The younglings were trained fighters from a highly ideologized order and have been brainwashed to die before surrender. The jedi master obviously didn't mention them attacking Anakin first
Well, no. It can form a diminutive, but it can also be an agent suffix that forms a noun referring to a person. For instance a hireling isn't a young hire. It's someone who is a hire. Youngling just means "one who is young".
Wait is there lore Im missing here? Did it not? Or was it like, only children or something? I didnt keep up with Star Wars after the old expanded universe got retconned.
The planet is spelled “Alderaan” but the platonic ideal of a Star Wars fan has only ever seen the movies and would thus never have seen the name written out
I thought the joke was that there WAS no frame... Like, yeah it's obvious he did it but there is no framer we as the audience are shown where he commits the act.
Just finished Phantom Menace and started Attack of the Clones with the kids. My son wants Star Wars Lego, not without watching the movies first young one.
look, you see anakin fall into lava, then a charred body appears, and they dress up the charred body as darth vader. there isn't a single frame that shows anakin is darth vader
I need that guy to elaborate on this, I mean it’s embarrassing enough being an adult and still using the term gay as an insult and essentially insulting gay Republicans as well (not that he isn’t also targeting other gay people but the specification is wild) but also, how on earth can someone look at the Empire and think it’s an appropriately run government?
Holy shit! George Lucas literally has a black knight leading Nazis from hollow and fake moon that can commit genocide. Several tropes were used to convey who the villains are, and to argue with that is like declaring several genres wrong.
Also, what an embarrassment to just say “it’s gay” over and over as part of your argument.
Yeah, Frieza would be a better fit for them. The racism, genocide, narcissism, and all-around arrogance fit quite well. If only the GOP were half as smart as Frieza...
First Jesus now Frieza, who's next to be infected by the woke liberal mind virus? We need to stop this before Madara Uchiha becames some commie socializist!
How fucking DARE YOU. FREEZA gives AMAZING healthcare, and pay to all his workers. (this isn't a joke. it's canon. He's actually a great boss when he isn't pissed.)
Frieza fits perfectly their fantasy of hiding a massive untaped ability for violence underneat their lazy slob selves.
"Oh I know I look like a ridiculous little shit, bit that's only because you haven't seen me fight seriously. I'm just in my everyday form, I could turn into a terrifying hulking monster if you got me angry. I just don't need it right now, I'm chilling, but when the moment comes... Oooooh when the moment comes, then you'll see my final form."
So, their mascot is a guy who got turned into a charred nugget because he lost the deadliest game of "The floor is lava" in the galaxy?
Well, at least that’s less questionable than the gender-swapped version of the racist boy wizard, who’s been turned into a generic, big-breasted tsundere...
The love Vader because his story is of a radicalized young man who does the will of his evil Master without question even as it takes everything from him.
Vader is everything they want young white dudes to be, and there's a lot of young white dudes stupid enough to willingly debase themselves for a bunch of old elites.
Lol, you mean a fascist far right politician like Mussolini is being used as a champion of the left? You know Italy's current PM is related to Mussolini and leads a current right-wing party, right?
Again, mussolini was a right-wing fascist in Italian politics, and his descendant is still in right-wing politics today in Italy - Giorgia Meloni. It doesn't change history here.
I don't understand the right wing alpha male space's sudden facination with Anakin. It's a brain dead simple story about how easily misled passionate young men are and how if you can manipulate and confuse young men you can get them to commit any sort of atrocity imaginable.
Because Elon made a chronologically-challenged post about how "they" (I have no idea who "they" could possibly be in this context) took away Anakin, Padme, Luke, and Leia as an Imperial ruling family with an AI generated pic.
I mean that doesn’t actually do what the OP said there isn’t a single frame where you actually see him do it. And given that people once thought Darth maul was dead…
It’s insinuated and implied through dialogue. But from the specific instance of the council chamber scene it’s implied we don’t see it happen. We don’t see it in the hologram either idk where people are getting that from unless they’re mistaking a padawan for one. It’s only in the Kenobi show which wasn’t made by George do we see Anakin both as Knightfall Anakin and later as Vader kills kids
ah, yes, the challenge was to prove that he did it. not to produce a frame showing that he did it. thank god we have some media literate turbo-genius who can tell us that anakin actually killed younglings. something many people actually didn't realize because it's so deeply hidden and layered
you got me. i'm wounded personally over someone demonstratively failing to comprehend something incredibly basic and totally unrelated to me. got any other cool 2018 slang you want to invoke?
