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THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT —2020, Episode 7: End Game

Not "The Character did nothing wrong" or "The Character is irredeemably awful" but a secret third thing: The Character may display moments of deep love & compassion, may even have a strong sense of ethics, and may also be capable of brutal cruelty that is irreconcilable with those traits. The constant tension between the different sides of The Character's nature is exactly what makes them compelling, and attempting to reduce them down to simply "a terrible person" or "innocent & misunderstood" is missing the point of the questions a media with nuanced characters is asking you to consider

#good media is where this happens on purpose #other media does this by inconsistencies in writing choices #but I don’t enjoy it any less

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Have you ever heard the story about the boy who cried wolf?

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girls with absolutely lethal puppy dog eyes when they need the runabout for just one really small act of terrorism, commander, please

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Okay Kallus wasn’t mentioned in The Mandalorian and Grogu HOWEVER his presence was very much felt in Zeb’s snazzy lil jacket

#I’ll take what I can get #kalluzeb #alexsandr kallus #zeb orrelios

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Luke saying “you’ll find i’m full of surprises” to Vader before losing his lightsaber and falling down some stairs is such a life mood

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its right up there with anakin saying “you underestimate my power” and then proceeding to get all his remaining limbs chopped off by Obi-Wan. like father, like son.

wordsofdiana

Star Wars establishes the very real life lesson that a badass line does not guarantee success

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“Sith Lords are our speciality.”

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tragedy enjoyers when a character upholds the system that they themselves were a victim of

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From the outset, the design brief for Janix, along with every aspect of Maul – Shadow Lord, was to convey a loose, impressionistic style. According to Joel Aron, Lucasfilm Animation’s Director of Lighting, Cinematography, and Visual Effects, “there's a more painterly style in the assets and in the buildings and the ships and in the matte paintings. Even in the smoke and the fire, everything has a hand-painted look. It's still CG, but we wanted to push those bounds.”

Aron worked closely with Senior Lighting and Visual Effects Artist Valerie Perez to develop software tools that allowed them to directly incorporate brushstroke accents into their CG paints and textures. Aron took that one step further by actually applying physical swatches of different paint colors onto clear glass (not unlike a traditional matte painting) and then photographing them as high-resolution elements to be utilized in CG. Soon Aron’s entire team was painting brushstrokes onto glass.

“Senior technical director Alex Shaulis came up with a really cool method of using brush strokes to distort even more of our visual effects. [...] The practicality of it is the soul of everything.”

Building Lucasfilm Animation’s New World for Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord

#maul spoilers #in a maul mood