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Finally I got my first Funko pop figurine)

I chose Padme from the first episode in the image of the Queen of Naboo, because when I first watched SW, when I was five years old, for some reason this image just "hit me in the head" (and in general, Padme in the first episode is gorgeous💅)

#star wars #padme amidala #sw prequels #sw tpm #queen amidala #episode 1 #the phantom menace #funko pop

It's funny to see how many supposed fans of "The Mandalorian and Grogu" there are online, while the movie itself completely bombed at the box office...🙄

#star wars #anti filoni #fandom problems #the mandalorian #The Mandalorian and Grogu #meta

lucyskywalker

As if the Zygerria arc, Clovis arc and how Anidala was portrayed is not enough to proof to people of how much Filoni and Disney mischaracterized Anakin - and i wonder how so many people believe tcw was a fair characterization to the pt character. It is a mystery.

I just remembered Filoni made Anakin agree with Tarkin and hold him in a place of respect as a military (probably in a filoni way to show how much of Vader there was already in Anakin and how he actually agreed with the policies of the future empire despite of still being a jedi) 🙃

(Then you remember Vader himself despised Tarkin, tought he was insane, and had a clear distaste towards the man' most important and precious project for many reasons, including strategic military ones)

And you want me to believe Filoni actually understand his character - ah-ham. sure, buddy.

mirrorofliterature

reblog this post if you believe anidala would have been good parents in a happier timeline

#star wars #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #anidala

#star wars #sw prequels #memes #star wars memes #r2d2 #chancellor palpatine #revenge of the sith #sw rots

annashafransky

It is fascinating to observe how some fans of a certain pairing (we all know who I’m talking about) insist on belittling the Anakin/Padmé dynamic as a mere "dramatic romance novel"",while framing their own favorite as if it were a high-minded "Arthurian legend" (Thomas Malory is turning over in him grave at this comparison, by God). As if the sheer audacity to be honest about one’s feelings and refuse to turn a life into a performance of endless repression makes a story "lesser" than their brand of tragic theater

Let me save you the disappointment: that isn't a profound analysis...it’s a coping mechanism. A true tragic legend and fairy tales is defined by the courage to fight for the right to love and the integrity to be honest with oneself, rather than hiding behind a codependent cycle that systematically dismantles both duty and character. Romanticizing emotional paralysis and rebranding a refusal to take accountability as "noble sacrifice" doesn't make your ship a classic; it just makes it a very convenient, well-packaged illusion...

duchess-of-mandalore

Hi, friend! You could have just tagged me! After all, we all know who you’re talking about!

You’re showing your own biases when you think I am belittling Anidala by saying it is a dramatic romance novel. My point is that the structure and tropes of their story fit with that format while Obitine’s fits with a more archaic style of storytelling.

You’re feel to disagree of course, but conversations are so much nicer when you come to them with evidence for your position and a willingness to engage.

Be well and be blessed! 😘

annashafransky

Thank you for the advice on structure, but I prefer substance over form. I am being concise, but I have plenty of arguments if you want them...

If you believe that labeling Anidala a "dramatic romance novel" is a neutral classification, allow me to disagree. In our context, it is a clear, perhaps unconscious, attempt to belittle their story to elevate Obitine. Since you insist on discussing archaism, let’s dismantle this forced analogy.

Anidala is structurally closer to the legend of Tannhäuser or the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - tragic stories of seeking salvation that lead to collapse due to conflicts between human desire and the dogmatic.

You appeal to Arthurian legend. Perhaps you are trying to draw a parallel between Obi-Wan leaving Mandalore to return to the Order and Lancelot retreating to a monastery, but they are not the same. In archaic structures, the hero realizes their presence is a poison to the world they destroyed and erases themselves from history, accepting monasticism as an act of penance. Where is this self-renunciation in Obitine?

Naming this "archaic" is incorrect. A hero who leaves the scene after their interference leads to their beloved’s death, only to hide behind "duty" and continue life as a cog in the system, is not following an archaic path—it is desertion. Obi-Wan’s return to the Order is a rejection of the repentance that makes an archaic hero great. He refuses to accept personal blame for his "personal war," choosing instead to preserve his place within the system that caused the destruction

If Lancelot’s path is conscious self-destruction for the sake of redemption, Obi-Wan’s path is simply maintaining his status quo even when his actions destabilize the system. This is not archaism; it is conformism dressed up as drama. So, please stop using "archaism" to elevate Obitine over Anidala just to justify poor writing. I have much moore to say, I am just being concise, but let me know if you want more arguments...You are welcome, go ahead

Best regards)

annashafransky

How you are all so harmoniously reposting each other, pretending that my response does not exist))

What, are there no arguments against me?.. Well, "silence is consent"...

