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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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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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[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 1 points 14 hours ago

the top panel is from a good movie, written by a guy who's life's work was being made

the bottom panel was from a movie made by a giant mega-corporation that hates men

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Did we watch the same movie? He didn't kill him, and didn't want to kill him. He felt the pain of all the people Ben would kill in the future, and rushed to their defense. And when he realized what defending them would entail, he turned off his saber. He was not willing to kill his own nephew, even to save the lives of many.

This is the dark side of the Force. It tempts you to be reckless, to act on emotion, and to let the ends justify the means. Luke resisted the temptation, this time. If he had been trained more thoroughly in the Jedi way, and learned to suppress his emotions from childhood, he might have caught himself before rushing out of bed armed and ready, and the vision might not have come to pass, but this is a difficult task for a mostly self-trained Force user. And, let's be honest, he is also the son of the legendarily hot-headed Anakin Skywalker.

[–] philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 days ago

I think most people get confused by the different flashback perspectives…

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In the scene the pic is from, Luke couldn't have killed Ben even if he wanted to!

He wasn't physically there, and would have more reasonably dropped the star destroyer on Ben than stabbed him with a laser sword.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That y'all think that's the actual problem is why I don't respect Last Jedi stans

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A guy enslaves the entire galaxy.

Luke: Theres still good in him.

A guy does nothing, but learns from him.

Luke: Fuck um, he give me the willies!!!

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Technically, I mean there was 2-3 decades between those thoughts.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, he almost did kill his father. Yoda was right, Luke is reckless, and this was the trained, more disciplined Luke. He fell right into the Emperor's trap, and if the Emperor hadn't been himself blinded in his joy of attacking, he would have realized Vader just got compromised.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 4 points 3 days ago

YYYEEEEEAAAAHHHH!

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 6 points 3 days ago

spot on. SW fans are some of the most media illiterate ppl i've ever seen. they mostly just make up their own movie in their head and then are shocked and appalled that other ppl don't share their view.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Horrifically stupid Disney writing.

Luckily Disney Star Wars is not canonical.

[–] tacotroubles@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago
[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't that Charles Barkley?

[–] tacotroubles@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

You might be right, i just had this one on hand

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

cute, i chuckled.

TLJ is second only to ESB in the saga.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Interesting perspective. Can’t tell if that makes you a fan of the last Jedi or have a low opinion of Star Wars in general.

In the near decade since TLJ premiered I’ve litigated my problems with it countless times but it’s probably the best movie in the sequel trilogy. Personally I’d rank The Force Awakens as the better Star Wars movie. Despite it being a basic rehash of the high points of various parts of ANH and the saga, it at least wasn’t a tonal miss like TLJ or a series killing stinker like Rise of Skywalker.

My rankings go ESB > RotJ > RotS > ANH > TPM > TFA > AotC > TLJ > RoS

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 2 points 3 days ago

obvi i disagree on the tonal miss, but we can all come together to lament TRoS.

for me, TFA is a better movie than both TPM and AotC, but as you said, it is completely a rehash. JJ's ST movies completely fail in originality compared to the PT. only TLJ actually tried to spin out something new for the universe.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If the authors followed the rejection of the entire main story-line by rejecting the main characters and making something really different, it would be better. (Keeping Yoda was fine, though.)

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I didn't want something different. I like Star Wars. I wanted more Star Wars building on the universe. If you don't like Star Wars watch something else. The entire sequel trilogy sucks ass. They had a fuckton of EU material to draw on and we got shit.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, how close are most people to their nephews really.

Compared to your relationship with your deadbeat dad who is also Space Rommel?

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I really really wish someone competent would reboot the entire thing from the very beginning and do a long-term investment into the story like the slow-burn and complex lead-ins of the early Marvel films between Iron Man and End Game.

Like, write a mature, adult-themed violent arch that covers more complex shit like relationships and political inteigue, like early 5 seasons of Game of Thrones, and also make a completely separate kid-friendly arch that prudes, Mormons and families can enjoy together as well.

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 16 points 3 days ago

So... like Andor?

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

you know that meme of a baby holding a gun crying, like he shot his dog?

star wars needs to be that dog

let it die

the story is told

Well now that Andor is done sure

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 days ago

Maybe those three really good blockbusters from the 70s and 80s can just be nothing more than exactly that, and we can stop pulverizing the dead horse into a thin film of gore.