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Star Wars Memes
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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.
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Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta
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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.
The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:
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This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.
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I liked TFA until I realized I only liked it because it was episode 4 all over again. Can't really mess up what already worked. When evaluated on its own merits it seems to lack any charisma, just another Disney sausage in the content sausage link chain.
I was fine with TFA being just a reboot, but my god there are too many things wrong with TLJ. The last Jedi felt like a star wars film made by people who had no interest in star wars and had no idea how the characters worked.
Should have been Leia or Akbar who died on that ship. separating Rey and Finn was a mistake. Killing luke was monumental fuckup. I can go on and on. To the point that I lost all hope and didn't even bother to go see Rise of Skywalker.
My main issue with it (outside of plot holes like "how did Finn craft a stretcher and carry a full grown woman 30 miles in five minutes") Is that RJ fundamentally misunderstands subverting expectations. He thinks making a character do the opposite of what they would actually do (or whatever anyone with a brain would do) is "subverting expectations."
Subversion is when you take a trope or a plot point and turn it on its head, e.g. Making Rey fall to the dark side and join Kylo after they kill Snoke and his guards. Now THAT would have been a subversion.
Making Finn run away, Admiral Holdo a moron, and Luke toss his lightsaber isnt subversion, it's just slapping an UNO reverse card down and pretending its smart. Tricking people by throwing out all possible logic and character development isn't some brilliant screenwriting, it's the epitome of laziness and bullshit spectacle.