#hating the prequels is

[cruella1989]

What do you think they’re talking about?

#star wars #memes #palpatine #sheev palpatine #mace windu #master windu #anakin skywalker #anakin #obiwan kenobi #obiwan #star wars prequels #funny #sw memes #i hate sand #i have the high ground #i am the senate #take a seat #we do not grant you the rank of master #sw prequels

[babyblueetbaemonster]

How Dunmer getting out of lava

v.s. how I, the non-Dunmer getting out of lava

"You were the chosen one! It was said that you would purge the n'wah, not join them!"

"I HATE YOU!"

"You were my brother, Nerevar. I loved you."

#tes #morrowind #dunmer #Dagoth Ur #the sixth house #house dagoth #nerevarine #tes oc #oc: Sundros #can't believe i literally need to go through fire and war to get to him #i draw a meme #i was only gonna make a model getting out of pool meme #and I got carry away with lava #what's the name of anakin yells i hate you meme #is it just called prequel meme? XD

[todayisafridaynight]

#masadai #snap chats #rgg #ryu ga gotoku #ryu ga gotoku 7 #yakuza series #yakuza 2 #yakuza like a dragon #yakuza 7 #daigo dojima #masato arakawa #snap sketches #things that were meant to be a quick stupid scribble I Hate It Here #lil baby thing in between comms cause I Need My Fix #anyway no as i was drawing this i started cakclnig cause i reminded myself of that comic i did where he DOES smash a glass over his head #the prequel.... rbing that so people know what im talking about hang on #wait i lied i cant rb it i already srbd <- did so last year #still accidentally found out that that post is a year old now... happy birthday .... #anyway goodnight. for twenty minutes

[jedi-grandmaster]

I really love how you view Mace Windu as a character, he deserves so much more appreciation than he gets

High anon!

Y’know when I was a tiny child, before I knew what fandom was (oh blessed times lol), Mace Windu was always one of my favorites. In a galaxy-wide war zone where everything is falling apart and the government is corrupt and your peaceful religious order members (family) are being slaughtered on battlefields, he was right there the whole time keeping everything together. He was attending the government votes and meeting with government officials, trying to keep what little left remained afloat. When he wasn’t acting diplomatically, he was leading his own group of men, giving that much more of himself for the good of the republic.

His final battle, his last stand, was daring to go against one of the order’s most noted members and the chancellor of the entire galactic republic. He was always doing what was right, and even as young as I was I respected the hell out of that man for it. Obi-Wan was fun, and Yoda was the old wise one, but Mace Windu was the rock in the storm, every time he was on scene I always hoped just a little that maybe things would end differently because if anyone would do it, it’d be him.

That’s why it baffled me so much when I first joined a fandom space and found that not many people shared my view. I couldn’t figure out what movies everyone else had been watching because surely they hadn’t seen the same movie I had.

Thanks for the ask anon! I’m glad my love and respect for Mace Windu comes through loud and clear.

#ask #anonymous #mace windu #I never understood why people hated him so much #he was intelligent and caring #and did everything he could #star wars #the clone wars #star wars prequels

[smallandangry24]

Headcanon that chipped!Cody would subconsciously go to Dex’s a bunch to feel closer to Obi Wan and one day the Besalisk is like aight somethings up with my boy and just… whacks him over the head.

And that’s how Cody gets his chip taken out.

#dexter jettster #he does not get enough credit #I love this man #he’s the anti Krell #commander cody #Obi wan kenobi #order 66 #post order 66 #impromptu chip removal #Dex’s diner #codywan #star wars headcanons #prequels #the clone wars #tbb season 2 #kenobi show #pong krell #pong krell hate club #besalisk

[ballad-of-birdy-lamb]

I keep seeing that white twink only. I’m tweaking the fuck out. Write for the other characters for the love of GOD

#ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #thg #thg prequel #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #tbosas x reader #reaper ash #coral thg #treech tbosas #tanner thg #Im starting to hate that twink

[kanansdume]

I've recently been watching these very interesting Star Wars video essays on YouTube (yeah I know, a rare breed) and it brings up these comments Lucas has made about how he views Star Wars as almost like a silent film in terms of how important the visuals are to him in comparison to the dialogue. But this essay also points out how important Lucas finds all of the "rhyming" moments in his trilogies and the way he utilizes them to remind you of something else for emotional or thematic reasons. And there's so many of them, both in visuals and in dialogue, and it's interesting to consider how important this is to him, the repetition for a purpose as well as the storytelling through visuals above everything else and then to look at Star Wars since the Prequels came out and realize how little has really been able to match up to those ideals since then.

