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fanfictasia · 4 months

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Phantoms of Glory Chapter 14-World's Gonna See (Post-TPM), a star wars fanfic | FanFiction

Phantoms of Glory - Chapter 14 - World's Gonna See it (Post-TPM) - Wattpad

#star wars #star wars fanfiction #fanfiction #anakin skywalker #anakin #ahsoka's sister #original characters #aayla secura #aayla #angst #hurt/comfort #family #friendship #post tpm

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kryzobi-wan · 2 years

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Me: I'm getting so close to finishing my Sound of Music Obitine AU! I can't wait to get home and work on it!

Also me: *writes nearly 2000 words of Satine and little Anakin bonding while taking care of a grieving Obi-Wan on the bus ride home from work* 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

#i hate writing in my notes app but when inspiration strikes you gotta run with it #maybe im just impatient to post something obitine soon #obitine #obitine fanfic #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #satine kryze #post tpm

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qo-promise-me · 2 years

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Made for @midnightdelirium

For the amazing and cute comic Creature Comforts. I hope we could see the happy ending they both deserve and Boga all joyful to make those two idiots to get close!

#star wars #sw #qui gon jinn #obi wan kenobi #quiobi #prequel trilogy #boga #comic #post TPM #my fanart

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beaulesbian · 8 days

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One Piece + text posts [3/?]

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ventresses · 3 months

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Star Wars + Text Posts & Headlines

#anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #padme amidala #anidala #mace windu #star wars #sw anakin #sw padme #attack of the clones #revenge of the sith #star wars memes #prequels memes #star wars text post #mine #rots text post #aotc text post #tpm text post

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padmeamidela · 10 months

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The royal wardrobe of QUEEN PADMÉ AMIDALA in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)

costume design by trisha biggar

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fexalted · 8 months

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good omens + text posts (part 8)

featuring: posts that look like they're connected but aren't

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #anthony j crowley #ineffable husbands #ineffable partners #gomens #text post meme #fex post meme #go tpm #fex pix #i'm back babeyyyyyy #i made some of these last year can you tell #i held off on posting them bc i wanted an even 10 that fit my silly little theme for this set and i knew s2 would provide for me 🙏#and i've got even more on the way ;3c

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gaybitcheddiediaz · 4 months

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911 + text posts (more)

#eddie's turn with the text post meme <3 #you guys I fr have about a hundred meticulously organized text posts collected like these are not going to stop any time soon #I think up next will be some bathena #eddie diaz #911 buddie #911 memes #911edit #buck x eddie #eddie #memes #mine #tpm

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luckyricochet · 3 days

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band of brothers + text posts (1/?)

#bobedit #band of brothers #hbowaredit #hbowardaily #hbo war fandom #hbo war #text post meme #mine #mine: tpm #bobtpm

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david-talks-sw · 1 year

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What "The Hidden Fortress" (1958) tells us about the Jedi's status in the Prequels.

In 1999, George Lucas had this to say on BBC Omnibus: A Long Time Ago: The Story of "Star Wars" and then The Phantom Menace's director's commentary.

“I greatly admired Kurosawa, especially the film Hidden Fortress, which told a story from the point of view of two serfs, two slaves...

... peasants who tag along with this famous general and a princess-- y'know, royalty. And the whole story is told from their point of view. And I like that idea. I like the idea of telling a story from the lowest person's point of view, uh, in the food chain, and that's how the story got to be told by Artoo and Threepio.”

“[The Phantom Menace] is told primarily from the Jedi's point of view, but the story that's being told is essentially the story of Queen Amidala and her plight of having her planet blockaded. As in, say, Episode IV, where the story is told through the eyes of the droids, in this one, it's told through the eyes of the Jedi.”

“But [from the moment we get to Coruscant, Anakin and Jar Jar] are standing on the sidelines. It's a little bit a riff on the very first film where the story is told through the point of view of the droids, who were sort of the lowliest characters.”

“And in [Phantom Menace], I'm doing it through - primarily - the two Jedi, but then the secondary characters are also carrying a lot of the weight when the Jedi aren't around.”

George Lucas draws a comparison between lowly characters like Hidden Fortress' peasants Matashichi and Tahei, the droids in A New Hope, as well as the Jedi in The Phantom Menace.

What do they all have in common? They are all the lowest-ranking characters in their respective films. Repeat: the movie frames the Jedi as almost at the bottom of the food chain.

Because of course they are. Functionally, they're just diplomats. They hold no political power whatsoever and barely have any authority .

What little authority the Jedi do have in TPM comes from the Queen's young age, which allows them to ease into a more advisory position, and Qui-Gon's rebellious streak. And even he's explicit about the fact that his mandate has limitations.

The only characters "below" them in status are Jar Jar, an exiled Gungan, and Anakin, who just yesterday was still a slave kid, Artoo the literal object and that's it!

