#sw prequels

[sebywildest]

finished the aotc novel

I like how the novel makes it clear that marriage and love are different. Jedi are allowed to love, but not to marry. Being married is a commitment and an expectation in Padme's case the same way as how becoming a jedi knight is also a commitment and an expectation in Anakin's case. As long as Anakin follows the Jedi path, he is expected to follow the vows of a Jedi knight, to commit himself to the Force, to an ideal rather than a person (Obi-Wan wants Anakin to be a Jedi). Just like Padme is expected to retire after a life of service and start a family with somebody (Sola and Padme's family want Padme to retire and marry).

I like how Padme and Anakin really want to meet in the middle but then kinda also fail at the same time. Padme makes assumptions about the Jedi based on her own experiences as a queen and a senator (not being able to visit the places she likes, do the things she likes or be with people she loves, in short Padme was very lonely and sad) and Anakin makes fun of her work as a politician in a democracy that he thinks is ineffective. Padme doesn't understand the Force and Jedi and Anakin doesn't understand politics and the Republic.

It was decent but soo boring, the boring and bad parts in the movie were just decent and boring in the book despite improvements.

now I can finally read a good book like Earthsea: The Other Wind

[macabre-muses]

it's also kinda funny that 90% of the stuff the fandom has supposedly "agreed" on for star wars is never actually compelling it's always either "obi wan would make you chai and let you cry in his arms and also he's just a big cinnamon roll" or "anakin was mind controlling padmé for three years" and there's nothing in between

[emlovestarwars]

Obi-Wan lost his master and then had to spend the rest of his life wondering what if 😭

[socratesgirl]

i think about the whole “orpheus looks back and eurydice knows she’s loved” thing and i think about anakin. i don’t think it’s quite the same but it’s the whole thing about how the reason why he did the stupid thing is that this is the person he is and he loves her so much he can’t even avoid looking at her. with anakin it’s like, ok you can argue that anakin could have just ignored his dream, he could have calmed down and not given into his insecurities, but then he wouldn’t be anakin skywalker, who loves padme amidala. padme falls in love with him because he cares so deeply for people and he has to save everyone. he was never going to be nonchalant. anakin loves padme so much he sells his soul. even if it was more about power or whatever, there truly wasn’t a line he was unwilling to cross. but he couldn’t even pretend like he wasn’t losing his mind about losing her to save her.

[baskinrobinsalwaysfindsout]

*skipping stones on naboo*

padmé: this is nice.

anakin: take that you kriffing lake

[socratesgirl]

“this is how it feels to be anakin skywalker… forever” fuck the revenge of the sith novel. fuck fuck fuck!

[macabre-muses]

also on anakin and therapy, who exactly is willing or able to give him the help he needs that isn't "dreams pass" or "be mindful of your feelings"? cause no matter how nice it would be and how much the fandom wants it to be true this is not exactly therapy as we interpret it nor is it the help he would need. like obviously both obi wan and yoda are well intwntioned and want to help him in the "jedi" way but anakin is not a regular jedi and has trauma from his childhood that is quite different from that of anybody else around him. and i'm pretty sure that "mind healers" aren't canon or were not part of the canon gl had available to him when writing the pt so bringing them up is kind useless. and his issues are so strictly connected to force stuff that any non jedi psychologist he could visit in a perfect utopic world would not really be able to get him. and so he finds himself in a position where he feels his only true support are palpatine and padmé and maybe that's not so healthy (actually it's not at all) but like it's the story i fear.

[macabre-muses]

every three weeks or so the star wars fandom asks itself "why did this character have a compelling story instead of going to therapy?". it's very very important that people understand that the characters don't "need" anything, the story does. we as fans can not like a choice or a character but these choices and these characters aren't real and they only exist in the context of a space opera that operates with the tropes of one. and like obviously this doesn't mean it's going to be 100% well executed and effective but tbh i like the prequels! i like their story! i like that they're operatic and over the top and sometimes hard to decipher and think they work well as a dramatic trilogy!!