The ONLY thing that's come out since the Prequels that I think really hits these two things the same way is, in fact, Andor. One of the things I noticed about the way people discussed Andor as it was airing in a way I haven't really seen for any of the other shows or films was the visual SYMBOLOGY. So many times I saw people noticing the Imperial cog everywhere, from the aerial shot of Narkina 5 as the prisoners escape to the architecture of Mon Mothma's house. There were people picking up on the use of items in Luthen's shop that are familiar from other things to give this idea that Luthen is from another time, he's attempting to preserve this world he lost, that if you're not looking closely enough you won't notice what he's really saying or doing with this shop. The color choices for the different locations and people got analyzed because the people involved spoke about how they intentionally utilized color to SEND A MESSAGE about the characters and the world. We know that the people who made the costumes and sets really worked hard to treat Star Wars almost like a period drama and study the history of the franchise as if it were a real place so that the things they came up with felt like they belonged in this world everyone knows so well even if it's completely new. And of course there were all of the myriad references to things from Rogue One, the constant repetition of "climb", the sunset on the beach, etc.

Nearly EVERY SHOT in this show was created with so much intention behind it in order to say something meaningful about the characters, the world, this specific story they're in, and the overall saga of Star Wars itself. It's insane how much greater impact this show was able to achieve through the incredibly careful usage of visual symbols and thematic repetitions, much like Lucas did before them. It feels like they didn't just study the history of the galaxy far far away, but they studied the history of STAR WARS and what Lucas was trying to do and say with this story. They peeled back his onion a bit more and were able to create something that really has that same visual feel even when it's not created for a child audience. It also is experimenting with its narrative style through its structure and through Cassian's character being allowed to be somewhat more reactive than proactive, and while that didn't work for everyone, it does feel like it's following in Lucas's footsteps of experimentation through Star Wars. Push the boundaries of what Star Wars is and can be and what you can say with it.

But this only works because they peeled the onion back enough to TRULY understand all of the messages Lucas was sending with it. They got the heart of Star Wars and despite its lack of space wizards, despite the lack of most major characters in the Saga, this was a show that honestly got the message more than just about anything else Star Wars has put out since the Prequels. The choices between selflessness and selfishness, the themes about how you always HAVE to make a choice even when it feels like you don't have any (sometimes ESPECIALLY when it feels like you don't have any), and how important it is to make sure to choose the path of compassion above everything else. The themes of connection to others, the symbiotic circle and the impact even the smallest person can have on world around them, it's RIGHT THERE and it's CENTRAL to Andor's storyline.

So yes, it experiments a little with narrative structure, but it's possibly the most Star Wars thing to exist Revenge of the Sith because it honestly truly GETS what Star Wars was about, both in its themes and in its filmmaking. A lot of people said that Andor didn't feel like Star Wars to them, usually because of the lack of space wizards and the fact that it's not a story aimed at children. But to me, Andor is EXACTLY what Star Wars is and has always been. They're stretching the boundaries of what Star Wars can be, but it's saying the exact same things Star Wars has always said, it's just saying it slightly differently. This doesn't feel like fanfiction to me, not really. Unlike things like the Mandoverse or the books, Andor isn't just taking some of the toys out of the sandbox and going to play with them somewhere else. Andor is IN that sandbox. It's building a slightly different sandcastle, but it's still within the sandbox, using the same sand that Lucas did.

#star wars #andor #star wars andor #i GET why some people feel like andor isn't star wars #but quite honestly that feels like not just a superficial reading of andor but a superficial reading of star wars as a whole #the only other show to come anywhere near andor's level was the obi-wan kenobi show #there's tons of visuals that are intended to link back to both the pt and the ot #from obi-wan and leia's costumes to things like the fire obi-wan is burned in and that flashback scene #i'm placing andor above owk still because i think andor takes it an extra level higher but owk is also in that sandbox #owk just got stuck with the fucking volume and the disadvantage of going from a movie to a miniseries #but it did far better with those disadvantages than just about anyone else and still told a VERY star wars style story #the fact that it feels like the prequels is exactly why everyone hated it #and it's exactly why i loved it and think it's the 2nd best thing to come out of star wars since rots #i'll give 3rd place to rebels since it tries once or twice to do some visual and dialogue repetition #but those kinds of things aren't something i see analyzed about rebels all that much tbh #everything else is just fanfic that made a profit #some of it is really BAD fanfic that thinks a cameo is the same as a visual motif. it's not. they suck. stop doing them.

