Star Wars

Thoughts?

Your thoughts?

kewl

I think they would indeed dare.

I liked Mandos better when they were just cool guys in armor. Like Boba and Jango, but then Lucasfilm became aware of their fan favorite status and put them at the forefront of everything. Literally everything new we learn about them makes them look lamer and lamer. They went from asshole crusaders with a vague honorable backdrop to space samurai that have nothing but agreeable politics.

Less is more I feel.

I loved it!

It's even better than Rogue One.

In fact, it's the best Star Wars since ROTS and TCW.

Best Star Wars in the last 40 years or so.

...You should start watching Star Wars again. @[email protected]

I would like to share a thought (based on canonical information as much as possible) about healing by the Force seen in Ep9 and which has caused so much discussion.

I have always thought of it as very simple: the ability to heal is achieved by mastering the Living Force (which is one of the two aspects of the Force, the other being the Cosmic Force) and learning to "channel" it. As I understand from the prequels, the study of the Cosmic Force was very prevalent, while the study of the Living Force was lapsed and followed by a minority current of Jedi (e.g., the very first dialogue between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan in Ep1). One aspect of mastering the Living force is maintaining one's self-awareness even after death (thus being able to manifest as a Force ghost), another may well be the ability to elicit healing from physical damage in living tissue. Anakin could not save his mother because, while potentially powerful, he knew nothing about it. Even Sidious did not know about it, which gives me pause as to how even the Sith as far as studying the Force were no better off than the Jedi, although then he must have learned something because in Ep9 he manages to absorb the Living Force from Ben and Rey to toughen his decaying body. While in the Ahch-To texts Rey found the ancient indications to that effect and learned it (and perhaps Plagueis similarly, or re-discovered it on his own). In Yoda's species this ability might be innate (Grogu heals Karga) but after a very long time spent considering almost only the Cosmic Force the master almost forgot it. Am I making it too simple? 🙃

Gulp

Wish me luck.

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Tell my pet dog Muffin that I love him.

Although I felt like they could have edited down the first 3 episodes to 1 or 2, and some of the plot points seemed a bit lazy, I thought it was really good. It's very on-the-nose anti-capitalist and has some very clear parallels to our own world's revolutionary struggles and history.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/384233

Pity.

I would recommend TCW to those that haven't watched it yet.

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Marxism-Leninism-Admiral Ackbarism