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[snowinabottle]

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[david-talks-sw]

An allergy to the Prequels

While I'm putting together a post about the evolution Lucasfilm's transmedia strategies, this part kinda turned into its own thing!

So I'm not sure if anyone else noticed, but, uh... there hasn't been that much Prequel content since the Disney sale, right?

'Couple novels and comics, some episodes... but nothing meaningful.

The more I look into it, the more it feels like a deliberate avoidance to touch on anything Prequel-related - beyond the required quota, that is - to a point where they'd rather tell stories set during periods that are Prequel-adjacent (Dark Times, High Republic) than something set around Episodes I, II and III.

On-screen policy: "pretend they never happened"

I mean, this one's no secret. When The Force Awakens had been announced, with J.J. Abrams at the helm, everyone sighed in relief. "Finally, George Lucas won't keep ruining the franchise."

When Abrams had been announced as the director of Episode VII, I remember this cringey animated video started circulating online, titled "4 Rules To Make Star Wars Great Again" or "Dear JJ Abrams":

“Star Wars isn’t shiny and clean... Star Wars is a western.”

If you ask me, those two things are not mutually exclusive.

'Cause Star Wars has always been both, for many Prequel kids. Both clean and dusty, Coruscant and Tatooine. There was never a disconnect between the Original Trilogy (OT) and the Prequel Trilogy.

Even the documentary The People vs George Lucas shows Prequel-hating fans begrudgingly admit their kids felt all six episodes tied seamlessly.

Abrams, on the other hand, said: "I think [the "Dear JJ" video] was right on." Later on, he also said:

he considered "putting Jar Jar Binks's bones in the desert" on Jakku, somewhere, and

he intentionally made the lightsaber fights "rougher", "primitive" and "more powerful" unlike the fast-paced ones in the Prequels.

Later, we found out he wanted to blow up Coruscant.

It's clear he wasn't a big fan of the Prequels.

But y'know what? Not many fans over 20 were, at the time. And when The Force Awakens came out, most them celebrated it as a wonderful love letter to the OT.

Star Wars is cool again. Mission accomplished 🙌 !

However movies keep coming out, and references to the Prequels - if there are any - are literally just that... references.

Sometimes in the shape of a cameo ("hey look, Genevieve O'Reilly from the Ep. III deleted scenes is playing Mon Mothma again!")

Sometimes in a name (Luke name-dropped "Darth Sidious"!)

But nothing set during the Prequel era, and nothing treating the events that happened in that period as relevant or impactful, beyond subtextual nods.

In fact, the trend of avoiding anything Prequel-related continues as the final film in the Skywalker Saga comes out:

The Rise of Skywalker has a secret Sith society that chants the name "Palpatine" instead of his Sith name "Darth Sidious",

the film pretends the Kaminoans never existed,

and neither TROS nor Trevorrow's Duel of the Fates script even try to bring Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker back on screen. Let that sink in, we're talking about the Chosen One, Skywalker Senior, whose sins caused this whole mess... and his name isn't even uttered once in the final chapter of what Disney dubbed the *Skywalker* Saga (or the entire Sequel trilogy, for that matter).

But hey, The Clone Wars got renewed for one last Season! That's cool right? So many stories had gone unfinished and somehow the animation looks even better than befo--

-- oh. It's not 22 episodes? Only 12?

Four of which had already been shown to us, but hey! We need to set-up the Bad Batch series, so let's shoehorn those episodes in there, and forget Son of Dathomir, Dark Disciple or Crystal Crisis.

*sigh* Better than nothing, I guess.

In other mediums: "just not a priority"

Now this is something that I'll explore more in the transmedia post (and purely my interpretation), but the noticeable change between Lucasfilm's transmedia strategy *post-ROTS* and the one post-Disney sale is that:

Before, the games, comics and novels were the main content. After all, Revenge of the Sith had been released, so that was it, for the movies. Thus, a variety of other content was being cranked out to keep the Star Wars franchise relevant. There were comics set 100 years after Episode 6, comics set 25,000 years prior, games set in the Old Republic era, other stories in the New Republic era, novels galore, a couple of parody films and an animated show, The Clone Wars, which sometimes received its own tie-in comics, novels and games.

