If we are willing to take the parts of previous movies in the trilogy that remain unsaid in following ones into our interpretation of the one we are watching, then the tusken massacre is relevant in RotS. Shmi is not mentioned by name, Anakin’s actions are not spoken, but his dreams of Padme’s death form a perfect echo of his dreams of Shmi. We can come up with sensible in-universe reasons for the callback, like how maybe Palpatine knew and induced the dreams to trigger Anakin, or perhaps the Force at work, but maybe it’s just a fairytale, a parable, a rhyme.
Maybe it’s a fun echo because it induces a sense of dread in both the audience and in Anakin. We’ve seen this before, we know where it leads. But while he’s thinking about Padme, we’re thinking about what he will do. Well, I am.
Anakin begins RotS as a liar. First, we watch him lie to Obi Wan about why he killed Dooku. The lie comes easily enough, Obi Wan believes it even more easily. Anakin Skywalker, exemplary jedi knight, hero of the hour, follower of the code. He feels uneasy about it though, he says so to Padme. When Obi Wan give his farewell and tells him how proud he is, and how Anakin has grown to be a greater jedi than he, Anakin cannot look him in the eye. It works on it’s own, just about, but back to back with AotC it works better.
Of course, a lot of his lies are about Padme. (A lot more sympathetic, but also a far more absurd reason to clam up in a way; we know that the people who love him will still love him if chooses marriage over the Order.) But as he goes to Yoda and begins to tell him about his dreams, he stops himself. He does not tell the whole story. He cannot. We know why, we just watched aotc. Those dreams led to that death which led to that fall. We’ve seen it all before He is so afraid.
I don’t think it’s controversial to say that Anakin’s isolation and unwillingness to go to anyone except Palpatine for counsel contributed to his crisis in RotS. Palpatine definitely took advantage of that, and Anakin eschewed several onscreen attempts to get him to just. open up.
His actions in aotc were a foreshadowing of what was to come, but they also began a pattern of behavior of repression and denial and deceit. If he had come forward- if he had faced his actions which genuinely did cause him some horror at the time- he would have faced more immediate consequences. He would have disappointed and horrified Obi Wan (and the other jedi), he would not have been knighted, and he would not have been given positions of authority, at the least. But considering how much damage he did and how much he lost when he committed to the dark side, I would say the consequences of his deceit were far greater in the end.
Something that comes to mind is both the ending of the OT- with the darkside being something he could choose to just… stop doing, and also Yoda saying ‘forever will it dominate your destiny’. I can see how they might sound contradictory, but to me they are in harmony- it is a choice, you can walk away, but there are always consequences. If Anakin had been held to account, there would have been immediate consequences, consequences he desperately wanted to avoid, but that wouldn’t have been the end of the world for him either, not really. They wouldn’t have actually stopped him from ever being okay again. (let’s be real, even if Obi Wan were disappointed, he’d still have loved him, and Padme certainly did. ) Anakin didn’t commit to the darkside when first he fell, he wanted to go on as he was- he wanted to keep the things he had- and so he could continue to act as a jedi for several years because he chose to act like one for the most part, but he did not fully commit to being a jedi either, and his dishonesty, and his lack of remorse, eventually had consequences for him. And for everyone else.
since i’m still on the topic, here’s a fact. maidan began on 21.11.2013 as a protest of students but quickly escalated because of police violence. on the night of december 10 to 11 after another try to disperse maidan, ivan sydor, who then was a graduate student of the kyiv orthodox theological academy, received almost a hundred of calls from kyivans who asked to ring the bells of saint michael’s golden-domed monastery since his number coincidentally was on the internet page. earlier on 30th november monastery already had covered protesters from police. that whole night ivan and his fellow students were ringing the bells and waking up kyiv, urging people to come to the centre of the city and prevent the police succeeding. this was the first time saint michael’s bells ringed since 1240 mongol destruction of kyiv
To appreciate the bizarrely kaleidoscopic nature of this caucus, consider the career of a catchphrase. “Is Washington Fighting Russia Down to the Last Ukrainian?” asked the headline of a column self-published in March by Ron Paul, the former Republican congressman and presidential candidate. It was a strange question for Paul to be posing just three weeks into President Vladimir Putin’s unjustifiable and unforgivable invasion, especially considering the extraordinary lengths to which the Biden administration had gone to avoid “fighting Russia.” …
Ten days after Paul accused his country of treating Ukrainians as cannon fodder, the retired American diplomat Chas Freeman repeated the quip. “We will fight to the last Ukrainian for Ukrainian independence,” Freeman declared sarcastically—even as he excused Russia’s “special military operation” as an understandable reaction to being “stiff-armed” by the West on the “28-year-old demands that NATO stop enlarging in the direction of Russia.” Freeman, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and a senior fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute, made these remarks in an interview with The GrayZone, a self-described “independent news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on politics and empire.” …
In April, it was Noam Chomsky’s turn to recite the Pauline mantra in a podcast with the editor of Current Affairs, a leftist magazine. Going out of his way to praise Freeman as “one of the most astute and respected figures in current U.S. diplomatic circles,” the world’s most famous radical intellectual endorsed the crusty veteran of realist GOP administrations for characterizing American policy in Eastern Europe as “fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.” …
“A great deal is being said about the United States’ intention to fight against Russia ‘to the last Ukrainian’—they say it there and they say it here,” the Russian president mused the following week, prefacing his mention of the gibe with his own version of that Trumpian rhetorical flourish, “A lot of people are saying.” That same month, an American Conservative article by Doug Bandow of the libertarian Cato Institute was headlined “Washington Will Fight Russia to the Last Ukrainian,” denying Ukrainians any agency in their own struggle by answering the question Paul had rhetorically asked.
