Hello
#swtwt
, I am Jarod.
Iโve loved Star Wars since I can remember. I love discussing the themes and motifs of Star Wars
My favorite characters are Darth Vader & Kylo Ren
My favorite films are TLJ, ROTJ, & TPM
My favorite shows are Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka, & The Mandalorian
If you want to play the realism game letโs stay consistent, boo.
Lightsaber wound cauterizes the blood due to the heat.
Sabine got immediate medical attention.
Indara was stabbed through the chest with a fucking kunai and left to bleed out 1/3
Oh and the most important thing: itโs pretend and death/near death experiences are narrative devices used to set stakes and show the danger and the personal growth of these characters.
3/3
The bar she was attacked in had a mass exodus because of Mae beating the shit out of everyone so thereโs really nobody there to help her.
Also this is a crisp 150 years before Ahsoka, Bacta was a relatively new tech at this time so even if she got help, itโs iffy
2/3
Just today Geeks & Gamers had a stream that contained the implied sexual assault of women as a joke, multiple uses of the R slur, gay uses as an insult, casual transphobia, and the use of โfigโ as a proxy for the F slur.
Good work
@TeamYouTube
@rewritingripley
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For the folks trying to make the argument that a lightsaber wound would boil you from the inside: yes.
Iโm saying that the way the lightsaber is depicted and shown is consistently not doing that.
Thereโs sound in space, use the logic of the world, itโs not a physics class
@slidesoul
In what way is the lightsaber less lethal? The prequels are full of people taking blows from sabers and surviving. There are a handful of people who survive a lightsaber wound in the new canon and are given reason to have survived.
This is deeply silly.
Victor Wembanyama is a huge
#StarWars
fan
โข First purchase with his first NBA check was reportedly a $850 Millennium Falcon LEGO set
โข Favorite Star Wars film is
#RevengeOfTheSith
โข
#EmpireStrikesBack
is in his top 3 films
โข Doesn't count the Sequel Trilogy as Star Wars
Iโm well aware it doesnโt make sense. But in โLight of the Jediโ itโs explained that the reason the lightsaber is the weapon of choice of the Jedi is because you can exact a precise level of damage on an enemy. Never more than what you want.
Just remember the people heโs saying this in defense of couldnโt even do their โwe are being attacked help us!โ livestream without immediately spewing transphobic jokes and saying the r slur a shit ton of times. This is when he chooses to use his platform.
Theory spent most of his time bitching about the 5th episode claiming that Plaguies would have sensed how powerful The Stranger is.
So which is it? Is he so powerful he would catch Plaguiesโ attention or is he only 15 and not involved with the Sith yet?
Try again.
โSam Witwer is in the credits therefore Marrok is Galen Marekโ
My brother in Christ heโs also the Shoretrooper that stops and frisks Cassian Andor and is a stormtrooper in EVERYTHING talking about speeders. Stop.
The Fandom Menace has run rampant for far too long and now a flourishing cottage industry of thinly veiled bigotry has been able to thrive while making fandom spaces a cesspool of hatred.
Itโs time for
@TeamYouTube
to step up and enforce their TOS.
We can see the unconventional blade work and tactics very clearly in the way Qimir utilized his Cortosis armor and in his precise, swift, but erratic physicality. The speed and aggression lends itself well to engaging multiple enemies at once.
The Fandom Menace has run rampant for far too long and now a flourishing cottage industry of thinly veiled bigotry has been able to thrive while making fandom spaces a cesspool of hatred.
Itโs time for
@TeamYouTube
to step up and enforce their TOS.
Qimirโs primary discipline is Form VII Juyo. Defined by its ferocity and unpredictability.
Form VII was largely unused by the Jedi as they believed its hyper aggression was an invitation to the Dark Side with its over emphasis on offensive swordplay.
This week on
#ObiWanKenobi
they managed to take requests from all over the spectrum of Star Wars fan and made it work as a (as one wise man would say) tapestry of pain and hope. I am without words. This is my favorite episode of Star Wars TV.
Thereโs a lot to unpack here:
This โskitโ is 80% the Darth Plagueis monologue with an attempt at humor not happening until damn near the end of the video.
Once he actually tries to say something, he gets the events of โDestinyโ wrong again.
This must be studied in a lab
@petercoffin
I mean the political left in America basically has Sanders & the Squad so seeing them all throw elbows for the working class and being the only folks who even remotely resemble our views is inspirational. Now hereโs Bernie on the Jedi Council
With how deceptively complex Juyo is as a martial practice, it was a prerequisite that the user be proficient in one or two other forms, meaning that no two applications of Form VII were ever identical
@JohnOne919984
The man laid languishing with a plasma burn through his heart and lungs for 10-15 min while Maul and Obi duked it out. Sabine got a bacta patch and treatment in that time.
You are wrong.
Literally Star Wars Theory and Joe Rogan are on the same arc of being the most mainstream element of a fringe group of weirdos getting radicalized further and further by their own weirdo buddies. Itโs literally the same mf.
Form II is known for its elegant blade work and precision as well as single handed cut and thrust attacks. It was the premier style for engaging with blade to blade combat.
Star Wars movies will never be really good again because it's this massive Sci fi universe full of cool bullshit like slug crime lords and an order of nuns who ride monsters and use laser whips but the suits actively refuse to let the plot stray from the same six characters
The embarrassing โtrust me guys itโs happeningโ is just, painful.
One day KK is going to retire and itโs going to be celebrated like a dragon was slain by the most pathetic people on the internet.
Shien however, famous for its implementation of the reverse grip, is equally based around counter offensive tactics but with more agility and in theory being designed for engagements with blaster wielding enemies, though fighters like Ahsoka Tano of adapted it well for fencing.
