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Sunday, December 31, 2017
my personal best moment of 2017 was when news channels ran with this photoshop I made of Ewan as older Obi Wan and posted it as news
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Great Twitter thread about the Casino "sub-plot" in The Last Jedi
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[Spoiler]TLJ fixed Star Wars
I write this as someone who's been a Star Wars fan since 1977, and who long viewed I-III as imperial propaganda. YMMV.These last three films have worked hard to recover from the damage Lucas did with I-III. TFA recovered the look and feel of Star Wars, and arguably went overboard trying to make an original-trilogy-style story. Rogue fixed Vader; instead of a pathetically gullible whiner he's a terrifying badass again.But TLJ made me accept at least one aspect of I-III.I-III's biggest problem was what they did to the Jedi. Instead of being about peace and compassion and love, a Jedi's primary value was to avoid getting "attached." They spent their time running the galaxy and violently enforcing trade regulations, and couldn't be bothered to buy their golden boy's mother out of slavery. They were assholes who deserved what they got. It was hard to accept this take on the Jedi as canon.But now in TLJ, Luke fucking Skywalker says you know what, you're right. The old Jedi were assholes. I don't like them either.But there's a flip side to that, because what we saw in the OT wasn't the old Jedi. Old Ben Kenobi was wiser after spending decades in the desert, reflecting on the error of his ways. Yoda figured shit out during his decades in the swamp. They passed on that wisdom to Luke, who wasn't part of that old elitist crap in the first place and then had his own decades of hermitage to sit and think.And what he figured out was that the galaxy was better off without the old Jedi, and the Force didn't belong to the Jedi anyway. They tried to monopolize it, and that just didn't work out. Luke says, feel that? It's right there, it's part of everything. It's not yours to control, and it's not mine.It's no accident that Rey doesn't have special parents. It's significant that some random servant kid force-grabs a broom. The Force is awakening. It's making itself known to people without any special training or heritage. I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens next. via /r/StarWars http://ift.tt/2C4ALED
TLJ Haters Strike Back: Episode V Rewritten by REAL Star Wars Fans
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If you play TFA at exactly 10:11:12 today, Han Solo will be brutally murdered by his son at midnight. Let the past die in 2017. Kill it if you have to. Happy New Year’s Eve /r/StarWars!
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After getting a 3D printer a week ago this was my first Star Wars print after getting everything dialed in. Luke Skywalker's lightsaber!
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When you have to defeat the rebels at 6 but make a hit song at 7
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I drew Ben Solo at a restaurant that lets you draw on the table. Enjoy.
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Saturday, December 30, 2017
Despite our opinions on the sequels as a whole can we all agree
Kylo Ren is a wonderful villain and Driver’s performance is killing it. via /r/StarWars http://ift.tt/2DC0xAh
Did an oil painting of Yoda over winter break
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Kylo Ren's mistake on Crait
Obi Wan taught a simple lesson to Luke, that I'm sure Luke passed on to his apprentices. In the Millennium Falcon, on the way from Tatooine to Alderan, Obi Wan tells Luke "Your eyes can deceive you; don't trust them." Kylo Ren was so blinded by his hatred for Luke that he completely ignored the clues that his eyes were deceiving him, and that Luke wasn't actually there on Crait. via /r/StarWars http://ift.tt/2lpJZow
Ray Park aka Darth Maul - He's Still Got It!
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Alec Guinness writes to a friend as he begrudgingly prepares to shoot Star Wars
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Pencil drawing of Lord Vader I did a few months ago
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Is this what passes for official Star Wars art these days?
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My oil painting depicting the Emperor's death
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‘Star Wars’ Composer John Williams Signs On for ‘Solo’ Theme
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Can anyone identify the original artist of this image? Found it with no attribution and would love to obtain a poster-sized version if available (and credit the creator).
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Reminder: We don't allow pirated content here. Images, clips, gifs etc.
There seems to a lot of people posting content from leaks of the movie. We have a rule about this, but people don't seem to be taking it literally.If you post pirated content here you will be banned. And there is a good chance you won't be coming back. Images from your Facebook, tumbler, imgur, the bootleg footage you personally filmed in the theater to watch your friends reactions (yes, someone did this... I kid you not), are not acceptable. Don't do it.If you aren't sure where the content came from, don't post it.Thanks for reading. via /r/StarWars http://ift.tt/2CSi5rw
[TLJ Spoilers] I liked the movie, but I thought this would be cool, so I drew a comic of it.
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I know they copy film stills for use in the comics but this is ridiculous! lol
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I got the Luke Skywalker Hoth Columbia jacket for Christmas. It’s amazing.