Well, okay then)

in a better world clone wars 2008 would be recognized as the spin-off cartoon for a younger audience that it is. and as that it would be fffffffine? it would be good enough. but you wouldn’t be missing anything by not watching it.

Yes, quite so. I'll add that if TCW weren't billed as something canonical, on par with the films, it would be much easier to relate to. I'll go further: I generally liked the first season as a simple, entertaining show... However, when Clovis, Satine, and Mortis started appearing, and the series began to explore "serious topics," it immediately deteriorated...

Why was the show simpler in the first season, without turning the characters into circus-like gimmicks? (That's a rhetorical question, by the way.)

#star wars #tcw #tcw critical #sw prequels #meta #fandom problems

How The Clone Wars devalued The Phantom Menace

Ask yourself: What is The Phantom Menace to you? "Annoying Jar Jar Binks"? "Duel of the Fates"? "The fact that, oh my god, Darth Vader had a mother"?..

Regardless, that is absolutely not important. Obviously, The Phantom Menace was intended from a screenwriting perspective as a starting point and status quo for all the characters. However, since the prequels were disliked in the U.S., the writers of The Clone Wars apparently decided that to apologize to fans for the prequels, they could safely spit on what was established in The Phantom Menace. But let us go into more detail.

How did little Anakin react to Padmé’s harmless question about whether he was a slave:

"I'm a person and my name is Anakin!"

This lets us understand that for him, slavery is a serious problem, primarily a psychological one, and he is uncomfortable when it is brought up unnecessarily.

However, what do we see in The Clone Wars, in the Zygerria arc, when Ahsoka sarcastically asks, "Remind me, why do I have to play the part of a slave?", seemingly hinting at Anakin's past with clear resentment and an attempt to press a sore spot. This is not a harmless phrase, but a direct jab at a sore spot. However, how does Anakin react?

"I once played a slave, and I didn't like it. But I find the role of master suits me much better."

W H A T?

Those who will now start making excuses that he was just joking - people do not joke about such things, especially if it is a trauma for them. If it were a trauma for him, he would not deflect like that; the Anakin from the prequels is not that kind of character. There is also an argument (I am not joking, people actually told me this) that "slavery was never a trauma for Anakin, he used his status as a slave to protect Jar-Jar from Sebulba’s beatings." However, adapting to trauma is not the same as the absence of trauma. The fact that Anakin understood Sebulba would not kill him, because otherwise he would have to pay Watto, does not mean he did not care about his position as a slave; it just speaks to Anakin’s intelligence, that he was not a fool. And yet, Anakin in The Clone Wars never showed later on that Ahsoka's phrase hurt him, although it should have. He continues to treat her well. They say that the portrayals of characters in The Clone Wars and the films are the same characters... In Anakin’s case, it is hard to believe this statement, to put it mildly... And it is the same with the following example.

Obi-Wan in the first episode, when he sees that the planet is being invaded by the Trade Federation, which will strip all its inhabitants of freedom, and the Gungans, when everyone is in danger, refuse to cooperate with the Naboo even for their own sake because of openly idiotic principles:

"You and the Naboo are inseparable. What happens to them can only affect you."

Thus, Obi-Wan is presented to us as a perceptive character who can and is not afraid to call things by their names and think strategically.

But what does Obi-Wan say in The Clone Wars, after he saw that 20 years later Satine’s enemies are still alive (and a person from HER government assured him they had been extinct for many years) and only dream of killing Satine, and two of HER close people turned out to be traitors (Vizsla and Merrick), she is clearly not coping without outside help, which speaks of her as a political bankrupt who continues to deny everything and play at independence/neutrality, although she herself, due to HER idiotic principles not to get her hands dirty, calling it pacifism, is not capable even for the sake of saving everyone on the ship of killing a terrorist, which would be more than justified, it would be self-defense (pacifism≠inaction)?

"Mandalore is in good hands as long as you care for it."

This is blind idealization. No excuses will help here, everything is written in black and white - Satine’s policy does not work without outside help. And the fact that Obi-Wan also gets involved in her adventures is not strategic thinking at all. He is trying to treat not the cause (Satine’s entire policy) of Mandalore’s endless problems, but the effect, so that Satine would feel she is not to blame for anything and would stay afloat. However, this is exactly what led to her being overthrown by Death Watch in a day.

