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1983 Mark Hamill interview discussing Star Wars Episode VII. He was off only by 4 years….but who cares.
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Real Star Wars fans need to stand up for John Boyega.
Just like the outrage of Rue being black in the Hunger Games, the people who are the angriest, are usually the most uninformed fans of the movie they were watching. Some are misusing their twisted version of the lore, to justify their own racist feelings. Star Wars has people and aliens of different races, so it can be frustrating that people can still have negative reaction to a black guy in a trailer, as if he is not supposed to be there.
Many so called fans say they arent racist, but are upset because he is a stormtrooper, and he doesn’t look like the Jango Fett clones. Real fans know that Stormtroopers were not all clones, but many were normal human beings who were recruited after the empire stopped producing new clones after Episode III. In Star Wars Rebels, which is officially canon, they have already introduced multiple stormtroopers who come in all races, including Zare Leonis who is a black man. Plus by the time of Episode VII, the clones who remained would have been dead or elderly. So why so much outrage?
Personally I hope that John Boyega’s character is the lead character with Daisy Ridley, that way these racist jackasses will be forced to make a decision between their own bigotry, and their love of Star Wars.
People whining about a black stormtrooper on forums and YouTube because ‘all stormtroopers are cloned from a white guy!’ more like fake nerd boys, amirite?
Yeah. And they aren’t even right. After the empire came to power, they stopped cloning new troops and replaced them with a volunteer army as the clones started to die out due to their accelerated lifespans.
So a black guy could TOTALLY be a stormtrooper.
Yup, that’s what I mean, they don’t even know their facts. Probably all original trilogy purists who can’t accept the fact that the prequel trilogy is still G-canon.
Not to mention that all clones came from a Maori guy, not a white dude.
Hell, Star Wars Rebels even shows a black storm trooper recruit.
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens Official Trailer
It’s pretty great that our 500th post to this blog gets to be the amazing new trailer for a new Star Wars movie. Enjoy, thanks for following, and may the Force be with you all
INTERNALLY SCREAMING. THAT IS THE FALCON FLYING AGAIN. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. REPEAT. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Star Wars modern AU: Attack of the questionable fashion choices continues.
Why does Luke look like he stepped out of the 80s? The mysteries of life!! (also inspired by this rad parody.)
[In the ‘Star Wars’ prequel trilogy], the feminine energy, the anima, is slowly being destroyed. In Attack of the Clones, Zam Wessel, Cordé the handmaiden, and most importantly, Anakin’s mother Shmi, die violently. In ‘Revenge of the Sith’, the final phase of destruction takes place. We see the betrayal and murder of two female Jedi: Stass Allie and Aayla Secura. Aayla in particular is murdered in an especially gruesome way, shot repeatedly in close range by several clonetroopers. Ironically she was on Felucia, a world teeming with life and giant blooming flowers. It climaxes with Padmé’s death after performing the ultimate feminine act, giving birth. She dies far from her fertile living world where she’d planned to have her child(ren), in a cold environment deep in space, and attended to by droids that cannot understand what is wrong with her.
There is a literal way of looking at Padmé’s death and a symbolic way. Padmé was as much a symbiont with her time and place as she was with Anakin. When the Republic era passes, she passes. In a cut scene from ‘Attack of the Clones’, the lesson in Padmé’s story about the refugees she tried to help as a child was that those who cannot adapt die. She cannot adapt to this new galaxy. Moreover, she refuses to adapt. She tells Anakin he is going down a path she cannot follow. She bitterly utters, “So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause,” after Palpatine crowns himself Emperor before a cheering Senate. When Vader in a rage cuts off her breathing, it symbolizes that the Empire, as personified by Anakin, is killing her.
She suffers not only the death throes of the Republic and its ideals, she also suffers with the physical and spiritual pain Anakin endures in his transformation into the Darth Vader we know from the classic trilogy. The film intercuts between Vader’s agony on the operating table and Padmé’s dying moments as she gives birth. When Vader’s transformation is complete, she dies.
With Padmé gone, the aesthetics of the Star Wars universe changes: we see the utilitarian set of the Star Destroyer, the beauty of the earlier ships gone. The beautiful, colorful, and elegant costumes have been replaced by simpler and more drab garments in shades of gray. Even the last time we see Naboo in the prequels, all of the citizens are dressed in funereal black. We see of glimpse of the Empire’s new order, a Star Destroyer crew made up entirely of men. Instead of the natural beauty of a planet, we witness the skeletal beginnings of the Death Star.”
excerpt from The Perils of Padmé, by lazypadawan (via xezene)
My gosh, Sagajournal still exists in some form! This is actually really cool for me: I used to contribute articles here! (I won’t link to them, though, I’m pretty sure they were terrible. I did them when I was sixteen.)
