what would you have me do?

Carrie Fisher & Mark Hamill having fun on the set of Star Wars (1977)

Deleted Tosche Station scene from A New Hope

Obi-Wan glances between Luke, Leia, and Han immediately wonders if it would have been better to just let Vader kill him

the first conversation between vader and leia in anh is So funny like it implies a lot about the previous times they’ve met

#‘you weren’t on any mercy mission this time!’ she really got one over on him before huh. hes not happy!

Not only has Darth Vader been repeatedly thwarted by a teenage girl, he considers her nothing less than a serious and worthy adversary. Darth Vader leaned in. 

star wars heritage vid

Trapped in the Death Star! | by Michael Siglain & Pilot Studio THIS IS THE SADDEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN.  AND HEY LET’S PAIR IT UP WITH “THERE IS ANOTHER”:

THANKS, I HATE IT.

i was thinking that people don’t appreciate how overwhelmingly funny the death star getting blown up is; i mean, you know, on some level, this is just some teenager from space alabama who grew up shooting cans with a shotgun going, “yeah, you want me to attack the biggest military base in space history with absolutely no piloting-in-space experience? i can do that.” like back in space alabama luke flew the equivalent of a crop duster, maybe, but then the rebellion’s like this kid we met two hours ago, we need to put him in a fighter. luke has absolutely no hours piloting a fighter in space before this, and then he succeeds because he’s got magic powers, and the voices told him to. what is probably the most overwhelmingly enormous military base ever built in space with the most extreme firepower ever amassed in space loses in a fight to a guy who had less flight time than a fresh soviet pilot in WWII, this is already the funniest military victory in pop fiction, bar none.

but then you go to how luke wins, aside from the magic powers and the voices in his head; he convinces the local weed guy to get into armed conflict with the military, and the local weed guy shows up in the space equivalent of a VW bus that has a gun duct taped to it, and this is the rig that manages to shoot down darth vader. i should say that by this point in star wars, darth vader has been fighting in war since he was nineteen, and the first time he flew a fighter was when he was nine, he’s widely renowned not only as one of the best pilots in the galaxy, but also as one of the most dangerous people in the galaxy period, like if you let him loose on a battlefield everyone probably just sort of hangs back and lets him massacre everyone. because honestly they’re really just accessories in this. things like “air support” or “artillery” or even “other people with guns” aren’t super necessary because vader’s got the magic powers, the voices in his head, and also a sword that kills people, you know? definitely a couple imperial victories boil down to, “we just told vader to go to work, and then we found a mountain of bodies afterwards.” and this is the guy who gets creamed by a VW bus plus gun. han and chewie fucking scooby and shaggy his ass, and in legends vader ate shit so hard he spiraled out of control, crashed on a planet in the middle of nowhere, and promptly went kind of crazy and decided to slum it with - and i shit you not - a pack of literal space hyenas, who adopted him as their king. he then became the only fucking survivor of the entire ordeal. we really don’t appreciate how fucking funny this is.

You... you really are a Jedi.

Cause of death:  Leia’s little hand reaching out to Obi-Wan and the way he reaches back, a little surprised at someone being there during a time of grief, and the way he gently looks at her and strokes her hand back.  It’s only a moment, but he truly got to be her Uncle Ben in that moment and I am DEAD AND IN PAIN.

Did you have to dig me up just to murder me a second time with this??

Obi-Wan glances between Luke, Leia, and Han immediately wonders if it would have been better to just let Vader kill him

For me, it works to read Leia’s distant, impersonal tone and way of expressing herself as intentional.

That she’s not asking for Ben, her Jedi friend, to come save her. She’s asking Jedi Master and General Obi-Wan Kenobi to help the rebellion. To get the plans to Alderaan. Leia herself? She’s dead. Her chances of coming out alive now that she’s been captured aren’t good, and she knows it. So she’s keeping it professional, keeping it distant, on his relationship to Bail, because otherwise the urge to ask him to help her, save her, again, might grow to big. And they can’t afford that right now, the Death Star plans have to come first.

#kenobi series#kenobi series spoilers#you just got a stretch it a little and that speech can now fit so much angst#her little pauses as holding herself together professional#skimming over how her mission has failed and she’s being captured - by Vader no less#not dwelling on her own future fate#so that he will know not to dwell on it either#that she’s not the important part here#and then he ends up coming to save her anyway (via @ilummoss​) Wow, okay, I thought I was done hurting about this but apparently not.

Obi-Wan having to rescue ten year old Leia from being kidnapped makes every one of their scenes in ANH that much better.

Like her aggressively excited reaction when Luke tells her he’s there with Ben Kenobi? They have a history of Obi-Wan coming to rescue her, Luke. I’m not okay

✦ Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: A New Hope | “Time of Death” ✦ Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) ✦ Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)

suddenly crying over this scene

Vader’s reaction to Obi-Wan arriving on the Death Star in ANH is just pure gold. Not only does he begin it all with stalking off in the middle of a conversation with nothing more than a “I feel something… something I haven’t felt since…”, he then goes to tell Tarkin that Obi-Wan is there with nothing but a “He is here” and Tarkin doesn’t wonder for even A SECOND who Vader means. 

Vader is also almost insulted at Tarkin’s belief that Obi-Wan will try to sneak out without seeing him first (the audacity of the claim!!), because CLEARLY Obi-Wan is there to have an emotionally charged and epic confrontation with him! After which he dramatically sweeps out of the room to wander around alone so that the Force can guide him to their reunion. 

And it’s made even better by how the scene JUST BEFORE THIS ONE is his two kids having their first moment of bonding over Ben Kenobi and how they should go meet him. Two scenes after each other with the Skywalkers being very excited to meet Obi-Wan Kenobi, THIS IS HOW WE’RE INTRODUCED TO THEM 😂

iconic

you don’t have to know anything about Star Wars, but PLEASE watch this.

If you think Han Solo is The Cool Guy TM, think again. 

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker - Star Wars: The Empire of Dreams