In the films, Obi-Wan never pandered to political infantilism... And never would have... Why they see the same characters in this - it is a mystery to me...

I could have also written about how Padmé was ruined, but that is simple. In the first episode, Padmé, even though she was queen, was not devoid of humanity and empathy, especially toward Anakin... In The Clone Wars, this simply does NOT exist. Moreover, they added Clovis, whose presence and the fact that Padmé did not tell Anakin about him makes her dishonorable... But that deserves a separate post...

In conclusion, what do we have?

We are dealing with total character erosion. The Clone Wars does not expand the universe, it flattens it, sacrificing internal logic and psychological credibility of the characters for the sake of creating "convenient" content. The screenwriters took ready-made, complex heroes and replaced them with caricatured versions that refuse to see the obvious and behave contrary to their own background. This is not development, but systematic degradation, turning a dramatic saga into a set of disconnected episodes where, for the sake of a "beautiful picture" and justifying the politics of some characters, others - the very ones we fell in love with in the first episode - simply cease to exist...

#star wars #sw prequels #the phantom menace #tpm #sw tpm #tcw #tcw critical #fandom problems #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #padme amidala #jar jar binks #satine kryze #anidala #meta #ahsoka tano

annashafransky

mg024

You know, You are absolutely free to dislike obitine. Ship what you ship…But putting anti-obitine discourse in the obitine tag just feels unnecessary. Fandom is more fun when you ship what you like and let others do the same. ✌️

annashafransky

Did I do anything illegal? I just expressed my opinion. I always do this, and for example, if I write something about Ahsoka, I put both Ahsoka in the tags and anti/criticism of Ahsoka. This is the internet, and I can express my opinion. I'm not spamming anyone's private messages, am I?

Or is there only one opinion, and others are wrong, and I have no right to write anything unusual?

Well, then you don't need to constantly assert your pairing against the one I like... but you can't do without it....

mg024

Huh? I haven’t asserted anything about any ship. I like both anidala and obitine. Very obviously, You are free to have whatever opinion you’d like…I simply stated it’s unnecessary to post it in the ships tag where people that do enjoy a ship go to discuss things they love. I’m not interested in arguing with you or anyone else, so genuinely do whatever you want. take care

annashafransky

To clarify, my previous comment was not a personal attack, but a general observation about fandom discourse. You mention that people go to ship tags to discuss things they love, and I agree. Criticism and analysis are just as much a part of that discussion as praise. If you're not interested in arguing, that's fine, but I stand by my right to critique any dynamic in the fandom, regardless of the tag used. Okay?

annashafransky

mg024

annashafransky

Or is there only one opinion, and others are wrong, and I have no right to write anything unusual?

Well, then you don't need to constantly assert your pairing against the one I like... but you can't do without it....

Ahsoka's leaving the order arc would have worked, but because she had no reason to distrust the order BEFORE she decided to run away, the arc simply doesn't work

Did any of the Masters refuse her help when she needed it? No. Remember how Plo Koon lied to Anakin that her mission was Plo Koon's order, not her true desire?

Moreover, Anakin himself literally goes out of his way to help her

Does she have any reason not to trust Anakin? Again, no. He never hurt her, never did anything violent. He never even scolded her properly, and if he did, he immediately told her it wasn't her fault

so the whole drama of the arc is simply broken by the fact that Ahsoka has no reason to behave the way she did

#star wars #tcw critical #anti filoni #fandom problems #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #ahsoka tano critical #anti tcw

annashafransky

duchess-of-mandalore

Hi, friend! You could have just tagged me! After all, we all know who you’re talking about!

You’re feel to disagree of course, but conversations are so much nicer when you come to them with evidence for your position and a willingness to engage.

Be well and be blessed! 😘

starwarsbrainrott

Im gonna be real here. Calling Obitine the "codependent cycle that systematicly disassembles both duty and character" ship compared to anidala is very funny.

I love both ships, but let's be realistic.

annashafransky

And where is the realism here, if I may be so curious? If the relationship between Obi-Wan and Satine isn't codependency, then what is? Obitine is no better than 'Anidala', not at all. Now that's realism and objectivity

annashafransky

duchess-of-mandalore

Hi, friend! You could have just tagged me! After all, we all know who you’re talking about!