[janeaustenlover]

They created a strange tableau: rabid boy, trapped girl, bombed-out building. It suggested a tale that could only end in tragedy. Star-crossed lovers meeting their fate. A revenge story turned in on itself. A war saga that took no prisoners.

#coriolanus x lucy gray #snowbaird #tbosasedit #tbosas #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #exactly a five min edit to express my undying devotion to a book!version of them #because you know what?? tbosas movie was a properly made thg prequel but it was HOSTILE to coryo x lg shippers #it wasn't wuthering heights enough it wasn't hozier enough it wasn't hadestown enough!!!!!!! #but above all it wasn't BRAVE enough #2k23 cinema is so hesitant when it comes to love stories it's almost revolting #tom blyth worked his heart off for what????? for one tiny kiss where rachel isn't even an active participant????? #where are you 'he kissed her until his lip started to bleed'????? #i hate the erasure of many defining moments and dialogues #i hate they didn't make 'pure as the driven snow' lucy gray's love confession to her murderous bf #i hate their first kiss was ruined i hate we didn't get the reunion they deserved 'YOU FOUND ME' 'YOU KNEW I WOULD' #heartfelt and dubios innocent and calculated meant to be and meant to be apart MY SNAKES AND SONGBIRDS BOTH OF THEM #this film had almost succeeded in wiping out the whole meaning of their dynamics and I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT #shitty things i do for love

[antianakin]

Kenobi Show: Aims itself at all of the Prequels fans, primarily the fans who were kids when the Prequels came out and spent like two decades being shamed for enjoying them by older Star Wars fans. Made with the Prequels in mind, made to feel like them and follow their messages and themes.

Critics: This show is TERRIBLE, it makes no sense and Obi-Wan is so lame.

Ahsoka show: Aims itself at all of the OT fans who HATED the Prequels for "retconning" the Legends information and interpretations of the Jedi and how the Force works. Really just Legends storylines adapted with TCW and Rebels characters instead of OT characters.

Critics: Filoni should be doing all Star Wars, we finally have a Star Wars thing that feels like Star Wars, this is the best show ever.

#star wars #prequel trilogy #original trilogy #obi-wan kenobi series #sw owk #ahsoka show #sw ahsoka #star wars prequels #hm i wonder what the pattern is here #it's almost like the critics are probably predominantly those fans who hated the prequels #which is why the kenobi show was panned and the ahsoka show was praised #one of them feels like LEGENDS star wars and one of them feels like LUCAS star wars #and it isn't hard to tell which is which

[snowangeldotmp3]

mrs. click's class, october 1983... with a little bit of a twist.

#tammy doesn't have mrs. click's class in this one oopsie #ronance #nancy wheeler #robin buckley #SORRY 2 STEVE I PROMISE I DON'T HATE HIM #robin's just going through a lot right now okay? and it's not going to get any better #bc this is a prequel to rebel robin: surviving the upside down #LMAOOO she's gonna go through it </3 #also please clap i had to fight my ocd to say 'nancy goddamn wheeler' #wip weekend #WOOO

[taikanyohou]

its the way they appreciate each other so so so much!!!!!!!!!!!

#STOP STOP STOPPPPPPPPPPP #also NOT acchan at the end being all 'oh if we get a prequel i'll act as an even better yoh NIKKE-SAN PLEASEEEEEE 🤲🤲🤲🤲' #I HATE THEMMMM. #my personal weatherman #higuchi kouhei #mashiko atsuki

[theartofangirling]

#....why #lol noah fence but couldn't be me #hope y'all have a good time though #spn prequel #i hate the concept so much I'm not even gonna tag it by its name (also bc I don't want to actually rain on anyone's parade) #mp

[quohotos]

Man, I really feel bad for the Dinotopia guys. They built this whole intricate, creative, enrapturing world, and it was going to be the next big thing. It was gonna be the next franchise. They got George Fucking LUCAS to make a screen adaptation of it. Yeah, the starwars guy. Then midway through production he realizes how much he loves making movies and decides to ditch your project and make the prequels instead. They say there's no bad blood but... man it would fucking kill me to go to the theater and see Naboo and think "Fuck, that coulda been waterfall city"

There still was a franchise. They did eventually make spinoff paperback novels and video games and there were even a couple screen adaptations, but they were done by Lifetime and Hallmark. The lifetime one is actually surprisingly good given its budget. It tells a story that mirrors the structure of the original picture book, two brothers get marooned on Dinotopia, one of them rides a pterosaur and then they have to stop a dude named Krab from stealing a crystal that he needs to make an ancient machine get him off the island... but it's not a reboot or anything, it's the same continuity as the books. I guess guys named Krab really do be stealing crystals every generation or so. It's not really that bad of a series but damn it could have been George Lucas!

