That’s f*cking Obi Wan Kenobi!

Some of my favourite behind the scenes photos from the making of the prequel trilogy.

BONUS:

The only time Enj is described as cold and bitchy is 1) when hes described as not being interested in women and 2) when he is dragging Grantaire Explainations: hes gay and grantaire is onpurposely trying to provoke him at ALL TIMES. LIKE OFC THATS GONA PISS HIM OFF.

all the other times he is described as “charming” and a “quiet” man who lets his friends speak and listens. He has a while speech just PRAISING FEUILLY. He cries when he shoots the artillery sgt. He lets Grantaire help when he asks despite not trusting him fully. Even then he lets Grantaire by his side.

!!!!!!!Also!!!!!!!! HIS ENTIRE THING IS THAT HE CARES TOO MUCH. YOU THINK HE IS TRYING TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT AND RAISE THE PEOPLE FROM POVERTY BECAUSE HES A BITCH?????????? Like his entire thing is that he cares SO MUCH.

Enjolras was not their leader. Canonically and historically, Les Amis was a very small group in a very large mass of secret societies. Even if Enjolras was the leader of just Les Amis, it was never his ultimate decision. They were all part of something much bigger (also you really think if Enjolras wasn’t their they wouldn’t have just found another group to fight with? Bahorel was going down swinging in EVERY universe). But Enjolras wasn’t even the leader of Les Amis. He was the chief, the one that a lot of the decision-making fell upon (because he was best for the job and most passionate about it 98% of the time), but he was never a leader. He even says so himself when Marius comes to the barricade. Even if others saw him as a leader, Enjolras did not. And we are given so many examples of this throughout the barricade chapters. He takes other peoples advice constantly, especially Combeferre’s. He is considered the chief because he was the most charismatic, most passionate, and most able to garnish results, but he was never technically a leader. This wasn’t a war, he wasn’t a general, this was a riot (in your own words) of the people, and Enjolras was just a person. 

He literally encouraged people to leave when things went sour??? He was more than happy to give his life for the cause, but he never expected anybody else to.

The rebellion, both in the book and history, was not doomed from the start. There were so many factors that came into their loss, including the very unexpected brutality from the National Guard. Nobody expected the government to retaliate the way that they did, even historically where a lot of people DID survive the June Rebellion, the National Guard was criticized for the amount of violence they used.  Also, judging by the turnout of people at Lamarque’s funeral (which was in the thousands or even tens of thousand, IIRC) who said they would fight, they were expecting a MUCH more even playing field. However, in the book especially, the people failed to back them up. Do you really think they would have gone through with it had they known they were only going to have like 60 men on their barricade? No. Also there were other factors that were either unexpected or miscalculated, including disruptions to ammunition supply lines and even perhaps weather. So no, they didn’t run in on a suicide mission, they genuinely believed they had a shot. And hey, under different circumstances it probably would of.

The boys weren’t new to battle. Even though it is not talked about in the book, it is extremely likely that most, if not all, of them participated in the Rebellion of 1830 which, all things considered, went pretty well for them. This just again re-iterates the fact that everyone did not think the June Rebellion was going to go as badly as it did. Even if Enjolras was forcefully leading them anywhere (which he certainly wasn’t), it’s not like they were expecting to die. Ready for it? Yes. But probably not expecting it. 

they better  wise up

cause I’ll  r i s e  u p