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[seelieham]

"Tales of the Jedi", Episodes 2, 3, and 4, 2022.

[paagalsubtitle]

"I kept getting fried from job."

That's not what he meant, but it tracks, especially in These Times.

(Oh Bewafa, 1973)

[seelieham]

Sorry, sorry, but:

"My Fair Apprentice" where Asajj is Eliza, Dooku is Higgins, Sifo-Dyas is Pickering (mostly because I imagine him briefly waking up from a nap to go "Come, come, Dooku, be reasonable"), Quinlan is Freddie, Mother Talzin is Doolittle, Jocasta is Mrs Pearce, and Yoda is Mrs Higgins ("The slippers, she threw at you? Lucky you were, my padawan. The fire irons, I would have chucked at you.")

[seelieham]

Eighteenth-Century Author, slapping the roof of their picaresque novel:

You can fit so many syphilis jokes in this thing!

[seelieham]

OBI-WAN (has the bad luck to be standing next to Dooku's bust): I was wondering about-

JOCASTA: THIS IS A MAN WHO THINKS WITH HIS HEART

HIS HEART IS NOT ALWAYS WISE

OBI-WAN: Interesting! But Kamin-

JOCASTA: THIS IS A MAN WHO STUMBLES & FALLS

BUT THIS IS A MAN WHO TRIES

(Your master was the same by the way)

OBI-WAN: I was trying to find-

JOCASTA: THIS IS A MAN YOU'LL FORGIVE AND FORGIVE

AND HELP AND PROTECT AS LONG AS YOU LIVE

[seelieham]

Dooku this has to stop. You Makashi too elegant, your jammies too cozy, your apprentice too bald. They'll kill you.

[seelieham]

Everybody loves Grandpa War Crimes, the urbane, grandfatherly gentleman who commits war crimes!

*5 seconds later*

We're getting reports that Grandpa War Crimes is a war criminal.

[seelieham]

The thing about the series of "His Dark Materials" is that seeing even the bad guys with their little animal souls that they love means you can't hate them as much!

[seelieham]

I just like it that she's the Guardian of the Light of the Jedi & he's a formidable Sith Lord but also they're in their eighties so they need to take naps & be punctilious about not missing a dose of Space Eliquis.

[seelieham]

From Andrew Wilson's translation of "The Phoenician Women". In this version of the Oedipus story the Queen stayed alive after the anagnorisis because everyone needed her to hold things together and she didn't even have the luxury of dying of disgrace.

[seelieham]

Practicing Emersonian self-reliance (accepting that nobody is coming to help and I am on my own.)

[seelieham]

I was wondering how Dooku could go from "Ivan Karamazov with a lightsaber" to "Bond Villain in Space" but then I remembered various good people I've known who cooked their brains with everything from Fox News to TikTok until they were barely the same person I had loved.

[seelieham]

I just think they probably made a nice-looking coupla Jedi, back in the day.

[seelieham]

Even in bizarre bootleg toy format, Anakin is refused the rank of Master.

[seelieham]

Jocasta Nu's friends being deeply relieved when she's posted to the Archives & has fewer opportunities to Leroy Jenkins (when we see her in fights she's very "and you may take my life, but you'll never take my BOOKS!")

She's got the "ready, fire, aim" mindset just as much as anyone in the Disaster Lineage.