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[gleesonarchive]

NEW • Still of General Hux from 'STAR WARS: The Force Awakens' for the 10th Anniversary! (HQ)

[mega-ringsandthings-world]

I think what tcw got wrong about Anakin, and why I can never fully immerse myself in the story no matter how much I love the series, is that Anakin isn’t some jock/popular-aligned/macho-light w/ anger issues/possessive of his girl/action hero/stoic/terminator with a lightsaber they portray him as. When they fucked up his face I knew I wasn’t going to like it.  Anakin is this incredibly pretty, desperate-to-please-but-not-wanting-to show-it, traumatized “mama’s boy” with a passionate/evocative manner of displaying his emotions (partly due to said trauma) and a penchant of sticking his foot in his mouth and jumping the gun. He’s a lover and a fighter. He’s a friend and a son and and husband and a father, and each of those things deeply. The tragedy of Anakin Skywalker is how all the beauty and potential and ways he touched the world around him and would touch it was consumed and destroyed by the worst parts of his life, by the fears and anger he (thought) he had no resources/frame of reference to assuage. His arrogance is thin veneer for his want to please, to be worth something, to be the one. Yet he resents the effort of portraying himself as such, (because why can’t he just be enough, be valued on his own?”  and it fucks him over many times. Also, his relationship with Padme was the sweetest and healthiest thing he had in his entire life, (it can be argued his and Obi-Wan’s relationship was much more “toxic” than his and Padme’s) he and Padme both made their choice and chose each other, they were happy together and loved each other. Yes, it sounds cheesy and sappy, but it true, and I don’t understand why people don’t like/won’t admit it.  Also, he was a fucking slave. That accounts for so much of him, and people seem to always forget that about him. The beginning years of his life were spent being owned by someone else, and all his life he was fighting to break free of that. Only for his twilight years to be spent being owned by someone else also. 

He made the choices, but he was also truly thrown an extremely shit hand. 

[owliix]

I’m still working on being more active but here have some recent art I did of one of my clone ocs! Their name is Kipper and their massiff is named Pip,,, they live in my brain rent free

[anakinisvaderisanakin]

It won’t make it easier

It won’t make it strong

You want it forever

You want it so wrong

[rainbow-squirrels-7]

so was anyone gonna tell me Ahsoka was so fun to draw or was I supposed to figure that out myself?

[kanaima]

Everytime I read clone troopers eyes being described as gold my mind flinges a little, because I’m loyal to Mr Morrison characterization and in my mind their eyes are brown.

The same happen when they are described as very tall, because short clones also live rent free in my thoughts.

[macabretrees]

I feel like..if Kel Dor had kids with humans, they’d be humans (or look like humans) that had Silver eyes and longer finger nails, as well as sensitivity to light. Their fingernails would also be straight up talons. 

On the flip side, there would also be those children that looked entirely Kel Dor, however had different color eyes (human eyes),  and wouldn’t have the need for goggles too much. They could also breath in oxygen, but just for a small amount of time. 

Totally not thinking of the OC family I have for wollfe and plo

[seainthestars]

People who hate Rebels but adore TCW always annoy me. The shows share a lot of the exact same problems, but also strengths. The further into the seasons you get the more mature & nuanced the plotlines become. The better the animation gets. Yes the style is different, but also really pretty. Looking back at early seasons of TCW really shows how clunky it used to be.

Yes there are some things I would change. They should have given more to the adult characters arcs. Kanan's development could do with more weight, more time should have been given to his PTSD, perhaps introducing more clones or focusing more on him & Rex, Gregor & Wolffe, or bringing in Kasmir, and I feel like his blindness could have been... idk, utilized more? But since these are new characters & they only had 4 seasons they could only do so much.

I feel like occasionally Rebels plays it a bit safe, but then so did TCW for the majority of the time. It's got the occasional pacing issue and such. But like. TCW isn't great at that either, especially with its weird release order.

TCW had more standout episodes, and got away with heavier plotlines but you knew that nothing would happen to most of these people.

Obi-Wan & Anakin can go on thousands of horrific adventures but they won't actually die.

Rebels gave us a fresh cast that was well connected to established canon but also outside it.

Yes it has it has its dumbed down kiddie moments, some of the plots should have gotten far more weight and epsiodes than they got. But like, I've got trouble seeing the show that has one of its main characters mentally & physically tortured on screen in the season 1 finale as childish.

Yes there's occasionally a wacky Hondo or droid episode, but I've found these far more enjoyable than tcw's dreaded Jar Jar & droid episodes, simply for the fact that Chopper is a goddamn psychopath & Hondo is... well Hondo.

In short I'd say while TCW has better stand out short arcs, Rebels delivers a better over arching story. The characters develope naturally, instead of some of the more contrived developements TCW had to do because of Anakin. In the same way the heavy episodes stick better, TCW had to essentially throw away things that could have led to interesting & heavy character growth because of its setting & style. Obi-Wan goes through hell several times over without much to show for it, in the end (slavery ep, Satine, THE WHOLE MORTIS ARC). It's not even mentioned in later episodes!

Tldr; Both animation styles are gorgeous & different, but Rebels gets a head start simply because of experience & newer software.

Both have a 'plucky young padawan' & unexperience master. Both have Anakin Skywalker being a dramatic lil shit. Both have absolutly heartbreaking clone stuff, in tcw we get the big developments but in Rebels we get the aftermath. The ptsd, the quick ageing. How do you adapt when you were bred for war when there is technically no war?

Ahsoka stuff, Jedi stuff, callbacks, references. Fucking Maul, Darth Cockroach himself.

Anyway I've lost my point. Uh.

If you like TCW, give Rebels a proper shot and don't be put off by the OT based designs. It's only 4 seasons, the further you go the more you can see those tcw roots come in.

If you like Rebels, give TCW a try. I know it's a lot and can seem disconnected, but it's fantastic. Maybe get a chronological viewing guide because holy shit those early seasons.

If you like Star Wars and have seen neither, please give it a go. They bring so much more life to the universe, and are written by some of the people that wrote for The Mandalorian. Also, there's a lot of mandalorians in both.