After the sale and ever since, most of the transmedia products have had only one goal: promoting the films & streaming shows.

So while in 2015 you won't see an abundance of Prequel content... you'll see an avalanche of OT books and comics come out.

Why? Because the heroes of that era will be in the Sequel Trilogy movies. It provided context to the kids who hadn't seen the OT yet, and reintroduced those films to a new generation of fans, while priming them for the Sequels.

A multimedia marketing strategy that ultimately proved successful.

However, it continued even after The Force Awakens came out.

Don't believe me? Compare how many comics there have been set during the Prequel era vs the OT era.

If they make comics about the Prequels, they're limited runs.

Case in point: before the current Yoda series, the best any Disney Prequel-set comic series ever got was 6 issues.

Note: it's worth pointing out that the frequency of mini-series aren't just a Star Wars-specific thing, it's a comic book industry thing. The readership for comics is dwindling, many people are reading scans online, and so no publisher wants to commit to a story that lasts more than 4-6 issues. My problem is: there absolutely would be readership for a Prequel comic series to warrant an extended run instead of a mini-series.

Let's talk books. There have been give or 64 canon novels published since the Disney sale.

Only 11 of them are set during the Prequel era. And even those stories only came out when the planets were aligned.

Almost half of them were released while being a part of some bigger multimedia push.

Example:

Before the Obi-Wan Kenobi series was being released on Disney Plus, we'd had one novel and like two comic stories about him during the Prequels... released between 2012 and end 2021. That's about three pieces of content in almost ten years.

Clearly a low frequency.

Then, when the series is around the corner, two books and a comic story comes out in the space of months, plus an anthology book with an alt cover with his face on it and a comic with a story of him and Anakin in the first issue, all in 2022.

My takeaway: short of there being a film or series that needs to be promoted, you'll rarely get any Prequel comics or books.

And this is OBI-WAN we're talking about. The character who even the Prequel haters love. Imagine how little attention the other ones get.

Gaming-wise, Battlefront had no Prequel content at all (again, 2015 was the year where OT content was shoved down the consumer's throats to prep them for Episode VII), and Battlefront 2 only released Prequel content a full year later.

All that being said, we did seen some Prequel elements here and there. After all, some actors got to reprise their roles, books and comics came out featuring Prequel characters... but there's a catch.

The stories they appear in are set in-between Episodes III and IV, a time-period known as "the Dark Times" or the "Imperial era".

"Dark Times" being used instead of the Prequel era

It's easy to see the appeal of this era. You keep the same threat from the Original Trilogy - the Empire - but redress it with Prequel elements... while also cherry-picking the best characters of both the OT and the Prequels and giving them a chance to shine again.

The situation is more clear cut, as opposed to the complex one in the Prequels. Bad guys are stormtroopers, good guys are anyone else. And the stories no longer take place in the shiny capital, you're back on the frontier.

But at this point... it feels like a cop-out.

When you consider how much content has been set during the Dark Times, it's nothing to sneeze at. Since the sale, we've had:

2 movies (Solo, Rogue One)

4 series set in that time-period (namely The Bad Batch, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, and Star Wars: Rebels).

2 video-games (Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor).

17 novels (such as Ahsoka, Lords of the Sith, the new Thrawn books, etc)

And just a whole bunch of comic book series & mini-series (like Kanan, Princess Leia, various Vader-centric comics including Darth Vader: Lord of the Sith, many tie-in mini-series promoting Rogue One, Jedi: Fallen Order, Obi-Wan Kenobi, etc).

There's been so much content made for this time-period that it feels like an unwillingness to do the work and create something set something during the Prequel era, let alone something that follows its Jedi.

After all, why make a story set in the Prequels (disliked by vocal fans) when you can just take the characters in that story and put them in an OT setting (which will appease the Prequel-haters)?

Maybe these stories get relegated to the Dark Times because:

there seems to be a perception that anything set in the Prequel era won't sell?

or maybe the current SW writers weren't fond of Episodes I, II and III, and don't find those Jedi characters likable, thinking they're too righteous and dogmatic which makes it hard to craft a story around them.

Or maybe it's because they're under the impression that the Prequel Jedi are bad. Like, canonically, in the narrative. Not just in a "I don't like them" sense, but also in a "the story is all about them becoming corrupted" sense.

