"Let me just say, I know they suck, but I unironically love the prequels. I know they're flawed, cause of the bad writing, directing, lighting, costuming, set design, pacing, acting, green screen graphics and partly it's the nostalgia, but I love the prequels because The Clone Wars explain everything and make them better, so I love the prequels even though they're bad, not to blame Hayden Christensen and Ahmed Best, but they did their best, its just George Lucas can't write and direct and someone else should have made his movies."

This is what yall sound like.

Same energy as:

"I grew up with the original trilogy, which were so much better than the prequels because other people and actors made them, although A New Hope was bad, it was saved in the edit by someone other than George Lucas and someone else made Empire Strikes Back good other than George Lucas and Return of the Jedi is bad due to George Lucas, cause he's just bad at writing and directing and someone else should have made his movies".

Embarassing how everyone feels the need to preface their engagement with Lucas' movies with these excuses, as if acknowledging their "flaws" validates their opinions or gives them more credibility. Perfection exists apparently. Hate to tell yall this, but some people find No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood boring. It isn't me, but they exist.

And it also shows their complete lack of awareness of what these movies are. Though some people's critiques are not only dated, but also decontextualized and disingenuous.

George Lucas' Star Wars saga is heavily influenced by the ideas of non narrative film or pure cinema, which is why his dialogue is always obvious and minimal, and his visuals convey almost all the information. He is an editor and visual filmmaker first and foremost. His images can't be disconnected from the dialogue, but there is obviously a greater emphasis on premise through visual.

That is also why you can sit and analyze the narrative and thematic significance of each shot and sequence and understand the meaning with the sound off. To say that about a space opera that takes the opera part literally, is impressive to say the least. That is likely why I as a 9 year old kid understood the plot and story of The Phantom Menace.

His writing conventions are clearly influenced by 1940s, 1950s, 60s TV serials and cinema. Dialogue in the golden age of cinema was focused on conveying things to an audience without the cynicism and naturalism that grew popular in post-1960s cinema. It's straightforward and sincere and sometimes figurative for effect, and that is exactly why it works within the mythological framework of these movies. No one in these movies talks like a 1970s disillusioned anti hero. The opposite. They're archetypical. He also relies on the actors tone and inflection to carry the lines. Clearly he and they knew what they were doing, because nobody can stop quoting even the most basic PT sentences. You remember what's said and by whom. Clarity.

Though there is a lot of foreshadowing in his dialogue, so it's embedded within the story. Anakin saying: "the thought of not being with you... I can't breathe" is clear foreshadowing of what symbolically and literally will happen to him and it's important because he's aware of his missteps and we need to know that. Every line is important. YOU don't have to like it, but the dialogue is deliberate. That is as true for A New Hope as it is for The Attack of the Clones.

You say all this and still get:

"You're blinded by nostalgia because they are BAD movies with cringy dialogue and horrible acting and nothing will change that because he said I hate sand."

Okay, then maybe go watch the Oscar baits or MCU propaganda idk, but just know your opinion is debased.

Am I the only one who don't consider myself a 'Anti-Jedi' person in general, but always get so pissed when I find some 'Anakin hate' post (by accident most of the time) from some 'Hardcore Pro Jedi' fan totally mischaracterizing his whole arc and personality traits, ignoring all his qualities as a person, invalidating all his issues and trauma and judgining him for feeling or doing things while also giving a pass to (or even gloryfing) other characters for reacting exactly the same way (being Obi-Wan and other PT jedi the ones most of the time) that have to fight f*cking hard to not giving in to the sudden urge to turn to a 'Fuck the Jedi' kind of person only to spite the so-called "Jedi Apologists"? No, just me? Okay then...

I don't wanna hear anyone arguing that the Jedi order was oh so good and caring towards Anakin but he was such a problem child who never listened.

