The Holy Mackerel TF2
The Panzer has spoken!
kirby music
i’ll say it til the cows come home but as undeniably strange as the star wars prequels are, george lucas’ direction with anakin was downright fucking inspired. people were waiting for whatever badass backstory lucas was sure to give them, awaiting a naturally intimidating actor with rogueish charm to be cast, waiting for this masterpiece of badass villainy or whatever, and george lucas is like no, no, i’ve got you. and then he finds the one man on the planet who looked babier than baby mark hamill and says, “his main personality trait will be being weird and awkward, secondary personality trait loving his wife, tertiary personality trait being incredibly good at murder, and all of these traits will do battle on the silver screen for three movies until they all win in possibly the worst way.” that fucking rules. george lucas could’ve done anything with darth vader and he willingly, enthusiastically chose mentally unstable college student who is somehow married but his only friend is his kind-of dad. that fucking rules, top down, that’s fucking exquisite. if you don’t think that premise is inherently entertaining you’ve got no taste
-Anakin complaining about the cold anytime they’re on a planet that didn’t have a hot or temperate climate
-Ahsoka sitting with Obi-Wan while he proofs her homework
-Obi-Wan actually being shown teaching classes at the Temple
-the clones speaking their dialect of Mando'a
-Satine and Obi-Wan speaking Mando'a
-Padmé referencing her family or even holoskyping her sister
-Obi-Wan muttering how reckless Anakin is and Cody rolling his eyes
-Anakin speaking Huttese
-Anakin mentioning his step family
Could you imagine?
for my blaze post i wanted to share with the class this bit of forgotten history