[gffa]

I still can’t believe that one of my greatest dissatisfactions with Star Wars has been remedied:  Getting to actually see Luke Skywalker at not just the height of his power, but the height of him being centered in himself as a Jedi Master, as played by Mark Hamill.  It’s a reminder that Luke didn’t actually spend the majority of his life in a pit of depression and guilt and misdirected anger and blame, that there was so much of his life that was good and hopeful and amazing. It’s not just the badass fighting scene (though, that was pretty great) but the reminder that Luke Skywalker’s life had purpose and meaning, that he helped people, that he had such light and connection and affection in his life and that he extended his hand to so many people who needed help, that the ending didn’t define Luke Skywalker’s entire life. He died in service of helping and protecting others, but so much of the sequels was spent on Luke’s misery that it was hard to remember that there was so much joy and selflessness and compassion and care and wonder and good in there, too.  The Mandalorian using Luke Skywalker isn’t just about him fighting off a bunch of droids in an amazing sequence, but a reminder that Luke Skywalker was a Jedi Master who helped people and he did so much good.  That seeing Grogu’s little hand reach out to the monitors to reach him reminded me of just what Luke Skywalker meant to people.  And we got to see that again!  To be reminded that it was the majority of his life that was spent in helping others! FUCK YEAH LUKE SKYWALKER’S LIFE WAS PRETTY EXCELLENT. AND WE GOT TO SEE IT AS PLAYED BY MARK HAMILL.

[bisexualbailorgana]

every artist in the star wars fandom after chapter 13

[universalequalityisinevitable]

David Suzuki, from this video.

[legobiwan]

-Qui-gon Jinn, Master and Apprentice (Claudia Gray)

[frodo-sam]

[lesbiantrilla]

𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝘾𝙍𝙐𝘿𝙀 𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙍

[captrex]

Ahsoka vs. Maul but every time their lightsabers clash hers change colour

[infjstiel]

beautiful, kind, but sad.

[bagelchip]

“From water you are born. In fire you die. Your bodies seed the stars.”

I know it’s a comforting ritual to the clones but what a fucked up mantra for an army of slaves

[starwarsgif]

And now, as I watch the denouement of the saga that has been part of my life for over two decades, I am caught up once more in this epic story. As harsh beams glint off the freshly minted armour of Palpatine’s tragic apprentice, a smug smile of contentment flickers over the reptilian features of his evil master, the self-proclaimed Emperor of the galaxy. But there is hope. Twin babies blink as the sun sets on the Old Republic, with the promise that for a future generation, the dark will yield once more to light. As the auditorium lights return me to a sort of reality, I sit, not wanting to move, savouring the heady mixture of sadness and elation and thinking, “Well, they just don’t make them like that anymore…” - Ian McDiarmid (Writing in 2005)

[meandmyechoes]

#just sibling things  #worrying about our trash of a middle brother

[gffa]

I really like how Obi-Wan and Ahsoka don’t really fit a single dynamic. They’re sort of siblings, like the above, worrying about their trash of a middle brother. But they’re also sort of like parent and child, where Ahsoka thinks of Obi-Wan and Anakin as her dads in the Ahsoka book (well, agrees to thinking of them that way) and how they bickered with each other, like Kaeden’s parents did. But they’re also sort of grandfather and granddaughter, that she’s Anakin’s student but he’s there for guidance and to laugh when she makes Anakin’s life hell by not listening to him. But they’re also like Master and Padawan, when he teaches her directly, as he says, “This has been quite a journey for our Padawan.” I really love this because it’s fitting for how Jedi relationships are so familial, they often even use terms like “brother” and “sister”, but they’re also very much their own thing in their own culture.  That Obi-Wan doesn’t really have a single dynamic with Anakin either, that it’s more complex than that, he’s not really Anakin’s father, he’s more like a brother, but sometimes more like a partner.  And Anakin has the same with Ahsoka, he’s sometimes like her father, sometimes like her brother, sometimes like her friend and peer, sometimes something else. It makes the dynamics feel much more fleshed out and worth spending time with when they don’t really fit one easy dynamic AND I LOVE GETTING MORE OF OBI-WAN AND AHSOKA, GIVE THEM AN ENTIRE NOVEL, LUCASFILM.