Let's expand on that last point.

Retconning the Prequels as the "Fall of the Jedi" era

Somehow the rare stories set during the Prequels that we do get seem to automatically be about how "the Jedi lost their way/failed".

The series Tales of the Jedi is explicit about it...

... and I already explained why it contradicts what George Lucas established here and here.

You also see it in Rebels and the new season of The Clone Wars...

... in comics...

... in games...

It gets to a point where the Prequels era has now been redubbed the "Fall of the Jedi" era by Lucasfilm.

You wanna know what that period was referred to before the Disney sale? The "Rise of the Empire" Era.

Because - and I'll never get tired of saying this cuz it's factual - the Prequels aren't about the fall of the Jedi, they're about the fall of the Republic and Anakin, and rise of the Empire and Vader.

So in addition to being overdone, the "Jedi lost their way" is not even the intended narrative of the Prequels (if one puts any stock in Lucas' words). It's a minor subplot at best, hardly the focus of the films, let alone a whole time period.

But dubbing it "Fall of the Jedi" implies that there's another era in which the Jedi were in their heyday.

Because Star Wars authors are in luck! Yet another alternative has presented itself in the shape of a new transmedia initiative, and it's even better than the "let's set it during the Dark Times" solution:

A new transmedia initiative: The High Republic

You wanna deal with the Jedi before the Empire, but for some reason you wanna avoid dealing with the ones seen in the Prequels?

Look no further. Meet the Jedi of the High Republic.

Noble, adventurous, inspired by the Knights of the Round Table, they're everything the OT kids dreamed about when they heard ol' Ben Kenobi talk about the Knights of the Old Republic.

That's more like it!

Note: the High Republic was created for other reasons and has many more upsides than the ones mentioned above. Namely, a fresh new spot in the timeline that allows for creative freedom and a beautifully-coordinated transmedia storytelling effort where retcons are non-existent. However it does seem evident that not having to deal with the 'unlikable' Prequel Jedi and their "fall" is one of those upsides.

Another perk that the High Republic era offers is more freedom in terms of storytelling compared to the Prequels.

In 2016, Pablo Hidalgo tweeted he still quotes to authors the following excerpt of West End Games' guide for aspiring Star Wars writers, from 1994.

You can't write "this was the best day in Luke Skywalker's life", for example, because another author may want to write a better day than the one you just wrote.

My guess is that a similar approach applies to how all characters from the movies are treated. They're massively iconic. So you can't write a book that drastically changes how Mace or Yoda or Obi-Wan are perceived overall.

The stories need to be self-contained, disregardable if necessary, because you'll have dozens of writers coming up with new stories for those same characters, and you need to leave them some room.

Examples:

Notice how in the book Dooku: Jedi Lost we never see how Dooku turns to the Dark Side and joins the Sith.

Same goes for crossover comic book arcs of the Star Wars issues, like Vader Down or Crimson Reign... the characters don't really change by much in those comics. You could stick to just watching the movies and you wouldn't really miss anything.

But with The High Republic, you indeed can develop these characters as much as you want.

All stories featuring Avar Kriss leave an impact on her, you can nail down who she is perfectly in one book or one comic arc, both being just as meaningful to her character.

The fact that she's not as iconic/famous a character as Mace Windu means that authors can go to town on crafting an interesting and nuanced character arc for her that'll have a beginning, middle and end... something Mace will never really get.

CONCLUSION:

Back in 2015... let's not kid ourselves. The Prequels were unpopular and Disney is a multi-billion dollar corporation. Opting to make as much money as possible is what they do.

It's the same reason they decided not to go with George Lucas' original plans for the Sequels, in 2012.

I mean, imagine you're Disney. You just dropped 4 billion dollars, with a B, on this franchise. Your next Star Wars movie needs to be worth the price tag. Now, you can pick between two options:

Option #1 is uncharted territory and it explores the midi-chlorians (the cursed word…!) and the guy who presented you with this option also openly admits that a big chunk of customers won’t like it, but he wants this to be done because it’s his vision.

Option #2 is very simple: a soft reboot, that plays on nostalgia that the same chunk of customers (aka the 'boomer and Gen-X fans who grew up with the Original Trilogy and now have kids, grandkids and MONEY) will like.

