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stephendann:

valarltd:

stephendann:

kalinara:

starlinginthesky:

forcedintostarwars:

People still think of Lando as “The Guy Who Betrayed The Trio” and that’s some grade A bull. 

I mean what would you do if you had people to protect and Darth Vader, Scariest Dude in the Galaxy, comes marching up to your door with a whole battalion of soldiers? Like? How much choice do you think he actually had here? Not much because Vader literally changes the rules on him every scene they’re together so the deal goes from “Trap the smuggler and his friends” to “Han’s being tortured and frozen in carbonite and taken away and the others that were supposed to be left untouched are also being taken capture indefinitely right now” and Lando has all of no control over any of it.

And then the second he realizes what’s happened he risks everything to help Chewie and Leia out. Leaves his cozy home to help them. Joins the Rebellion? Frees Han? Blows up the second Death Star?

But sure he’s just that sleaze ball who betrayed the gang. Sure. 

I do not trust people who rag on Lando.

Seriously?  Did they just sleep through Return of the Jedi?

Also, “They showed up here just before you did” gives us context to when Han arrives unannounced, and Lando tries to get Han to lose his cool and book out?

“ Why you slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler. “

Lando opens with giving Han an excuse to say “Same to you Bantha herder, Chewie, we’re out”.  Lando insults a smuggler known for his pride, hoping to get a rise and a reaction and risks his life to try to insult Han off the trap

“ You got a lot of guts coming here, after what you pulled!”

Also, assume that Lando’s just been ambushed by the Empire, and told that Han Solo is headed here, and that it’s the same Han Solo who just ran a blockade on Hoth, and Hoth is within non-hyperdrive flight range of Bespin.

Lando literally opens with a coded “You ran an Imperial Blockade and now you’re flying in openly at the nearest system?”

If the Han Solo of ANH and, as recently as Hoth base (Who’s scruffy looking?), had been as a hot headed as Lando expected, he would have walked back up the ramp and flown off in a huff.  Lando tries to salvage the situation from before we even know there’s a problem

Lando was administrator and responsible for tens of thousands of lives. From the radio play “You should have looked around more, Han. You’d have recognized a lot of faces. A lot of people here are at the end of their ropes. This is their last chance for any kind of life.”

Yup. Lando’s actions are “Try to get Cloud City out this, try to get his friends out of this, try to get out of this himself, got out? EVACUATE THE CITY. Then save friends and self”

He could have flown off quietly, Lobot could have been instructed to prepare the escape vehicle. No, Lando gives the evac signal by announcing it’s him, and announcing the Empire has control of the city. Yeah, way to paint a target on your back there. No “Hit the fire alarm” button and run, no sneak off in the night.

Lando Calrissian was trying to save the most people possible without being willing to simply sacrifice his friends for the most efficient gain

Lando Calrissian is one of the most ethical characters in the original trilogy.  He was stuck between a rock and a hard place, but he also turned on Vader/helped Leia and Chewie as soon as he could do so.  We last see him in Empire setting off to help track down where Boba Fett took Han.

We see him next in Return of the Jedi, saving Han.  And then volunteering for a possibly suicidal mission.  Lando’s proven himself a hundred times over.

“Yeah, I’m responsible these days. It’s the price you pay for being successful.”

Lando’s joking there, but he’s also telling the truth. Responsibilty brings success, and success brings responsibility. And he lives up to it in full!

And one more thing… This quote comes right in the middle of Han going through the same process.
We meet Lando, as an example of a smuggler, a scoundrel, becoming a responsible and honorable person, roughly in the middle of Han’s arc of character development.
The growth that started when he listened to Chewie and followed his conscience back to Yavin IV, and culminates in him volunteering to lead the commando attack on Endor, is an arc from irresponsibility to responsibility. We can infer that Lando made a similar arc when he came to Cloud City.
Speaking of which, Han’s act of volunteering? It’s NOT on-screen, not played up as a major plot or character development event. We don’t see Han decide to volunteer, he has already decided!
As has Lando.
They both remain roguish to the end, but they are far from the self-interested scoundrels they began as.

