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kablob17:

dyingsighs:

panharmonium:

dyingsighs:

flyinghalfaship:

master-obiwan:

thevengeanceknight:

“I am here because you are here.”

Can we talk about how Obi takes a step back to gain the high ground, cause his light saber training?!?!?

Sometimes I wonder if Qui-Gon was concerned by how much the war had changed Obi-Wan?

Like Qui-Gon would probably understand how his death had affected his apprentice, but the way the movies and The Clone Wars played out they made it seem like Obi-Wan wasn’t permanently scarred by events of The Phantom Menace. Perhaps because he (and everyone else) did think for a while that Darth Maul was dead, they had closure and moved on.

The war was different because it just went on and on and on. The unwavering wariness for confrontation, the growing weariness towards the war… did Qui-Gon notice these qualities developing in Obi-Wan and did it worry him?

I summon you

panharmonium

to bring out the Jedi Apprentice references.

DIDST THOU SUMMON ME???

ahhh I feel like a mythical creature now hahaha XD

I don’t…guess I have anything really amazing to contribute, but let me gush over this in wayyyy-too-long meta anyway???  Cause damn, if that isn’t one of my favorite lines in the whole series.

I mean, LOOK at it.  Obi-Wan doesn’t just take a step back; he takes one and then keeps going.  He draws his saber.

Just…pausing to process that for second: Obi-Wan draws his saber on Qui-Gon – or, from his point of view, an apparition taking on Qui-Gon’s form.  Which, given what we know about Obi-Wan (that no matter how many times Qui-Gon gets into it with the Council, loyal-to-a-fault Obi-Wan always elects to follow him anyway), seems incredible.

But it makes sense.  Obi-Wan has spent years and years forcing himself to accept Death, Qui-Gon’s in particular.  This apparition throws everything he knows into a tailspin.  He doesn’t believe it.  And (in my own personal interpretation, which absolutely no one is obligated to share), I don’t think he believes it even after he puts the saber away, even after he’s had an entire conversation with this thing that walks and talks like the long-dead person he’d loved beyond measure.  To me, Obi-Wan is much more likely to interpret “I am here because you are here” as “The Force is tripping on this planet and I am a projection of your own thoughts/wants/needs/memories”, because the alternative is absolutely, positively impossible, cannot be true, Qui-Gon is dead, you can’t have him back, period, the end, we’ve been over this, stop thinking about this absurdity you dealt with that a long time ago there’s a war on get yourself together Kenobi.

But…I am here because you are here.

This says so much, and in so few words – and thank goodness, because Obi-Wan won’t say any of it out loud.  You’re right when you talk about the deemphasizing of TPM – Obi-Wan certainly doesn’t talk about it much, and it isn’t referenced much in the show, outside that Maul moment.  And of course that’s how it would be – Obi-Wan has been taught since he was a baby to accept and then let go of emotions.  It’s not Jedi-appropriate for him to dwell, not encouraged for him to fixate on a loss, and Obi-Wan has always truly believed in the Jedi way, even when it’s a struggle for him.  So – he knows he was attached, he knows he failed in that regard, but he does his best to deal with the consequences, and his best means that we don’t see the echoes of Theed anywhere near as much as he’s feeling them.

But then we get a line like this, and whether Obi-Wan is talking to actual!Qui-Gon or to a funky Force projection drawn from Obi-Wan’s own mind, the meaning stays the same: it is with me always.  Obi-Wan carries Qui-Gon with him everywhere he goes, in everything he does.  This is the line that belies the idea that TPM didn’t affect him much, the one that reminds us what Obi-Wan has been holding, quietly and without complaint, for years.  Obi-Wan worked damn hard to come to terms with losing his teacher – parent, in many ways, let’s be real – he worked hard to find the measure of peace he’s achieved – and even though the healing he did is genuine, the loss is never forgotten, either, even if it goes unspoken now more often than not.  Everywhere I am, there you are also.  Silently, maybe; invisibly, maybe; but present nonetheless.

*slow clap* You’ve done it again pan. I am a fountain of tears ;__;

Just so you know, your interpretation of what Obi-Wan thought that vision really was is actually canon. Anakin said as much in the Yoda arc.

God, I love the Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon relationship. It breaks my heart in so many ways.

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fy-ellenpage:

Ellen Page to read for Han Solo in Jason Reitman’s live stage-reading of The Empire Strikes Back [via Entertainment Weekly]

Really, there’s nothing that says “Han” can’t be a woman’s name.

Ellen Page will be taking on the part of Han Solo in director Jason Reitman’s live stage-reading of The Empire Strikes Back Thursday night, and Jessica Alba has been cast as Princess Leia.

The whole point of Reitman’s live-read series is to take classic scripts and turn them into something we’ve never seen before, but he tells EW that casting his Juno star as the sardonic captain of the Millennium Falcon felt as natural as it may seem surprising.

