#sw pt

[naberrie-skywalkerr]

Oh good. Another person calling the Tusken massacre a genocide.

I- google is free btw. Let's maybe google before throwing that term at the wall again and hoping it'll stick.

[naberrie-skywalkerr]

Guys I fear Anakin wouldn't be happy if Padmé lost/got rid of the baby.

I fear he wanted that baby. He'd be quite hurt i think, even if it was done for his sake (so he could sleep).

[priscaren]

refusing to engage in star wars discourse except for what the characters' media tastes are

these are padmé amidala's "literally me" movies:

[macabre-muses]

for all that the "he's more machine now than man" thing is dehumanizing and ableist i think there's definetly something to be said about how the saga contrasts the mechanical and human world.

anakin and padmé fall in love on naboo, a planet that is lush and green and full of water, it's (at least on the surface) the perfect locus amoenus. the villa they stay in was largely unaltered for the movie instead of being "sci-fied". the relationship and the republic itself fall apart on the completely mechanized coruscant that has no green nor water, it's all modern and sleek and a huge contrast to the setting of the previous movie. the very climax of the tragedy happens in the pits of hell that have been turned into a mining colony where the separatist political and military leaders are hiding.

padmé dies in a completely white and sterile environment that allows for spectators to stare at her one last time, paralleling vader becoming "more machine than man" in a similar black one.

in the ot the rebels are first hiding in the jungle planet yavin and they eventually triumph on the forest of endor with the help of its native inhabitants. both times they face against a mechanical monstrosity whose job is to destroy organic planets and everyone who lives in them. the death star looks like a planet, but it's not, it's meant to destroy the very same thing it mechanically replicates.

obviously there's more to go in depth on this topic with the droids and how they are treated (spoiler mostly badly) or with the clones, and how much of all this was intentional and how much was not but i do definetly think that the nature vs machinery contrast in the settings was very much intentional.

[macabre-muses]

the lioness does not concern herself with obi wan kenobi woobification

[macabre-muses]

this jedi discourse stuff is getting boring cause like. they're doing objectively dubious stuff. they are doing it because they are constricted by their roles in the republic. and we can go on and on and on about how wrong or right that is and what they should or shouldn't have done but at the end of the day all of those flaws (because they are. their complacency is a flaw.) are necessary to the narrative. we wouldn't have a story to watch without them. (also almost every stern defense of the jedi turns into anakin bashing and whatever. i get why a jedi lover might not be anakin's number one stan. but looking at something the jedi canonically did and saying "that's more like something anakin would like" is pretty weird ig).

[solarroseart]

Style test for... smth... rubs my hands together evilly

[vulpesarctica]

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