Anakin promised!
from The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to starwarsmemes@lemmy.world on 09 Apr 12:59
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xxce2AAb@feddit.dk on 09 Apr 13:18 next collapse

“I mean, in his defense they were Tusken. Nobody cares about those, right?”

lath@piefed.social on 09 Apr 13:26 next collapse

Ooh, he didn’t like sand people

aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 09 Apr 13:38 next collapse

You’re not suppose to call them that anymore!

ThisUsernameKillsFascists@piefed.social on 09 Apr 14:19 collapse

Sand People is their preferred name - Tusken Raiders is the slur

Rhaedas@fedia.io on 09 Apr 13:33 collapse

They're coarse, they're irritating, and they're everywhere.

MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca on 09 Apr 13:47 collapse

Holy shit, Anakin is a racist yokel from the boonies. Him murdering the sand people is pretty much Deliverance with lightsabers.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 09 Apr 13:45 collapse

It was in self defense

aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 09 Apr 13:40 next collapse

Le funny, but Obi-Wan 100% knew for years that they were married.

TachyonTele@piefed.social on 09 Apr 16:23 next collapse

Seriously! Failed meme. Way to go OP.

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 09 Apr 16:38 collapse

Did he know for sure? Or did he just suspect but not ask, in an attempt to avoid problems?

dance_ninja@lemmy.world on 09 Apr 18:54 collapse

He definitely knew by the last season of Clone Wars.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 09 Apr 14:01 next collapse

i think the biggest red flag in the Republic, is that their elite cops are a selective secretive religious sect with child soldiers.

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 09 Apr 16:36 next collapse

their elite cops are a selective secretive religious sect with child soldiers

Outside of the conflict which Palpatine orchestrated, that wasn’t the Jedi’s normal job, right?

“We’re keepers of the peace, not soldiers.”

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 09 Apr 16:52 next collapse

just like Israeli soldiers are just for defense. they are soldiers, they fight in wars, and also act as police.

tacosanonymous@mander.xyz on 09 Apr 17:13 next collapse

Yeah, they were a little more like diplomats but investigated weird shit, mostly fighting as a side effect of running into bad situations.

Tiresia@slrpnk.net on 09 Apr 17:45 next collapse

What do you think a “peacekeeper” is? For reference, this is one of the first results I got when I searched the web for “UN peacekeeper”.

George Lucas clearly intended the Jedi to be wrong. Side-stepping a debate about the morality of their texual actions, they are narratively put on the “wrong” role. The whole arc of the third (sixth) movie is how Luke proves Yoda wrong that love and attachment lead to a fall to the dark side, with the tension coming from the audience’s credence in Yoda’s statement. And the prophecy that Anakin brings balance to the Force is fulfilled when he reduces the number of Jedi to equal the number of Sith (2) and later the number of Sith to equal the number of Jedi (0), implying the Jedi temple as an institution was unbalanced and the best number of Jedi (and Sith) is zero.

orbitz@lemmy.ca on 10 Apr 00:28 collapse

But love and attachment pulled Anakin to the Dark side wasn’t that their entire position on it?

Or did I miss a plot but? I always thought ep 3 was clear, Anakin wanted love more than what was right and screwed up the social order by helping the emperor to in theory save Padme but then he went down the dark side and was no longer a Jedi. I thought that’s what Yoda assumed would happen too, in some way.

Honestly that’s a legit question I truely miss those things in movies often, even if I’ve seen them a lot, not nearly as much as EP 4-6 of course, but close since it was on repeat at the electronics store I worked at.

I thought the intent was to show the Jedi more naive, but holding to their ideals in the face of danger. Even if it meant all but a few got killed. But also show that their ideala lived on in the end (unsure about extended only read a few books) so they sort of win too.

Tiresia@slrpnk.net on 10 Apr 11:01 collapse

Anakin was unable to suppress his love and other emotions in the way the Jedi demanded, true. But it is because of the false dichotomy between Jedi emotional denial and Sith narcissistic indulgence that this meant Anakin fell to the dark side. Luke broke the dichotomy and did good through his love of his father.

hamFoilHat@lemmy.world on 10 Apr 14:21 next collapse

Dichotomy? You are starting to sound like Anakin. youtu.be/sg0SmgoSMg4

orbitz@lemmy.ca on 10 Apr 23:36 collapse

Awesome I understood it (even if I didn’t say it properly in my previous msg). Just needed to be sure I didn’t miss something in my readings and watchings.

JackbyDev@programming.dev on 11 Apr 00:40 collapse

Soldiers ≠ Cops

CannedYeet@lemmy.world on 11 Apr 01:21 collapse

AJAB

pooberbee@lemmy.ml on 09 Apr 14:47 next collapse

I don’t really remember my wedding vows, but I’m 100% certain there was nothing in them about not killing children so… loophole?

lobut@lemmy.ca on 09 Apr 23:31 collapse

It’s okay the younglings were Hamas.

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net on 11 Apr 07:32 collapse

He was just trying to rescue a hostage and he kind of accidentally maybe slaughtered an entire Village. Not just the men, the women and the children too

luciferofastora@feddit.org on 11 Apr 10:41 collapse

But also failed to save the hostage