This is my favorite like idk how

so it’s not just episode one, all of the prequels - especially in the context of episodes 2 and 3 as framing devices for the clone wars - play a lot better if you pretend liam neeson is obi wan and ewan in e1 is actually anakin

obi wan ‘ben’ qui-gon jinn kenobi survives the darth mauling with a new robot heart ala picard (and a new face as ewan switches roles), mirroring luke and anakin’s robot hands and associated trauma

this near-death experience informs his personality shift to a more laid back, neutral attitude, both towards the ostensibly ‘necessary’ sins of war, and the longstanding traditions of jedi emotional austerity and moral absolutism. obi wan during the clone wars pretty clearly gets it on with duchess satine, and also asajj ventress, and probably padme at some point, like there’s a not insignificant chance he wasn’t alone on tatooine for eighteen years

but also, just, he goes from liam’s stern tutor in e1 to ewan’s friendly equal in e3, and this is played as his weakness, but it’s clearly actually his strength. obi wan, after all, is the real chosen one, and his vision of balance is kindness offered even to his enemies, the hand of friendship instead of the weapons of war

meanwhile, anakin’s fall isn’t due to obiwan’s shoddy teaching technique, but a flaw in his own character. where obi wan eschews the simple morality of the clone wars, and seeks to avoid violence wherever possible, anakin embraces the theater of war because it plays to his natural strengths - and also his ego

if anakin, not obi wan, is the one who takes out darth maul while obi wan (qui gon) is sidelined, and then this repeats twice with count dooku in e2 and e3, then that echo frames a progression in anakin from the impulsive, impatient youth of episode one - 'i see we’ve picked up yet another pathetic lifeform’ - to the heroic killer of the clone wars - 'aggressive negotiations, ones involving a lightsaber’. if executing dooku is not the jedi way, it is //anakin’s// way, and has been since darth maul burned a hole in his master’s chest, and he responded by cutting that motherfucker in fucking half.

obi wan spends years trying to teach anakin that violence only begets more violence, but anakin never comes with him on this. he sees obi wan’s hesitation as a weakness of character rather than a strength, and his willingness to kill as proof that he’s moved beyond obi wan’s teachings

tldr anakin murdering tusken raiders and younglings makes a lot more sense if the action that proved his worth to the council and won him the rank of jedi knight was killing darth maul

i have to say, i’ve grown a fondness for palpatine. he’s just…. so completely, wholly, and entirely evil. he’s so evil i don’t think, “evil,” covers it. i think in the pit of dead sith lords he exists in, now, the other sith lords stay away from him because He’s Just So Evil. i mean, this guy looked at tiny anakin, “the biggest problem in the galaxy is that no one helps each other,” skywalker and said, that one. i want that one, and i want to destroy him and warp him so utterly he will be unrecognizable.

and it’s not like he particularly needed darth vader or anything, that was just icing on the cake. he was already well on his way to taking the republic down, he had the jedi’s kill switch in place, and then he just decides to corrupt the chosen one because he could. it’s like the blowout sale of democracy, and palpatine is the one clearing out the story. i will take away your FREEDOM, your BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS, i will commit ATROCITIES UNPARALLELED, and i think i’ll take your 9 year old, too. throw him in. everything he does to anakin is so horrifying, but it’s just palpatine taking a victory lap. he’s not only going to crush the jedi and the republic, he’s gonna turn their chosen one into the face of his empire and have him hunt down the last remnants of their order. he did all of that just because he could. palpatine is an unparalleled MONSTER and i kind of love it

#palpatine is fantastic because he’s so /archetypical/ #he is the Ancient Evil Wizard#he’s pure distilled one dimensional evil and he’s so committed to that that he somehow gains dimensions #he’s the kind of character who would lose something if you tried to give him depth the way you usually go about giving characters depth (via @alexkablob)

continuing the endless series of realizing how poorly the star wars saga treated leia, it occurs to me suddenly that seeing luke, the son he only found out about a couple years ago, be tortured by palpatine is finally enough to break vader’s dark side conditioning

but finding out he also has a daughter five minutes earlier elicits NO REACTION

there is no version of anakin from the clone wars + prequels who spends twenty years as darth vader, finds out his child by padme survived! and is alive! and is being trained by obi-wan and yoda! and slowly starts scheming against palpatine’s will to turn his son, keep him alive, and overthrow the emperor

but when he finds out padme also had a second child, their daughter, who he has been manipulated by palpatine into nearly killing himself over and over, and who will now take luke’s place as the sith apprentice, leaving luke surplus to requirements and expendable, his response is just, ‘oh, neat’