You’re feel to disagree of course, but conversations are so much nicer when you come to them with evidence for your position and a willingness to engage.

Be well and be blessed! 😘

annashafransky

Thank you for the advice on structure, but I prefer substance over form. I am being concise, but I have plenty of arguments if you want them...

Best regards)

#star wars #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #anidala #fandom problems #sw prequels #tcw critical #romanticism #obitine #anti obitine

Satine is a case where politics and personality are best described by the proverb: "Праздность хуже воровства" (Idleness is worse than theft)

#star wars #satine kryze #mandalore #fandom problems #meta #death watch #pre vizsla #bo katan kryze #satine kryze critical #anti satine kryze #anti tcw #tcw critical

Thinking I went missing? Not a chance!) I continue to speak my mind)))

Let's admit it - Maul from Episode I and Maul from the Filoniverse are not the same character by any stretch, and you are ready for this conversation.

Maul in Episode I is a silent psychopath. He is not capable of constant screaming like Filoni's version. And no "he lived in a dumpster for 10 years" is an excuse. His resurrection itself is stupid and illogical. Maul in Episode I is a character-function, the embodiment of fear, a test for Obi-Wan from a mythological point of view, who was supposed to die and did die in Episode I.

Imagine if Gogo from "Kill Bill" was resurrected because of fan service, her character changed so that she was always screaming, and they justified it by saying, "Oh, well, the nails damaged her brain, it's logical!"... What? Sounds like nonsense? But that is exactly how you defend Maul's resurrection; that is exactly what it looks like.

And let's be honest. Maul was brought back in TCW not for symbolism or anything like that. Maul was brought back because of the terrible ratings TCW had in those years, and that's it.🫩

#star wars #tcw critical #sw prequels #fandom problems #sw tpm #the phantom menace #darth maul #anti darth maul #obi wan kenobi #anti filoni #anti tcw

pilot-of-eva-00

How I Learned to Stop Hating and Love Anidala

I am rewriting the Anidala essay I wrote and deleted to try and streamline it while keeping the same basic points. This is a ship I definitely have complicated feelings over where it seems like I go back and forth on yet lately I am warming up to the version presented in the films and 2003 CW despite the negative thoughts biting in the back of my head. I’d like get into what made me dislike the pairing and what has pushed to accept it including how my own favorite OTP helped me understand the appeal of anidala that I hadn’t before.

Two factors that soured me on anidala for a while was the way it was presented in TCW and that one video that pigeonholed it as a tradwife romance between a liberal white woman and her republican boyfriend which the anti anakin/jedi uncritical fandom grabbed and ran with. Thus, for a while I was stuck on the idea of anidala as this picket fence 1950s nuclear family and didn’t really consider how anyone could like it. I also think the dynamic in TCW made me treat it as just another generic action series romance yet now I have started to understand what my issue with TCW’s interpretation was by comparing it to another ship I have grown to be critical of.

A lot of the issues with TCW anidala strike me as similar to those of Ben and Julie’s relationship in Ben 10. Alien Force and Ultimate Alien aired during the same time period on Cartoon Network as TCW (2008-2012) and I think both shows had some of the same flaws. Ben 10 was my big show when I first came to tumblr yet as I’ve moved onto different interests, I’ve been able to look at the series with a more critical eye. Benlie and TCW anidala were alike in the sense that there would be some episodic conflict for the sake of drama that never amounted to any real development and they would have cute moments but there was always the feeling that just one fight was enough to cause a divorce or breakup. Ben would act quite insensitive and dismissive towards Julie and on her end, she would often put herself in danger while acting like she knew better than him. Some of her grievances about him taking her for granted were valid yet she also didn’t seem prepared for the challenges of dating a hero. A lot of that feels like TCW anidala especially when Clovis was involved. Not even Gwen and Kevin, the *best* couple of AF/UA were exempt from this kind of writing. TCW anidala’s flaws came from writing it as if it were this high school romance that was doomed to fail and making it into a generic slap kiss kind of dynamic.

A criticism that could be applied to both TCW and Ultimate Alien Force was them biting off more than they could chew as whenever they tried to address more mature subjects, it came off as too tryhard or edgy. The old Clone Wars Multimedia project was able to address themes of war, trauma and political instability in a more adequate way because it was targeted at an older demographic. That’s not to say a lighthearted children’s show can’t have more complicated themes as Steven Universe, Adventure Time and The Owl House are examples of it being done well while still feeling more genuine but TCW didn’t really feel like it addressed the scale and nightmare of the Clone Wars as well as the older CWMMP. The older CW stories like Jabiim feel more in line with Lucas’ criticism of the Military Industrial Complex which was influenced by Vietnam and Iraq and the corruption in the Johnson, Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations.