[mycroftrh]

I think about this a lot - the intriguing fluidity of Jedi relationships. And I like this characterization of that: Jedi have their own culture and it has its own distinct relationship forms that don’t really exist in, say, Earth Modern Western culture. Trying to map a Jedi relationship one-to-one onto a EMW relationship is inherently destined for failure. It’s not just that they’re calling it something different (calling “parent/child” “Master/Padawan”, for instance), it’s that it genuinely is different at a base level. Even trying to map it in any given moment (in this scene they’re brothers, but in this scene they’re father and son) isn’t gonna work out. It’s like looking at a bi person and saying “okay so in this scene they’re straight, but in this scene they’re gay”. No, they’re just always bi.

Tied into that, I’d like to proffer a Watsonian hypothesis. Theoretically, all “English” dialogue in Star Wars is actually Galactic Basic. Every word we hear is translated for us. So what if they’re not actually saying “brother”, “father”, etc at all? They might be using terms that don’t have any equivalent in English because that relationship form doesn’t exist in English-speaking cultures. And those terms are just being translated to the closest we have.

We’re getting a word meaning something like “emotionally close peer with whom you lived in childhood” translated as “brother”. A word meaning roughly “emotionally close protector who provides cultural education” translated as “father”.

Some sentences we hear don’t quite work with this, but all the ones I can think of are when they’re speaking to non-Jedi. In which case they’d just be doing the same thing in-universe. Translating their relationships for non-Jedi. (“He’s like a father to me.” The like doesn’t just mean “we don’t have a blood tie”, it means “this Jedi-specific relationship is sorta like what you think of when you hear the word father”.)

In fact, given the fluidity of the Jedi relationship we see most often - Master and Padawan lineage, which even has an explicitly built-in transition from what we would consider “subordinate” to “peer” - these might all be the same word. They’re saying, like, “confamilial” every time but the connotations of that word depend on context. So that we as the English-speaking audience can understand, that one word is translated differently depending on what the closest equivalent is in that scene’s context.

[meandmyechoes]

Woah I love to hear a linguistic probe on the Jedi family nomenclature! The deeper I dive into their relationships, the harder it is to label the dependent triangle of Ankain/Obi-wan/Ahsoka.

Though not entirely compatible with EMW, I find the structure convenient to study the evolution of their dynamics.There is a coming of age element, particularly in Ahsoka’s story in studying her shifting role and perception of her Masters.

I had a similar experience with the closest translation hypothesis. As a Hong Konger, I am bilingual and exposed to Western, Chinese AND Japanese culture at the same time. So when I was finding a word to describe an ascension of their friendship, I felt relevant to consult an older language that is my mother tongue of Cantonese. 

re: para 3 on “brother” Instinctively I thought 青梅竹馬 would’ve worked but that was more about kids who eventually grew into a romantic couple so maybe 髮小 or おさななじみ fits a bit closer to the definition you raised. Surely there are more fitting options in languages I don’t know. but it’s just something that comes to mind. I don’t have a suggestion to “father” though, because in Confucianism the Master-apprentice relationships is homologous to a father-son one.

[and-look-to-the-stars]

in this house, we love and respect Bail Organa

[barissoffee]

Anonymous asked | Favourite Clone Wars Character? — Ahsoka Tano 

[habeenkimoved-deactivated201903]

rb this with how long you’ve been on tumblr and what ur blog was initally about vs what’s it about now

[nyctoheart]

people who made blogs before 2012 are the Ancient Gods talked about in fantasy

[bagelchip]

wow i’ve had this awhile

[gffa]

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith | Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

“You did well, Anakin. He was too dangerous to be kept alive.” “Yes, but he was an unarmed prisoner. I shouldn’t have done that. It’s not the Jedi way.” “Now, fulfill your destiny and take your father’s place at my side.” “Never. I’ll never turn to the dark side. You’ve failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi… like my father before me.”

[slimetony]

I love my friends and refuse to speak with them

[mandaloriangf]

“somehow palpatine has returned” is easily the funniest line in cinema history

[totallynotagentphilcoulson]