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oh fuck this is a really good hill i gotta die on this
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"Luke Skywalker isn’t like the old Jedi. He saves Vader with his attachments!”
Wrong!
Luke Skywalker, at the end of Return of the Jedi, after his confrontation with the Emperor drags Darth Vader through the destructing Death Star. He’s desperate, knuckles white under the heavy weight of his father’s body, a little boy dragging his dad to safety. He sets Vader down for a moment, to catch his breath or maybe to get a better grip. He goes to grab Vader again, but Vader, uncomfortable and in pain, asks Luke to take off the mask. He wants to see Luke through his eyes instead of the eyes Palpatine built for him. Luke refuses, says that removing the mask is a sure way for Vader to die. Luke doesn’t want Vader dead, he wants Vader alive. Not to hold him accountable for his many evil acts, but for the same reason why Luke Skywalker can’t kill Darth Vader; Vader is his father and Luke loves him.
And yet, after a moment, Luke removes Vader’s mask. He doesn’t want to, he hesitates, but he removes the mask with enough slowness to allow Vader to take it back. In that moment, Luke sets aside his desire for Vader in his life, sets aside his desire to see him live, and sets aside his entire mission, the reason he was even on the Death Star in the place. In his compassion for his father, Luke stays with Vader until he dies. It is this moment where we see him be the best damn Jedi he can be. I’d even argue that this moment is the greatest example of non-attached love we see. Because Luke lets Vader go! He lets his father die, and in some ways, by removing the mask, he too kills Vader, he stays with him until his last moment, gives him the kindness of granting his last wish and finally chooses Vader.
And Luke doesn’t have to do this. If Luke Skywalker’s love for his father was an attachment, he would ignore Vader and continue dragging him to the escape pod, put his desire for a father as his central focus and ignore Vader’s wants and discomfort. Maybe he would even save him. But he doesn’t. Instead, he watches as Vader dies.
He builds a Jedi burial for his father and watches it burn the remnants of Vader and Anakin Skywalker away. He mourns Vader, he mourns what they could’ve had as father and son, considers what ifs and maybe-if-I-did-this. Vader/ Anakin is released from his mortal body, from his ‘crude matter’ and Luke lets him go. He says one final goodbye to Anakin. Then, he joins Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, and the rest of the Rebels and celebrates their victory. He lives in the present and celebrates what he has instead of what he lost.
Luke Skywalker is THE Jedi. Everything about Luke Skywalker serves as the foundational cornerstone of the Jedi, everything about the Jedi as a culture and philosophy is reflected in his character. Luke’s desire for the New Jedi Order isn’t to throw away the values of the old Order, but to vitalise them, breathe life back into dying lungs, and rebuild a path that people set out on their way to destroy. (Yes, his Order is different from the Old, but that’s because it has to be. He doesn’t have the resources or the safety of the Old Order.) The philosophies of the Jedi are difficult and they aren’t for everyone, and like the perfect Jedi that Luke is, he struggles and stumbles and sometimes he even rejects it. But, no matter how far he falls, it is a way of life he chooses again and again and again. It is a way of life that welcomes him back each time
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From the DVD commentary, episode 3:
Neil: I kind of wound up having to write this as a love story, and part of the joy of writing a love story is the break-up, because you can’t get back together again unless you’ve broken up. So this is the break-up.
Douglas: I think you can say it’s two actors working at peak.
Neil: They really are. I mean they’re so good. And I remember watching this being shot, knowing how good it was.
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Douglas: We landed on that location kind of by mistake through scheduling, and I’m so glad we did it that way in the end.
Neil: Oh yeah, it was origially set in-
Douglas: It was set at night, wasn’t it?
Neil: It was set at night in St. James’s Park.
Douglas: But the Queen wouldn’t let us put on lights in St. James’s Park at night.
Neil: Bless.
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David Duchovny in hair and makeup for his role in Twin Peaks
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At that point in a hyperfixation where I almost feel obligated to defend that old man who will never fuck me from rabid social media mobs.
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I think probably the only thing more enjoyable than working with David is actually getting to watch him perform on screen. In fact one of the difficulties of working with David is that you get a bit lost sometimes in just admiring what he’s doing and enjoying his performance so much. But I think that this year in particular watching him perform in Des was extraordinary. I mean, I thought I knew how brilliant he was but I think he sort of pushed the envelope further this year with his performance. I’ve never seen someone be able to portray the absence as well as he did in that performance. It was chilling because of what was missing, and it was just extraordinary performance and I think him at the height of what he’s able to do, the confidence to be able to just remove so much from a character and still know it’s going to be compelling and it really was. It’s not only one of the performance of the year but I think one of the great performance of the last, you know, decade. So, he’s certainly my favourite Scot on screen, he’s probably my favourite British actor on screen. And it is an honour to be able to know him and to work with him.
Michael Sheen about David Tennant at BAFTA Scotland Awards :) ❤ (x)
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Nye, 22/03/2024
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Reblog if Fan Fics are just as valid as Fan Art
Affirmation for writers, please!!
Likes do nothing!!
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Shirley Manson and Elijah Wood (For Oliver Peoples)
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Haven't you fired a gun before?
Not as such...
Good Omens S2/Ep4
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The older I get, the more I'm starting to suspct that my family's general stance of "nonverbal cues aren't real, nobody can read minds or actually ever tell how someone else is feeling unless they're explicitly told, and you're delusional if you think you can, and a narcissist if you think others should" was probably some sort of an indicator that more of my family is more on the spectrum than any of them are willing to consider or admit.
Also, "neurotypicals aren't real and imagining that they should be is a sign of mental illness" is such a wild take you'd think it came from Tumblr, but actually my family just fucking lives like that.
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hey don’t cry. trees grow out of the ground.
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okay i ruined your life but did you not have fun? exactly relax
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