that's just love

ambrose. they/them. 25. star wars and 911 on abc.

[robotsandramblings]

(continuation of this.)

yes!! like this:

Cody with the 212th, Obi-Wan, or Rex: Live Laugh Love Cody with droids: Reduce Reuse Recycle Cody with the 501st: Isolate Ignore Ibuprofen Cody with Anakin: Disagree Disregard Disrespect

[anxietyriddledsquid]

doodle of the boys

[renif]

you can't tell me that this isn't how preparing battle plans went in 212th

[humanoidhistory]

From the Star Wars Technical Journal of the Rebel Forces, published by Starlog, 1994.

[baxmrox]

[chewvbacca]

i love the analysis and theorizing star wars fans do about the themes and the worldbuilding, i love that it inspires this kind of passion and curiosity. but.

i think there's a limit to the amount of logic you can apply to the world of star wars before it just falls apart and you end up frustrated at the lack of detail and consideration when something only exists in the films/tv shows because someone (usually Lucas) thought it was cool/fun and could advance the plot and didn't think about all of the implications

this is true for the sentience of droids. clearly they are sentient, but if we start to apply too much logic to it, suddenly luke and leia are slave owners. this is true for how the jedi train children from a very young age, something that was a plot point to 1. introduce young anakin so children watching the prequels would have a child character to root for and 2. foreshadow and build on anakin's struggles with the jedi way of life, but now it's being debated with a level of seriousness that it just can't hold up to and was never really intended to hold up to. which could be said of the galactic republic too, because when we apply logic, how on earth has it existed for so long? when every planet must have multiple cultures and languages of its own, when the climates and species of those planets are so wildly diverse, how could the senate ever cater to so many different needs? realistically, it couldn't, but even if we go with the cynical answer, that it never did but never intended to, that's a pretty big divergence from everything else the films tell us, that the republic was at least once a force for good and is something worth fighting for. much like luke and leia being considered slave owners due to the ownership of droids, it puts a really bitter spin on, well, the whole saga.

idk, i don't want to call it unfair, exactly, to apply these rigorous logical thought experiments of how political or cultural structures like the jedi actually operate when exactly how they would operate in-universe was never really a big factor in their creation beyond vibes and what needs to happen for the plot/chaarcters. but... lucas isn't the george r.r. martin kind of storyteller, someone who pays close attention to the logistics and details of administration, who crafts whole histories of his fictional universe and builds those universes from the ground up. lucas' star wars politics are the broad sweeping sort, and star wars is more fairytale fantasy than dense high fantasy. so by all means, keep writing essays about star wars and logistics and how could this thing possibly work in universe based on how it might work in our world, but then actually holding star wars to that standard of rigorous thought is probably just going to leave you unhappy and disappointed with star wars, as something which has never had that level of attention to detail when it comes to worldbuilding.

i understand the intense interest and wanting to understand how it works and how all the pieces fit together, but maybe it doesn't fit perfectly together. maybe it's better enjoyed when you look at it like an impressionist painting rather than a hyper-realistic one.

[renif]

master plo

[662607015]

far too old to care about fandom opinions i am an adult with a *sees a take* hm. never mind actually. i am in fact so blessed to have a huge brain and correct inconsequential opinions on fictional characters. there but for the grace of god go i

[heartoflightning]

something about chimney being a kid that was taken in by generous people after losing his mom, then deciding to take in mara so she felt safe again, is so important to me

[ren-is-real]

It’s mr star war himself!!

He’s like a kid on his first day of school I adore him so much you don’t even understand what he means to me

Based on this image vv

[lowrifaberart]

Have to draw obi-wan now and again ✨

[chewvbacca]

can anyone recommend any posts or essays about the way the high republic books are written? like the super interconnected format with characters jumping from adult books to comics to ya books. it's something that very much did not work for me but i'd love to read more about it and even why it did work for some people

[chewvbacca]

i get the temptation to write christopher leaving eddie - from the beginning one of eddie's defining traits has been how he strives to be a good father to christopher, he's made so many of his choices for christopher, so take chris away and who is he? it opens up a lot of opportunities to dig into eddie and give him something new to work on, but with the way they've written it... i don't see how we're realistically going to get anything but eddie hating and blaming himself for christopher leaving.

