Benjamin Essner

“TERF” and “Zionist” #WomenLifeFreedom

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@TheBabylonBee I unironically think a Jar Jar Binks live-action prestige series could be the greatest thing to happen to Disney Star Wars.

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@Huff4Congress There’s nothing explicitly stated in the film that says Obi-Wan was wearing that outfit “specifically to hide his identity as a Jedi”.

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@ConradBastable Well, she knew he wouldn’t be soft when it came to discipline. “Luke, are you going to apologize to your sister, or is Daddy gonna have to execute our own little Order 66?”

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@threenotes_jp I thought you guys were all about KFC.

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@hoshizorarock What about this scene?:

https://t.co/3Kiy10rRp4

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@ShamashAran I mean, some Russian guys ate a frozen Wooly Mammoth that was millions of years old and survived, so 2 year old steak is probably fine.

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@Schaffrillas He and Cody go to the same mechanic, and they both brought their speeders in on the same day and got talking. It turned out they were also both White Sox fans, so they spent an hour discussing the most recent season.

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@soncharm Also, how did R2-D2 and C-3PO get from the Rebel base to the Tantive IV?

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Star Wars’ biggest problem, and this is one that predates Disney Star Wars, is time compression. In some ways, it was even worse before Disney, which is not to say Disney isn’t bad about it. There’s way too little time in between each of the films for all the things that expanded material says happened to have actually occurred. The Clone Wars seem like they should have taken 3-5 years at a minimum.

And while Disney Star Wars might be better overall, the sequels are some of the worst offenders. TLJ takes place at most days after TFU, yet somehow in that time the Last Order already controls the whole Galaxy, when the Republic only fell days before. And ROS takes place over the course of only three days. In that time, they travel to several different planets, and while Hyperspace is fast, it was never implied to be instantaneous before.

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Give me your best Star Wars nitpicks. No reasonable criticisms or analysis, I'm talking real pedantic here.

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The biggest problem with the sequels isn’t just that there was no overarching plan, it’s that there wasn’t a single vision. Whether you believe George Lucas knew from the beginning where the OT and the Prequels were going to end up or that he was literally making everything up as he went along, at least there was one person, George Lucas, making the ultimate decisions on everything. Even if the decisions were wrong, at least there was consistency in them. When you have 2-3 different filmmakers with vastly different ideas about where to take the story next playing one of those improv games where each person says a single sentence in a story, having no idea what the next person is going to say, that can be entertaining, sure, but it doesn’t make for great storytelling.

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If your landlord screws you over, you can take him to court, move to someplace owned by a different landlord, or if you save up enough money, you can buy your own property. If your landlord is the government because all property is owned by the government, and they screw you over, who can you go to?

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@BrainbowManic @CMScript37 @kylegfil_ @___mithrandir_ Seemed pretty painless for Kyle Katarn in Jedi Outcast.

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Yeah, and even the old Expanded Universe didn’t introduce Jedi survivors in every new story. It was, like, basically a handful. All the rest were people born after the Jedi purge. And even the handful that were from before the Jedi Purge came from stories written before the prequels, when writers didn’t necessarily know any better.

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@BraddrofliT @ShamashAran You’re right. Let’s eliminate property taxes too!

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Have you ever read any of the Making of Star Wars books by J.W. Rinzler? They talk about all of this. Whatever the status of the script and whether Prowse had read any part of any draft, the fact of the matter is George Lucas did get upset at him for talking about Vader being Luke’s father in an interview and tried to make sure he wasn’t put in positions to be able to spoil anything about the films in the future. In fact, it was at his insistence that on the set during the climactic lightsaber fight, Prowse say “Obi-Wan killed your father” instead of “I am your father”.

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Yeah, the truth of the matter of whether Lucas had the whole saga planned from the beginning or if he was making it up as he went along, the answer is kind of a little of both. He had some of the broad strokes figured out and he had ideas for some of the details at various stages, but he didn’t know in 1975 that Anakin was going to be responsible for the death of his wife, but he knew as early as 1977-78 that Threepio’s origin was going to involve him being a custom-build by a junk dealer.

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Have you ever heard of a Pyrrhic victory? It’s a victory where technically you won, but the other side devastated you to the point that it almost feels like you lost. That is to say just because Communism has always fails doesn’t mean it can’t leave the places where it’s tried in shambles. That’s the threat right there.

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@AliKazmi2040 @supressedvoic https://t.co/UCByJ0rxbq

I guess you’re right. Israel only kills its enemies, while Hamas doesn’t discriminate against their victims.