my favorite part in attack of the clones is when obi-wan just fucks off to play space nancy drew on Clone Rain Planet with the alarming giraffe-necked aliens and swans in like “HELLO IT’S ME, the jedi who definitely… … was here before and probably, uh, spoke to you, and stuff” and theyre like “ah you are here for the order” and hes like “beg pardon” and theyre like “the order of millions of identical human men?” and hes like “RIGHT YES. ABSOLUTELY I AM HERE FOR THE ORDER OF MILLIONS OF IDENTICAL HUMAN MEN”
and then later when he SNEAKS INTO A CORNER TO FUCKING… facetime yoda… like “ok so we have these millions of identical human men who were apparently suspiciously ordered for us by someone???” and yodas fucking response is just “when countless sapient lemons life gives you…….. send those lemons into intergalactic battle you must”
and obi-wan’s like “shit man you’re so right"
There literally isn’t a frame of this scene where Obi-Wan doesn’t look confused as hell
are we ever going to talk about palpatine’s kidnapping fetish or?
oh no i have been taken against my will!! so helpless!! i need to be rescued by some big strong jedi knights!!
“His interest was immediately renewed” He needs to be kidnapped from time to time. For enrichment. Senator “oh I’m slightly intoxicated, can I take your arm?” Palpatine making his kidnappers carry him since 33 BBY
When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?”. Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly “Borg Cube”, but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.
So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said “Death Star”.
So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.
APPARENTLY ANAKIN HAS HAD ENOUGH TANTRUMS THAT HE IMMEDIATELY KNOWS “TAKE A SEAT, YOUNG SKYWALKER” MEANS “GO TO YOUR DESK AND COLOR OUT YOUR FEELINGS UNTIL YOU CALM DOWN” (BECAUSE HE IMMEDIATELY DOES IT AND IS COLORING THE ENTIRE MEETING) AND LEGO STAR WARS IS THE ONLY STAR WARS I WILL ACCEPT ANYMORE
thought about this again. kind of amazing how we’re all just chasing ways to duplicate how this scene makes us feel, either in life or in art.
thinking about when mark told the story of how when they were shooting, he said to george, “darth vader has a musical theme, han, leia all have themes, do i have a theme song?” and george going “mark, the main theme is your theme song”
The thing that always comes as a surprise to me, somehow, every time I rewatch this movie, is how much of it is setup. There’s *so much* that happens after Luke joins up with Han Solo, including nearly everything iconic about the movie, that it’s really easy to forget that it opens with a lot of slow-paced establishing scenes, setting up the world and Luke’s life and just letting you wander around in this interesting and visually delightful universe and experience and explore it without feeling like you’re always being hustled off to the next action scene. There are a lot of reasons why the movie took off like it did, but I really feel like part of its magic and part of why it’s still fun to watch after all these years (even after we know the story and all the character beats) is because of that “tourist in a foreign land” experience that you get from the first half of it.