This is an excerpt from “There is always another”, one of the CANON short stories in "Star Wars: From A Certain Point Of View: the Empire Strikes Back":

This is extra significant because it's Obi-Wan who's talking. Obi-Wan - who never dared to question the wisdom of the Jedi order and was hard on Anakin for failing to do the same - is now the one who finally admits the truth after death, at least to himself.

Anakin was morally flawed and chose to do awful things of his own free will, but he did not fall because he was inherntly weak or wicked (Obi-Wan used to judge every fallen ex-Jedi like this). He fell because any Jedi in his position and with his trauma would have fallen.

Anakin’s trauma of surviving slavery meant that his traumatized mind would inevitably interpret the Jedi’s philosophy of “transcending selfhood” as “obliterating selfhood”.

And for an ex-slave; the concept of obliterating the self is the most terrifyingly triggering shit EVER.

Anakin and the Jedi order operated from completely different worldviews and lived realities, and it was inevitable for them to clash horrifically unless both of them were willing to understand each other and compromise.

And when we're talking about an institution of care and an individual under the care of that institution? The ultimue burden for reaching out and compromising falls on the institution, not the individual under their care.

And here's the tragic part (the part that Obi-Wan finally admitted to): It was only Anakin who made any real effort to reach out and compromise. He went to great lengths to re-shape himself to fit the Jedi order's needs. The Jedi order - in return - did very little to meet him halfway. There was no real effort on their part to understand Anakin's trauma, and they did not compromise or change anything about how they approach healing to fit Anakin's needs.

Their mantra of "letting" go" was great in theory and a wonderful solution in practice, but the Jedi did not bother to remove the mental blocks in Anakin's traumatized mind that prevented him from emotionally internalizing this wisdom and acting upon it (and isn't that the classic tension between religious/spiritual institutions and religious/spiritual people suffering from unhealed trauma?).

The Jedi order was too arrogant, too rigid, and too closed-minded that they did very little to even address the root of Anakin's trauma with slavery, let alone give him any practical tools to heal from it (and they even carelessly retraumatized him at times).

Anakin would have turned on them eventually, even if he never fell to the Dark Side. It was, sadly, an inevitable outcome.

drew that a while ago to try out some new brushes

"Maedhros did deeds of surpassing valour, and the Orcs fled before his face; for since his torment upon Thangorodrim his spirit burned like a white fire within, and he was as one that returns from the dead."

resentfully throwing this ginger mass murderer into the tumblr void because i've been trying to get his eyes right for weeks to no avail and now he's been bumped down to my second favourite character accordingly.

Anyway here is your reminder that poor effeminate men existed in the 18th century and any reading of class that acts as tho every poor man was a hyper masculine rugged labourer and every rich man was a effeminate fop is an inherently flawed reading of class 🙃

reblogging again for this extremely important point, thanks for putting it so succinctly @carfuckerlynch

“that character is a war criminal” that character is from a fictional fantasy world and did not attend the geneva convention

hard agree with these tags specifically

not a dream

conservative women are harassing a retro clothing brand for featuring David Ross Lawn wearing their dresses, which they apparently used to love because their linen clothes are modest and it allows the tradwives to cosplay as waifs from the olden times so they're big mad that the brand is inclusive

ALT

Also, when I followed the brand yesterday, they were at 320k followers and now they're at 323k so they're gaining, not losing

personally I allow retro clothes and it's all linen!

DYSCALCULIA TOOL ALERT!

This is an acrylic magnifying glass with a green strip in it that helps you read long strings of numbers! It's been known for a while that putting a colored filter over pages can help people with dyscalculia read numbers without them flipping places, but this is the first time I've seen something so simple and accessible. I put it on some test numbers and my eyes didn't feel like they kept wanting to jump around all over the number. I can keep this on my desk and use it on paper, or hold it up to my monitor to read long numbers at work! It may help people in other ways as well, this is just what I bought it for and I already love it!

I found it at a Daiso location, but there are probably others online.

Spread the word!

EDIT: It's also like $2, so pretty much anyone who needs it can afford it!

Shit, I need one of these.