It's a no-brainer. They gave the customers what they wanted.

But time has passed, the fans who were children when the Prequels first came out have grown up, and grew up with characters like Yoda, Mace, Plo Koon, Kit Fisto and other Jedi as their heroes, aside from main characters like Anakin and Obi-Wan and Ahsoka.

Can we maybe expand on them, flesh them out more?

No, let's either ignoring the storytelling potential of these characters or reducing it to them being "righteous, arrogant and dogmatic".

God forbid we get a story showing the Prequel Jedi in a *gasp* more positive light? One where their POV is more understandable, instead of the same old "we brought this on ourselves" storyline.

There's a whole decade between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones... you're telling me there's no space to show us Anakin's training and how he formed bonds with the Jedi we later see in The Clone Wars? I tried my hand at it here:

Interesting or fun Prequel-set ideas from other pro-Jedi fans on Tumblr can be found here, here and here.

And y'know, part of the Star Wars intent is for fans to take the ideas in the movies and come up with their own stories. You're supposed to create headcanons.

What I'm saying is fans of the Prequels are being given less "imagination food" than the rest, and many of us who like the Jedi in particular are forced to rely on headcanons only. "Better than nothing" is no longer an acceptable standard.

There's a range of recognizable Jedi characters that have already been established in films and TCW, can we maybe expand on them, flesh them out more, instead of whole new ones?

#jedi order #star wars #sw meta #long post #meta #lucasfilm #star wars prequels #prequel trilogy #sw prequels #high republic #the high republic #dark times #imperial era #the clone wars #tcw #sw negativity

[darlin-djarin]

List of Star Wars Medias

navigating star wars is tricky and complex but here's everything (mostly) in order based off of the timeline. some of the medias overlap.

Prequel Trilogy Era (Galactic Republic)

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Star Wars: The Clone Wars [the movie]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Szn. 1 - Szn. 7 Ep. 9)

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Szn. 7 Ep. 10 - Szn. 7 Ep. 12) [you don't have to watch ROTS before you watch these last episodes ^^ it's just what fits better on the timeline]

transition era from prequel trilogy era to original trilogy era (galactic empire/rebellion)

Tales of the Jedi [takes place in different times throughout the prequel era (everything above) so the order of watching this show doesn't matter but it's best to watch it after the clone wars most likely]

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars: Rebels

Andor [season 1 takes place same time as rebels season 1, 5 BBY]

Original Trilogy Era (Galactic Empire/Rebellion)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

transition era from original trilogy era to sequel trilogy era (new republic)

The Mandalorian (Szn. 1 - Szn. 2)

The Book of Boba Fett (Szn. 1)

Ahsoka [takes place after mando s2 and close proximity to mando s3]

The Mandalorian (Szn. 3)

Sequel Trilogy (New Republic)

Star Wars: Resistance [overlaps with the sequel movies so i suggest you watch the movies first before starting this]

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

Extra, but not necessary

Star Wars Visions [no specific timeline. highly recommend]

Star Wars: Clone Wars [the 2d cartoon show, not the 3d. not necessary to watch. takes place during clone wars, obvs]

Star Wars: Droids [takes place after the bad batch and before the solo movie]

The Star Wars Holiday Special [takes place after a new hope and before empire strikes back]

Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure [takes place after empire strikes back and before return of the jedi]

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor [takes place after empire strikes back and before return of the jedi]

The Ewoks [takes place after empire strikes back and before return of the jedi]

Important things to note:

"BBY" stands for "before battle of yavin". "ABY" stands for "after battle of yavin". like B.C. and A.D., it's how the star wars universe counts their years for some reason. 0 BBY takes place during Episode IV: A New Hope, where the battle of yavin literally happened.

prequel trilogy was widely hated when it came out, mostly by toxic dudebros. the fandom HAS healed, and now it's regarded well and favorited often. sequel trilogy is widely hated and continues that way, for some reason. original trilogy is loved.

there ARE inconsistencies within the media. some media will contradict others and it's just something you gotta accept.

legends is a non-canon thing. idk anything about it but if you hear anything about legends, it's not canon to the storyline, though it's useful to pull resources and concepts from.

some people may or may not switch up the order of things based off of the years going off of BBY and ABY, and that's fine. this is just the list i use that i think is easiest to follow.

following up on the point above ^^ some of the clone wars episodes are out of order, timeline wise, but that doesn’t affect watching experience or anything. if you want to find the episodes in timeline order, i’m sure a bit of research will get you a list easily.

enjoy!

