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phoenixkaptain · 1 year
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I love it when pre Original Trilogy era shows how much effort went into making the Death Star. It took decades, literal decades, and it took so much money and so many people and it was such a secretive thing and it’s staffed by millions because it’s the size of a small moon.
I cannot express how much all of the added information makes it so much funnier that Luke blew it up.
Luke destroys literally everything Palpatine built. He blows up the Death Star, which was referenced in universe as early as the second movie. He blew up the weapon of mass destruction twenty years in the making. And he blew it up pretty much directly after it’s first and only successful attack. It was operational for fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes that Palpatine had the thing he’d been building for longer than Luke has been alive, and Luke blows it up. First day retirement, but first hour retirement.
Luke convinces Darth Vader to turn back to the light side, a feat thought literally impossible by literally everybody. Sidious clearly doesn’t see Vader’s betrayal coming. Vader’s betrayal was not in his plans, nor was it something he was prepared for. Sidious is a powerful Force user with all four limbs while Vader is a man in the tin can Palpatine put him in. If Palpatine had seen Vader turning coming, he would not have allowed it to happen.
Luke literally should not even be alive. Palpatine almost definitely got Padme out of the way on purpose, and he almost certainly was trying for her unborn child as well (there was way too big of a risk that a cute liddol bebe would bring some humanity back to Anakin, and Palpatine did not want Anakin to have any humanity) Luke living is literally the first step in Palpatine’s ultimate downfall, especially once Vader finds out that Luke is his son. His very alive son. His son that is not dead, despite Palpatine claiming Anakin killed Padme. Implying that Anakin killed Padme and she posthumously gave birth. But, she didn’t give birth on Mustafar, which was the last place Anakin interacted with her. And once the mother dies, you have to get those fuckers out fast or they die too.
I imagine Darth Vader piecing all of this together is that meme with all the math floating around his head, because how could Padme have died by his hand and then given birth like two hours later?
Luke killing Palpatine is what ultimately leads to the dissolution of the Empire as an omnipotent entity. Luke killed the Empire. Luke spends a good amount of his adult life killing Empire remnants. We see that in the Mandalorian, since he’s so recognizable that Gideon immediately knows he’s fucked just by seeing an X-wing. We read it in Legends’ continuity, where Luke terrifies Imperials because he can walk into their changing room and stand in their for a minute and they don’t even notice.
Luke destroyed Palpatine’s life’s work. Everything Palpatine spent his whole life working towards, and Luke kills all of it. He blows up not one, but two Death Stars (he may not have pulled the trigger on the second Death Star, but without him, it never would have been destroyed). He convinces not one, but multiple Sith and Dark Jedi to return from the Dark Side. He is the only reason that Obi-Wan Kenobi, the biggest pain in Palpatine’s ass ever born, lives long enough to make it to the Death Star.
Palpatine went through so much effort. And just when he had finally won, when he finally had a weapon capable of destroying entire planets with a single blast, making it impossible for any planets or peoples to go against him, Luke shows up nineteen years late to the Jedi party with space Starbucks and a droid twice his age and almost singlehandedly destroys everything Palpatine ever had a hand in creating.
Luke manages to become even worse than Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ultimate thorn in the side of politicians, and Luke doesn’t even understand any politics. He wasn’t trained in diplomacy like Obi-Wan and Leia, no, he’s a farmboy who left home for the first time in his entire life, just this morning. And he is the one to destroy the Empire.
If they rewrote Star Wars and had it entirely from Palpatine’s perspective, Luke Skywalker would be his greatest foe. Luke Skywalker would be the final boss. Luke Skywalker is the antithesis of everything Palpatine believes in and he is the one character that Palpatine cannot predict. He isn’t as moldable as Anakin, he doesn’t respond to threats very well, he’s apparently impossible to kill via Force lightning (still the funniest scene of all times, the progression of Palpatine’s face falling and him looking like “what the fuck??? Is this kid rubber??? I’ve electrocuted him eight times???”), his unwavering faith in his father’s goodness makes Darth Vader want to be a better person, Luke Skywalker is the big bad of Palpatine’s story and—
There is nothing in this world that is funnier than someone’s biggest antagonist being Luke fucking Skywalker. Luke Skywalker, who saved the galaxy with the power of love and who shouldn’t exist, by Jedi rules and by Palpatine’s own attempts, and whose best friends are literally droids, which Palpatine canonically hates!
