The real trinity of Star Wars
uh the robot made his arms come apart so he could use four laser swords and that was super fucking cool
In a really roundabout way, this is one of the things I love about Star Wars. It’s not cool. It’s the opposite of cool. It got beat up by cool behind the bike sheds for its lunch money and never forgot it. Whenever anyone shows up in the movies who looks cool and might be bordering on actually cool, they get quickly killed off without even having much of an impact.
At its core, Star Wars prefers its battles to be fought by teddy bears with sticks rather than cool people. I wrote a vague bit of meta about this once, and I always feel like I should maybe elaborate on it one day, because I kind of suspect that more of Star Wars than we think is “yeah, so you see how this looks kind of cool? GOTCHA! It ISN’T, cos war is NEVER cool, and only putting the weapons down and talking is what’s gonna work.”