#newly updated version bc i forgot some stuff #star wars #for refs and whatnot #oil.

[galacticwildfire]

Guys I scored at a bookshop today and found a second hand box set of the star wars novels from ep I-VII for forty bucks (they’d be 15-25 individually in Australia plus shipping)

[heich0e]

that scene in star wars ep VII the force awakens when kylo ren takes off his helmet and reveals that he's been sexy the whole time but it's kiyoomi

#i'm watching star wars can u tell

[anotherquirkhelpblog]

Got any quirks involving damage empowerment/ energy absorption?

thank you for the ask!

this one might be a little bit of a tough one (at least for the latter, because there is already a canon quirk that involves the concept of energy absorption (Energy Suck, used by Rikiya Katsukame of the Shie Hassaikai's Eight Bullets) and anything i make might be just a little too similar to that, but i will definitely give the former a shot!

quirks under the cut as always!

firstly i would like to say you could really pair any basic powers with damage empowerment, but allow these powers to become much stronger the more the user takes damage (for example, in Star Wars Ep. VII spoiler warning when Kylo Ren becomes hurt in the final battle, he continuously hits his wound because pain allows his tie to the Dark Side to become stronger which in theory should make his Force usage more powerful). so i think that you could really pick anything like super strength, super speed, or anything else like that (or a combination of any of them) and just make them stronger as the user takes damage

now for some actual quirks loosely involving damage empowerment!

Blood Shard: A mutant quirk which causes the user's blood to crystalize into extremely hard, durable shards when exposed to the air. The user can use this shards in battle as weapons.

Reinforce: A quirk (idk how to sort this one) that allows the user extreme self regeneration that causes their point of injury to become much stronger than before (i.e. a broken bone will grow back twice as strong).

Emulate: An emitter quirk that allows the user to copy the quirk and attacks of anyone that injures them. This quirk can only copy quirks that have true combat value, and would not work on quirks like Brainwashing.

i also feel like Voodoo Doll would fit pretty nicely here...

Voodoo Doll: An emitter quirk that grants the user the ability to cause physical harm to others by harming themselves. The user must have a part of their victim, such as blood or hair. (Note: the user could definitely use ppl's own attacks against them with this quirk)

i know i gave a lot less quirks than i usually do in this ask, but this one was particularly tough. if you need more ideas, please feel free to send another ask (maybe with more detail)! again thank you so much for the ask :)

#ask #trolllface #mha quirks #quirk help #quirk ideas #mha oc #bnha oc #mha #bnha #my hero academia #quirks #- briz #nq

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

Anyway, Mary Poppins Returns is my Star Wars ep VII, my Barbie. What do you mean it’s a lazy rehash where every story and song beat follows the original in the most transparent way, what do you mean the script is not good, the politics are awful. It’s Mary Poppins returns, silly, what did you expect

[laschatzi]

Gatekeeping is not cool.

I'm enjoying the new Obi Wan Kenobi series, and looking for gifs to reblog I've stumbled over quite a few posts complaining about the montage at the beginning of ep 1, because "what business do you have watching that show if you haven't already seen Episode I-III before??"

No, guys.

You're not a better or truer Star Wars fan, just because you have been there from the beginning and/or seen every snippet of material.

Someone isn't a lesser fan, just because they've only gotten into Star Wars when Episode I came out - hey, maybe they weren't even born when the original trilogy came out? Also, someone maybe wasn't even born when Episode I-III came out and got into it only when Episode VII came out? They're not a lesser fan than you.

Someone might not or might only like the original trilogy or any of the later ones. Someone might only like the trilogies and none of the other movies from the SW universe. Someone might only like the movies and none of the other material. They're not a lesser fan than you.

Hell, someone might even just care for the new show because they find Ewan McGregor hot, and they have no idea what Star Wars is all about and are very grateful for the montage at the beginning. Maybe they get into it, maybe they don't - but that doesn't give you the right to ridicule them and tell them they have no business watching the show.