Everything about this is hilarious, this is the funniest thing in all of media, Palpatine loses absolutely everything to some backwater farmboy who fucking likes droids.
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stealingpotatoes · 5 months
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Time travel tl4j Ahsoka is now significantly taller than Anakin. He’s inconsolable.
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(commission info // kofi support!)
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mxltifxnd0m · 6 months
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i just need a dorky nerdy man with brown hair and big brown eyes to be my boyfriend PLEASE
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hopemikaelsongf · 1 year
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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.01 | The Heirs of the Dragon 1.10 | The Black Queen
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ziggyyyystardust · 4 months
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I’m sorry but I hate the way people completely disregard the fact that Luke is a Jedi, like he’s literally the og Jedi?? I’ve seen a lot of people talk about how much “better” his new Jedi order would’ve been because he would’ve removed the attachment rules or whatever, and I think that that type of characterisation really disregards the essence of Luke’s character and what he stood for. People seem to cite him bringing his father back from the dark and being close with Leia but that doesn’t mean he’s attached to them in the way Jedi view attachment, he cared about his father because Luke is a caring person and wanted to help him, acting as if it’s only because Vaders his dad really disregards a lot of the character development Luke went through from a new hope till return of the Jedi.
Also it seems really odd to ignore it as he 1: shows a genuine want to become a Jedi and all that being a Jedi involves 2: (mainly rotj) cares what Yoda and Obi-Wan have to say and the advice they give him 3: says word for word “I am a Jedi” sure he may not have the training of a Jedi but it’s pretty clear that he really does care.
On a similar note - I’ve seen people talk about it but people also tend to disregard the fact that Luke was part of the rebellion?? It’s treated like “oh silly sunshine boy just wants to fly ships he doesn’t know what politics are🥰🥰” it completely infantilises his entire character, his beliefs and what he cares about. We see in ANH that he has interest in the rebellion, knows of the clone wars and vaguely of the Jedi, and in the deleted scene with Biggs they both talk about defecting to the rebellion and fighting against the empire. These scenes clearly show his political beliefs and how he was against the empire even before they killed his Aunt and Uncle. It does him a disservice to ignore who he is as a person and to treat him as if he’s just a child who likes ships, it removes any sense of agency or conviction when he’s treated that way
Point is I wish more people would treat him like a mature adult who is capable of making his own choices and is an actual Jedi who follows the code.
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rosenroot · 11 months
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Alicent and little Aemond
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alto-tenure · 9 months
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(hershel is not recovered from the incident either but angela and henry think he's saying that about them)
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dewhander · 24 days
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ive come to terms with the fact that it’ll be very unlikely for me to ever finish these so take them…faux paper craft my beloved
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annamaggs16 · 6 months
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The way Gen V over here setting things up:
Luke and Cate are the popular it couple everyone wants to be->typically stereotype to have someone not fully committed to long term or cheating
Andre crush curious on Marie and the photo shoot framing them as a possible power couple
Jordan being that toxic serious person who doesn’t have time for other people’s problems
Jordan and Marie being forever rivals who never get along just from 1 bad interaction
Emma and Marie being roommates who tolerate each other and state they won’t pursue friendship
Leading up to Emma and Justine being partners on a project giving you the notion they’ll have a genuine friendship
Marie’s self preservation being perceived as shallow and rude making it look like she’ll be that freshman who is universally hated by everyone on campus
When in actuality shit like this happens that smacks all that down:
Luke and Cate were genuinely dedicated to each other where they even planned their future after college together
Andre and Cate had grief sex and they both wanted to talk about what happened but other imminent stuff kept occurring making it not the right time to do so. Then the whole interview with Tek Knight confirming they had never done so before and were both genuinely grieving the loss of Luke meaning their friendships were built on emotion not out of manipulation and favor-gaining unlike a lot of the adult/professors in this world are shown to have
Jordan is actually quite protective of his friends and wants to keep them safe from the threat at hand even if it’s themselves
Jordan and Marie not only hooking up but actually having multiple conversations with good banter and confrontational dialogue revealing deeper information about both of them and how similar they actually are -> decisiveness, drive, and passion are just a few things
Marie still concerned for Emma’s safety and well-being despite saying otherwise and her relief at Emma’s return along with willingness to aid and assist her with Sam
Justine’s ‘women need to support women’ notion of saving Emma from the male student being smacked out of the sky the moment she outed Emma’s disorder on her platform “to take down the patriarchy” without Emma’s permission which got her more exposure. And despite feeling shitty about it that still doesn’t make up for using what someone told you as a confidant to better your narration and battle. Even if Justine took down the video or apologized publicly, she’d still likely receive ridicule from her peers making HER the most hated freshman on campus as many people told Emma “fuck that girl.” So an act that was supposed to uplift two girls coming together may of well just made them both be each other’s downfall and drive them apart.