Alternate Sequel Trilogy idea for Dominic Monaghan’s character, with inspiration from @themandalorianwolf and @diversehighfantasy. Dumail Ackbar! The admiral’s son followed in his father’s footsteps and joined the New Republic Navy. He would maybe be Poe’s ex-boyfriend (split due to policies about relationships between officers and airmen, but still really close.) He’d be the liaison between Black Squadron and the full Republic Navy, and a captain of his own flagship, The Whaladon. (Moth)

lj-writes:

Had to do a full PRAM reset to get my second monitor back. Whew! That DisplayPort shit was not cheap and I was not looking forward to having to replace it. We are back in business, baby!

It’s still occasionally blinking out trying to give me a heart attack. That’s no different from the status quo before it froze and then blacked out full-time, though, and now I know a PRAM reset will probably bring it back until the whole rig dies on me for good. I mean an Air by default isn’t powerful enough to support two monitors anyway, I’m just happy I have the DisplayPort workaround.

🔥Atheism

attackfish:

The idea that I often see espoused that religion causes only strife and if we just got rid of religion, the world would be more peaceful is weird and wrong in a lot of ways, relies on a lot of magical thinking, and fuels the evangelical tendencies of a lot of especially culturally Christian atheists.

Keep in mind, I am a Jewish atheist. I don’t typically identify as an atheist, because my Jewishness is so important to me and because I am fairly observant, and because not believing in G-d does not preclude being a religious Jew as it would say being a religious Christian, but I do not believe in G-d. So I can say this as someone who explicitly rejects a supernatural origin for religion. If you reject that supernatural origin, you have to accept that religion is a human creation and arises out of human needs and desires. And even if you posit that it was made up by sinister figures to control and exploit potential followers, a position I think is laughably naive and completely unrelated to how humans work, then you have to conclude that both those evil puppeteers have non-religious motives, and their followers are getting some kind of psychological need filled. So religion is something people adopt for human reasons.

Violent religious ideologies are also adopted for human reasons that have nothing to do with religion making people crazy or violent. For example, Islamic extremism arises primarily as a response to the effects of colonialism, poverty, and a pervading sense of hopelessness, both in the Middle East and Asia, and in ghettoized immigrant communities in Europe and North America. Although this response is religious in nature, this religiosity is only a veneer over an attempt to fight back and to give their lives a sense of meaning in the face of seemingly insurmountable opposition, and these desires would not disappear or grow less destructive if tomorrow every Islamic extremist were hit with the atheism stick.

Atheistic and secular ideologies have been plenty violent in the past and still are in the present, so we know that any ideology, whether it includes an appeal to divine authority or not, can be used to promote violence or to encourage adherants to respond to percieved threats with violence. Yet to hear some atheists describe it, religion in their minds seems to be a supernatural force that can take over people and make them violent, and if we just conquer this scourge, the world will be at peace. This fairy tale helps explain why many atheists, mostly Western culturally Christian atheists, replicate the Christian need to evangelize. If Christians believe they are keeping the people they are trying to convert from going to hell, these atheists believe that other people’s religiosity brings war and violence to the world and they must convert people to bring peace. Either way, it comes down to the same obnoxious inability to deal with the fact that other people believe differently from you, which strangely enough is the very thing that’s supposed to make religious people so violent and warlike.

White evangelical atheists are just Christians who found a new devil in religion.

Idk about the Poe stuff but Trevorroe did say that about wanting to be true to the original series and a lot of people took it to mean him focusing on. Like, Rey and Kylo. This was before the extent of TLJ’s shit was known. But I mean a LOT of people were angry at that which is why people were happy he got canned. Why else did people think fans of color for the most part didn’t like him?

I didn’t even know about that other stuff, I dislike him for Jurassic World 😂

How far along are you in the Broken Earth series? Are you finished?

hanukkahfinn:

I am not only finished I’m on my first reread. Which is a bit unusual.

Not that I reread a story I liked, I usually reread stories I find even mildly enjoyable after some time has passed. I like revisiting familiar stories I enjoyed. No, what is unusual is that I started over right after finishing because I wanted the story with the full knowledge of what is going to happen and who everyone is.

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