Pinned
obsessed where stories where it is like. the mistakes are unfixable and the worst thing that could happen happened and nothing can go back to how it was. but there was still love in this and love will continue after this and love endures always.
honestly a pity that Luke & Leia being siblings was so tacked on to the original trilogy bcos i think retroactively Leia being Anakin's daughter really beefs up some aspects of A New Hope, namely:
taking the prequels into account, the fact that Anakin fell to the dark side bcos he was trying to protect Padme and their unborn child and then his first on screen atrocity in the OT being unknowingly torturing his own daughter has a delicious irony to it. especially given extent to which Leia and Padme are parallel characters. love that.
the fact that Vader correctly predicts that Tarkin's plan to get the location of the rebel base out of Leia won't work. he's presumably there like 'well she'll just lie. that's what I'd do' and he's right bcos Leia does think the same way as him.
Relatedly another retroactively beefed up moment in ANH is when they're in the trash compactor and Luke & Leia start yelling at Han with the exact same intonation. Love that.
anyway going back to this, another one:
“Much anger in him, like his father.” - Yoda
genuinely mourn this scene more than any concept art of padme with a knife or whatever. canon that at age 7/8 padme already knew the weight of another’s life in her hands. this is what it’s all about
Finally started the ball rolling on potentially getting an autism diagnosis (aka just contacted the doctors about being referred to a specialist)
They're processing the referral now. It'll probably be closer to a year until I actually get assessed but!!!! it's happening.
Just officially got diagnosed ✌🏻
The Knight of Flowers shone so fine and pure in his white scales and silk that Jaime felt a tattered and tawdry thing by contrast.
everyone’s wondering who the younger more beautiful queen might be but none of them show any concern for this younger more beautiful lord commander…curious
this is like watching an embarrassing 109 years old horse with a broken leg on the floor being kicked over and over again
“And now you are older, my lord”
he is just as dramatic
and if i said that ahsoka should have died in rebels when she fought vader because 1) i still think it would have been a fitting end for her character (and i don't think they've done anything meaningful with her character arc since her "resurrection" that justifies bringing her back); plus it would have cemented vader (trying) to kill every last tie to anakin until luke comes along; and 2) the landscape of current sw would look quite different, and probably (most definitely) for the better, bc filoni wouldn't have gotten to try out live action directing, thus spiraling us into this era where only him and favreau's projects are allowed to keep succeeding.
to be honest there has never been a fictional character i’ve actually wanted to date. like. i want them to date each other. i don’t want myself as a person to be involved in this scenario whatsoever. what would i add to this narratively? what’s my thematic purpose in the narrative? immersion breaking.
one thing that really gets me in rotj is when luke is first captured, right as he’s calmly insisting that vader still has good in him, vader (standing behind him) ignites his lightsaber and you see this flicker of fear on luke’s face, then acceptance. i think luke went into this situation knowing conceptually that he would probably die, but this is the moment where the reality of that sets in, and he really has to accept the possibility that his father might destroy him and decide again whether he trusts him not to
