Star Wars: Droid Tales is a fucking gift to humanity and everyone should watch.
IT’S SO META IT HURTS
LMAO
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Honestly, I think people seriously misinterpret Kylo Ren’s role as a villain, and not in a “he’s so misunderstood” Draco in leather pants kind of way.
He’s fascinating because he’s one of the few fictional villains that has some stuff in common with some of the real men who do dangerous and deadly things– he’s posturing, he feels persecuted, he’s explosive and uncontrolled, when he tries to look like a cool villain and give off that glib/‘badass’ vibe, it feels forced and awkward, it’s easy to laugh at him, but then he does something incredibly evil and reminds you that pathetic wannabes can be really scary dudes, too. He reminds me of school shooters, domestic abusers, extremely vitriolic alt-right internet trolls.
He doesn’t represent some grand vision or evil master plan like Voldemort. It’s all about outwardly channeling his inner turmoil and rage into self-aggrandizement, getting control over other people because he can’t control himself. He has thoughts, feelings, weaknesses, and at least a little bit of good in him. That doesn’t make him a misunderstood hero. The fact that he’s human and three dimensional and has people who care about him is part of what makes him more like the real evil that walks among us every day in the world.
People are always saying, “Kylo Ren is such a pathetic villain, he’s a whiny emo trying to dress up like a cool bad guy,” but that is lampshaded IN-universe, that people think that’s lame, too, even Snoke. People keep thinking that Kylo was supposed to be a cool villain like Darth Vader and that the movies failed miserably in portraying him as one, but I don’t see how.
True!
If Vader kinda represents the old school vision of what a classically dark evil man is, then I guess Kylo Ren would represent the newer type of evil men that exist out here now.
the force awakens au where everything is the same except “poe’s interrogation” scene audio is replaced with shrek’s “the muffin man” audio
I’M SCREAMING
Had it up to here with fascist white-boy apologia in the Star Wars fandom
Kylo is like if the son of an iconic feminist joined the alt right, then shot up his uncle’s place of worship and after years of running wild in the underground neo-Nazi scene emerged to murder his father. Just because some ugly dude on telepathic Force-chan introduced him to the tenents of fascist philosophy and edgelorddom while he was living with his clergyman uncle doesn’t mean he was brainwashed.
Honestly I’m howling because this is exactly canon
“Star War The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West” is Star Wars Episode III translated from English to Chinese and then back to English. If you want to watch the entire thing on youtube (which you totally should because it’s awesome), then here is a small translation guide:
Anakin Skywalker = “Allah gold”
Obi-Wan Kenobi = “Section ratio”
Sheev Palpatine = “Mr. Speaker” or “the D”
Padmé Amidala = “Plum”
General Grievous = “General space”
Mace Windu = “Text big teacher”
C-3P0 = “Blow the skin”
Qui-Gon Jinn = *silence*
Lord Vader = “south host”
Jedi = “Hopeless Situation”
Jedi Council = “Presbyterian Church”
Sith = “West”
still can’t believe that someone would write Padme dying from “loosing her will to live” after just having two beautiful babies and meanwhile that burned circus peanut has enough will to survive 100% burning and tripple amputation. only a man could write that bullshit.
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