#rogue 1

Every day Im thankful that I fell in love with Rogue when I was 6 years old watching X men Evolution and ive been obsessed with her ever since 😭💕

A character? Well alright, I guess I’ll open up with who I like.

First off, unlike Harry Potter, I actually like a good chunk of characters from the Star Wars film franchises. Well, that’s unfair, I like many of the Harry Potter characters, I just see them in completely heretical ways which would get me stoned in polite company. 

... Nevermind, I’m the completely same way with Star Wars. I TAKE BACK ALL OF MY WORDS.

But what I was going to say before all of this is that the characters from Star Wars I most enjoy are those who have a strong presence in the prequel trilogy (though they may have been originally introduced in the original trilogy).

 A heretical thought I won’t get into here, I think the prequel films (not The Clone Wars (2008) from the extensive amount I’ve heard of it but the films), had the potential to be riveting movies. The plot was utterly fantastic, the fall of Rome and corruption of a republic, with very engaging and compelling characters, it just got mired in fight scenes and George Lucas Dialogue (TM). It also wasn’t what many Star Wars fans wanted, a political tragedy, vs. the western space odyssey we got with the original trilogy.

And I really enjoyed Tartakovsky’s lesser known animated mini series “The Clone Wars” from 2003 and 2005. 

BUT RIGHT, YOUR QUESTION

I tend to find characters purely from the original trilogy dull. Han Solo is great but that’s more due to Harrison Ford being a phenomenal actor than anything else (I also felt he was nicely fleshed out in Solo, which surprised me a lot as I did not expect to like that movie).

I also very much enjoyed Rogue 1 though wasn’t particularly enamored with any of the characters. I enjoyed them all but not to the same level of others.

Luke is dull and overrated. I’ve made a post going into him in depth. The entire internet disagrees with me and I’m sure someone will curse me from across the tumblr void any day now.

Leia had... potential that we never see, I like the concept of her character and she goes through horrific hurdles to become a force of nature and a leader, actively chooses not to become a Jedi like her brother, but the story focused so much on Luke she gets lost in the shuffle.

So who do I really like:

Anakin Skywalker, Sheev Palpatine (he’s one of the true successfully monstrously evil villains out there), Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo (though more after Solo than the original films), and Qi’ra

Padme I like but have heretical opinions on that would get me set on fire and disagree completely with fandom. 

Well, actually, that’s everyone. But especially Padme, so let’s not go there.

Qui-Gon Jinn is a delight, a very philosophical, very Jedi, deeply flawed man but I like him more in the context he provides for why Obi-Wan is the way he is and how Obi-Wan at such a young age trains Anakin Skywalker. So, while I like him he doesn’t really pull my interest much beyond that and being Liam Neeson in a pancho.