there is only one valid film opinion

“Ghosts are real, that much I know. I’ve seen them all my life…” 

ask star wars fandom to explain why it's noble, heroic, and the height of compassion for luke to go to vader and ask for vader to come away with him, but why the common take is that it was pathetic, immoral, and stupid of padme to do the same thing (despite padme knowing anakin better, having a more personal relationship with anakin, and anakin having done just by the numbers a couple less murders) and then watch it shit itself to death as it rapidly tries to explain that No It's Feminism Actually

luke

padme had

yet luke is the hero; luke is right, correct, and overflowing with compassion, the pinnacle of a jedi. but fans think of padme as stupid. she wouldn't let anakin go, there was something wrong with her, she was pathetic, an idiot, immoral - because she failed, right? so now we have to justify why she failed instead of maybe accepting that she didn't actually deserve what anakin did to her? hey, why is everyone convinced they're saving padme's character also so fucking dedicated to justifying why padme as presented in the movies secretly deserved what she got because she was weak? despite padme's decisions being designed to literally reflect the culminating victory of the series, the fact that she is actually fairly successful until obi-wan reveals himself, the fact that her dying words echo the actual lived reality three films later, is tossed aside in favor of padme being weak-willed, fucked up, traumatized, stupid, selfish and self-serving. the entire story relies on padme being actually fucking right. you have 47 seconds to explain why No It's Feminism Actually if it's a character flaw for padme to be fucking right.

padme has more to lose than anyone else by facing anakin - she's pregnant, she has no martial training, she has no space magic, she has no weapon, she has nothing but compassion. and she is the only person who was deescalating, in a series of anti-war films where luke's heroic journey ends with him throwing away his weapon, padme is the only person who almost successfully cut out three fucking films of horror by being this ultimate figure fighting for peace..... and then obi-wan saunters in. you have 30 seconds to explain why No It's Feminism Actually for me to call her selfish when that is the most catastrophically brave thing that happens in all of star wars. did you guys get so bogged down in discourse you forgot what the movies actually are

padme should've been older; padme was actually only in love with anakin because he mind tricked her; padme was actually Damaged; padme was actually secretly evil; padme should've tried to kill anakin; padme shouldn't have died the way she did; you will see every take in the absolute goddammed universe before you see one person actually engage with the character on the screen. and then everyone pats themselves on the back because We're So Good At Female Characters when the only way they can interact with padme whatsoever is to write out her narrative importance, cut her out of the legacy she is 50% responsible for creating, demonize any choice she makes when she makes demonstrably the same choices that lead to the galaxy being saved from evil, and pretend that this amalgamation they have left is anything similar to padme. trying to get people to look at padme when she's onscreen is like trying to shove a square peg in a round hole. you can point to the "come with me" she shares with her son and watch people call ome heroic and the other selfish and no one will ever wake the hell up.

every "fix" fandom has come up with for george lucas' misogynistic inability to engage with and develop padme's character.... relies on continuing the misogynistic inability to engage with and develop padme's character. you have 23 seconds to explain No It's Feminism Actually

fuck it 10 pm post we like to party

this video feels like seeing an old friend for the first time in a decade

Your honor in my defense I am simply a little rascal

this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.

Tiktok marvel fans really will be out here like "movie fan SHOCKED because i'd rather watch superhero movie #54 in blue and not a sensual 1987 french horror film about a man discovering his wife may not exist set in what is gradually revealed to be a space station" as if you're supposed to agree that superhero movie #54 is the clear winner in this comparison

Love the idea of a story about a complex issue that's told from the perspective of something that cannot comprehend or care about the issue. The way the story would be sliced up and moments that a human would consider pointless would be focused on because the pigeon happened to be there would be hype as fuck

Ok FINE I made the movie poster of it

Mališa, otherwise known as Little One, is a pet pigeon owned by a conservative butler of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. She is loved, and she is pampered— until her owner is murdered in cold blood, and she is left to fend for herself in Sarajevo.

In the wilds of the city, she feeds from the poor, working nationalist radicals, and the vieux riches alike.

To Mališa, there are no ethical concerns. No politics. No burgeoning nationalism.

There are only hands that feed her, and hands that do not.

This is compelling. Consider me fucking compelled.

Star Wars Poll

You can defend your choice of fuckboy or defend their honor if you don't think they belong here via reblogs and comments.

I'll follow this up with a bad guys version of this poll next week.

And Bail Organa is NOT a fuckboy and he doesn’t belong on this list (hill I’m willing to die on)

There's no theme that connects these. except maybe like three different luke ships.

Circulate this image until it becomes so detached from its original context that one day you're scrolling through pinterest or Instagram and you see this image with the perplexing caption of "Me and my bff after everyone else goes to sleep at the sleepover."

if u choose other pls explain in the tags <3

had a vision feel free to judge me

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The Canberra Times, April 23 1989