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[septante-sept]

i was thinking. ive read most vader comics and i have to say i genuinely dont get the high opinion fans seem to have for them— the plots never excited me much, the art is very hit and miss etc, but most importantly in just think that the….. very concept of a “vader comic” (ie a comic where we follow darth vader’s adventures) is inherently bound to suck. just because darth vader isn’t meant to be a main character lol. once you stop having him appear in carefully chosen, very limited scenes and instead start having him be onscreen (on page?) 24/7, doing flips, fighting tentacle aliens, teaming up with quirky sidekick after quirky sidekick, getting beat up almost to death every single time but surviving because he’s the force’s specialest boy etc he stops having anything in common with vader from the movies aside from his appearance, he loses his impact as a character and more often than not looks really silly lol. maybe it’s because i’m not a comics person but almost every one i’ve read was more or less puerile and cartoonish so i truly don’t think any of these would work at all in live action— like i keep seeing people suggest

[septante-sept]

this is also why the dark visions comic with the obsessed nurse is my favorite of the bunch— to me it’s the ONLY way to make a vader comic work: since vader can’t fundamentally change as a character in the comics (as they are set between movies, where the actual plot happens) it’s tiresome to waste our time on filler slash retcon action-adventure story n3682. the stories are just artistically worthless. just have him feature in someone else’s story instead as the fearsome, looming presence he was in esb and do something interesting for once. which is what they did here. felt fresh, entertaining and darkly funny 👍 (and thank god, no ooc vader for once either)

that comic was a pleasant (very) softcore horror story and fans hated it. guys. i THOUGHT you wanted a mature, adult, horror, dark, 18+ whatever vader story? you can’t shut up about the damn dark and mature darth vader story you think disney should make but you don’t like it when they give you a taste of one?

oh wait. when you guys say ‘dark’ and ‘mature’ you just mean “darth vader should be so cool and badass and kill everyone with his laser sword and he says edgy one liners and then he kills some more faceless goons and he uses the foooorce” lol

[septante-sept]

i opened the thread knowing full well what i was gonna get and i still felt something leave my soul reading the responses. i saw count dooku and yoda and youtube fan film lightsaber fights before i saw any of the OT duels lol. i know we’re fundamentally looking for something different in a lightsaber duel: some people are interested in them as actual scenes in a movie— it’s about the characters, the dialogues, the emotional moments— and some people are interested in watching a videogame cutscene that makes them go “that was AWESOME!!!” once its done, and there’s nothing i can do about it.

in the original trilogy, every single one of the three duels was a huge character moment that held a central place in the story and the characters’ arcs. the importance is not on the sword swinging itself (even though the choreographies are great. yes even the 1977 one, overall)— the duels are just a setting to provide us with the movies’ most important character moments. from a technical perspective, all are grounded and suitably tense and exciting, and from a narrative perspective, they are just important scenes for the characters and for the themes. the audience learns things about the characters and the characters also learn things about themselves. especially in the luke vs vader fights, we see the a masterfully crafted resolution or evolution of the central conflict of the story.

when qui gon and darth maul fight, what is that supposed to mean for their characters? for anyone’s arc? or when… idk… yoda and palpatine of all people bring out lightsabers and start doing cgi backflips? what’s the emotional core or the message here? and of two sabers anakin vs count dooku? or, god forbid, of hundreds of jedi fighting hundreds of robots in an arena? there are some fights that do try to be real scenes with emotions and plot beats (tm), like the second anakin vs count dooku or anakin vs obi wan, but overall the prequels have lightsaber fights because they have star wars in the title and star wars is supposed to have lightsaber fights, and their main raisons d’être are “insert action scene” and “the child and young adult demographics are gonna love this”.

i know i have no right to tell people what to enjoy and that is not my intention. i just wish i could find the fandom more enjoyable, lol

[septante-sept]

not to out myself as a shiny boot enjoyer but there was literally NO reason to give vader this stairwell calves shot

[septante-sept]

very cool of them to do an homage to the first movie by not cleaning vader's helmet 👍

[septante-sept]

i think my biggest personal disappointment with how they did prequels anakin skywalker (after everything already commonly said. re: the movies being what they are) is how they made him a guy who… genuinely does not understand politics and seems to have no interest for anything related to power.

