war crime enjoyer (not corporate affiliated)

there’s something about the total sacrifice of individuality in the naboo monarchy (padmé and the handmaidens giving up names, faces, lives) that makes me think the (former) queen’s body is technically property of the state and padmé’s family were legally prohibited from having any say in her burial

i'm reading an essay for school about the body and soul in ancient greek mythology and there's a really intresting part about how a hero or a god's weapons became a part of their bodies (zeus' lightrod/poseidon's trident/heracles' nemean lion skin) and thus fighting with someone else's armour and weapons almost became like being them (the example the essay used was hector fighting achilles wearing his old armour and achilles dooming himself to death by killing hector). with a moderate amount of mental gymnastics (not even that much) there's definetly something to be said in that perspective about luke fighting vader with his old lightsaber (esp considering how a lightsaber is a jedi's life) and vader cutting luke's hand holding it. from a certian point of view luke is not only his son then but by fighting with his weapon he somehow becomes him and vader cutting off his saber hand is just one more way to kill himself again. is this anything.

what if you spent your childhood dreaming about your father then you get a part of him back and then in a way become him by using his weapon which is also kinda his life but what you don't know is that your mentor who you trust actually wants you to use that life to end your father who is now also kinda you and it's all this messy incoherent circle you choose to put an end to

darth vader redemption arc where he gets a job at the hospital force-crushing people’s kidney stones

personally i do not prefer when stories engaging with complicated topics attempt to make themselves good educational resources on said complicated topics

and i understand that sometimes it's a very thin line between giving a realistic depiction of a serious topic and ending up in after-school special mode, but i also notice that no one is doing this when a character gets the flu (which kills many people every year) and PERSONALLY i don't love the patterns i'm vaguely sensing about which experiences can be depicted normally and which experiences must always be a learning opportunity

the sheer tragedy of obi wan telling luke he needs to either kill his father or let the galaxy be enslaved forever is something we need to deny or skirt around. we need obi wan not to believe that. we need him not to have said that. we need luke to have both not heard and not disobeyed that. we cant sit with a narrative of biblical forgiveness. everything the good guy says needs to be correct with cited wookiepedia sources and everything the bad guy says is irrelevant. we need to do this. because having even a slightly critical take on a fictional religion is of course, how we get genocide. we have to obey and defend the fictional religion forever. see how boring you all are? see why you’re not fun to talk to???

normal family that moves into the lars homestead blissfully unaware of anything that’s happened there and ends up getting super haunted

“beru wouldn’t be a vengeful ghost” BZZT WRONG no matter how much fresh blue milk they buy it’s always curdled by the next morning

love that jabba in the original trilogy is like BRING ME HAN SOLO!!! HUNT HAN SOLO ACROSS THE GALAXY!!!! I WILL HANG HIM ON MY WALL LIKE A CHEAP PAINTING!!!! meanwhile chewie who no doubt also cheated jabba out of whatever they cheated him out of has no heat on him whatsoever. even jabba's not ballsy enough to start shit with a wookiee. no solid evidence chewie could rip a hutt's arms off but jabba is not going to be the idiot to test that

also if padmé is a vampire it makes perfect sense she’d end up in a senate coalition with mon mothman

and bail organa is the loch ness monster

btw i'm a "macabre padme" truther, i think she spent her childhood daydreaming about her funeral and her idea of a good date is reciting eulogies for each other, then digging a large grave and lying side-by-side in it (silently) for several hours