Tag: star wars: the last jedi

Prompt: What was Lando up to during Last Jedi?

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

deputychairman:

leupagus:

His damn job, that’s what.

It’s all very well for Leia to be running the ship and for Luke to be doing…whatever the hell he’s doing, Leia messaged him something about an island and a kid and how they’d gotten the Falcon back, oh and Han was dead, like that was going to stick, Lando’s personally attended no less than five of Han’s funerals and he stopped crying after the third. But someone’s got to make sure the ship’s still running, that the Resistance still has allies and resources and funds, those morons have been under the impression for the last three dozen years that rebellions can be run with a wink and a smile and an inspiring speech.

So Lando manages to escape the disaster at Coruscant and works from the Naboo satellite offices and when Leia’s distress signal comes in, he just rubs his eyes and gets back to work, because the last time she sent him one of those it was because she and Luke had been arguing about whether or not she should get Jedi training and Han had taken his side and Chewie hers and they needed a tiebreaker. He’s not willing to find out what she thinks is an emergency right now, not when he’s got to flip the junk bonds in order to boost the Resistance capital before the whole market crashes.

Fucking Skywalkers.

Lando Calrissian is the Responsible Adult of the Resistance, who knows when to call a plumber, understands mortgages and has insurance that actually pays out when shit happens; he invested in space!Bitcoin in 2011 and now he’s sitting on an untraceable FORTUNE that could pay for like, seven Dreadnoughts and an entire Resistance army earning way above minimum wage

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The Heart of “The Last Jedi”

fictionadventurer:

The people who say that the Rose and Finn plotline was pointless are wrong, because that plotline–and Rose herself–are the thematic heart of the film.

When Rose arrives in Canto Bight, she tells Finn about the evil that thrives there, and how she wants to put a fist through the whole place. Leading a herd of fathiers through all the buildings does just that. And Finn says that this made their mission worthwhile, because it was a blow against the evil financiers that would “make them hurt.”

Only it won’t, really. A whole city full of unimaginably wealthy people? A few wrecked buildings aren’t going to affect them. They might have to give up a few drinks, maybe sell a piece of jewelry or two, and they’ll rebuild and live the same empty, evil lives as before. Rose and Finn have struck a blow against the evil forces, but it’s done no good.

Then, later, the conversation with the hacker questions Rose and Finn’s definition of evil. The supposedly evil financiers made just as much money selling weapons to the Resistance. Taking sides in the conflict is pointless, the hacker argues. They’re both the same, using violence and weapons to push their cause.
(“You blow them up today, they blow you up tomorrow.”)

In this framework, “good” and “evil” really only mean “on our side” or “not on our side”. So destroying evil–acting out of revenge or righteous indignation? It’s just destruction. It’s nowhere near synonymous with doing good.

Which is why Rose’s actions before leaving Canto Bight are so important. After wrecking the city she so desperately wanted to destroy, Rose unsaddles their fathier, sets it free, and proclaims that this is what made their mission worthwhile. The woman who wanted to destroy the city now realizes what an empty gesture it was. Making an evil person’s life miserable adds nothing good to the universe. Giving freedom to an innocent–acting out of compassion and kindness–that’s what really makes the universe better.

And that’s why Rose is the one to deliver the film’s core message. “We won’t win by fighting the things we hate, but by saving those we love”. Fighting can be necessary when you’re resisting an aggressive evil, but it’s important to keep your priorities straight. You can’t act out of anger or hatred, wanting to get revenge or “make them hurt.” You need to act out of love. You need to make compassion more important than destruction. Because the opposite of being evil isn’t fighting evil. The opposite of being evil is doing good.

Star Wars has always had its finger on the pulse of the cultural fear of the moment. In the original trilogy in the 1970s and early 80s, it was The Man– an evil establishment that needed to be purified by a younger generation. In the prequels of the 90s, it was evil corporations secretly colluding with a corrupt government to create endless war.
 
 

Now, in early 21st century America, the villain is an unstable young white man who had every privilege in life, yet feels like the world has wronged him. Unbeknownst to his family, he finds and communicates with a faraway mentor who radicalizes him with a horrific, authoritarian ideology. By the time his family finds out, it’s too late, and now this unstable young white man has this horrific ideology, access to far too many weapons, and the desperate desire to demolish anything that he perceives as a threat– or is told to perceive as a threat.

“This is Not Going to Go the Way You Think”: The Last Jedi Is Subversive AF, and I Am Here for It  (via wilwheaton)

poplitealqueen:

poplitealqueen:

Luke is either gonna be Jokester Yoda Master or Salty Sad Ben Master in Episode 8. There is no in-between.

Although I personally would love it if he developed an Obi-Wan level of depressing sass.

“Back in my day, our Death Stars only destroyed one planet at time. This is just ridiculous.”

“Are we sure Han died? There may have been a vat of Carbonite down there. Someone go visit Jabba’s son, just to be sure.”

“Why did I choose Ahch-To? Well, I’ve been on planets of all sand, cloud, and ice, and I hated all of them. I thought maybe all water would be a good change of pace. It’s not. Get me the fuck out of here, my ship malfunctioned years ago and everyone thought I was being edgy when really I was just stranded.”

“Oh great, another helmeted murderer I’m related to.”

“Rey, pray to the Force that you’re not actually part of this family. Nobody wants to be part of this family.”

“If Yoda could do it at 900, I can do it at 60.” *promptly dies out of spite*

“Your friend is a stormtrooper, huh? You know, I was a stormtrooper once. Yeah. Yeah, I was great. Tallest one there.”

“There is no luck, only the Force… and the Force likes to be very unlucky around me.”

“Uh, thanks for bringing the lightsaber that holds only memories of pain for me, but I have my own. In green. With a custom handle. You can keep that one.”

“Just kidding, watch me duel-wield.”

So, judging from the only trailer that wasn’t so minimalistic that I could learn more about what I’m going to see in theaters from an ancient Mesopotamian erotic terra cotta plaque that jokingly states: “Putting the fertile back in the Fertile Cresent”, it turns out that Luke is but a humble Porg breeder that stares at Rey in silent terror every moment they have screen time together.

He’s basically Yoda with Anakin in Episode 1, except he doesn’t have Mace’s resting bitch face and Qui-Gon’s piss-poor child care skills to help hide the fact that he’s scared shitless by the sand-covered young person.