Let's just talk about Star Wars forever

[a_new_duck]

So in episode VIII, kylo tells rey that her parents were nobodies who sold her for drinking money.

In episode IX, he tells her that nothing he said was a lie, which can exist alongside the fact that she’s a Palpatine because apparently her mother or father was a nobody (despite being the daughter or son of the Galactic Emperor) who died after selling her in an attempt to protect her. Okay, it’s a weird stretch/retcon, sure. The implication, though, is that while Rey was sold for her own protection, since 'Kylo didn’t lie, her parents still used the money they got from selling their daughter to get wasted

Cool

[sleepysmiles]

i said “fuck off” aloud in the theater at that part

[shrug]

it’s like poetry

it rhymes

[anothersphere]

[Felix]

in fairness, idiotic retcons about parentage are one of the most star wars things about star wars

like, vader being luke’s dad definitely wasn’t planned before empire, leia being luke’s sister wasn’t planned before rotj, and the weight of all this canon on this exquisite corpse totally obfuscates that

with that in mind it’s not at all surprising that it’s gotten progressively stupider and more untenable, but neither does that somehow make this abortion of a movie actually fine when it happened to follow up someone who actually cared about these characters giving them a good, empowering script for a change

but I think if TLJ hadn’t happened this would basically seem well-observed in its own dumb way

[sleepysmiles]

the best part of this movie was the tiny little alien mechanic dude

[Rudie]

I went to Star Wars Identities which had costumes and puppets and spaceships.

On Felix’s point Ralph Mcquarie’s painting for the end of Empire has Leia and Luke holding each other like lovers.

[shrug]

On Felix’s point Ralph Mcquarie’s painting for the end of Empire has Leia and Luke holding each other like lovers.

[HOBO]

Imagine making a movie and not using puppets and models holy shit those things are so cool

I mean I don’t have to make them or work with them but I think other people should have to for my amusement

[Rudie]

Check out chunky early Jar Jar and that Yoda has a moustache.

[Rudie]

Poor Ponda Bada.

[HOBO]

This is what peak performance looks like and also, coincidentally, exactly how I look naked.

Except for the butt. I don’t have that much junk in the trunk. We’ll see how things shake out if I keep doing squats though.

[vikram]

without a doubt. I couldn’t stop laughing about one of the weird happy little noises he makes. I probably looked a little insane

[boojiboy7]

He was alright, but man, the playing the brain death of C3PO, one of the two characters tow actually be around for most of what happened in this saga, for laughs sure said a lot about this whole thing.

[HOBO]

That “OH ACTUALLY I CAN THINK OF SOMETHING ELS --” joke was super fucking dark and of course no one sold it

How did that make it into a kid’s movie

[boojiboy7]

I’ll admit that someone with a grandfather and now a father suffering from what is probably Alzheimer’s (and yay, guess who is next in line there), seeing an old dude get his memory erased as a joke hit kinda hard in the “oh fuck off” zone.

[vikram]

but it’s okay R2 restores his memory later haha lol

no stakes

[Rudie]

Infinite no stakes.

[u_u]

the fun thing about no stakes ‘no one’s ever really gone’ style movies is that when someone actually, you know, is really gone, you get to either see them fade away into the force as their clothes collapse around where their bodies once were, as they turn into Naked Ghosts or see the flesh get blasted off of their face and their skeleton obliterated by the true ultimate power of Friendship

[Dracko]

Happy Life Day.