dave filoni made me do it

[cheesydelphox]

bad batch: oh goodness! omega chased a puppy down this mineshaft! we'd better go get her and all learn a valuable lesson in the meaning of friendship!

crosshair sideplot:

[thats-ee]

How it started vs. how it’s going

[thecorpsethatwalks]

re-watching the original trilogy is great because you really get a sense for how weird luke skywalker is, just how quickly he becomes that weird AND how quickly he commits to it. Like he's honestly pretty chill in a new hope, but the absolute INSTANT he figures out he can move shit with his mind he goes full send on the cryptic off-putting bullshit. Walking around in full black robes, speaking in riddles, aura farming and backflipping whenever physically possible. He's clearly annoyed when he first meets yoda in empire, but he dismisses that pretty quickly in favour of ALSO becoming an over-dramatic space wizard. The combination of his two teachers being yoda and obi-wan kenobi and him being the son of anakin and padme creates the single most intense and fundamentally kind force sensitive perfectly embodying the heart of the jedi order whilst also serving egregious amounts of cunt and being bizarre to be around. He would have THRIVED as a jedi master during the high republic. he would have been every padawan's favourite and every other master's worst nightmare

[myfairkatiecat]

something something “I’m a person and my name is Anakin” showing his name is a central way he retains identity while a child slave vs “that name no longer has any meaning to me” in almost the same breath as “I must obey my master” thirty years later after Sidious accomplished what Gardulla and Watto never managed to: breaking his spirit and convincing him he has no other options but obedience, accepting painful consequences, never looking for a way out. something like that

[edgar-allan-possum]

My preferred way to watch the Star Wars movies is 4,5,1,2,3,6. Not saying this is objectively the best way, but it preserves most of the plot twists. In this order, the PT functions as an extended flashback after Vader reveals himself as Luke's father, showing what happened to him and providing context for both Vader's internal conflict and Palpatine's machinations in RotJ.

Additionally, the birth scene in RotS when Padmé names the second baby Leia becomes a kick in the teeth for first time viewers. If you watch OT then PT, you already have that information. If you watch PT then OT you don't even know those characters yet. This way it becomes a reveal that follows up on Yoda's "there is another" line and Leia being able to sense Luke with the Force in ESB. It works as well as any version of that reveal possibly could given the framework.

Also this way, you see Anakin's whole fall to the Dark Side, and then the next thing you turn on is RotJ, and Luke's first appearance in that movie has him lightly Force-choking Jabba's guards while wearing black Jedi robes similar to Anakin's in RotS. It offers just that little bit more uncertainty over whether Luke actually could fall.

[ashyybees-art]

TechPhee WIP~

TechPhee brain go brrrrrrrrr and hit me with inspiration tonight :eyes:

[grays-vault9]

Lady tano and Rex 🤩

[powlone]

true ruler of mandalore

[meldy-arts]

After all that time, he’s finally home.

The reunion were so so rudely robbed off 😭 I still wish their reunion had been more than what we got. Ezra was her first baby.

[razorflame45]

Happy Pride Month to these gay rebels

[ujipm]

They have this exact convo every time they’re sent to an ice planet

[j-em-g]

how it started → how it's going 🤗

[soranatus]

Padawan in Shadows By Jake Bartok, an illustrator and comic book artist at Lucasfilm

[ryliith]

Deadpan humor at its finest. Raise your hand if you think highly competent Commander Cody would win this championship.

Inspired by this:

[andthepeople]

always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal

[morally-earl-gray]

for every incel white man star wars dudebro there is a teenage lesbian with a slightly deeper and more obscure knowledge of star wars who will one day defeat him in battle

[padofwan]

Back when this show was first announced I jokingly referred to Devon (before we knew her name and just knew that Maul was training a Twi'lek girl a year after Ahsoka blew him off) as "Maul is creating Ahsoka's Wario" but the thing is. That really is kinda it, conceptually.

By which I mean: the thing Ahsoka and Devon have in common in a Doylist sense is that they are both original characters created to be a legacy character's apprentice (Anakin for Ahsoka, Maul for Devon) in a show that legacy character was nominally the lead of which existed between already-set points in their established timeline.

Which means: those apprentice characters are ultimately where the real action is. Because while the elaboration on how the legacy characters get from A to B is far from unwelcome, we know how things end for them, we know where their characters ultimately end up: Anakin becomes Vader and Maul dies to Obi-Wan on Tatooine. We learn the how, the why, but we already knew the what.

But Devon in Shadow Lord is wide-open, as Ahsoka in Clone Wars was before her: she's new, she has no fixed end, anything is possible! What happens to her? Where does she end up? Who does she become? These are the questions! And so once again the apprentice girl OC is ultimately the one to watch. Ahsoka outgrew her association with Anakin as people began to care about her in her own right and I have no doubt the same will be true for Devon and her association with Maul.

The "Wario" part is still tongue in cheek but, well, not inaccurate: Devon is the dark mirror of Ahsoka's character on that conceptual level, because this is a show about, in Sam Witwer's words, bad guys versus worse guys. And where Ahsoka ultimately learned to be better at being Anakin than Anakin was and thus never fell to the dark side, I think Devon will give us the answer to what happens when someone learns how to be better at being Maul than Maul is.