EWAN McGREGOR as BILL FORDHAM August: Osage County (2013)

AN ODE TO THE BIG JEDI MULLET   ↳ Happy 20th Anniversary Attack of the Clones      ↳ Released May 16, 2002

David + teleporting

~ 90 Minutes in Heaven (2017)

Hayden as Eli Goodner in Real Kids, Real Adventures, S2 Ep11: Paralyzed (1999)

American Heist (2014)

Princess Rhaenyra.

“I’ve learned from Palpatine.”

Hayden Christensen as Will Beeman in First Kill (2017)

Hayden Christensen as Clay Beresford Awake (2007) dir. Joby Harold

Hayden Christensen in AWAKE (2007), dir. Joby Harold

THE JEDI TEMPLE ➞ Personal Quarters Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Yoda, Barriss Offee, Depa Billaba Notes:  This is a canon-only post and Legends will be a separate one!  And one really important thing to keep in mind is that animation is often hella expensive.  Dave Filoni has talked before about how they’d like to do more detailed stuff here and there, but they just didn’t have the budget for it, so when you see a room that looks simple, sometimes it’s because they just don’t have the money for more than that unless it Serves A Point, and this is true even when the aesthetic is meant to be simple.  Especially this becomes clear when you contrast against comic panels which don’t cost any more money to draw and suddenly, WHAM, you get a whole lot more detail! Scale is also important–while Ahsoka’s room may look plain (because they didn’t have a Point to make with more personalized details/spending money on something that wasn’t needed–in contrast, they make a point to have that holoemitter in Obi-Wan’s room because it’s necessary for the plot and Barriss’ prayer statue to show that she was trying to find solace with it/hiding the lightsabers in it) that bed easily fits her, where she could starfish out or have a second person in it without being crowded. We don’t see where Obi-Wan or Yoda sleep, if there are second attached rooms or they have beds that roll out when they need them or what.

I think it’s both!  The aesthetic is meant to be simple because that’s how Jedi roll, they just don’t really need more than that.  (There seems to be a strong feeling of how the Jedi genuinely are content with this connection to the Force and all the life around them, it leads them to needing less material objects because they’re satisfied already.)  They can if they want to–see Anakin’s room being full of stuff–it’s not like anyone’s going to stop them or give them shit about it, it’s perfectly fine, but it seems like most of them just really don’t have a need for it. But it’s also that animation is HELLA EXPENSIVE to do, so you’ll notice the contrast between Depa’s room in the comics suddenly having all this detail, because they only have to draw it once, rather than animate it in 3D so that it’s used in thousands of frames.  This is why that graphic of Anakin’s quarters are all labeled with “sourced from [x] episode” because that stuff all takes time and money to animate, so they try to save where they can.  But they wanted to show that Anakin’s room was full of stuff, that that was how he rolled as a Jedi and that it was just there, in the background. Both of these things are a factor, so trying to say that it’s JUST that “oh the Jedi aren’t allowed possessions because we never see them!!!” ignores that the creators are limited in what they can do and that does affect the animation style (as well as we see that they do have possessions if they want them and that seems to be completely acceptable), but trying to say “they ONLY did it because of budget constraints!!!” is skipping over that the Jedi are a minimalist aesthetic.  So my point isn’t one or the other, but that it’s both! The aesthetic is meant to be minimalist-esque and they often don’t have the budget for something unless there’s A Point to it.  And one of those tends to be forgotten when we watch a show a lot more than the other.  XD

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