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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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Do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Special days!

Friday and weekends: Caption contest. An image will be pinned, and we shall make captions for it and post them in the comments.

Wednesday: Theme day. We have Droids day, EU day, poem day, aliens day... Let the pinned post guide you. Memes with the theme are preferred.

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

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  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

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[–] Anticorp 64 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Not kind of. He showed up, he fought, he died. There's no dimensions there. But he looked cool, had a new lightsaber, and was probably the first actor in Star Wars that actually knew how to fight IRL.

[–] niktemadur 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the first actor in Star Wars that actually knew how to fight IRL

That also goes for Liam Neeson, who had already had a badass sword fight, check out his climactic duel versus Tim Roth in "Rob Roy". In fact, I believe that scene was key in his being considered for the part of Qui-Gon, I remember it being said at the time.

[–] Anticorp 8 points 8 months ago

I've seen that movie. It's a great fight scene, but the Darth Maul actor was a straight-up martial artist.

[–] ChillPenguin 13 points 8 months ago

If you watch the clone wars TV show (highly recommend) the character definitely has more depth than what was portrayed in the movies. If you're interested in star wars character development. No better place to look than that show. You just have to suffer the first season a little bit. Since the series ages with it's audience.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Wasnt the actor for count dooku knowledgeable in regards to fighting?

[–] Acamon 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You mean Christopher "that's not the sound a man makes when he is knifed in the back" Lee?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yes, that's the one!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yes but he wasn't in Phantom Menace.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, but he was like fucking 80 by then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fencing with a rapier is different from waving around something which cuts and burns through stuff without pressure with every side, and doesn't have edges, and its resistance to movement stems not from gravity and aerodynamics, but from oxygen being burnt.

Though that's fans overthinking it, it's not like lightsaber fighting in SW was ever logical.

[–] Blue_Morpho 9 points 8 months ago

Fencing with a rapier is different from waving around something which cuts and burns through stuff without pressure with every side

It's actually closer to what Lightsaber dueling would be than the Kendo style used in most of Star Wars. The Light Saber has no mass and a single touch is incapacitating. So two handed hard chops like classic Luke are ridiculous. The rapier fencing technique to parry, thrust or slice quickly and lightly is ideal. You have a massless blade not a two handed clamore. You need only prick the opponent to severely harm them in the same way in fencing a touch, no matter how light, is a point for you.

[–] OrteilGenou 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He was the setup for the need to find the next sith, Darth Vader

Unless my vague opinion doesn't line up with Star Wars lore, in which case, retracted

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was always confused because I thought Dooku (Darth Tyrannus) was Sidious's apprentice. He's the one who arranged the clones to start being made 20 years before episode 2. But that would mean Sidious had two apprentices. Did they know that? Was Maul just given a title to make him feel better but was always seen as disposable?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I never saw Maul as a real apprentice initiated into the mysteries of the sith, just someone trained to fight with the force, although Maul may have thought he was an apprentice. Dooku got the real sith training, hence the force lightning.

All those inquisitors running around at other times aren't sith, just force sensitive enforcers.

[–] Blue_Morpho 6 points 8 months ago

Imo rule of two was an unnecessary retcon of a line from Phantom. "Always two Sith are found together" didn't have to mean ONLY two. It was to reflect that like Jedi Master and Jedi Padawan are always two Jedi found together, two Sith are always found together.

Instead of seeing the symmetry that Lucas was so fond of (it's like poetry), the EU ran with the line into an absurd history of how Sith developed into only 2 Sith in the entire Galaxy.

The fact that there was Emperor, Dooku and Maul coexisting meant Lucas saw the Sith as the evil version of the Jedi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Dooku also was a Jedi Master, so he already had a mastery of the Force beforehand.

[–] EvolvedTurtle 1 points 7 months ago

I mean it makes sense considering he was quite literally a pawn

Slightly brainwashed too I believe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Was geriatric when they filmed the 2nd film. He wasn't in the Phantom Menace.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ah right “first actor”

I read as knew how to fight first