their tragedy #star wars #sw #the clone wars #tcw #obi wan kenobi #satine kryze #obitine