????

prequel!anakin would discover leia is his daughter and IMMEDIATELY turn around and cut emperor palpatine’s fucking head off, take palpatine’s own lightsaber off of him and straight up execute him dooku style

like at this point per canon, he thinks he killed ahsoka, he thinks he’s about to kill luke, he knows he killed obi-wan and padme, every jedi, alderaan, and thouands more. his own third child that he is about to send to their death - or worse, to share his fate? that would break him more than all his own actual past sins

anyways so akin to ‘the incestuous realization of han solo’ and 'leia fucked luke and han the night bfore the medal ceremomy’, the only reading of vader’s turn that now makes sense for anakin as we know him is that he spends five minutes working out that palpatine knew about luke AND leia the whole time, and just runs up on him and yeets him into the fucking infinite abyss

no offense but if yoda wasn’t such a green little bitch and actually listened to obi wan when he said ‘send me to kill the emperor. I will not kill anakin. he’s like a brother to me’ things would have gone a lot differently

Just wanted to draw ghost Ahsoka @osfi-am

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Various leaders of the Jedi Council (the highest religious authority!)  very much believe that Anakin is their prophesied savior but they harbor such an intense personal dislike for a nine year old that they just kind of shrug it off and quietly disregard that part of their doctrine. Like, WHAT

yoda’s like “the vibes on this child… disgusting, they are” and the rest of them are just grimacing and nodding 

Compilation of my cursed Star Wars Comics.

I thought I might as well slap a bunch of them to a single post so you can enjoy a few of them in one go. Sorry for how long this ended up being, I forgot how many comics I made.

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how did luke and leia react when the research team leia had tasked with going through the imperial and republic archives to identify imperial war criminals and secret rebellion sympathizers, as she tried to rebuild the republic and the navy from the ashes of both, with luke spending a lot of time in her office on coruscant going through bits of recovered jedi archives, sends up some random clerk with a copy they found of darth vader’s fucking marriage certificate “yeah so darth vader was apparently this big deal war hero jedi, and he secretly got married to a senator, and it was a huge scandal in all the society papers on coruscant but it took aaages for anyone to make the connection, and so anyways also here is your birth mother’s parents home address on naboo and these are all your naberrie cousins” luke strongly considers chsnging his name to naberrie on the spot, while leia merely adds it to her increasingly long official register. leia organa-solo-skywalker-naberrie-amidala, princess of alderaan and naboo, general of the rebellion, senator of the old republic and the new, and now also apparently the proud auntie of like a dozen babies at some kind of perfectly normal family reunion where LUKE AND LEIA SKYWALKER showed up all ‘hey cuz, funny story’ and it’s only //then// they find out emperor god damn palpatine is from their fucking hometown grandma naberrie all 'yeah he was mean to dogs, i never liked him, lousy senator too’ and grandpa naberrie pipes in with 'i voted for the other guy, and he was a protocol droid’

hahaha whaaaat i don’t remember writing this but i love it

peak obi wan is when he still argues with anakin while anakin’s currently burning to death

peak anakin is when he still argues with obi wan while currently being on fire

peak padme is when she runs directly into an assassination attempt meant for her to try and save her body double

Everyone who ever met Anakin Skywalker just walked away going “Yikes! What a mess! I hope somebody intervenes!” and then nobody ever did

ok so Leia was heading to Obi-wan before the Battle of Scarif, and before she ever knew she or anyone would have the plans. It wasn’t just a last resort, “vader’s bout to get us we gotta go somewhere” decision. the fact that she was going to Obi-wan is probably the reason she was with the rebels and not on Alderaan.

so think in the context that a) Bail was knowingly sending his daughter, who has the genes of one of the most powerful force users ever, to go get a Jedi, b) Bail knew that he was sending the biological child of Anakin to Anakin’s former master and friend, c) Obi-wan definitely would knows who Leia is, d) Bail knows that Obi-wan is keeping an eye on Luke.

I’m not saying Bail Organa knowingly sent his force sensitive daughter to the only fully trained Jedi he knew how to get in touch with and also her force sensitive brother, but Bail Organa knowingly sent his force sensitive daughter to the only fully trained Jedi he knew how to get in touch with and also her force sensitive brother. Because he and Mon Mothma decided things had gotten to this point.

Someone in the tags said “Bail didn’t send the plans to Obi-wan. Bail sent Leia.”

YES. The Death Star plans were a last minute bonus. Bail’s actual plans for dealing with the Empire and the Death Star was LEIA

Goddamn right.