Soon after, the dean of realist international-relations theorists, the University of Chicago scholar John Mearsheimer, used the line as though he’d just thought of it. By then, the argument that America was “fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian” had ping-ponged between both ends of the ideological spectrum an astonishing number of times. The point for the anti-imperialist left and the isolationist right, as well as the realist fellow travelers hitched to each side, was that blame for the conflict lies mainly with the U.S., which is using Ukraine as a proxy for its nefarious interventionism in Moscow’s backyard.
Just thinking of aspects of Jedi life we don’t know much about, like dancing. Dancing is good exercise, a good way to communicate, a good way to process pent up emotions, helps with learning balance and team work.
Like there’s saber forms, but I picture that more as serious self control and respect involved because not only is a lightsaber a Jedi’s life, but it also potentially can take lives.
But along with saber forms also dance class for younglings. Ways for them to have fun with all their energy. Higher level classes where they sprinkle the Force in there to teach quick movements. Lots of group dances.
Jedi having fun, Jedi dancing.
Also singing. Singing is a way people calm down and reach out and meditate. What kind of beautiful songs and music did Jedi write while connecting with the Force?
@poketoa #if you’re doing ataru (form 4) you are almost certainly an excellent dancer#that’s the form that’s 100% about offense and quick movements#the only one that ends up moving with similar speed is form 7 which is probably too dangerous to make into anything like dancing#i mean we’ve seen Yoda absolutely GET DOWN and his favored form is form 4
Yoda teaching Qui-Gon and later Obi-Wan to dance.
anakin wishes he could out-dance obi-wan but obi-wan got to learn it firsthand before deciding he liked form 3 more
yoda never taught him his moves because it would’ve led to an imbalance in the force to give the chosen one that much more power
anakin’s inability to bust a sick move was the real reason he wasn’t granted the title of master
It’s over Anakin, I’ve got rhythm!
AND HE FINALLY WON WHEN HE THREW OFF THE EMPEROR’S GROVE
Cannot believe I am seeing people getting their tits bent out of joint about a man taking his daughter into a women’s room. That shit was like, completely normal when I was a kid. We really have taken a flying leap backwards as a society into the Cootie Zone
“Men don’t belong in the women’s room” is in fact a subordinate social imperative to “children should be kept an eye on so they don’t get hurt” and especially when you’re talking about a toddler, most men’s rooms don’t have changing stations or suchlike. Morons
It should really not go without comment that afaik this is a black man taking care of his daughter, racism is a factor in people making a big stink about this and I’m not really gonna let the ~daughters of the witches you couldn’t burn~ forget that their actual grandmothers probably got pissy about integrated washrooms
You want some serious old fart advice? Never, ever lend your friends more money than you think you can lose permanently. I don’t fucking care if they say they’ll pay you back. I don’t care how small the amount is. Write that shit off as gone in your mind. It will eat at you forever if you don’t.
Some people say the same thing about family, but I think it applies more to friends. Family is (usually) held together by obligations the way friends aren’t. And money is a huge stressor in all kinds of relationships, not just romantic.
I’m not saying this to bum you out. I’m telling you because this is not something you want to learn on your own. Because it fucking sucks to realize it’s one reason you’re no longer friends, whether you were necessarily aware of it or not.
Honestly at this point I think the mimic as a whole is was just a massive retcon to get people to stop complaining about Afton coming back Like looking at that first SB trailer that was absolutely supposed to be Afton but my theory is once people started complaining about him coming back they just tried to fixed an Afton-shaped hole with a mimic-shaped patch
At least that's what I think because I'm coping so hard about this stupid thing that you'd literally only know from the books and isn't even alluded to in base game sb at all effectively came out of nowhere and replaced what what was supposed to be the actual new main villain in her first major game (Vanny my pookie bear you got shafted so hard)
Obviously I can’t say for sure and we’ll likely never know, but I find it…interesting that virtually everything involving the games released since HW, including books released this year, have seemingly been operating under the idea burn/glitchtrap are William.
That indicates either some very, very serious disconnect between steel wool and whoever is writing the books or a poorly done retcon.
