When I was first reading unfinished tales I started to imagine Galadriel different than the one in the movies. So – young Artanis for you.
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Anonymous said: Feanor and 10
when i first looked at 10 i was like how can i make this work??? but it was p fun to work with these colours in the end
I think I figured out part of what bothers me about a lot of the set-up in in The Clone Wars: The Jedi seem to get blamed for what’s actually the fault of the Senate.
The Jedi are beholden to the Senate, they’re the governing body and the Jedi work for them. They’re not allowed to go free the slaves on Tatooine unless the Senate gives the order. And I don’t recall a single instance of a Senator arguing to go free the slaves. Padme, despite her life being saved by Shmi on Tatooine, I have never seen her argue to the Senate (who are the ones who would have that authority) to go free them.
And, for another example, the Jedi are not allowed to do anything about the clones, because the clones are beholden to the Republic/the Senate as well. The Jedi work with them, they command them, but the clones are not the Jedi’s property (ugh, that word), they’re the Senate’s. When the Senate votes to order more clones from Kamino? When the Senate votes to revoke restrictions on the banking clan so that they can borrow more money to buy more clones?
That’s not the Jedi, that’s the Senate.
And, sure, you could argue that the Jedi should just leave the Republic rather than be beholden to the Senate (which is a process that would have taken years), but then how would they have supported themselves? They had food bills, starship bills, fuel bills, clothing bills, etc. Should they now charge people when they went to help them? Should they make it a setup where only the rich could afford the Jedi’s help? Should they just not be peacekeepers at all anymore?
Let’s also say the Jedi had refused to fight–how very, very easy would it have been for Palpatine to say, look at the Jedi, unwilling to fight! They call themselves peacekeepers and yet refuse to fight for us! Why, what are they planning? They have all this power, what are they waiting for? and have people’s paranoia overtake them.
I feel like sometimes… what Palpatine did was really insidious on even more than just a canon level. Even in the narrative, sometimes it feels like the Jedi were responsible for things that they actually had no control over and that’s exactly what Palpatine wanted, to be able to discredit them and put them in an unwinnable position.
The Jedi aren’t perfect, of course they’re not. They were out of touch and they had grown stagnant and while it’s admirable in theory to be super objective (their code isn’t about denying you have feelings, but about being objective, that “no emotion” means you put yourself outside of it so you can make the most rational decisions/see things as objectively as possible) needed to evolve. But they weren’t given a whole lot of choices in the time they had and they made the best ones they could out of some bad situations and the tragedy of the PT (which is all about tragedy) is that it wasn’t enough to save them.
AND THAT MAKES ME CRY FOR THE PT JEDI A LOT.
Unfriendly reminder to Nick Spencer and Marvel: the Red Skull once asked Magneto for him to join Hydra and Magneto responded by burying him in a basement. It didn’t matter one bit that the Red Skull wasn’t personally responsible, bc for Magneto allying with Nazism is tantamount to being responsible for the Holocaust. He would never ally himself with such people because his whole life is shaped by the trauma experienced as a jewish man at the hands of the fascist Nazi German government.
So fuck marvel and fuck nick spencer and lets all collectively rejoice over Magneto burying Nazis in basements.
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