(edit: replaced wrong image. If you’re seeing a Bloodborne meme, the change hasn’t synced to you yet)

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      28 days ago

      Here ya go. They were right next to each other in my “memes for Lemmy” folder, so I accidentally posted this one in two places before I caught it.

  • Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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    28 days ago

    Well that really kinda screws the whole skywalker saga doesn’t it? Man that’s some lazy and bad writing.

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      28 days ago

      Anakin’s problem wasn’t that he loved Padme, it was that he thought he knew better than the Jedi council. He saw their flaws, and, because of an outside influence, condemned the entire system, and helped to give power to a populist autocrat. I think it’s actually a pretty believable story…

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        Are you suggesting that people unsatisfied with a system that works mainly in the interest of a small group of elites will give power to some narcissistic, sadistic creep just to feel some vicarious sense of that power? It’s not like that could happen in real life, certainly not more than once in modern history. I mean, come on!

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            Honestly, they’re fairly good movies. If Jar-Jar wasn’t part of them, I’d probably say they’re better than the originals. They at least have more to say than the originals.

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              The originals have a lot to say when you know the Rebels are the Vietnamese fighting America and it’s actually a pretty solid trope reversal on the Westerns, samurai films, and WW2 movies that influenced it but in a way that will let Lucas make a bajillion dollars.

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                28 days ago

                It doesn’t really say much though. It’s inspired by the Vietnam War, but it’s surface level. The prequels have a lot more substance, although it’s still not that much.

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        28 days ago

        It’s not that believable. Far too many people stood against it to be realistic it seems.

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      28 days ago

      Not really. Emotional attachment is forbidden, not marriage.

      Marriage didn’t used to be about feelings, but about political convenience basically.

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    I maintain that the Jedi absolutely would have made an exception like they did so many other things and Anakin was just being a dramatic bitch about it all.