Another issue I’ve noticed while looking at both TCW and UAF was this need to simultaneously appeal to dudebros while also pandering to the “girl boss” crowd. TCW has been criticized by prequel and CWMMP fans for making Anakin more superficially masculine and more like Han Solo. Ultimate Alien started giving Ben a harem of love interests which got worse in Omniverse. Yet there was also this misunderstanding of what feminism is when writing characters like Gwen, Julie, Ahsoka, Padme and Satine. Hence why we got girl boss Padme and “Chad” Anakin. I am not a fan of slap-kiss-slap kind of ships which is what TCW anidala kind of is. I dislike percabeth and hiccstrid for that same reason. There’s something about movie and CW 2003 anidala that makes it feel like one needs a certain amount of maturity to really understand the ship.

That one clip from the 2003 cartoon feels so much more in line with AOTC and ROTS. Prequel anidala has this feeling of a tragic fairytale akin to Shakespeare which is fitting as James Earl Jones and Sebastian Shaw were Shakespearean actors. It’s deep devotion and forbidden love between two young, hopeless romantics. It did not need to be changed to pander to the prequel haters. There’s a feeling that TCW made Anakin look and sound older because people are uncomfortable with the woman being older than the man in the patriarchal society we live in. TCW is complicated for me because I do like some of the characters including Fives and Rex but it was essentially the precursor to Disney SW with it erasing and retconning the original CWMMP. That old Clone Wars lore fit better with the films while Disney canon with Rebels, TBB and the Mandoverse is basically built around TCW.

What has started to force me to reckon with my feelings towards anidala has been to as Obi Wan said in the 2003 series “look inside one’s self” and to feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling anidala shippers have. Reading the forbidden love aspect of anidala hits different as a trans woman, with everyone telling you that your passions, your devotion and your true self are immoral and being angry with having to hide yourself and live a lie in the name of a greater good. I also want to gush a bit about two of my favorite anime movies before getting to the subject of my OTP as they helped me understand the appeal of anidala.

Wolf Children became one of my favorite movies when it was rereleased by GKIDS and I was able to watch it in theaters. It’s a very tragic and moving film with that same kind of forbidden fairytale love between Hana and the Wolf man that anidala has. I suggest that shippers watch it and write AUs because it will make you tear up.

The other movie in question is one that forced me to reflect on the attachment discourse and the notion that Anakin’s love for Padme is greedy and toxic. The film I am referring to Weathering With You, Makoto Shinkai’s more divisive follow up to Your Name. A lot of people didn’t like this movie and were calling the main character, Hodaka, a simp for choosing to save Hina at the expense of Tokyo being flooded by rainfall. Yet the question the movie begs is how is it fair for this 15 year old girl to die for everyone else’s happiness and why should this boy have to sacrifice his only friend? It’s an Omelas situation that forces one to ask how far will you go for love, why should we let people suffer for a greater good and I’ve grown to be a sucker for these kinds of romances.

When I first watched this movie, I justified liking it while still hating anidala because Hodaka didn’t kill anyone nor did he assault Hina in a nervous breakdown but looking at it now has forced me to recognize it’s that same kind of love over duty theme. Over time I have slowly acquiesced more and more to admitting there’s aspects of anidala I adore in other ships yet felt like I had to justify them as healthier and better. Is it better to hide yourself and your feelings for the sake of duty when being truthful will free your soul?

What has really changed my view on anidala has come from my love for my favorite series of all time, Neon Genesis Evangelion. I do speculate that with how big a weeb he is, Lucas may have watched this series when writing the prequels. First I want to talk a bit about Gendo and Yui in relation to Anidala because they are ironically what a lot of antis say the latter is. Gendo is like Vader in the in sense that he’s a negative foil to his son, a strongly pathetic character and a man deeply broken by his wife’s death. He’s wracked and destroyed by his self loathing and obsession yet unlike Vader, Gendo was shown to have been a cold hearted person even before meeting Yui and being much older than her, there’s a disturbing element to his dynamics with women. Their dynamic was closer to what was hinted at in the pre-prequel concept of young Vader by Ashmore. Furthermore, while Vader wanted Luke to rule with him, Gendo willfully abandoned Shinji after Yui was trapped in the EVA while using him as a tool in his plans to end the world via the Third Impact and reunite with Yui. He does admit in EoE that he abandoned Shinji because he feared that he would cause him pain but ended up doing so anyway and had no problem using Shinji as a means to an end instead of a redemptive force, at least in the original series, rebuild is a completely different ending.