Idk I just love how real these characters and their complexities are. I don’t think any of them would necessarily become a villain or are one in the traditional sense but it is believable for one or more of them to become antagonistic in order to protect their friends and loved ones. And like Luke, it will be the adults painting the narrative and turning them into the typical villain to save their own asses.
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kindahoping4forever · 2 months
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Luke promising new solo music "soon" at iHeartRadio's ALTer EGO
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another-clive-blog · 3 months
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HOW HAVE I NEVER NOTICED THIS
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LAYTON USES TU FOR FUTURE LUKE BUT SWITCHES TO VOUS THE SECOND CLIVE'S IDENTITY IS REVEALED.
Tu and vous both mean you but Tu implies closeness : in the entirety of Unwound Future, Layton only ever uses Tu with Flora, the Lukes and Claire
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bbygirl-aemond · 10 months
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....tall luke truthers how we feeling rn
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stealingpotatoes · 3 months
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Where did the jedilings go for life day? Do they all still have family?
yeah-ish!! they all have somewhere to go:
Aren: to his uncle's! the rest of his family died on Alderaan but his uncle's got a house on New Alderaan town/moon wherever. i assume a lot of families join together to celebrate given how much smaller most of them are Zakhar: on Kiffu with his grandparents!! Sayuri: with her parents' old pilot squadron bc they're the closest thing she has to family outside of the Jedi Alela: she's an only child but a HUGE extended family on Ryloth and was forcing anyone in her line of sight to hear abt ALL her jedi adventures and friends Dar'shana: on Coruscant w her mum and older sister!! Zheff: normalest family dinner w his normal family. once again he has the least main character energy of everyone Nymie: with her aristocrat family who were all either wheeling her out like "look my sister/child is a jedi this gives me higher social standing" or hearing her siblngs say their dumbass rich ppl activities were better than hers
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antianakin · 5 months
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If we do ever get a Reva spin-off show (or movie, whatever), I would like to put it out there that it shouldn't have a SINGLE cameo. Not one. No Rebels characters, no Sequels characters, no Force ghosts, no Ahsoka, no Luke or Leia, no other Jedi survivors, NOBODY. No cameos, just Reva and a cast of original characters.
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aquamarineglow · 4 months
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NWOS SPOILERS
Luke Triton's appearance in the new game is completely perfect!!
He's old enough to be on the same level as Layton and not just a little boy following him around. He's a true gentleman now!
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But he's still young enough to get excited about things and look up to the Professor for guidance. Still the same baby we all know and love!
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Absolute perfection.
Look at him.
He sits at the grown up table, but still orders a happy meal.
He wears a bowtie to look smart, but his mum has to tie it for him.
He reads news articles about archeology for fun, but still sleeps with a teddy bear.
He thinks he's all grown up, but is still our little Luke.
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spoopyloonerisms · 4 months
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thinking of rick riordans books and how no matter the pantheon these children inherit problems caused by the adults. drawing parallels between these kids being left in the wreckage of their parents decisions and having to step up and solve shit they didn’t cause.
it is an inheritance by blood.
in this essay I will—
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