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"Disney is ruining Star Wars with its forced humour"
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Friday, December 29, 2017
On Luke and "Character Assassination"
I think that it's safe to say that the "divisiveness" that is the most important has to do with Luke's storyline. It has to do with two things: Luke's apparent attempt to "assassinate" Ben, and Johnson's apparent attempt to assassinate Luke's character.There are a few observations I want to share on that front:1) Luke in Ben’s Jedi HutIt is simply wrong to say that Luke's moment with sleeping Ben Solo is out of character. It is absolutely within character. Yoda tells Obi-Wan to kill Anakin. Obi-Wan tells Luke to kill Anakin. Obi-Wan agrees to do it. Luke refuses. It sounds harsh, but Yoda is right in both cases. If you have magic abilities to foresee a threat and you sense millions of deaths issuing from one man's turn to the dark, you end the threat. You should think about killing Young Hitler if someone foresees his future. That responsibility comes before your personal feelings. Or, at least, it's good leadership to think that way.When Luke sees Ben's future, he reacts instinctively to this wisdom. He is a leader. He should end the threat before it becomes real.Then the better part of him--the Luke we know--stops himself. That is Luke. It's not out of character to be tempted. It is out of character if he tried to go through with it. He did not. The logic of those who criticize this scene suggests that Luke really tried to kill Ben. Rather, he did exactly what he has done in the past: saw great evil and refused to allow it to lead him on a path to murder, despite what others might counsel.He did exactly what he did in ROTJ: gave into instinct and then overcame instinct. That makes it IN character.What happened afterwards was a result of a kind of Shakespearean tragic miscommunication/misunderstanding.2) Luke in ExileLuke does NOT do what Yoda and Obi-Wan did after his pupil turns to the dark. They went into hiding, biding their time until they could train a super weapon that they could use against Palpatine and Vader. They intended to train a new Skywalker to kill an old Skywalker that they failed at training. When you think about it, their plan doesn’t make that much sense. I know we aren’t allowed to speak ill of the OT, but if they had one job (to train the “Last Hope” of the Galaxy), why did they wait so long? In fact, why did they wait until events forced their hand? What would they have done if Leia didn’t happen upon Tatooine? If not for luck/The Force, Leia (1/2 of their last hope) would have died (were there plans to train her?).Luke’s exile makes more sense than theirs. He doesn’t want to wait to train the person who will eventually kill Ben Solo/Snoke. He realizes that he is part of a cycle: the Jedi find special people, train them to use magic powers as great weapons, and place them in positions where if they ever get tempted to use their amazing powers for ill (and succumb to that temptation), as many people die from this evil as end up being saved by Jedi goodness. He comes to believe that it is time to end this cycle. He believes that it's improper for an organized group to seek out people to train in the Force, as if the Force is theirs to wield. The Force, he believes, will find a way to work its way without the Jedi.You can disagree with his logic, but to say that he is giving up and leaving his friends/family behind out of cowardice isn’t accurate. He doesn’t quit because he failed once and gave up; he quits because he sees that he’s part of a cycle of failure that is inevitable.In this movie, both Ben and Luke arrive to the same philosophical outlook: the only way to create something new is by leaving the past behind. Ben wants to create a new a self; Luke wants to create a new way for the Force to be wielded, outside of the jurisdiction of an official organized religion telling people how to wield it. Both are wrong about how to create something new. Luke learns this; Ben does not.3) Luke the RedeemerLuke’s last act is to give the galaxy hope, but it doubles as something else. Luke does not leave his conversation with Yoda and decide he has to go to Rey and train her. Rather, he decides he needs to tell Ben that he failed him, and he needs to give him a chance. He isn’t just saving the resistance from annihilation; he’s saving Ben from killing his mother, from going another step beyond "too far." He saves Ben from killing his uncle by force-teleporting.Of course, he knows that he can no longer truly save Ben—as he tells Leia—but he does not believe he is beyond redemption. It is left to Rey, who believes in his redemption. Luke, however, does what he can to show he believes in that possibility and that he believes that something new can come about, despite his misgivings of the cycle.This isn’t a departure of the Luke we know and love—it is a restatement of it. Luke represented the young. He represented those who are on the precipice of adulthood and showed us all how to grow up with dignity and heroism. That was the OT Luke. In this series, Luke now represents the old, and I’m sorry to say to all of you, but you will get to your old age with regrets and with sadness. You may not be overcome by it, but it will be there. Luke now represents them. He speaks for another age, and he shows that the same hope is still possible at a new stage in your life. He translates that same character arc to a new stage of life, but it’s hard-earned, it's not easy--just as it was hard-earned in his youth.This is meaningful character work.It is not character assassination. via /r/StarWars http://ift.tt/2CbuGdD
Say it louder for the people in the back Mark
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[TLJ Spoilers] An amazing scene in the film I think most people will agree on
Is the fight with Rey and Kylo Ren against the Praetorian guards. It was absolutely beautiful and eye-gasmic. I loved how you could see everything that was happening. Major major props to Daisy, Adam, and the stunt team.That scene was the reason I watched the film a second time and for me, it was still just as good on a rewatch. via /r/StarWars http://ift.tt/2pXjawL
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