Shinji’s character and my OTP are the subjects I really want to focus on. He succeeds where his father failed but not in the same way as Luke with Vader as Shinji isn’t this wide eyed hero. Instead of a triumph over evil story, Shinji’s conflict is much more psychological and internal. Shinji as character is a divisive subject due to how he’s perceived as a coward and Tumblr discourse either portrays him as a smol gay bean to ship with Kaworu or a misogynistic incel due to his actions towards Asuka in EoE but I want to focus on the dynamic between him and Rei as she forces him to accept the pain in life from connecting with others while learning to love himself which is how he grows beyond his father. He’s a complex character that is a realistic take on what happens when you draft a 14 year old into a war and throw him in a meat grinder. Rei too is an actual strong female character despite often being dismissed for seeming more passive and unemotional than Asuka and Misato.

Rei and Shinji as a ship is a subject that often ruffles some feathers. Asushin is the preferred m/f pairing while Kawoshin is favored among many here. Because of the idea that Rei is Yui’s clone, people act as if it’s akin to shipping Luke and Leia and paint Shinji’s despair over learning Rei’s origins as akin to Luke realizing he made out with his sister when it was really about him believing the Rei he knew was seemingly gone. Most LRS shippers are critical of that notion that it’s an incest ship by pointing to the amount of DNA that was actually used, as well as them never being treated as siblings by the narrative. There’s also this pseudo feminist narrative in much of the fandom that Rei is meant to be a creepy trap as a metaphor for escapism while Asuka represents the pain of real life when Rei also could be an example of accepting the harsh reality of those you love. Much of the fandom is quick to paint it as a sibling relationship while discrediting any romantic readings yet I have grown to be deeply attached to it because it’s different from the typical slap-kiss dynamic and as I said before, I am a sucker for moments like these:

The reason I ramble about being an LRS stan here is because it forced me to emphasize with anidala shippers in a sense. I came to realize that I loved this ship for the same reasons anidala fans love theirs. I think it’s a ship that one needs to have a bit more maturity to understand and one that appeals more to fans in the eastern hemisphere. Whenever I talk about it, even in this essay, it feels like I have to write a million disclaimers to justify liking it and can be quick to get defensive. There are days where I have a hard time holding very lefty politics while defending a ship many view as heteronormative and conservative. Yet I feel as passionate about it as I do because I think it’s a tragic, cute, mature and beautiful love story that is misunderstood. In many ways, I began to get why anidala resonates with people by reflecting on why I love Reishin so much. A boy with a fear of abandonment and deep self loathing who is hated for not being a typical self insert male power fantasy, falls for a beautiful angel who is very emotionally repressed herself and grows to understand emotions by falling in love. There is a maternal aspect and room for discussion about a Madonna-whore complex but that doesn’t discount the possibility of intimacy just because it’s more complicated than a simple crush. A lot of which one could say about prequel/CWMMP anidala’s dynamic.

IMO a lot of the dislike of anidala may stem from the growth of moralism in fandom and the rise in political polarization. I think the conception of it as a liberal woman and MAGA boyfriend may be in part due to the rise of tradwife-incel culture in my generation and people projecting that onto the ship with the amount of fanboys who love Anakin for shallow reasons. Most anidala fans are also critical of Filoni and Disney while preferring the original 6 films and I think with all the alt right grifters, people are quick to associate criticism of Disney SW with those who hate anything “woke” when Disney is an evil corporation which if anything deserves far more scrutiny.

Anidala is a different kind of romance than most are used to that requires more maturity to grasp and people don’t like that while praising TCW for making them more of a generic Hanleia expy. No one has to like it but understanding the tragedy and beauty of it as presented in the prequels allows one to really look at it differently. I think one has to learn a certain amount of empathy to understand why it appeals to people instead of writing them off as all fascists and unpack their moralism towards anything that’s not 100% unproblematic as that’s what I had to do to really get it. It’s a forbidden love story that resonates with a more diverse audience than given credit for and while some of its writing is influenced by Lucas’s misogyny, there’s a beauty to it that makes it compelling.

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