Did the medical droids really have to put on Vader’s cape before the surgery was finished? He needs the helmet to breathe, but sure, roll him over and fit a fracking cape around his neck first. Everything about Vader is Extra and it’s the funniest thing

You don’t understand, this is Anakin Skywalker we’re talking about! Being extra is a medical necessity!

Canto Bight. If everything was blurry and you didn’t know the creatures weren’t humans, they’d look Caucasian. Pretty much all of them are literally that color.

Huh.

I think you’re right! I hadn’t thought about that.

But the support staff still has to be brown lmaoooo

Watching ROTS and the humor in the opening is everything TLJ should have been.

Yeah, it actually feels like SW, you know? You can feel the comaraderie between the characters and the humor depends on laughing with the audience, not at them.

Plenty of human representation in the ST but a lot of alien erasure. Not one alien species from the other trilogies except previously established characters like Chewie, Ackbar, and Nien Nunb. Only knockoffs like those dumb one-mouthed Ithorians. Obviously human representation is more important but it bugs me that TLJ did nothing to fix this and just made all the Canto Bight aliens white, non-legacy species.

There are white aliens? *scratches head* But yeah, it’s one of the many ways TLJ failed to enrich and continue the lore.

Ah, that’s what you meant. It’s not quite my main criticism, although I honestly don’t think it needed to be made; however, I appreciate that it being made was basically inevitable. But if I’d had the choice, I would have focused on the New Republic and what made it worth fighting for, and probably not included Imperial resurgency until at least the second movie.

Yeah, that would probably have been the better tack. There’s so little “world” in the ST, idk why it’s even worth saving.

Would you be inclined to critique the concept of being against the sequel trilogy as a whole? I mean, I certainly appreciate that it added wider representation… but that appears to be the only good thing it’s done, to me.

I mean obviously people can like or dislike whatever they want to, but if your issue with the ST is that it was made in the first place then I wouldn’t think you were a good faith commentator on the good and bad of the new movies.

So since it is looking likely that 9 will revisit Jakku what do you think of the idea that Finn is actually originally from Jakku? Its something I’ve had in the back of my mind for a while now. He did have his awakening on that planet.

Omg what if he’s from Tuanul? I would die if that were his parentage reveal.

Another fandom old from LJ here. Great post you reblogged about fandom. Just to add: I’ve seen strikethough brought up on tumblr in the recent AO3 discourse & wow theres some revisionist history going on there from some people -framing it like adult slash work was primarily targeted when the majority of fanwork that was hit was underage porn in the HP fandom – & not mentioning the massive debates that went on at the time about whether adults should produce work like that.

Yeah, we need more older fans to speak up against the good-old-days, us-against-the-censors revisionists. I mean strikethrough was far from free of problems, such as the deletion of rape survivor groups and age-restricted adult fic communities, but it’s disingenuous to sanitize the issue and pretend the underage porn didn’t exist.

What does jewishcomradebot think of Ben Shapiro?

Idk, you could ask her under your own url since she no longer allows anons, for good reason. Why would she even have an opinion on a random American commentator? Ohhhh, because she’s Jewish and they all meet regularly worldwide? Interesting how you call her by her old url even though she’s changed it since. (Seriously, why do y’all change your urls so much…)

A Star Wars story set on Ahch-to following a young Jedi girl in search of a powerful Force user to bring balance to the Force, but instead of Rey looking for Luke it’s a Moana-type story starring a singing teenage fish nun and her plucky pet porg who’s as dumb as a rock as she sails across Ahch-to in a fishing boat. Featuring Ahch-tovian language songs by Lin Manuel-Miranda and JJ Abrams

I’d watch it lmao