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jimnutto-deactivated20230114
Leia Organa and Luke Skywalker ↳ in Star Wars: A New Hope
I love this frame right after Vader throws his lightsaber. It looks like he got trapped in his own cape and is stumbling forward.
It’s because he’s trying to keep up with his talented ballet-dancing son, Luke.
fanfiction was such a good idea. like put those guys in situations
luke talking with his mouth full, pulling a gun on the jedi grand master, and getting mad at him for eating his food like “that’s my dinner!! >:(!!” are some of my favorite luke moments forever
also artoo knowing exactly who yoda is and finally getting the chance to fight him
he’s been waiting for this for years
medusaceratops-deactivated20210
okay i swear i will be normal following this one last utterly insane observation
but "vader is unexpectedly confronted with thing from his past" being immediately followed by "the motherfucker holds it directly to his face so that he may stare at it forlornly" is, while emotional, ludicrously funny. i want to invent ways this could be a running thing. he finds rex's old helmet somehow and just bonks his face to it. finds a crashed jedi starfighter and bangs his forehead into to signify emotional distress. if he'd discovered luke was his son while luke was physically present, do you think he just would have lifted luke in the air and bumped helmet-to-forehead while luke screamed bloody murder, or is that just way too out there? genuine commentary only, please, this is a serious discussion about serious things.
tajmahthemoose
he would
i feel like the loss of the ability to physically interact normally with like. anything. really focused his impulses on the helmet-touch.
whether he would notice this is just a keldabe kiss idk tho. possibilities range from 'totally unaware' to 'intentionally copying the mandalorian culture's coping strategy for Presence of Helmet to his own Perpetual Helmet situation.'
medusaceratops-deactivated20210
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most excellent discussions and additions everyone. all of your statements have been ratified to the agenda, a new agenda which i have created which is vader bonking luke with his helmet in any way, shape, or fashion in which i can make it happen. whether he notices this is a keldabe kiss depends on how much of a sad sack of shit you would like to rule vader as being, and as i always opt for the maximum, he is absolutely aware. thank you all for attending such an important conference of minds
Luke roared in toward Mara’s X-wing, which closed toward him, their combined speed causing the numbers on the snubfighter’s range meter to scroll too fast to read.
As they reached the point where Luke could almost see his wife’s face, a point at which most pilots would be unable to react in time to save themselves, Mara dived, flashing mere meters beneath Luke’s X-wing…and revealing the attack fighter tailing her.
The attack fighter’s pilot tried to vector out of Luke’s way. He succeeded. He didn’t succeed in dodging Luke’s lasers. Red flashes converged on the cockpit, and suddenly the fighter was a cloud of smoke and shrapnel. Luke flew through it, pieces of attack fighter fuselage bouncing off his deflectors and scraping off his hull. He emerged into blue sky on the other side.
The maneuver was called the Corellian Slip. Fighter pilot legend had it that the maneuver had been developed here, by the madmen and madwomen who flew for this system. Luke shook his head, a little saddened by the irony.
On his sensor board, he saw Mara looping around to return to his wingmate position. The latest detachment of attack fighters was down to two viable starfighters—and now, realizing the depletion of their numbers, they suddenly veered off, leaving the dogfight. Nine Jedi X-wings, increasingly battered but all still in fighting condition, remained.
—Legacy of the Force: Betrayal, Aaron Allston
sorry for complaining about star wars. i will not change.
Time-travel AU where Vader is sent some forty years back, in Gardulla's Palace, just in time to see his mother with a two years old Anakin be punished because Anakin was too loud.
Vader murdering the Hutt and all that willingly served her and Freeing the slaves without much of a plan. Shmi deciding that since the murderous Sith Lord is so protective of her, she might as well use it for good.
Vader Freeing Tatooine of slavery and spice over a mere few years and finding himself ruling the planet while being all "shit that wasn't part of the plan". He brings his idea for "peace, freedom and justice" to life which... sort of work there because people are used to dictators, but also some of his ideas *are* good.
Is it technically a dictatorship? Yes, definitely. Do the people care? No, not at all. There aren't any tax too high for them to pay, and no threat of being sold into slavery. Death by strangulation is a low risk if you just mind your business, and even then if Lady Skywalker is nearby you'll just have a good scare and maybe pee yourself as a result.
Is the Senate irate because suddenly Tatooine wants nothing to do with them and plenty find refuge there? Sure. They try to send the Jedi to do their dirty work and dispose of the dictator, but the preliminary researched showed that a majority of the population is fine with things as they are.
(The native population of Tuskens had some troubles but eventually, Vader agrees to stay out the Dune Sea, and they stop attacking settlers. Neither is too happy about that but they maintain the status quo.)
Also Tatooine now has a fleet of scrappy starfighters, but the pilots are complete nutcases.
