Star Wars everything

Thinking about how Luke basically saves the galaxy with heartfelt diplomacy, and Leia gets to strangle a Tatooine crime lord to death with a giant chain, and given their respective backgrounds probably no one would have correctly guessed which of them would go on to do which deed.

Luke saying “you’ll find i’m full of surprises” to Vader before losing his lightsaber and falling down some stairs is such a life mood

its right up there with anakin saying “you underestimate my power” and then proceeding to get all his remaining limbs chopped off by Obi-Wan. like father, like son. 

Star Wars establishes the very real life lesson that a badass line does not guarantee success

I firmly believe that if Palpatine had never succeeded in establishing the Empire, and had the decency to just do everyone a favour and die, Anakin and Padme wouldn't have lasted as a couple. Part of what kept them together was the limited time they had with one another while the war was raging and the fact that Anakin was in so much danger so much of the time probably led to Padme forgiving actions that she really shouldn't have (beating Rush Clovis into a pulp, anyone?). Anakin WANTED Padme, but I've always questioned whether he actually loved her. He was obsessed with Padme and I think he confused that with romantic love.

Anakin mistakes control, attention, and getting the specific response he wants to his attention as love. None of those things are love-- they're power and compulsion, the actual opposites of non-attachment.

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star wars is funny because at 22 years old anakin made some bad decisions while sleep-deprived and then refused to admit those were, in fact, bad decisions for 23 years. he never actually said it either he was just kind like whoops my b and then died.

The life and death of a diva

It seems like the height of arrogance to look at a story like Star Wars with some of the most blatantly obvious and evil villains in the history of sci-fi/fantasy and when asked "What went wrong to cause the situation we see in the main story" the answer isn't "the villains were working for years to undermine the heroes from the shadows piece by piece until they were able to topple everything and murder everyone" but, somehow, "the heroes were actually the REAL villains all along because they have a religion they follow and don't immediately believe everything they're told point blank."