and i was a kim arc defender from the beginning, because i think it presented a great opportunity to have eddie confront his grief and his idealised version of his and shannon's relationship and finally let her go. i think it's a storyline that could have continued into season 8. but now that it was the driving force for chris to leave him, i'm not sure it's going to be able to have that impact and create that change for eddie, because eddie is hardly going to focus on anything else but the fact that chris is gone. whatever catharsis eddie (and the audience) could have gotten from eddie confronting "shannon" is so monumentally overshadowed by the gut punch of chris leaving.

seeing eddie and chris talk in the finale, even finishing season 7 with them still in a bad place - reference the first episode, have chris lash out at eddie like "it's not that people always leave, it's that you drive them away", leave eddie really thinking about his patterns of behaviour going into season 8 - would have been miles better because it would have at least continued what the last few episodes have been about for eddie (i.e. his messy feelings about shannon and their relationship and how it's still affecting his choices and life) but chris just walking out to stay with his grandparents feels like the storyline making a hard turn. just. not cohesive. and limiting whatever growth we might have gotten from the whole kim arc.

[apassingbird-archived-deactivat]

athena saying 'everything that matters is already in this room' after her house burnt down vs eddie having to live in a house void of the one thing that matters the most to him

[chewvbacca]

i think a lot of the weirdness of the season finale - the way the 118 were weirdly chill about bobby, the whiplash between jokes and more serious elements, the juggling of so many storylines, the way amir and bobby's relationship moved too fast - could have been fixed by. just not making bobby's injuries as serious. like just have him be unconscious and athena goes off half-cocked because she's impulsive when it comes to her family. it speeds everything up and makes it less weird to jump from talking about bobby's injuries to daddy kink

[chewvbacca]

there's something about coming on the internet after every 911 episode and seeing people mad/upset that there was drama. like. this is a first responders drama of course there's drama. but it also makes me think about parasocial relationships of the fictional kind? like the way people cling to and project on to comfort characters so much that any hardship, even if it makes narrative sense or is part of an ongoing storyline, is treated like unacceptably bad writing and out of character and all these other criticisms that feel pretty shallow

[lieutenant-teach]

I love The Clone Wars series. I love the clones. I like both Rex and Cody. But since the very beginning of watching the series, I felt like smth was kind of off about them. Specifically, why do we have so much content about Rex? Why at least part of these clone-centric moments are not given to Cody? He was there first! He’s the only clone in the movies who has some semblance of characterization and he’s actually very important for Star Wars.

Like, the episodes about a clone deserter – why not give them to Cody instead of Rex? Why not use the 212th instead of the 501st? If you imagine Cody instead of Rex, the plot won’t change, the message of the episode won’t change – they both would have similar attitudes to the situation. But we would know more specifically about the most important clone of SW. And I’m not exaggerating this claim – Rex’s presence doesn’t change the movies narrative in any way. I’m not saying they should’ve cut him out completely – just divide some adventures between Cody and Rex.

Being a Filoni original character is very advantageous.

[chewvbacca]

idk if someone has mentioned this before but i remember hearing about an interview where they mentioned that they didn't want to spend much time on cody originally because everyone already knows he betrays obi-wan and tries to kill him during order 66, so they didn't think people would warm up to him. it's important to remember here that the brainwashing chips weren't decided on until later in the series, so from both the creators' and audience's perspective, cody and the 212th turned on obi-wan just because they were ordered to.

tbh though, i think it's even more of a shame that this was their reason, because how great would it have been if they developed cody more and got the audience to love him despite knowing what he does, then pulled the rug out from under them with the revelation that he and the rest of the 212th had little choice in the matter because of the chips

i feel like some arcs, like the desertion arc, were very important for rex specifically, considering we had no proof he ever was involved in order 66 and i believe filoni always wanted to find a way to get him out of it, much like he always wanted ahsoka to survive o66 somehow, so making him consider what life outside of the gar would look like builds into his future. but there were tons of other opportunities to give cody storylines within the existing episodes - the citadel episodes stick out to me because we see tiny moments of cody's reaction to losing his men, and i would have loved to explore that more , and i think seeing the 212th's side of umbara would have really upped the stakes - and it's such a shame they didn't make ANY effort with him until ONE episode of the bad batch