get to know me meme: 10 favourite relationships ≡luke skywalker and leia organa (star wars); The Force is strong in my family. I have it. And my sister has it.
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT WHY I WILL DEFEND OBI-WAN AS BEING A GOOD MASTER FOR ANAKIN SKYWALKER:
Can you IMAGINE if someone had done this to Anakin? Just tossed him aside with a quick “oh, he’s ready for the trials” because they’d found someone shinier and newer to train?
I don’t think it was that bad of Qui-Gon, I get why he felt this was the best way forward, and I think Obi-Wan got over it because he had bigger things to worry about and he does understand what Qui-Gon was thinking. It stung, but Obi-Wan’s used to that by now.
But Anakin? No, Anakin would never have understood. For all that they have terrible communication and misunderstand the depth of what the other feels, Obi-Wan and Anakin share something vitally important: They’re both prone to attachment.
Obi-Wan allows Anakin’s attachment (probably tacitly, but still an allowance) in a way that I don’t think another Jedi Master would have. And certainly Obi-Wan would never do this to Anakin, would never shove him into the trials because he had someone new that he was going to focus on, would never cut that relationship off so abruptly. And if he had, Anakin would have been devastatedby it.
Instead, Obi-Wan’s thoughts on a new apprentice, even once Anakin is a Knight and has his own apprentice now:
Obi-Wan doesn’t take on another Padawan because he’s still there for Anakin, who needs that support. Any time I start wandering down the path of, “Hmm, would Qui-Gon have been able to prevent Anakin’s fall?” I come back to this moment and think that Qui-Gon’s refusal to allow room for attachment would have driven Anakin away faster than Obi-Wan’s more allowing nature.
I have no doubt that Qui-Gon would have cared very much, but I think the mutual “flaw” of attachment in both Obi-Wan and Anakin allowed for a stronger match than they maybe always get credit for. Anakin needed that, needed even more than Obi-Wan thought he needed, and every time I wonder about Qui-Gon, I come back to that he would have been even less of that, not more.
The Valar’s capture of Melkor after the awakening of the elves is a last desperate sortie; they do not know that they will succeed, that they will not fail and fall and leave the world to utter darkness.
Melkor is strong. He has thrown them down and driven them out time and time again, left them battered and in disarray. Only his pride and carelessness and the delicate hand of Eru bringing hope from despair has left them as much as they have now. Even so, they are scarred, wounded, crippled.
The maiar who guard Cuvienen are ordered that if their Lords and Ladies fall, they must not stay and fight. They are to take as many of the Eldar as they can and run; behind the stony walls of the Pelori, within the light of the Trees, perhaps they will be able to hold against the siege that Melkor will surely bring against them for defying him so. At least something will be salvaged, at least their Father’s youngest children will not live purely under the dominion of darkness. Perhaps, with time to grow strong in safety, these new Children will be able to win free of the darkness themselves. Perhaps the One will have given them some new gift to defeat the dark one.
But somehow they succeed: Melkor is cast down, enchained, captured and defeated. They have a few more scars, and even more maiar who will never fight again. Victory unlooked-for – and the Eldar never question at what price their freedom was bought.
My mom is a travel agent and I can confirm that people are legitimately this stupid when it comes to travel.
“It took us 9 hours to get home to England but the Americans only took 3 hours this is unfair” OH YES LET ME JUST REARRANGE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE FUCKING PLANET FOR YOU SIR TERRIBLY SORRY
Whenever I think “oh this is the funniest one” I read the next one and I just can’t
There was oncd a court case in Germany where a couple sued because they booked a double room and got a twin room (in German there’s no distinction between double and twin rooms, they’re both a Doppelzimmer, so this may have played a role). The judge ruled that they wouldn’t get compensation for a ruined holiday and then proceeded to explain in wonderful legalese that this is because there are sex positions that can be used on a bed that’s 90cm wide as opposed to a king size bed.
“its not that bad if you don’t look up” JYN THEY KILLED YOUR MOM, I’D SAY THATS PRETTY DAMN BAD
Wasn’t that part of her character arc though? I mean, she started out not giving a shit because she didn’t think it affected her and she was selfish because she closed off after all that happened to her. I think one of the main points of the film was to show that Jyn learned to realized the Empire really was affecting her and everyone else and she learned not to focus on herself so much that she was willing to be a sacrifice for everyone else in the end.
I don’t even think it was that. I think she knew very well how terrible the empire was and cared but didn’t feel like she could actually do anything about it or was welcomed by those who were fighting. This is the same person who was kicked out of Saw’s band of Rebels because of who her father was so likely felt very unwelcomed by any organized Rebellion effort in theory and then most definitely in practice when the Alliance freed her only do they could use her to get to her father.
Jyn is a character who rushed out into blaster fire to save a child with zero hesitation when Cassian is telling her not to do it. Jyn is a character who was introduced to us as adult in an Imperial prison going to be worked to death in an Imperial labor camp. She is a character who is threatened by the Alliance when they “rescue” her and told that if she doesn’t serve them they will “put her back where they found her.”
When she says that line to Saw Gerrera she is lying, and every action she takes shows that she is merely saying this to him because she feels personally betrayed by him and the Rebellion he stands for. When he starts talking to her about the cause she is upset because he booted her out of that cause and so she says something that she knows goes against what he believes. He shows her her father’s message as a sort of reconciliation.
I don’t know what movie people are watching where they think Jyn is the epitome of apathy because she is not. She is just disillusioned with the Rebellion. And she has every reason to be. The problem with her writing as I see it is that she too suddenly puts aside her reservations about the Alliance after they literally kill her father, but I forgive that by reasoning that she really was just running with the only feasible way to honor her father and make sure he didn’t die in vain and that an atrocity like Jedha City wouldn’t happen again. That and she has growing trust for Cassian (which was admittedly a rushed transition but like not a reason to crucify her character over).
I’m just about 100% done with the vilification of Jyn tbh it is boring as hell.
On the House of Fëanor the wrath of the Valar lieth from the West unto the uttermost East, and upon all that will follow them it shall be laid also. Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well; and by treason of kin unto kin, and the fear of treason, shall this come to pass.
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