“In casting Han, the most important thing is: Who has the most interesting, ironic approach to life? And when I think of that, I think of Ellen Page. She’s a small human being who has the energy to fill Madison Square Garden.”

And that fact that their grudging romance will play out between two actresses …?

“Chemistry is chemistry, whether it be between a man and a woman, two women, or two men,” Reitman says. “I have no doubt that Ellen Page could have chemistry with anybody.”

The live-reads are about experimenting with perceptions and expectations, and encouraging fans to consider the story and characters in different ways — even if they’re only hearing about the performance from afar. (None have been recorded or shared. They are designed as one-night-only experiences.)

The performance of The Empire Strikes Back will take place Thursday night at the Ace Hotel Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Click here for full details on the show. Although the tickets are already sold out, there will be a stand-by list for fans who want to give it a try.

On Tuesday, Reitman announced the other members of the cast: Breaking Bad‘s Aaron Paul as Luke Skywalker) and Whiplash star J.K. Simmons as Darth Vader (and assorted others.)

Knowing the Live-Read series, there will also be a handful of surprises revealed as the show begins.

This is everything I have ever wanted out of life.

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archiemcphee:

The dreaded Sarlaac, a terrifying semi-sentient, ravenous, betentacled, plant-like creature, found on several planets across the (Star Wars) galaxy.

“In its belly, you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a…thousand years.”

That is, unless you’re Boba Fett, who managed to escape and proclaimed himself “somewhat indigestible” or if the Sarlaac is actually a mouthwatering cake, in which case you’ll be the one doing the devouring.

This awesome Star Wars Sarlacc Bundt Cake was beautifully made by Kathleen of Yummy Crumble. It’s a buttery caramel bundt cake drizzled with homemade salted caramel sauce and dusted with cookie crumbles. The Sarlaac is made of madeleines and buttercream for its chompy teeth, about which Kathleen says,

“This thing gave me the heebie jeebies the first time I saw Return of the Jedi, so this is my little tribute to him. I know the Sarlacc traditionally does not have teeth on his beak, but I just couldn’t resist. Sorry Star Wars fanatics! Teeth made of frosting is my new favorite thing.”

Head over to Yummy Crumble for the recipe and instructions.

[via That’s Nerdalicious!]

Too awesome

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dottoraqn:

windona:

sarah531:

Hey. You know who did like the Star Wars prequels?

Teenage girls.

I can tell you this because I was one of those teenage girls. For quite a long portion of my adolescence I lived, breathed and loved Star Wars, and it wasn’t always an easy experience. It was a very male-dominated fandom, probably still is, but we carved out spaces of our own. Websites dedicated to Padme’s costumes, for example, or to the Anakin/Padme relationship. (I have no doubt in my mind that there were many problematic things about that ship, but it absolutely seemed to appeal to young women.) At age sixteen I was privileged to be a part of the prequel-friendly (prequel-loving!) Saga Journal when it first started up, and you know what? That was mostly (if not all?) women. Likewise, the fanfiction section on theforce.net was mostly women, young women, teenage girls, sharing stories about young Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon and Padme and Anakin. The all-female Handmaiden group brought in with The Phantom Menace were hugely popular, too. Livejournal had a blossoming ‘pretty’ community centering around Star Wars (think what today’s graphic makers are doing on Tumblr, just…on Livejournal) – icons, banners, wallpapers of the prequel characters. This was almost all teenage girls, making their pretty space opera even prettier.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I wasn’t interested in Star Wars before the prequels came out. I was about 12 when they did, and I definitely remember saying to my dad as he handed me the tie-in sticker book, “But I don’t LIKE Star Wars. The girls don’t DO anything.” “Princess Leia does!” Dad said. “She definitely gets more heroic as the movies go on.”

As an adult I adore Leia, but as a kid she wasn’t enough to get me to watch the movies. And yet, I went with everyone else to see The Phantom Menace – how could I avoid it? It was everywhere! – and I definitely remember feeling like I’d been introduced to a whole new amazing world. I watched all the originals and loved them too. As more movies came out I loved the women more and more. Padme was younger than me and she was a queen. Naboo was a hugely female-centric society doing hugely well. The handmaidens were basically a girl gang with gorgeous costumes and guns. And there were female Jedi! Who had names! And lightsabres! And women were friends with each other and talked about politics!

Obviously that should be the bare minimum a female viewer should expect from a cinematic saga, but…well, it’s not something many movies achieve even now. So you can see, I hope, how it’d appeal to me and many others. And of course the attractive men – who appeared with their shirts off every now and again – were a factor too. Which still isn’t a reason to diminish teenage girl’s participation in fandom, believe it or not….

