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"The characters not really being related" in regards to Star Wars sure is an observation.
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This probably isn’t irrational but there’s not a rationally irritating thread so here we go In movies and shows whenever someone needs to use their blood for a spell or whatever they always cut the palm of their hand. Why?? That seems to be the absolute worst place to do it. I’m watching Locke & Key and when they’re making new keys they need to use blood and they always cut their hands
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Nov 14, 2021 21:13
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The only time I've seen that mentioned was in a comic of all places, where they mention the palm is used because a:it hurts worse and the extra pain helps the sacrifice, and b:takes longer to heal, which also helps the sacrifice. Basically it's always the palm because it's more sensitive than the back of your arm and way harder to bandage and heal. Apparently in dark magic that gives it a boost for the whole pain/summoning/etc and in light magic it just adds in a level of "I'm making this hurt more for me because I'm giving more of myself to this spell". I'd loving LOVE it if they said that anywhere in a horror movie cause goddamn that irritates the gently caress outta me too.
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Nov 14, 2021 21:36
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If I were Luke Skywalker I would be super pissed when I found out about how things played out when I was a baby Like Obi Wan could have hidden both of them anywhere, but Leia got to be royalty on a nice planet while Luke got stuck living in a literal hole in the desert on the shittiest planet imaginable
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Nov 14, 2021 23:02
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:Massive hog Jango was a Gammorian?
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Nov 14, 2021 23:21
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In fairness leia's nice planet did get blown the gently caress up and she got captured by the empire, and it's only because she hosed up that luke's hole in the desert got blown up, so the hole in the desert was kind of the better place.
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Nov 14, 2021 23:35
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OwlFancier posted:I'm going to say a brainwashed army of hulks is actually a better way to control populations, as evidenced by the fact that he spent all his money on stupid wunderwaffe boondoggles afterwards and then lost. Hearts and minds, my dude. You get all the guys who are young, dumb and full of gum to want to join your army rather than a resistance army. Even Luke wanted to join. Plus it turns casualties into a PR op. Nobody cares if some anonymous clones or drones die in combat. But cousin Bessy's boy was killed by rebels? Those loving terrorists!
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Nov 15, 2021 05:31
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Manager Hoyden posted:If I were Luke Skywalker I would be super pissed when I found out about how things played out when I was a baby If you're going to take it as canon that Vader was always meant to be Anakin and Luke and Leia were always meant to be siblings, then Luke was "hidden" not just in a hole in the desert but in his grandfather's house using his father's name. Vader knew Padme was pregnant but not that she had twins, and from there it's not a leap to assume that he was meant to find Luke. Luke should be pissed about being used as bait.
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Nov 15, 2021 10:16
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The thinking with Luke is that Tatooine is the one place Darth Vader wouldn’t willingly go to or even think about (I think the comics eventually backtrack on this a bit and he does go there though)
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Nov 15, 2021 10:24
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christmas boots posted:The thinking with Luke is that Tatooine is the one place Darth Vader wouldn’t willingly go to or even think about (I think the comics eventually backtrack on this a bit and he does go there though) He didn't have to anyway. I'm fairly sure that Vader's plan was to take Luke under his wing when Luke went to the Imperial Academy.
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Nov 15, 2021 10:28
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christmas boots posted:(I think the comics eventually backtrack on this a bit and he does go there though) Jedit posted:He didn't have to anyway. I'm fairly sure that Vader's plan was to take Luke under his wing when Luke went to the Imperial Academy.
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Nov 15, 2021 10:34
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FFT posted:Vader planned to take the son he didn't know he had under his wing? He did know if he was keeping an eye out for Padme's child, that's the point. That said, I do like the alternate theory that Vader didn't know Luke was his son because Skywalker is the Tatooine equivalent of Smith.
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Nov 15, 2021 10:45
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Pretty sure that -- Canon or Legends -- Anakin's mother is the first/original Skywalker. Probably got the name the same way Han Solo got the name "Solo" in Solo.
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Nov 15, 2021 10:59
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It's actually a bastardization of "sunwalker," the name given to the descendants of members of smash mouth.
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Nov 15, 2021 11:23
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You mean "Eggeater".
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Nov 15, 2021 11:38
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Plus, even if he's on Tatooine, it's a big fuckin place and iirc Owen and Beru lived pretty far out from an entirely different city to Mos Eisley. If anything Leia might have been the riskier one being adopted by an extremely high profile family (and she ended up in Vader's sights for semi-related reasons) rather than being out in the planetary equivalent of bumfuck nowhere.
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Nov 15, 2021 13:38
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Plus, even if he's on Tatooine, it's a big fuckin place and iirc Owen and Beru lived pretty far out from an entirely different city to Mos Eisley. As I already said: Luke lived in his grandfather's house with Anakin's stepbrother. Vader didn't just know where Owen lived, he'd been there and had dinner with him.
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Nov 15, 2021 16:03
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FFT posted:Canon or Legends I learned about this from The F Plus - 318: Wookiee Ookiee Ookiee
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Nov 15, 2021 16:17
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Luke is hidden by the thing Vader hates most of all: Sand.
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Nov 15, 2021 16:40
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It turns out that Tatooine is sentient and is Luke's great-aunt on his mother's side.