You're not a better or truer fan than them, you're just gatekeeping. And that's not cool.

#star wars #obi wan kenobi #personal #not being a dick #it's not that hard #for the record #i have seen episode i - iii #i didn't need the montage #but i liked seeing it #fandom gatekeeping

[sheliesshattered]

our Star Wars rewatch marathon has now included, in order:

-the finale episode of Andor -Rogue One -Episode IV: A New Hope, up to their arrival in Mos Eisley -Solo: A Star Wars Story, for Han’s backstory -the rest of Episode IV, starting with Han’s introduction -the Star Wars Holiday Special, in its entirety (but with RiffTraks for the first time) -and now: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

we thought about watching the Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (for the first time) right after the 1978 Holiday Special, but the first few minutes of LSWHS made it sound like it’s best suited to go between Eps VI and VII, so we’ll circle back around on that one

#Star Wars #2022 mood #this is my real life #bit of emotional whiplash from the Andor finale to the Holiday Special ngl #we've done plenty of Star Wars rewatch marathons over the years #but this is most chaotic one we've ever done #by far #also I went back and looked up my liveblogging of #Star Wars Holiday Special #from December 2019 #(click the Star Wars Holiday Special tag to see it) #and no I did not make it through sober this time either #I don't thiiiiink we're going to do the Ep5 - Ep1 Ep2 Ep 3 - Ep6 flashback thing #but we'll decide once we finish Ep5 I guess lol

[harryforvogue]

watching star wars ep vii

i’d just like to reassure you all that i do not find adam driver attractive so thankfully you can expect better from me. anakin is just a weakness

#anakin got me on my knees he could do no wrong idk fuck the council and the force and whatever #sarah watches star wars

[ghostxraven]

tagged by @rainbow-park to post my top 9 movies!

1. star wars episode v: the empire strikes back

2. star wars episode iv: a new hope

3. pride and prejudice 2005

4. the incredibles

5. scream 1996

6. sw eps. vi & vii (rotj and tfa are tied but that’s where the sw movies on this list end because those are almost all the good ones)

7. ready or not

8. the exorcist

9. the swan princess

tagging (and no pressure ofc) @ribombeee @sleevesareforlosers @agentcherricola and anyone else who wants to participate!

#pi's personal #tag game 🖤 #treasured mutuals #matt tag 🧶 #probably would put solo in the no. 10 spot if this list was longer. and then probably like. scooby doo in where’s my mummy for number 11 #ghostbusters is also up there somewhere!! somewhere in my top 20 at least #and then princess and the frog? #sorry for having the lamest taste in movies ever it’s largely based on what movies are comfort movies/that i put on to watch over and over #it/it ch 2 is somewhere on my top movies list for that exact reason sorry for being cringe 😔✌️ #i have too many favorite movies #and honestly i’m not 100% confident in the order of these especially once we get past like. the first two bcs OBVIOUSLY star wars = top spot

[farfallsky]

Hi, I’m Ellie, I’m autistic, Star Wars is a special interest of mine that recently came back and I have a an addiction to OCs.

So here’s where to find all my Star Wars children, most of whom I love very dearly.

Fair warning though, I have a lot of them:

Ep: I, II, III/Clone Wars

Lora Jinn- Jedi turned princess who never really left the Jedi order. Loyal, but uncertain of the future, she just wants to try her best and keep the balance of her head and heart. MC of my (currently WIP) fic, Natural Order.

CT-4571/ Blaze- A soldier in the aptly named Clone Wars. Wants to be so much more than a soldier.

Minerva Gage- a tragic and deceived Jedi turned Sith, wants to be at Vader and the Emperor’s side.

Ep: IV, V, VI

Mia Kenobi- My OG Star Wars OC. Daughter of two Jedi, future queen of a planet, a more natural leader than her mother and a fantastic spy for the alliance.

The Years of Peace

Ani Kenobi- Named for her paternal grandfather, Ani wants to be a Jedi like her parents before her, but fate has other ideas.

Ep: VII, VIII, IX

Amara Orden- A badass daughter of a queen and a Clone, who dreams of being a pilot in the resistance.

Ryder Gage- a boy trapped in carbonite for years who never asked to be born to a Sith. Strategy is his calling and he’s a value to the resistance.