Also the other Prequel films are consistent with this portrayal. Who do we see lower in status than the Jedi? Dexxter Jettster and the clones. Everyone else is pretty much above them.

Yes, the Jedi are part of the system, but they're not as high-ranking as you'd think. Yes, they have Force Powers, but that means squat when put against political power. So, like, to expect the Jedi to...

influence the decisions of the Senate,

wage a war against the Outer Rim to end slavery,

or blatantly refuse an order to join the war effort,

... is incredibly unreasonable.

They're not meant to be seen as "the elite, peering down upon the people from their ivory tower".

They're the servants! Servants of the Republic.

And they're seeing their higher-ups destroy what they should all stand for, but are unable to stop them.

Later on, with The Clone Wars, we are introduced to civilian characters and from their point of view, the Jedi are ultra powerful and are highly placed and "should do more but don't".

It makes sense that these characters would see the Jedi as 'the elite'. But they don't have the full picture.

We, as the audience, do.

So we know that the reality is more along the lines of the Jedi "should do more but can't".

After all, we are made privy many instances of the Jedi speaking up and trying to change politicians' minds, only to be dismissed and overruled at every turn.

↑ these aren't even all the times we see it happen, btw, there's more examples...

So at some point, if you - as an audience member - see all this and are still saying "the Jedi should've done more!" I really need to know... what more could they have done?

Take control of the Senate?

That'll result in a dictatorship, there's a reason they waited as much as they did before trying to take down Palpatine.

Power corrupts and they're wise enough to know it.

Don't join the Republic in the first place?

George Lucas never frames the Jedi's involvement with the Republic as a bad thing. In the foreword to Shatterpoint (2004), he says their being part of the Republic led to 1,000 years of prosperity.

Where's the issue, then? Well, it's a two-man job and the Jedi's bosses, the Senate, grew corrupt and stopped doing their part. They stopped carrying their end of the couch.

But “no Jedi in the Republic from the get-go” means the Sith will rise to power even faster. Fun!

Stay neutral in the war?

The Separatists were killing civilians and testing weapons on neutral systems, or enslaving them.

The choice put before the Jedi was "do what we tell you and fight, or let people die".

But also, out-of-universe... do you really think Palpatine, genius politician, master of spin, can't re-frame the Jedi staying neutral in a negative light?

When they joined the war, he unleashed propaganda that either directly (on the Separatist side) or indirectly (on the Republic side) framed them as "warmongers who corrupted their values". If they don't join, they're "apathetic cowards who care more about their own values than the lives of the people they're supposed to protect".

So either way, Order 66 comes around, wipes them out and the Republic goes "good riddance".

So what else could they do?

The answer is "not much".

Because the whole point of the narrative is that Palpatine checkmated them by taking the fight to a field the Jedi had no experience in or right to meddle with: politics.

So if you look at these characters who are nowhere near the top of the food chain, and say "well, why didn't they fix things?" I'm sorry to say you're missing the point of the narrative.

Or maybe you do get the point of the narrative and just aren't trying to be fair...

... in which case, at least be consistent and also argue:

"Why didn't Threepio & Artoo do more to save the Rebel crew of the Tantive IV from the stormtrooopers?!"

"Why didn't Matashichi & Tahei do more to save the Akizuki clan?!"

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technicolorrelays · 1 year

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#the x files #fox mulder #dana scully #text post meme #tpm

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fanfictasia · 4 months

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Phantoms of Glory - Chapter 15 - Heroes Never Die (Post-TPM) - Wattpad

Phantoms of Glory Chapter 15 - Heroes Never Die (Post-TPM), a star wars fanfic | FanFiction

#star wars #star wars fanfiction #fanfiction #anakin skywalker #anakin #original characters #ahsoka's sister #barriss offee #barriss #post tpm #jedi #initiates

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kenobihater · 2 months

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just read the interview with jake lloyd's mother, lisa lloyd, about his experiences with schizophrenia since being in the phantom menace. i'm glad to hear that he's finally getting help and is reportedly improving, but i can't help but feel absolutely furious about the fact that he was jailed for TEN MONTHS for traffic violations and resisting arrest while in a psychotic episode. the cops wouldn't give him his meds, and denied him hospitalization because "the beds were full". ten fucking months of that. my god.

#jake lloyd #anakin skywalker #the phantom menace #tpm #star wars #posting this both bc it's important as a sw fan but ALSO bc the stigma against psychotic ppl is so absolutely horrendous. i'm sick of it #i was gonna go to bed but i found this in my drafts from earlier today and realized i hadn't posted it yet #also the fact that he was so heavily impacted by his younger sister's death is absolutely heartbreaking. i'm truly rooting for him at this #point. i understand his pain to a degree as someone with bipolar. psychosis is a heavy heavy burden

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beaulesbian · 18 days

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