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you ever think about what obi wan and that diner alien had going on
Even if Anakin was never found by Qui-Gon, remained as a slave, stayed on Tatooine, etc etc… none of Palpatine's plans relied on him.
Palpatine was already senator of Naboo and had manipulated (if not outright caused) the situation between the Trade Federation and Naboo before he ever met Anakin. The Sith were already at the heart of the Republic.
I love how s2 of Andor shows us how all the sacrifices the Imperial characters make for the Empire are ultimately worthless. Syril, Dedra, and Partagaz all have different variations on the same ending. and to them Krennic is the big bad guy who represents the Empire but then in Rogue One we learn that essentially he’s in the same situation: giving everything to the Empire and it amounting to nothing in the end.
ANDOR S01E09 Nobody's Listening! x S01E12 Rix Road x S02E08 Who Are You?
i thought about the complete lack of satine in mando s3 again and i got so annoyed i had to make a comic
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"I cannot imagine who she would have become, but I think she would have been extraordinary. I am grateful I knew her, no matter how short the time." - Mon Mothma on Jyn Erso Rogue One Novelization by Alexander Freed
one star war viewing experience that i think has been totally 100% lost to time / cultural dominance: obi-wan being a mysterious and lowkey dubious figure in a new hope. he’s introduced doing this absolutely terrifying screech (which he never does again? before or since?), in a cloak with his face covered (classic villain coding, also very close to the emperor’s exact look) and this comes after a build up of him being some “old wizard” luke is told is dead, that he shouldn’t be going to see at all—and his dialogue only raises more questions than answers. a big part of it is alec guinness’ expert ptsd performance, of course, but there’s such a real strangeness to obi-wan’s debut. he’s a mentor, but he’s also a hardened warrior, also a deliverer of some incredibly ominous lines, also a disembodied voice, an undead, unkillable entity. i don’t think it was some accident that the “fake twist” used to hide the real twist in empire was that obi-wan killed luke’s father, is all i’m saying really. i think there’s an undercurrent in anh that, as the jedi/obi-wan/star war grew in popular culture and the light side/dark side lore got more ironed out, isn’t really accessible now. but it’s fun
Are going to do any more Organa twins AU? No pressure just curious
i've been saving this ask for whenever i wanted an excuse to draw this au again (so short answer, yes!)
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“There is a moment- just one moment,” McDiarmid remembers. “It’s after Anakin’s been almost destroyed and he’s got little life in him. Palpatine has sent for the medical team and he’s waiting for them to arrive- and he just gently touches Anakin’s forehead. Sidious doesn’t have any qualities we normally associate with humanity, except he does have a master-servant relationship with Anakin. Anakin means something to him.”
THE MAKING OF STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH By J. W. Rinzler
dedra calm down. just calm down. I’m your court appointed space lawyer from the future. okay so in four years there’s going to be a significant amount of political instability - yes I said four years. that’s not as bad as what you thought before, right? all I’m saying is that transitional governments can get pretty crazy and given that you’re in for treason, you just might slip through the cracks! all I’m saying is give it four years and you’ll be GLAD you were in here and not out there - no we can’t appeal. no you can’t request a different lawyer
one of the hundred things I love about Andor is that in the end, all the villains were destroyed not in an epic showdown with the rebels or whoever but by the machine that they worked for. syril was a faceless casualty of the genocide he helped create. dedra was done in for putting ambition over conformity to the machine, and she took down partagaz, who essentially created her, along with her. even heert was quite literally killed by his own droid and his own men. all of them were crushed by the wheel they dedicated their lives to keep turning. it's just so deeply deeply satisfying.
I would have been a lot more okay with the way Cinta died if killing off black and brown characters for the sake of the development of white characters weren't already a pattern for Andor.
I see the tragic sort of irony in the fact that Cinta seems almost invincible in the face of danger from the Empire— she's so alert and competent and ready for anything— of course it could only be an accident that she wouldn't see coming. And I see the interest in the concept of there being a death on this mission not because of the Imperial crackdown the group was afraid of, but because a green kid could only see that outside danger instead of the even more likely dangers of within-group panic and disorganization.
But it all rings hollow when over and over and over, the writers of Andor kill off darker-skinned characters just so the lighter-skinned ones can have their character development moments. Taramyn and Gorn dying first and fastest at Aldhani, Birnok being introduced just to help Cassian plan before he's killed off immediately so Kino and Melshi can get their moments instead. Then tossing Nurchi in there just to die just because, I guess. The way Clem is mostly there for his death to be a catalyst to Maarva and Cassian.
And so all I can think about watching this scene is wow, what a surprise, we killed off the brown girlfriend so the white one can have her moment of tragedy and eloquent monologue. It makes me furious, it makes me sad, it makes me bitter and resentful that this just keeps happening and happening in a show where I KNOW the writers are capable of doing better and yet they CHOOSE not to every. single. time.
btw if i was obiwan, and i’d just spent the last 3 days nearly dying in a space battle, then nearly dying after fighting my evil grandmaster (again), then nearly dying fighting a cyborg with a lung condition and far too many limbs, then really nearly dying after my own soldiers turned on me, then had to find out my brother son student best friend person had turned evil and is now working for the Super Evil guy in charge of everything who just ordered the murder of everyone i know, oh and he also killed a bunch of children, and then i was sent to kill my best friend son brother person even though i would literally rather die, despite all the new evilness and murder, and then had to watch him nearly murder his wife (who is also my friend), and then nearly died again fighting him, and even though i won, i left him horribly for dead and everything sucks and i had no friends and no home nothing. if i had to go through all that and then yoda tells me he has HOMEWORK for me during my sad lonely exile?? i would’ve punted that stupid green frog so fast
I love Andor for giving their antagonists shitty endings. We follow Dedra and Syril for such a long time that there are moments where we kind of root for them or feel bad for them, even though we know they're terrible people. Andor creates situations to put ourselves in their shoes AND it treats these characters as they should be treated- as villains. There is no "she was just misunderstood" or "there was good in him." These bastards are straight up, unrelentlessly evil, and their endings reflect that. Syril's death is overshadowed by the cleansing of the ghors. He's filthy and at a low point and fighting a man who he's convinced is the enemy, even though the man has no idea who the fuck Syril even is. Dedra, who's whole character revolves around her ambition with her career, ends up being arrested for overreaching on her job. She ends up in a max security prison, not for the crimes she's genuinely committed, but because she disrespected the chain of command at work.
These are genuinely some fucked up endings for these two characters and I love it so much. These bitches got exactly what they deserved, I've never seen karma and justice work so swiftly.