original vader is evil, brutish and not particularly subtle, but also cold and calculating — and from esb onwards, when they actually decided on his role, he oozes authority and control. in sw, while he is more of a goon, he attends government meetings with no indication that he doesn’t care about them (he actively participates in the discussion, he seems to hold opinions on the current direction of the empire), and throughout the movies he seems familiar with administration and regular government business. he is power hungry and ambitious. we can rule the galaxy as father and son! you know. like. in esb be is actively plotting treason. sorry for being simplistic but OT vader is a serious, no nonsense adult with a job and i feel like the clear characterization in the OT is that he was seduced by the dark side of the force because he wanted more power and that’s how he eventually betrayed all those who loved him (…and then was redeemed by his son, the hero of the story).

now in the post-prequels era, it’s not rare to find characterizations of vader where he doesn’t seem to really know like, what money is or to have a single thought about politics or the running of an empire (a political institution in which, mind you, he seems to have a very high profile role) or where he’s so immature and emotional you wonder how he even manages to command respect or most importantly keep a high ranking military job for decades — because he’s just anakin from the prequels. the guy who was tricked into becoming evil. not out of ambition or having any plans for the galactic empire or anything, just… what we got in the prequels. he’s not even selfish or anything— just a meathead with big, childish feelings who’s also the divine main character of the universe now.

anyway, i’ve only gotten scraps of it so if anyone knows where to find pre-1999 or even pre-2002 fan content, hit me up lol

[septante-sept]

pov: you’ve just proposed the stupidest plan to catch the rebels everyone in the room has ever heard. you are darth vader

[hisinfernalmajesty666]

You know exactly who this silhouette is, don't you?

In the original trilogy, Darth Vader only appears for around 34 minutes across three movies. He appears so little in each movie, yet you remember him, his look, his voice, his breathing. Vader's black uniform makes him visually iconic.

In Episode IV, the very opening scene he appears as a jet black presence against the white interior of the Rebel ship. In his scenes on the Death Star, he is in the background or out of focus, behind Tarkin. But your eyes are on Vader's striking presence. Vader's presence increased the less naturalistic he looked.

In Episode V, his mask is much more polished, giving off large, white reflections to highlight its shape. It is in Episode V he becomes iconic, with the use of background and silhouette, as we see in the image above of Vader on Hoth. He transcends his role as villain and becomes something much deeper and universal.

In Episode VI, Vader often looks flat against backgrounds due to the lighting. It lacks the character work that Vader had in V but it gives us the iconic scene where he is finally unmasked. This villain and his iconic look, voice and breathing are reduced to the image of a broken man, who is ultimately human. The cultural impact of Darth Vader speaks for itself. And it was all achieved in about 30 minutes of cinematography.

Happy Star Wars Day!

[cparti-mkiki]

esb maskless au lol

[pedro-reed]

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), dir. Irvin Kerschner

[rishi-eel]

darth sidious opens up his dark robes to show a crop top that says “god wont let me die”

he turns around, letting his his robes fall to the ground, revealing booty shorts that read “i am god”

[angmar166]

*heart attack*  

[bassiter]

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okay i tried slowing down the cantina song to make it sad but instead it sounds like something that would be playing in the black lodge

[wolveria]

OP: “okay, let’s make it sad!” *accidentally opens a portal to the universe of Grim Fandango*

[cryptid-prrrince]

This is what you hear when you come into my room and I’m dissociating

[argumate]

you made it sexy

[cargopantsman]

I knew the kid was trouble as soon as he walked in. The old man didn’t give me any warm fuzzies neither. Sure, I needed the job, but I had a bad feeling about it.

[certified-diablerist]

This is making me uncomfortable

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

God could you imagine if palpatine had like 20 grandchildren bc he fucked nonstop and it just happened to be rey who showed up

[butchflirt]

[stuffilikeipost]

Because I love this. I dunno why, I just do. Tol Dad and Smol Son.

Bonus: Luke’s got the High Ground™

[wwprice1]

Kickass Vader piece by Jorge Fornes.

[endiness]

[tatooineknights]

someone: luke skywalker beat darth vader and ended the empire

everyone else in the galaxy:

everyone on tatooine:

[hyperewok1]

Imagine being the local jock from Toshe Station and turning on the news to learn that the guy you called “Wormie” in desert high school just killed the two most powerful people in the galaxy.