The Jedi Council do know that ‘feigning’ weakness doesn’t mean shoot
yourself in the foot and hope for the best, right? Strategically
speaking, they’ve made every mistake in the book. You don’t send your
armies jumping across the galaxy like it. It’s exhausting for everyone.
You don’t add more stress to someone that’s already tired and exhausted.
Also, the required skill sets for a spy and a frontline general are
vastly different. So WHY?! What kind of brains do these old Jedi folks
have? (2/2)
The Jedi
Council was completely out of their depths and it’s important for the audience
to recognize that because that’s how Palpatine ultimately won. He overwhelmed
them to the point the Council could no longer think rationally. They weren’t
stupid but they were lost. By that point, they had completely lost sight of the
bigger picture. They were so focusing on ending the war they lost track of
everything else.
Anakin is
completely responsible for his own actions. When we talk about other people’s
responsibility we are not talking about their responsibility for Anakin’s
choices, we are talking about their own responsibility and how their choices
affected Anakin.
We often
talk about the Jedi’s responsibility in Anakin’s fall so let’s explore that
first and see how it’s different from Anakin’s personal responsibility.
The Jedi
Order took Anakin in when he was a child and from that moment on they became responsible
for Anakin’s upbringing (the same way a parent is responsible for their child).
They were responsible for Anakin’s emotional and physical health, for his
education, for the friendships he kept, for his leisure, etc. And so they
became (partly) responsible for what he became. Shmi, Watto, Gardulla,
Palpatine and everyone who was ever been responsible for Anakin when he was growing
up share some of that responsibility.
These character
are responsible for their choices and how these choices affected Anakin. And
Anakin is responsible for his own choices and how they affected everyone else.
One doesn’t negate the other because everyone is accountable. The Jedi Council
is responsible for deciding to put Palpatine and Anakin together and how
that influenced Anakin but they are not responsible for Anakin’s choice to join
Palpatine. Anakin had agency and the power to decide for himself. He alone is responsible
for his own fall. He had the power to say no but chose yes. Palpatine was responsible
for manipulating him and the Jedi were responsible for failing to support him
but they were not responsible for Anakin’s actions.
The first
episode (cat and mouse) takes place in the same year AOTC did so we know it
wasn’t a long time. Unfortunately, the EU usually doesn’t specify months so we
can’t know for sure how many weeks passed between AOTC and TCW. It had not be
at least enough for Anakin to recover from his life-threating injuries, marry
Padmé, train with Obi-wan and get acquainted with the 501st. I remember someone from the production team
confirming tcw takes place weeks after AOTC but I couldn’t find a source so
take that with a grain of salt. The only thing that has been confirmed by the
EU is that both AOTC and TCW take place in the same year.
(cont) There relationship is built on shaky foundations in the first
place. Having to keep their marriage a secret hasnt exactly done either
of them any favors, especially Anakin who grew up with very poor, if
any, expectations as to what a partnership between two people should
look like. Even if he loves and respects Padme, when they disagree he
rarely goes about confronting the situation in a communicative way. He
becomes aggressive, like in the Clovis arc or his jealousy of Obi Wan in
ROTS
Hey! There’s
a lot to unpack here, so I’ll do it in parts, okay?
we need to teach women that it’s ok for them not to become mothers because if i see any more bad moms movies coming out and keep seeing sitcoms about moms who hate their children and hate being moms i’m gonna scream like its not ok to bring a child into this world just to turn them into a traumatized adult, being a mother is about putting all your time and energy into a growing and vulnerable human being and if you’re not ready to do that, don’t become a mom.. you can lead a perfectly happy and fulfilling life without having a child just to traumatize them and make both you and your children’s lives miserable
to add to this, you really shouldn’t have children at all unless you really, really want to. Like I’d say you shouldn’t even do it if you just feel neutral about the idea–you need to really love the idea of having a child, and you need to respect that hypothetical child as a separate person, not a small version of yourself.
if you haven’t watched the clone wars you’ve really missed out on the best Star Wars shitposting content like in one episode a space pirate ties obi-wan, anakin, and count dooku together with a string like they’re wearing a get-along shirt, and in another one an entire planet mistakes jar jar binks for a jedi because he disguised himself with anakin’s extra jedi robe that he keeps in padme’s ship for after they fuck
Cody had nine cups of coffee that morning, and was vibrating into the fourth dimension so he stopped listening after “execute order six-” order six, CANONICALLY, is “get rid of your communicator as fast as possible”. So that’s what Cody hears, and that’s what Cody relays to the GAR. So Palpatine executes his master stroke and six million clones just YEET their communicators and keep going about their business.
Reblog with your favorite candy, favorite monster, whether or not you expect to die a violent death
Favorite candy is a kind of chocolate called “Triangulo”. My favorite “monster” (I’m not sure if it’s considered a monster??) would be a shapeshifter. And I surely hope that I don’t die violently, but living in my country… Who knows..
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