I dunno, I just find myself thinking about it. It was a uniquely artistic and non-violent series for its time. All of the dinosaurs and people live in harmony. There used to be a steampunk cyber empire of capitalists who tried to replace dinosaurs with the coolest looking robots you could imagine, but then there was a revolution and they all live in communistic harmony with no real currency. Each according to their need, each to their own ability. All that Jazz.

I'm certainly more normal about it than I am say The Underland Chronicles but I still find myself thinking about those gorgeous communist dinosaur picture books. In another reality, Battleborn won over Overwatch, Galidor never got its budget cut and was actually a smash success, Warner bros actually did something with the TUC film rights, and Kids in the 00s grew up with Dinotopia instead of the Starwars prequels.

#And no hate to the starwars prequels. I actually unironically enjoy them a lot which probably surprises no one #Dinotopia #dinosaurs #Quohotos' unhinged rants that no one asked for #ooh that's a new tag. I guess this will be a series

[liltaireissocute]

fem!obikin for twitter challenge 🤌

#liltaire's art #digital art #star wars the clone wars #star wars fanart #star wars prequels #star wars art #star wars #obikin #fem!obikin #anakin x obi wan #obi wan x anakin #obi wan #obi wan kenobi #fem!obi wan kenobi #fem! anakin skywalker #fem! anakin #anakin skywalker #twitter challenge #anon who asked for obikin you welcome #i traced the letters bc i hate text feature in SAI and i was too lazy to go to paint and do the text there

[ooops-i-arted]

oooo not sure if we are still on the "if you have nothing nice to say about ahsoka, sit next to me" train but i was in the prequels fandom pre-tcw show/when it was just getting popular and hadn't proliferated yet and the amount of complexity and nuance anakin's character was allowed to have rocked (in both fanon and the canon materials that were coming out at the time)!! he was a whiny, graceless, socially awkward, violent little boy who suffered from horrible trauma (also really miss the dark places that the sw eu was allowed to go pre-disney) and a war where he felt more and more isolated as it mounted. the only two tethers he had were obi-wan and padme, both given so much more depth and importance in his life i feel like. his fall was a long, slow careful build-up of terrible choices and immaturity that kinda gets destroyed the second you give him a padawan and make him a good master to her. it's not that i hate ahsoka or anything but her presence really.... lessened the story a lot and flattened it down into "jedi bad, anakin good, obi-wan and padme just kinda there while anakin is understood by his TRUE family and is tricked into going to the dark side." the anakin i conceive of in my head is never gonna be filoni's and is never gonna have a padawan lolllll

Yes! Yes this! Anakin is a trash can of a human being, and yeah trauma is a factor but it's HIS OWN CHOICES that cinch the deal and that is ALWAYS made clear. He was a wonderful unique amazing character and George Lucas did a great job setting up his fall gradually through AotC and showing it in RotS. Filoni's stuff is just cheap filler that tries to rewrite it to make Anakin look "better." HE WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE BETTER, THIS GUY TURNS INTO DARTH VADER. But yeah everything you just said, amen.

#i will always be on the ahsoka hate train and i will never stop saying that she and filoni are a DETRIMENT to the prequels because THEY ARE #asks #anon #anti ahsoka #anti ahsoka tano #if you don't have anything nice to say about ahsoka come sit by me lmao

[saltysaltdog]

Just because it's been boiling my brain, the fandom agrees Ratau is the reason there's so many traps and ambushes in cult of the lamb, right? Because he was a stealth main who vanishes into underground hiding spots/tunnels, taking down units one by one, and sneaking into temples, right?

Because that giant screaming bell thing seems like it'd be a pain for rogues: since it only goes off when enemies are alerted/an enemy dies, then follows the player around till all enemies in that area are defeated. Total stealth killer. They made it especially for him.

Thus the best way to defeat Ratau was to have traps, stakeouts, and ambushes. Instead of general patrols, checkpoints, and unit check-ins since a rogue would just sneak past those. Because unless those doors have a "fixed*" entry point, it's pretty weird to have your whole place covered in traps just in case a crown bearer comes through.

#cult of the lamb #add it to the list #cotl ratau #and kallamar hated him the most obviously. his whole place is set up with landmines and stuff that blows up upon contact #it would be so funny to make a prequel sorta dlc bc ultimately your only goal is to piss off the bishops #its not to win but just to be a pest. best rogue goal tbh #they shot themselves in the foot bc armoured enemy hordes would be much harder for the lamb to deal with