The Jedi elect not to touch Tatooine with a ten-feet pole. A Sith Lord, you say? Sith Lords don't listen to former slaves scolding them, nor do they teach the basics of piloting to promising young pilots. Besides, the Sith are extincts. Everyone knows that.
(Chancellor Palpatine, once elected, tries to get to Tatooine again. Lord Vader has a freak-out at the sight of him, calls him "Master" in *that* tone once and Palpatine gets torn to pieces by the good people of Tatooine. Lord Vader might be a dictator, but dammit, he's *theirs*.)
@blackkatmagic
Mark Hamill in an interview with Fred Saxon 1978, talking about “Corvette Summer”
my life has not known peace since i saw mark hamill in that golden jumpsuit
“Anakin knew he wasn’t ready to be trained with a lightsaber yet, but this one held a special interest for him. Obi-Wan Kenobi had been Darth Vader’s Jedi teacher, and his Uncle Luke’s first teacher, too. Anakin ran a finger up the ridged handle and over the power stud, but did not press it.
(…)
Thunder boomed from the speakers hidden in the walls, but Anakin did not stop until he stood directly before Orloc. Then, pressing the switch on the handle of Kenobi’s blade, Anakin ignited the lightsaber. The blade hummed in his hand, a bright pure blue sending its light through the darkness.”
- Junior Jedi Knights: Vader’s Fortress & Kenobi’s Blade, by Rebecca Moesta
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As something of a follow-up to my most recent post, here we have what is perhaps the ultimate example of the “How it started vs. how it’s going,” meme.
Growing up in what is arguably the Golden Era of Star Wars media, aka the mid-90′s to 00′s, both of these sabers exist as touchstones of their respective eras. Between having an electronic toy of the former (circa the year of our Lourd 2002), and watching ANH religiously, these sabers are etched into my mind with astonishing clarity. They also go on to further illustrate the dichotomy between the Prequel Era and the Original Trilogy, offering insight into the mind of George Lucas:
In an era when few people had the imagination to dream of a far-off land of action, adventure and daring-do in the face of an evil empire, we see Lucas borrowing from the older traditions of storytelling, upon which to hang the framework of his Space Opera. The 1970′s was a time of incredible cultural upheaval; the United States had just lost the war in Vietnam, and the nation was facing an identity crisis. This was an era when dower, heavy films like Taxi Driver and first two Godfather films came out - a far cry from the fairy-tale-like imagination which infuses the Star Wars saga. In those early years, Lucas sought to create a lived-in world, turning over his vision to talented production designers like Roger Christian to bring his world to life. The design of the actual props & sets are owed to Christian & concept artists like Ralph McQuarrie as much as Lucas himself. That’s not even to mention his collaboration with incredible screenwriters like Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan.
In stark contrast, the Prequel Era was conceived in its entirety by Lucas and - some could argue - for Lucas. Unlike the collaborative art from adversity that characterizes the Original Trilogy, Lucas wrote, produced and directed each of the Prequel films. This much narrower, myopic view makes the Prequels feel so much cleaner & sterilized, when compared to the OT. It lost some of its humanity, as it were. Granted, this does serve as a pretty effective narrative thread; the Prequels present us with a Utopian vision (on the surface) of the Old Republic so often alluded to in the OT, where the Jedi are many and powerful, when all the while, it’s rotten to its very core. The OT gives us a world that’s almost dystopian; everything is old, rusted, greasy & oil-stained. This universe has seen better days, long long ago - but at its heart, the story and by extension the protagonists, are all morally good - and light triumphs in the end.
With the benefit of nearly twenty years of hindsight - and seeing what others can do with Star Wars - this really is a wonderful idea. It’s just really hard to enjoy the Prequels because of literally everything else going on in them. From the questionable casting choices, stilted dialogue, CGI effects that have not exactly aged gracefully & Lucas’ strange desire to attribute the Force to Midichlorians or whatever that was, they’re just bad movies.
But you know what? I’ll still take them over the Sequels. 100%.
At the very least, you can tell that there are ideas behind what Lucas was trying to do with the Prequels, despite the fact that he just forgot how to make movies. The sequels don’t have any trace of connecting tissue, aside from a handful of characters that all happen to share names across three tonally, completely different corporate vehicles.
Circling back around to the relevant topic at hand; here, in a single pair of images, we have the entire philosophy & production design of the Star Wars Saga distilled to their most basic elements. Likewise, they tell the story of a young Jedi who became a great Master, only to witness everything he sought to protect and build up, torn down and destroyed. And while I have little faith in Kathleen Kennedy’s producer-ship (and the fact that she said early drafts of the Kenobi scripts were too bleak), I can’t help but be just a little excited to see Ewan McGregor play Obi-Wan Kenobi again.
Here’s hoping.
MARK HAMILL as LUKE SKYWALKER
on STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE (1977)