Which gets extra funny when you think about Dunmer culture being based off of feudal Japan, but yeah that is an angle I did not think of when looking at Hlaalu compared to the other houses and the ashlanders.
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The whole point of the Luke arc is that he tried to ressurect the Jedi Order, but the order was terrible and leads to the problems that you see - it makes you complacent or paranoid
Rey initially wants him to wander out and be the big hero with a big laser sword, which Luke makes fun of but then he realises that he needs to become a symbol of hope to save the lives of the Resistance and fool Kylo who is so stuck in the past that ‘walking out with a laser sword and save the day’ is exactly what he expects
the solution isn’t to repeat the past or kill it - you build something new
somehow both quintissential Star Wars and also foundational leftist text, it’s so good
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One day I will see… heck I might even binge Clone Wars and Rebellion at some point. But im currently on another Camp Cretaceous Run for when Chaos Theory comes out.
Which is fair. I guess I personally just would’ve loved to have atleast seen a bit more willingness in helping out Rey. And -not- throw away his own darn lightsaber just like that.
I should also add that I didn’t expect Luke to be a Jesus-figure , but his personality just felt a bit too much like a 180 to me.
That was indeed a crime like no other.
I head canon that the reason is that:
A. He built his own lightsaber later and had no reason for it, hence being able to discard it and
B. He became aware of what his father actually did with that lightsaber and is perhaps unwilling to possess it as a result. He only ever wielded it up until the point he realised that his father was Darth Vader.
But it was obviously just done for laughs, so it’s only a bit of cope on my part.
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this is the only thing Last jedi got right and its the one thing that every form of star wars media can agree on.
the jedi order is flawed. the jedi code is flawed.
the sith order is flawed. the sith code is flawed.
take me home galen marek…
Mostly this, to show that it’s ridiculous to be like ‘in this gigantic galaxy of hundreds of billions of people, the only way for us to succeed is to return The Lightsaber to The Chosen One’
like lmao no rey give your head a wobble
woah now woah hey let’s not go crazy now
A lot of Dunmer (both ‘House’ Dunmer + Ashlanders) culture, architecture, nomenclature, and religion is loosely inspired by various semitic cultures from the Fertile Crescent during the whole ‘first cities / first civilizations’ thing, so they’re an unappealing choice for people that want to play out their uhh, particular views, even if it’s an authoritarian society that hates outsiders to the core
the nationalistic vibe is different; dunmer think they’re the chosen people in their chosen land that everyone should get out of, vs imperials who strong man leader themselves into conquering all of their weak, lesser neighbours
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Weren’t there also Grey Jedi who pretty much took the best of both? I seem to recall something of the sort.
grey jedi are cringe
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This is my beef though, and the Mandalorian/BoB strays into this writing as well annoyingly;
Writing it that Luke, of all people, would try and remake the Jedi Order as bad and as unhealthy as it was, feels like a gross misunderstanding of the character.
Elaborate, I know very little about them other than them existing.
its flawed for the exact opposite reason the jedi code is.
the jedi code has no room for interpretation. and jedi that try to interpret it diffrently end up as outcasts or mavericks. whereas the sith code has a lot of room for interpretation. but all but a few sith stick to a single interpretation and sith that go against that end up as outcasts or heretics.
they exist but even Lucas dislikes them. in theory they were jedi who didnt take the code as litterally as everyone else. in practise they were way too middle of the road for the light and dark and yet still were more light jedi than anything actually grey.
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Luke “I am a Jedi, like my father before me” Skywalker? Taught directly by Yoda himself, but never knew the order at its worst? That Luke?
he’d absolutely try and fail to remake the Jedi, and fail not because he is a bad person but because he is trying to reinstall a failed system
sith should be queer anarchists, this is true
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i am convinced if you give lana a single light beer this will be the result
Yeah sorry but gotta agree with Stonetower, Luke has no understanding of the Jedi order outside of two of it’s biggest proponents, Ben Kenobi and Yoda.
Their whimsy filled recollections of the Republic and the Order with rose tinted glasses are all Luke knows, where we as the viewers know the trip falls and what it actually was and led to.
anywhere here’s the original caramelldansen
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=H2kdPzjbTkw&list=LM
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https://i.redd.it/htigklv73lay.jpg
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grey jedi are demon hunters
think they can tap into the dark side of the force without succumbing to it’s very obvious corrupting influence and the thirst for more that comes as a result
very dumb given what we know about the force
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Too busy having zero presence I imagine, its funny because they’re basically the blood elves of FF14 in terms of RP community
Regardless, from a cinematic and writing/filmography standpoint (I did Animation at Uni, which had a lot of overlap, no matter how badly it was taught… -sighs in failed degree-) I still hold the Sequels are bad, and I’m not a fan. Whatever the reasons for the lack of cohesion/re-writes/flip flopping on directors, I dislike the results.
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