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kelstares

favourite space general again

allthingskenobi

The cover to Mike Chen's Brotherhood was revealed! 👀

#attack of the clones #Anakin Skywalker #obi wan kenobi #Official art #books

anakin-skywalker

If the Star Wars Prequels used negative reviews in their promo photos

rhodanum

Not to be bitter, but a ton of the wanking around things like the dialogue in these films has to do with Western media canon’s complete and utter obsession with ‘naturalistic’ dialogue and complete dismissal of other forms of dialogue writing that don’t follow this convention.

I grew up with the disparate influences of the LOTR and Dune books and Bollywood films and all of those have received varying levels of hatred for their dialogue not following modern Western storytelling conventions (“smooth” naturalistic dialogue, pop-culture quip laden exchanges, etc. The latter I’ve started to call “Whedonism” writing, because it was particularly popularised via Joss Wheldon’s work). Just recently I was reading a review of the first Dune book that was complaining about the “stiff” dialogue and the “sterile” characterization and I realized that a lot of people just don’t know what to *do* with writing that falls outside of a narrow band of style.

Me, I immensely enjoy forms of dialogue that follow grand, opera-like conventions, with nary a quippy “Whedonism” in sight. Dialogue that works like a tone-poem. Dialogue that’s allowed to kick “smoothness” straight to the curb, in service of rawness (and anyone who whinges about Anakin’s dialogue seriously hasn’t gone through a love-confession by way of inexperienced teenage boy. 'Awkward’ is their default mode of communication. It’s just that Western cinema canon trained viewers to expect smooth, suave leading men, not broken youths with little interaction outside of a monastic order and more trauma than a combat veteran).

Also, these film critics completely and utterly missing the entire point of what the Jedi are supposed to be in the PT (the ossified remnant of a once-great monastic order, now immensely diminished and disconnected from the social and political realities around them) is supposed to make me say “oh, these people have FANTASTIC reading comprehension and I’m going to trust them for media analysis?” This is what happens when your critics are people who spent dscades masturbating themselves to a froth over their fantasies of what the Jedi / the Old Republic / Anakin would be like and were faced not with grand romantic ideals, but highly flawed people and broken, barely-functional institutions.

Honestly, Lucas *should* have used these lines as marketing material, but I can see why he didn’t, it takes a special kind of chutzpah to sneer at the Western cinema critic class. In any case, I respect him enormously for sticking to his vision and the story he wanted to tell and how he wanted to tell it. I don’t know if this last point is specifically a failure of Western society or of hyper-capitalistic “media-as-products-for-mass-consumption”, but more people should be immensely unsettled by the enormous pressure on creatives to follow a particular mold and sand off all edges or outright allow their work to be modified by committee, so it has mass-market appeal.

#revenge of the sith #the phantom menace #attack of the clones #gif #meta

anidalaweek

This is one week set apart from the rest of the year that will be entirely dedicated to Padmé and Anakin, in the form of — ART! You are invited to show your love for this pairing using any artistic expression of your choice, be that; drawings, edits, videos, gifs, literature etc. This means all fanworks are accepted, from the traditional art and fic to videos or playlists, anything you make, we want to see. Be creative, and take your muse wherever it leads you! This is not a contest of skill, but an event to showcase our appreciation for literally how much we cannot contain our love for this couple (it’s not something to be suppressed, believe us!) What will happen is between the dates of May 4th to May 10th there will assigned themes. Please do not start submitting works until these dates. As has been practice for the past few AnidalaWeeks, this year there will be two daily themes, to encourage a greater number of works from even more participants. Any and all levels of involvement are welcomed, from posting everyday to only having something for one of the days. The most important thing is to have fun and share your love of Anidala!

Anidala Week 2021 Themes:

Day 1 - May 4th: Headcanon/Missing Scene OR Favorite Scene

Day 2 - May 5th: Canon Divergence OR Favorite Canon work

Day 3 - May 6th: Mythology/Fairy Tales OR Favorite Touches

Day 4 - May 7th: Modern AU OR Favorite Trope

Day 5 - May 8th: Fusion/Alternate Fandom OR Favorite Quote

Day 6 - May 9th: Time Travel OR Favorite Parallel

Day 7 - May 10th: Free Day As is Anidalaweek tradition, the last day is a free day. No prompt or theme, make whatever you want to make!

Any questions or concerns, the Anidalaweek ask box is always opens. There is also a guidelines page up on the blog for instructions on how to post your work. It’s only March now so there’s plenty of time to start creating! More information will come out as needed!

#anidala #Anakin Skywalker #Padme Amidala #signal boost #anidala week

gffa

Me, An Intellectual, How The Star Wars Prequels Could Have Been Saved: Nothing, they were fine as they were.

forcearama

Um excuse me ma’am but where is your 10,000-word disclaimer where you apologize before saying this

gffa

#‘yes they had their problems but’#‘obviously they weren’t perfect but’#'people can disagree about –’#(like YES OF COURSE TASTES DIFFER)#(but also YOU MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT EVERY SINGLE TIME)#or you’ll be fined (via @forcearama) Let me just find where I put all my apologies… Give me a minute to find it…. Okay, right, here it is….

forcearama

😂

#prequel defense squad

webofstarwars

(via Padme of Naboo : StarWars)

#star wars #alternate universe #Padme Amidala #fanart

redrikki

One of the neatest things about the Prequel Trilogy is that the character traits which, in any other circumstances, would be virtues end up being the cause of the character’s downfall. Obi-Wan’s dedication to the rules is why he fails as Anakin’s mentor. Padme’s faith in ‘human’ decency and her drive to help others, makes her unable to see the problems of both her husband and the Republic until it’s too late. Anakin’s sense of personal loyalty, need to help, and, most critically, deference to authority, lead him to become Vader. The fact that it’s everyone’s virtues, rather than their flaws, which destroy them make their stories that much more tragic.

nebulaesailor

It’s also a very classical move, story-wise. That’s primarily how tragedy works. Take the epitome of humanity, and the very thing that makes their strength, brings their downfall. You can do the same exercise with everyone of Shakespeare’s tragic protagonists, as well as many Greek ones as well.

#the phantom menace #attack of the clones #Revenge of the Sith #Anakin Skywalker #obi wan kenobi #Padme Amidala #meta