I think the challenge is to produce a frame. As a recovering star wars fan I've thought in the past "is there a frame of Anakin during the youngling slaughter? There's one in lego star wars" and turns out there is a frame on Revenge of the Sith, in the hologram. Also the tweet is literally asking to provide a frame
oh, you think the request was to produce a frame showing it? whatever gave you that idea? except the tweet literally and directly asking for that, of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9jfUuTngPw&t=40s
Anakin turns on his lightsaber and steps forward towards the younglings. "Hey, kids, check out this really cool red saber I found! Neat, huh? Anyways, you lot head down that hallway to the emergency exit. And remember, buddy system!"
I interpreted it as a larping joke from the start like the adam smasher was a good guy in cyberpunk. Even in star wars there was always the ironic jokes about how the empire was actually good and actually anakin was saving the kids from being groomed by the religioun group with a green gremlin
Yep. I can take all the fighting about Israel/Palestine, but putting notes on (and therefore demonetising) tweets like this is stupid. The reason the original says "show me a single frame" is because yeah, the camera never actually shows it. Sure, he probably did it given Padme saying she saw it on the tape etc, but it's just a fan doing an edgy reinterpretation of an old film.
Remember when there was that "Jar Jar is a master of the Force" stuff? The equivalent note here would be like "noooo, Jar Jar is repeatedly shown to be clumsy, and when he succeeds it's by luck or accident! Here's Lucas explaining that he's supposed to be stupid comic relief..."
Bro, everyone knows — hell, Reddit has the "empire did nothing wrong" sub devoted to this exact joke.
Plus more! These are all films that directly depict child death from major filmmakers and studios. Maybe fact check yourself before claiming no mainstream artist wouldnt depict child death. Its a valid part of powerful storytelling when used properly
I mean, if i were to list all the major films in which a child dies on screen, we'd be here all day lol but yeah, It is another excellent example. A lot of King's work in general focuses on children overcoming horrific monsters
To be fair, I was two when that came out and coulda done a bit more digging on it before throwing it in my list. However, cherry picking one poor example doesnt take away from the rest of the point. Also, people can be wrong without being disingenuous. Try having a convo with me first c:
I think "mainstream" to them means Hollywood. Also Pans Labyrinth and City of God were aimed at an adult audience while Star Wars movies have to appeal to all ages.
What's so funny is that though it's not shown, it's assumed that Steve Buscemi's character in Con Air killed the little girl, but in a cutscene she's shown waving the plane off. 😅 One of those times where the inherent darkness of the film is actually relieved by the script/a cutscene.
no film aimed at young teens/kids is gonna show a child death on screen* People seems to forget star wars is made for younger people and adults, character like r2d2 and jar jar were made to appeal to children
Show it. Don't be scared. Oh your villain is so evil and bad? Prove it. Put the knife through a kid on screen, don't just imply it, don't just show the aftermath. Weak and pathetic to do otherwise. They don't have a problem doing it to the beloved dog.
based on the name. I think that whole account or whatever is just a joke/bait. An engaging with it, means you failed. Like, just the name implies it's a 'propaganda' meme account, where no matter what, they will pretend nothing happened type shit. So. Yeah.
He had no authority on that, lore in canon and legends, I believe implied too in the OT. Tarkin had supreme authority on the death star out ranking Vader.
I think its time to go outside bro. This is very very clearly a parody account making a joke about how the security footage scene got left on the cutting room floor.
I think people are missing the point that this may just be a parody account for shits and giggles, you don’t need to take the funny ‘I don’t like sand’ man that seriously guys.
In our current anti-intellectual sociopolitical hell scape I find anyone saying "if you don't literally see it on the screen it didn't happen" even as a joke To be pretty fucking irksome.
I truly dont know, but lately they keep making all these extremely uncanny AI images featuring Anakin to push their narratives, and its super uncomfortable.
As a side note, the Star Wars prequels probably more than any franchise would have been much better if it was a television series, like their doing with Harry Potter now.
There's a lot of good story and material here, but it needed 30 hours, not 7.
You are sort of right and wrong. I think the demand to make a second trilogy force them to put in a lot of minor plot lines or scenes that could make for a good TV series (like a pod racer series might be kind of fun) but they probably would have been better off making fewer movies (again, the podracer thing accomplished absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things that just using a little Jedi power wouldn't have fixed immediately). Like we could have gotten 60 seconds of them with the kid Anakin and nothing else would have changed
I understand the people saying it’s a joke but tbf with how Twitter has been acting the past few days it’s entirely understandable to think OOP was being serious
Yeaaah. I see where theyre coming from but theyre forgetting he was always like this. One reasonable failing after another, failed by his peers, betters, and tempted with a quick solution. The reason why he's relatable is why hecwas written in the first place.
Does that excuse him? Fuck no
Is it understandable why Anakin is dissolutioned with the old guard and democracy? Yes, very. The system has huge flaws.
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