I’m not saying that the reason the Star Wars prequels are so disliked is because they appealed to teenage girls. But considering that “MALE COMEDIAN DISLIKES STAR WARS PREQUELS“ is apparently news now, a view from the other side can’t hurt. I’d be really interested to hear of any other ex-teenage girl’s stories from Star Wars fandom around that time, actually. I remember feeling like a Fake Fan a lot, but I also remember the careful, brilliant analysis I saw another girl do of Revenge of the Sith’s colour palette, and the carefully maintained archives of Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan fanfiction, and the blogs dedicated to celebrating the sheer prettiness (the guys would call it ‘cinematography’) of the prequels.

I’d go as far to say, in all honesty, that teenage girls were the Prequel fandom. We did the fanfiction, the fanart, the graphics, the character analysis, the essays about what that one lighting effect in that one scene meant, the advice on how to sew that costume – the work, you could almost say, because we really loved those movies and the universe within them. That won’t get a single mention in the runup to The Force Awakens, but happen it did.

I don’t remember too much from that time; I remember having a Queen Amidala and a Darth Maul towel, I remember seeing AotC and RotS in theaters, and I remember being really excited for RotS and liking both movies, but I was four when TPM came out and not as much of a fangirl as I became throughout middle school. I did enjoy them when I was little- but I don’t remember specifically why, just that I enjoyed them.

I always liked the movies from the minute my dad showed them to me. I wanted to be a jedi. I cosplayed padme when I was like 10. As I grew up, people didn’t like the prequals. TPM is STILL my favorite starwars movie, although I do think jarjar as comic relief was a little heavy handed, and I’ve thought this of my own accord since I realized how nuanced comic relief could be. Starwars was my jam for the longest fucking time, it was great.

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Hey. You know who did like the Star Wars prequels?

Teenage girls.

I can tell you this because I was one of those teenage girls. For quite a long portion of my adolescence I lived, breathed and loved Star Wars, and it wasn’t always an easy experience. It was a very male-dominated fandom, probably still is, but we carved out spaces of our own. Websites dedicated to Padme’s costumes, for example, or to the Anakin/Padme relationship. (I have no doubt in my mind that there were many problematic things about that ship, but it absolutely seemed to appeal to young women.) At age sixteen I was privileged to be a part of the prequel-friendly (prequel-loving!) Saga Journal when it first started up, and you know what? That was mostly (if not all?) women. Likewise, the fanfiction section on theforce.net was mostly women, young women, teenage girls, sharing stories about young Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon and Padme and Anakin. The all-female Handmaiden group brought in with The Phantom Menace were hugely popular, too. Livejournal had a blossoming ‘pretty’ community centering around Star Wars (think what today’s graphic makers are doing on Tumblr, just…on Livejournal) – icons, banners, wallpapers of the prequel characters. This was almost all teenage girls, making their pretty space opera even prettier.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I wasn’t interested in Star Wars before the prequels came out. I was about 12 when they did, and I definitely remember saying to my dad as he handed me the tie-in sticker book, “But I don’t LIKE Star Wars. The girls don’t DO anything.” “Princess Leia does!” Dad said. “She definitely gets more heroic as the movies go on.”

As an adult I adore Leia, but as a kid she wasn’t enough to get me to watch the movies. And yet, I went with everyone else to see The Phantom Menace – how could I avoid it? It was everywhere! – and I definitely remember feeling like I’d been introduced to a whole new amazing world. I watched all the originals and loved them too. As more movies came out I loved the women more and more. Padme was younger than me and she was a queen. Naboo was a hugely female-centric society doing hugely well. The handmaidens were basically a girl gang with gorgeous costumes and guns. And there were female Jedi! Who had names! And lightsabres! And women were friends with each other and talked about politics!

Obviously that should be the bare minimum a female viewer should expect from a cinematic saga, but…well, it’s not something many movies achieve even now. So you can see, I hope, how it’d appeal to me and many others. And of course the attractive men – who appeared with their shirts off every now and again – were a factor too. Which still isn’t a reason to diminish teenage girl’s participation in fandom, believe it or not….

I’m not saying that the reason the Star Wars prequels are so disliked is because they appealed to teenage girls. But considering that “MALE COMEDIAN DISLIKES STAR WARS PREQUELS” is apparently news now, a view from the other side can’t hurt. I’d be really interested to hear of any other ex-teenage girl’s stories from Star Wars fandom around that time, actually. I remember feeling like a Fake Fan a lot, but I also remember the careful, brilliant analysis I saw another girl do of Revenge of the Sith’s colour palette, and the carefully maintained archives of Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan fanfiction, and the blogs dedicated to celebrating the sheer prettiness (the guys would call it ‘cinematography’) of the prequels.

I’d go as far to say, in all honesty, that teenage girls were the Prequel fandom. We did the fanfiction, the fanart, the graphics, the character analysis, the essays about what that one lighting effect in that one scene meant, the advice on how to sew that costume – the work, you could almost say, because we really loved those movies and the universe within them. That won’t get a single mention in the runup to The Force Awakens, but happen it did.

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