He is the biggest SW YouTuber because he plays games of telephone with books that Iโm not fully convinced heโs read to give watered down cliff notes about fights and badass dialogue devoid of context.
Man is the word โhackโ incarnate.
What we learn about Qimir as a person is that his desire to free himself to indulge in his power has left him aggressive, violent, and with very little ability to defend and with next to no subtlety to his style which contributes to his need for a dark liberation.
There is so much discourse comparing these scenes and so much of it is rooted in this strange inability to appreciate the fact that these are creative decisions being made deliberately about who lives, who dies, and what narrative function these scenes serve
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Qimir also demonstrates skill in Form V. There were two branching variants of the fifth form: Shien & Djem So.
Djem So was a strength based counter offensive style also designed from blade to blade combat. Despite this specialized version of Form V, I donโt Qimir uses it.
In its totality, Qimir sacrificed the economy of motion in Makashi to bolster the fast paced offense of Juyo and to shore up the lack of defense added a form to go on the counter offensive and employ exotic weapons and tap into the Force when he is on the ropes.
This really depresses me. The Star Wars fandom really allowed the worst of us to become our spokespeople.
I see near universal praise and excitement for Ahsoka and yet the usual suspects are the voices that rise to the top and keep our fandom impenetrable.
IT WAS ALL A DREAM, I USED TO READ WIZARD MAGAZINE
Iโm a casual Star Wars fan. My knowledge is nowhere like MCUs. Seeing how the Star Wars community reacted to
#Ahsoka
makes me glad Iโm not into it more. Honestly that was the most Star Wars shit Iโve seen on yrs. Lightsabers, dog fights, droids and aliens. Dafuq else do you want?
Date men who say the following:
How are you?
What happened today?
Enjoy your night out.
Don't be afraid I feel it too.
You're nothing. You're no one...but not to me.
You need a teacher! I can show you the ways of the Force!
But I do.
Date Ben Solo.
I want to make something clear:
Dislike what you dislike. Idc. Itโs absurd, nonsensical, dog whistling complaints that should be called out. POC and women are his problem, not the stories.
I often call attention to the parallels to the โmainstreamโ alt-right internet influencers and the fandom ones and just like the InfoWars v QAnon fall out, Theory and Mr. Cock is playing out exactly the same way.
Over the last year and some change and some soul searching Iโve come to the realization that Iโm bisexual and have accepted this fact and embraced it. On one hand announcing this feels somewhat gratuitous as all those I hold dear were unphased by the news. 1/2
This man literally said โI only want middle aged white dudes to make the things we never got because what I imagine they were is better than what we gotโ
Also most of these are based on misinfo or Fandom Menace dog whistles.
Also, he paid for Twitter.
Going into the โ25th Anniversary of the Prequel Trilogyโ celebrations I think something needs to be clear.
You can dislike these movies without being like this.
This specific behavior is why fandom culture is so unbearably toxic
1/5
Releasing a Star Wars movie and an Avengers movie in one month makes my nerdy heart happy but the likelihood that the Avengers movie suffocates what will likely be the Rey movie scares me.
I donโt wanna offer the anti-woke crowd another Solo fallacy to claim as a W.
@CanvasAirless04
Idk if your whole cashflow is based around being needlessly cruel while just shitting out of your word hole about space wizards and superheroes I think that maybeโฆ they shouldnโt have that job ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Fans are taking action that Disney is for whatever reason unwilling to do. Meanwhile swagmin is tweeting memes and pretending that people arenโt actually doing the work the companies should have been doing years ago.
Not very slay, bestie. Not slay, at all.
One of them wonโt stfu about Legends novels they havenโt read since they were 12 clickbaitng you into thinking Star Wars is Dragon Ball Z the other hates vaccines but loves shrooms and pot and clickbaits you into wellness BS all while being an amazing gateway to the harder right
Idk if this is something that we as a collective on Star Wars Twitter have talked about or not but I had Solo on while I was falling asleep (clearly didnโt work) and they say they havenโt fed Chewbacca in 3 days. Chewie ate people and we donโt talk about it.
Also the video ends with Palpatine shitting himself? Not sure what thatโs about but Right Wing humor basically boils down to saying whatever stupid shit you think and following it up with some adolescent jokes so it checks out.
I was minding my own business at FanExpo Philly and then
@EmanEsfandi
recognized me as the โguy whoโs booty at triviaโ.
@quicksilvergrrl
joined in too.
@inagalaxytrivia
is ruining my life. Bummer, dude. Bummer.
In a world of full of lowest common denominator by the numbers rage bait choose to engage with thoughtful and intelligent people and their work.
@StarWarsExplain
&
@MollieDamon
personify this.
Listen. This man has a platform. One bigger than all of us put together. There is value to forcing shitty people to put their money where their mouth is, then buckle under the smallest pressure. This is debating marginalized peoples existence as though it is hypothetical
People who hate these movies and say Rey has it easy pretend she didnโt spend the fight in TFA running away, gets fully outpaced in TLJ and gets bodied here.
Also this duel is so underrated
My first ever pet, The Mighty Chewbacca, AKA The Butter Slut, has become one with the Force.
He lived up to his namesake in every way and his companionship is going to be missed daily.
Qui-Gon Jinn must die.
Youโve heard the clip of Dave Filoni explaining the gravity of this scene and what it represents.
Simply put, thereโs no story, at least not the one told in the OT, if Qui-Gon is allowed to live and be Anakinโs father and teacher.
@StarWarsExplain
But Alex, all the other YouTubers told me that Anakin was deliberately created by Sidious and Plagueis in a novel thatโs not canon using a misunderstood and debunked comic panel as evidence!