[mysharona1987]

[beatrice-otter]

#i feel like this is also the stance of the movies#because lando spends approximately zero seconds redeeming himself#think of how black characters are usually treated for betrayals#even if it is an airquote betrayal#lando helps at the end of esb and is officially one of the heroes no redemption necessary#the whole choking thing is a misunderstanding really tags via cadesama

[hardcandyfilmclub]

#also note how Leia forgave him #real fast#this is a woman who does not do forgiveness easily #but she knew he was right#she was fully aware of that #she was angry because she loves Han#but she moved past it #because she knew he was right#the movie knows he’s right #the characters know he’s right#it isn’t even a question

[swimmingblue]

Lando is 100% right to do what he did. He was Responsible for everyone on Cloud City. Leia, who grew up as the Princess of an entire planet, 100% understood that. Lando is completely validated by the story, the characters, and everyone for what he did.

And we see that he did try to shoo off the “hero crew” when they arrived in Cloud City in such a way that a) they’d have a decent chance of escaping, and b) he’d have plausible deniability. We see him ribbing Han a lot, for example, in such a way that it would be entirely possible that Han, who’s very touchy, might well just … go off in a huff. Lando could then easily go “haha, sorry Darth Vader sir, didn’t realize that Han couldn’t take a joke.” Win-win.

I also really appreciate that Lando is depicted as a solid person. He’s in a position of trust and authority, and he acts like it. He might have a bit of a checkered past, but he’s trying his best to do the right thing - and he’s doing a better job than Han, who’s still in trouble with the law.

[inquisitor-apologist]

I also think that Lando’s choice is supposed to be something of a parallel to Luke; Luke knows, on Dagobah, that the galaxy needs a Jedi to defeat Vader and the Emperor. He knows that becoming that Jedi is basically the most important thing, and as far as he knows, he’s the only one who can do it. He also knows, from the cave vision, that his friends/the Special Important Heroes are in danger.

He’s got a choice to make: either stay with Yoda and ghost Obi-Wan and keep learning how to be the Jedi the galaxy needs, or put that on hold and save the Special Important Heroes against his teachers’ warnings.

Lando’s situation is pretty similar. He’s in charge of Cloud City and responsible for its people, and when the Empire comes, he knows that he’s the only one that can protect them. His choice is to either save his city full of people and let the Empire in for Han and Leia, or refuse, save the Special Important Heroes, and watch the Empire destroy his city. He chooses right, and because of that he’s actually able to do more good, because he can evacuate the city and use the trust he’s gained with the Empire to get Leia and Chewie out.

Luke, on the other hand (sorry), chooses the Special Important Heroes and abandons his training. And it goes bad. He loses his fight, loses his hand, learns that Darth Vader is his dad in probably the most traumatic way possible, and, in Hamil’s own words, attempts suicide. He’s not actually able to help anyone; Lando’s already got Leia and Chewie out by the time he gets there, and the fact that they have to go back for him means that they lose the chance to go after Han until RotJ.

The narrative clearly indicates that there’s a right choice in each of these situations. It’s also the one that seems, at face value, to be the morally wrong one; Lando’s choice to give Han, Leia, and Chewie up to the Empire feels like a betrayal, and Luke staying on Dagobah would’ve felt like him abandoning his friends. Still, when you think about it from a practical rather than emotional perspective, it’s clear that Lando makes the right choice on Cloud City, and Luke makes the wrong one. It’s a fun parallel

[keldabekush]

Just a Rex thing! I like him :^]

[totallynotobsessedwithfandoms]

I think clone wars dark side anakin is my favorite dark side anakin. because yeah, in the movies, you can tell he's gonna fall. maybe not in the phantom menace, but in attack of the clones and revenge of the sith, it's so obvious! everything about him just oozes both light and dark, the dark steadily winning. but clone wars anakin? clone wars anakin? oh, he's a sun. he's blindingly bright and he's happy. we can go full episodes without a trace of the dark side showing up on his face or in his actions, which makes when he does go dark even more jarring. when he snaps and attacks and the imperial march plays faintly in the background, when not even ten minutes earlier in the episode he was joking around with ahsoka. that is peak dark side anakin to me, because that is what i imagine anakin truly was. happy and fun and then snapping, terrifying. it's why no one believed it when he fell. why obi-wan and padme and ahsoka didn't see it coming.

[my-never-ending-nightmare]

[hegodamask]

babe wake up, full canon accurate and up-to-date map of the star wars galaxy just dropped

[phi-guy]

more togruta variants :) inspired by pachyrhinosaurus and triceratops respectively

[symeona]

[soranatus]

Friends at the end of the Republic | Ahsoka & Rex, by illustrator, Veronica Ruffato

[fernesaul]

work in progress

[accoffee7]

Ahsoka Tano

[symeona]

[ I.D.: it's a drawing of Ahsoka Tano from Star Wars. Her body is facing left while her head is turned to look to the right. She has a confident expression with a grin. She is wearing a brown headscarf, a blue tunic and she has her two white lightsabers in her hands. End of i.d.]

[symeona]

[w1ldspace]

iii. the king, finn

[ddeck]

hey remember this guy

[intermundia]

to me this is one of the most important passages of the revenge of the sith novelization, as it contains a fundamental thesis of the prequels. the clone wars were designed to kill jedi. sidious put the order in checkmate before they'd even begun fighting. he used their compassion and trust against them by leveraging their sense of duty to push them into fighting a morally dubious war to protect innocent lives, tarnishing their galactic reputation. he gave them friends in the clones that were crafted to become their assassins. he spread the jedi out, thinned their numbers in years of brutal combat, and then when they were sufficiently weak, wiped them out.

the revenge of the sith required so much planning and moving from the shadows over decades to arrange the galaxy into a trap. the prequel jedi did not have the knowledge that we the audience have, they were operating out of a place of partial understanding and with the best of intentions. to hold them to a standard of omniscience and omnipotence instead of appreciating the genius and patience of the sith is unfair and missing the point. they're not perfect, but they are good. it is tragic that being good is not always enough, it is tragic to know that our best of intentions can come up short. it is tragic that evil can gain power and harm the innocent without repercussions.

this book is heartbreaking on a personal level, but also on a political and ideological one. it reflects the very real world when greed and fear hold sway over a population, where exploitation and oppression win. the jedi are slain and it is brutal to read, and a generation afterward struggling in the dark without them. however, star wars ultimately carries a message of hope: you can kill jedi, but you cannot kill compassion and community. wherever people love each other, there is light. the empire fell and the jedi returned because you cannot kill their ideas. so there is hope, but that doesn't change that it is an egregious crime in the prequels that they were slaughtered.

[hayden-christensen]

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AND ARIANA GREENBLATT as Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano Ahsoka: Part 5 - Shadow Warrior (2023)

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