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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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Other universes to visit:

!lotrmemes@midwest.social

!tenforward@lemmy.world

Separatist systems:

!prequelmemes@lemmy.world

Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

!star_wars@lemmy.world

!starwars@lemmy.ml

!starwarstelevision@lemmy.world

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IMPORTANT

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:

  1. 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.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I personally like the fan theory that Padme's life force was transferred to Anakin with the help of Palpatine.

https://retrozap.com/padme-didnt-die-of-a-broken-heart/

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Do you ever get the feeling that all the right story beats are there, if only it were guided by a more masterful hand

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Like some sort of invisible Force.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh definitely. It has the makings of an epic series, that gets dumbed down and ruined at every opportunity for greatness.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Go back and watch one of the original trailers for the Phantom Menace. They cut that scene from the final movie and it gave him more lines than the entire rest of the movie.

At one point, Lucas admits to going back in to post-production and drastically recutting the movie to fit a more kid-friendly Disney-esque media market. Specifically, he was very excited to give Jar Jar Binks a bigger role. I'm convinced there's actually an excellent film laying somewhere on the cutting room floor and Lucas's own vanity was what stole it from us.

Also incidentally, the original New Hope screenplay was a total wreck. His first wife had to completely recut it before shooting began. She became good friends with Carrie Fisher, and Fisher learned the trade of script-doctoring from her masterfully. They both went on to work behind the scenes in a number of popular movies (Fisher even has a cameo in the first Austin Powers, where she tells Austin to quit all the silliness and get to the plot). There's a good reason to believe that Marcia Lou Lucas was the hidden hand that made Star Wars a hit.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Oh wow. This makes so much sense. Damn, new head canon unlocked.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

It's the only explanation that makes sense. And "sense" is a very relative term, here.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That theory missed something that jumped my synapses right at the end. Palpatine killed Vader in order to revive. He pulled the same fucking trick, his love of Vader and his hatred at his betrayal mixed right at the end, and he used it to hitch a ride to his clone stock. Man, fuck, that just ruined the sequels all over again.