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ARCHIVED.
shit was getting cluttered y’all, so find me over at @iconaclysm !
ARCHIVED.
shit was getting cluttered y’all, so find me over at @iconaclysm !
why does applying for a passport take forever
#i showed up and there were three people in front of me#and i literally had to wait an hour and a half??#but when i went up there it literally took seven minutes???#what were u guys doing up there??#what secrets were you told??#anyway im cleaning my dorm but ill be on a bit#uhhh like this for a thing maybe
okay but why is it that in the movies they blow up planets willy nilly and never mention it again
#me rereading the last post i reblogged before my hiatus: yeah honestly#all of the star wars movies ft. war without consequences#me: the star wars movies are simplistic in their plot to make them easier to consume#and their lack of depth is to make them more enjoyable to the audience#also me: that might have been the reason for the original trilogy#but it's been decades and there's no reason we cant have more complexity at this point#putting at least /some/ focus on these massive losses of life#and being conscious of how these events drastically affect people's worldview#isn't a waste of time for the new movies#or: why is one of the best pieces of sw writing#an rpg that came out 14 years ago
listen im so into writing revan that i, like them, will disappear into the unknown regions for seven years
me, sliding a toe back into the swrpc after 3 weeks: yikes.
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so im thinking about planet destroying weapons and how the movies handle them as compared to kotor ii
because the point of new hope and return of the jedi and the force awakens is to destroy these terrible machines; they are used but their after effects are not examined within the context of the movies. we don’t know what happened to anyone who survived alderaan or how leia felt after, what she did. we don’t know now about the survivors of the republic system.
but in kotor ii there’s only malachor. and it is destroyed before the game begins. and the planet is destroyed not by the dark side but by the game’s protagonist. and the entirety of the game is about the after effects of making such a terrible choice–of committing such a horrible war crime, a crime against the galaxy.
and the weapon doesn’t get used again after malachor (except by bao dur again, at the end); the mass shadow generator is detonated and then just–left on the remains of the planet. revan doesn’t ever go back for it. it is a weapon of comparable destruction to the powers of the star forge and revan just leaves it there. and no one else goes back for it. as if it is too terrible to be used. to be acknowledged.
the star wars movies keep making these weapons again and again and using them again and again. in kotor ii–arguably the best deconstruction of the star wars universe and its philosophy out there–the weapon is left behind. it ruined the lives of millions. it is too terrible to be acknowledged. it’s not just a plot device–not just a plot point to overcome to get to the grand finale of the triumphant ending.
there’s no triumph in kotor ii. there are mistakes, made again, made twice: choices made. kotor ii deconstructs the light/dark paradigm of star wars, but it also directly challenges the idea that destroying the weapon ends the war or the suffering that comes after. because it doesn’t.
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Shadow of Doubt - Yoko Kanno
Anime: Vision of Escaflowne
i can’t believe revan figured out that if you think about sex loudly enough the jedi won’t be able to hear you trying to murder them
listen modern jedi may be like “uh revan who??” but modern mandos tell their kids stories about the terrible jedi knight, revan the butcher.
you: revan would have never tired to conquer the galaxy if they hadn’t been turned to the dark side by the sith emperor vitae ! ! me, an intellectual: though they had not yet taken the mantle of sith, revan had willingly fallen to the dark side during mandalorian wars and by its end was already laying down the foundations for galactic conquest by pursing possible resources like the star forge and cleaning house of opponents in the republic army and jedi order by killing them off in the battle of malachor v, which was also used as a conversion tool to cause the surviving jedi to doubt their code and ally themselves with revan instead. their encounter with vitae only moved up their timetable for galactic domination as they were now aware of the sith threat in the unknown regions.
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and so it ends, as I somehow always knew it must: In darkness → Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003), BioWare
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The HD music score from Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer, which cannot be found on the original OST movie album.
Source: youtube.com
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xaedificare. ( drinking partner )
“ no way. absolutely no way. you made that last bit up. “
❝ YOU DARE TO DOUBT ME ? ❞ there is no gravitas to their words , no dark weight that threatens to drown the younger . instead lips twist , brow arches , sharp teeth flashes in a cocky grin . ❝ ME , a living legend ? ❞ they pause to lift their drink and take yet another sip . ❝ listen , malak was THERE — they actually weaponized SPACE SLUGS . it almost worked , too. ❞