RedeemedRebel

[Universal arts & Wallpapers @Universal4karts]

Dante if only you knew, one day you'll be worshipped as the father of fanfiction 🙏

[RedeemedRebel @RedeemedRebel12]

Truly heartwarming, he made his boss unconscious so he wouldn't suffer

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Internet please make this a trend

[Anglo @TheAnglo_]

You can stab a boy, hunt him down and stab him again, steal his phone, lie to the police, cry racism so they handcuff him and leave him to drown in his own blood, hide the weapon, admit you lied in court, but you only get trial for manslaughter because he's White and you're brown.

[Eshan @eshanbuilds]

Hayden Christensen was 23 when Revenge of the Sith came out. He was 42 when he returned to the role in Ahsoka.

For 17 of the 19 years in between, he was effectively exiled from the franchise and from Hollywood.

The exile was not voluntary at first. Christensen was the focal point of the cultural backlash against the Star Wars prequels in the mid-2000s. The performances were mocked. The dialogue was mocked. The acting choices were mocked. He was 22 years old playing the most analyzed character in cinema history and the analysis decided he had failed.

He kept working for a few years. Jumper in 2008. Takers in 2010. A handful of smaller films. None of them landed. By 2012, the offers were drying up and Christensen had largely stepped back from acting. He moved to a farm in Ontario. He spent years out of public view. The Hollywood narrative was that he had been broken by the prequels.

Two things happened during those years that the Hollywood narrative missed.

The first was the cultural reassessment of the prequels. The generation that watched them as children grew up and rewatched them as adults. What had read as wooden dialogue in 2005 started to read as deliberate stylization. The political plot, which critics had dismissed as boring senate scenes, started to read as one of the most substantively serious treatments of how democracies collapse into autocracy ever put in a blockbuster. By 2017, the prequels were being rediscovered as the most thematically ambitious Star Wars films in the franchise.

The second was what Christensen was doing on the farm. He kept training. The lightsaber choreography he had learned for the prequels was technically demanding stage combat, taught to him by stunt coordinator Nick Gillard over months of rehearsal for each film. Christensen never stopped practicing it. When he came back to the choreography in 2022 for Obi-Wan Kenobi and 2023 for Ahsoka, the muscle memory was intact. He was technically better at 42 than he had been at 23, because he had spent 17 years quietly preparing for a return nobody had told him was coming.

The Ahsoka scene that the fan accounts keep posting is from the episode where Anakin confronts Ahsoka in the World Between Worlds. The choreography is fast, precise, and recognizable as the same combat style Christensen used in the prequels two decades earlier. The body knows what to do. The body has been keeping the role alive while the rest of the industry was writing him off.

What landed differently in the return is that Christensen at 42 has a stillness the 23-year-old version did not. The 23-year-old was performing Anakin's intensity. The 42-year-old is embodying it. The role finally fits the actor in a way it did not when he was first asked to carry it.

The audience that mocked him at 23 had also grown up. The audience that watched the return at 42 had spent fifteen years missing him without realizing it.

The exile turned out to be the preparation.

[RedeemedRebel @RedeemedRebel12]

Bit underdone honestly

[Tokyo @otokyo]

Whats missing from this breakfast? 🍳

[RedeemedRebel @RedeemedRebel12]

@FreesoulFaizan @RadioGenoa Womp Womp

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Want some truth?

Not releasing Police Bodycam footage is an admission of guilt.

The British Police are not releasing Henry Nowak’s.

What’s that tell you…

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

So, just to make sure I've got this right...

I can punch and break a female police officer nose on camera, and get away with it.

But if I write a few words on the internet I can go to prison for over 2 years.

Got it.

[Anglo Chud @AngloChud2001]

“Muslims respect Jesus as a prophet”

[Classic Hex @DoomerCoomer]

he's trying to shift blame onto the actors lmfaooo

[🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛 @nonregemesse]

Should have offered to suck his dick

[Skscartoon @skscartoon]

The more the media tries to stay quiet about Henry Nowak's death, the more I'm going to talk about it!

[Mountain Ğeneral @MountainGenera]

Adolf Hitler is joining the fight against ICE!

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

Stabbed because he was white.

Handcuffed because he was white.

Buried by media because he was white.

[Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

A teenage traveller gang who filmed themselves r-ping lone schoolgirls at knifepoint in separate attacks - laughing taking turns - have avoided jail

Judge Rowland praised their trial behaviour & said: 'None of you need to go to prison today'

😫Girls just don't matter in the UK

[RedeemedRebel @RedeemedRebel12]

@SimplyShae13 But its bad

[RedeemedRebel @RedeemedRebel12]

Training for Ram Ranch

[Webster (The Breeze) @BigManWebster64]

The greatest Tik Tok video and comment happened on the same video #TBT

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

There were massive international protests over George Floyd and those police involved were severely punished with long prison sentences, yet the police responsible here did not even lose their jobs!

An incredibly unjust double-standard!

[RedeemedRebel @RedeemedRebel12]

That's not a caretaker
That's the dad that stepped up

[Nature 🦜and Music 🎶 @GuGi263]

Mother Tiger that’s why she trusts Him

[RedeemedRebel @RedeemedRebel12]

This is patriarchy.
This is what feminism should be calling out.
But they won't.

[Jahanzib Wesa @jahanzibwesa]

BBC report and documentary, on the plight of poor Afghan fathers forced to sell their children to survive.

Except you have to read some way into the article - which is around 2,500 words long - before it becomes clear they are specifically selling their daughters into child marriage and domestic slavery.

“If I sell one daughter, I could feed the rest of my children for at least four years,” says one father.

Another father, pictured in the article, sold his five-year-old little girl. The framing is extraordinary.

Not only because the fact only female children are being sold is presented as unremarkable.

But also because the fathers making the decision are presented as the victims - rather than the girls who will actually live with the consequences of it.

The fathers’ desperation is real and tragic. But so is the reality that these girls are being treated as commodities.