Sorry mutuals, it’s been a fun ride but I’m thinking about closing this account down. I might make a different account but I’m taking a break for a while. Thanks for sticking in this hellhole with me
Do you think that when Steve Rogers sneezes, one of the Avengers goes up to him and whispers, âGod Bless Americaâ Then Steve fucking looks at them like this
no IT GOT SO MUCH BETTER TONYâS FACE OH MY GOD
thorâs pokerface
Okay, google, how to stop laughing
Thorâs hair flowing in the indoor wind.
Ok but the preparatory nngh and he sneezes red and blue lmao
When heâs a 19 year old fascist and youâre a 24 year old democratically elected politician but he has a tiny braid so youâre helpless to his charming pear floating powers
Like, not to be That Fan, but Anakinâs a former slave serving the government that flat-out refused to attempt to clean up his home worldâs slavery issue (or, yannow, free his mum) and lashing out like teens do and looking for simple solutions, and sheâs a politician in the hopelessly corrupt government who spends her time crusading against its corruption and can understand that Anakin was uneducated, justifiably mad, and venting.
Like, saying âI should MAKE them do somethingâ about your mother having a bomb inside her to keep her enslaved is kinda understandable for a teenager. Or even an adult.
Tbh the thing that moved me the most about RotS, not at the time it came out but as Iâve gotten older and rewatched it a few times, is that I honestly canât fault Anakin *too much* before he started, you know, actively engaging in evil acts like mass murdering kids. His fall may have been a dramatic plunge into âfor the evulzâ, but the getting there was not as blunderingly obvious as people think.
Between the super-corrupt bureaucratic government refusing to deal with slavery on Tatooine, the aloof and dogmatic Jedi whose response to âI got a vision of my wife dying and I need helpâ was âdump her and move onâ, and the manipulative surrogate father figure luring him to the Dark Side, Anakin reacted about as well as a young man his age would have.
That isnât apologizing for fascism; itâs more commentary on how fascists twist emotionally vulnerable young men into their puppets, and is imminently relevant to todayâs world.
oooooo that last bit is spot on
The only way this could have been more on-point is if Anakinâs mom had died from a lack of health care.
The prequels get a lot of shit for being terrible, and itâs not all wrong: the script is godawful, the CGI ages poorly, and it has many other flaws, but the story is solid.