#masterlist #star wars ocs #star wars oc #sw oc #hi! #welcome to the shitshow #that is my blog

[the-most-adorkable-smile]

I'll be honest, I think the first mistake the new Star Wars trilogy made (aside from having the first one be a complete retread of A New Hope but we'll ignore that for the moment) was: they tried to make the good guys the plucky rebels again.

Sure it's been like thirty years, but they still won! The upstart farmboy did it, he destroyed the evil empire! Why don't we get to see that universe? Why don't we get to see Luke Skywalker's jedi academy on Yavin IV, Leia having a voice in the galactic friggin senate... hell, Han Solo is the closest to good we get in ep VII, because at least he's still a smuggler. We should see these guys on top of the world, relishing their victory!

... if only so it's all the sweeter when they fall once more.

#it kinda feels like there's no setup to this trilogy #it's just ''things are bad again! hey!'' #star wars

[littlerosette]

Every few days I remind myself I actually paid to go to the cinema and hear “somehow, Palpatine has returned”. I paid for this.

But no I can’t bring myself to like episode VIII because 1. They committed a crime against Luke; 2. This is not to say I liked or disliked this part but the whole cassino arc was pointless to the story and seems to divert the focus of the movie to something unnecessary that consumes too much time, as in, narratively it makes little sense; 3. Rose and Finn as characters, nothing against the actors and they received unjust hate, but the characters are bad and their relationship is bad. 4. I’m sorry if this is crass, but the dark side of the force was showcased as an asshole in imagery.

However I will say I liked the feeling of hopelessness the story had during many points. But, again, ultimately ep VII is just a part of that soulless, corporate, unsubstantially artificial version of Star Wars. VII ticks all the wrong spots that make the sequels bad. The “Rey is nobody” plotline is nice because that’s what they did with Anakin, but the fact that they used “tell, don’t show” and then betrayed the concept in the next film makes it somewhat pathetic in hindsight

these are all fair criticisms and i agree with a majority of them. the casino subplot was very stupid and i think put there to fill screen time. i was always more interested in whatever was going on with rey, kylo, and luke. it was also the beginning of finn’s sidelining which i resent very much. he was probably my fav character in the first movie but disney wanted to appease the racists and just slowly cut him out, which is fucking criminal.

the biggest thing the ST suffers from is having no set idea. there was so vision to follow. and to be fair, the OT had this as well. george lucas didn’t originally make luke and leia siblings, and vader being anakin wasn’t something he thought of until making ep 5, but there was still a sense of love and passion behind it. the PT was always building up to anakin’s fall which is probably why i like it more. but the making of the ST kept having this weird cat and mouse “i’m adding this” “well i’m taking it out” “i’m retconning this” that makes it largely ridiculous. i wanted so badly to like it more than i did but they failed so utterly at making a good story.

#asks #star wars #somehow palpatine returned is so stupid it loops back around into being funny

[animaletras]

Hoje é o Star Wars Day e se engana quem pensa que a guerra nas galáxias se resume somente aos filmes. A saga conta também com 5 séries animadas que exploram diferentes pontos da história. Hoje iremos contar um pouquinho de cada uma, em ordem cronológica para ninguém se perder.

A primeira série é a guerra dos clones, que se passa entre os episódios II e III. A série segue a vida dos envolvidos na guerra clônica, dando enfoque às relações de poder dentro de uma guerra. Logo após o episódio III temos o Bad Batch, uma série sobre os soldados clones com defeito genético e que, com o fim da República, se tornam perseguidos pelo império. Star Wars Rebels se aproxima um pouco mais do ep IV e acompanha o grupo rebelde que vive na nave Fantasma. Além disso, temos o Star Wars Resistance, que se passa antes dos eventos do episódio VII. A série acompanha um jovem piloto da resistência encarregado de espionar a primeira ordem. Ambas as séries falam de resistência perante governos ditatoriais. Por fim, a série Visions é um anime que conta 10 histórias independentes que se passam dentro do universo de Star Wars. Se engana quem pensa que Star Wars não se relaciona com questões políticas e sociais. As séries trazem à luz figuras que, muitas vezes, foram ignoradas nos filmes, mas que são as que mais sofrem as consequências de uma guerra.

May the fourth be with you!

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