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Nov 15, 2021 16:44
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Tunicate posted:Luke is hidden by the thing Vader hates most of all: Sand. Can you imagine how awful it would be to get sand in that suit? He can't take it off!
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Nov 15, 2021 16:52
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MyronMulch posted:It turns out that Tatooine is sentient and is Luke's great-aunt on his mother's side. Luke and Star-Lord, surprising distant relations. Well, almost not that surprising.
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Nov 15, 2021 17:12
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Was Leia understood to be adopted by the Organa family or did Breha Organa hide for almost a year & just pop out with the kid in her arms?
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Nov 15, 2021 18:43
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Android Apocalypse posted:Was Leia understood to be adopted by the Organa family or did Breha Organa hide for almost a year & just pop out with the kid in her arms? quote:Through adoption, Leia Amidala Skywalker became Leia Organa, formally becoming heiress of the Royal Family of Alderaan through the Name Day ceremony.[22] Although it was common knowledge that she was adopted,[23] and everyone assumed that she was just another of the many, many children left orphaned by the Clone Wars,[24] she remained unaware of her biological parents' fates.[20]
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Nov 15, 2021 19:34
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FFT posted:
I mean... in a way she was a Clone Wars orphan
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Nov 15, 2021 19:38
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Nth Doctor posted:I mean... in a way she was a Clone Wars orphan From a certain point of view
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Nov 15, 2021 19:45
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If the plot of six movies takes multiple books to unfuck and make sense, it's bad. I shouldn't have to read a book, let alone several to make your messy poo poo makes sense. A series of movies with the budget of Star Wars should not have such a convulsed mess of a story
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Nov 15, 2021 22:02
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You mainly watch it for the fun performances and the cool effects. More fun performances in the original trilogy I think, and more cool effects albeit less fancy than the prequels. Good fights in the prequels though.
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Nov 15, 2021 22:06
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A Festivus Miracle posted:If the plot of six movies takes multiple books to unfuck and make sense, it's bad. I shouldn't have to read a book, let alone several to make your messy poo poo makes sense. A series of movies with the budget of Star Wars should not have such a convulsed mess of a story OK, but hear me out: Does it really take multiple books to unfuck and make sense? The story of the original trilogy is pretty straightforward, and honestly, I don't think the prequels are that much harder to follow. None of the EU stuff is really required to make sense of what's happening.
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Nov 15, 2021 22:50
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Tunicate posted:Luke is hidden by the thing Vader hates most of all: Sand. This is Obi-Wan's house on Tatooine  Notice that not only is it surrounded by sand, it's on the high ground it's literally the last place in the galaxy Anakin would want to go
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Nov 15, 2021 23:33
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A Festivus Miracle posted:If the plot of six movies takes multiple books to unfuck and make sense, it's bad. I shouldn't have to read a book, let alone several to make your messy poo poo makes sense. What movie series is this in reference to?
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Nov 16, 2021 00:31
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Tunicate posted:Luke is hidden by the thing Vader hates most of all: Sand.
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Nov 16, 2021 05:13
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Memento posted:This is Obi-Wan's house on Tatooine Sending life day cards every year saying "Come to Old Man Kenobi's Hut, 2246-43 Salacious Way, Mos Eisley District, Tatooine if you want an rear end kicking"
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Nov 16, 2021 08:06
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Pilchenstein posted:Love the idea that Vader has known where Luke is the whole time but just chucks a strop about the desert every time the emperor says to go get him. Doesn't help that Vader's lovely bionics are something you couldn't want to take anywhere near the desert. And now I'm picturing Vader slain by a can of coke.
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Nov 16, 2021 08:35
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Some wardriver hacks into his legs via wifi and now Vader can't stop hopping around like an Asian vampire.
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Nov 16, 2021 09:42
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christmas boots posted:OK, but hear me out: Does it really take multiple books to unfuck and make sense? The story of the original trilogy is pretty straightforward, and honestly, I don't think the prequels are that much harder to follow. None of the EU stuff is really required to make sense of what's happening. None of the sequels are hard to follow. Literal children understand the "story", such as there is. But what is there is very bad.
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Nov 16, 2021 10:02
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emperor palpatine is rei ayanami whats not to get
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Nov 16, 2021 13:05
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Jedit posted:Vader knew Padme was pregnant but not that she had twins, and from there it's not a leap to assume that he was meant to find Luke. Luke should be pissed about being used as bait. This is also a bit weird - Anakin/Vader can't sense that there are two fetuses?? No visit to get space-ultrasound with a space-nurse and talk about space pre-natal care where they would go, oh hey, it's twins?
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Nov 16, 2021 16:03
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I think it's safe to assume the space monk guy from the backwater planet probably left the health stuff to the former ruler of an entire planet.
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MNIMWA posted:This is also a bit weird - Anakin/Vader can't sense that there are two fetuses?? No visit to get space-ultrasound with a space-nurse and talk about space pre-natal care where they would go, oh hey, it's twins? It’s also possible that she did get a space ultrasound at some point and he just happened to be on a mission somewhere given that Space World War II was happening and it’s not like he could request leave to be with his pregnant wife. And maybe he just turned into space Hitler before she could tell him
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