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ladyhadhafang

Posted at the request of darth_eldritch.

Oct 20, 2012 16:22

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tihqERvvUE

Because I thought this was pretty awesome.

Also, on another note, managed to get around to watching "Front Runners" in Clone Wars.

( A long time ago in a galaxy far, far a -- spoilers! )

vid recommendations, warning: may piss people off, vid recs, aw look she thinks she's clever

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darth_eldritch October 20 2012, 20:29:20 UTC

Sounds like they should have thought "General Vaklu" to get that role right.

Re: Warning: TL;DR (2/2) ladyhadhafang October 21 2012, 01:20:25 UTC

She really is! :D She's definitely one of my favorite companions in DOCTOR WHO -- besides Martha, Donna, Jack, Mickey, Wilf, River Song, Amy...and a hell of a lot of others, really. DOCTOR WHO is just one of those shows for me where I can't pick a character I adore because there are so many. Well, except for Rassilon, but that's mostly because of what he did to the Master, the douchebag. :/ Just...Christ, you know what the Council did to Revan in KOTOR? What's revealed about the Master in "The End of Time" is so much worse.

And the healing light thing definitely makes sense. People are afraid of things that hit too close to home, and things like this...yeah, it makes sense.

It sounds like they've really changed the Doctor, which is probably for the good, because I left the Doctor Who fandom because I had sensed something cold and distant about the Doctor, and couldn't buy the excuse, "Well, he's alien and distant in thought." Which sounds sloppy, really, no matter how much I loved those old shows. Definitely agreed regarding the ( ... )

Re: Warning: TL;DR (2/2) darth_eldritch October 21 2012, 02:37:03 UTC

A lot of this is the theme of desire for power to make things better. Like Tobin and Vaklu, it's to make a better Onderon. For Anakin it was the people he loved, especially Padme. I just came across something Lucas said about Anakin:

The problem that Anakin has in this whole thing is he has a hard time letting go of things. As he sought more and more power to try to change people's fate so that they're the way he wants them, that greed goes from trying to save the one you love to realizing you can control the universe.Yeah, there is a whole lot of unhealthy in there that produces a lot of bad, but it ultimately comes from something originally good. To dismiss Anakin as strictly bad and has no redeeming points miss a lot of nuance. Often a budding villain will destroy all of those around him becaus he can just for the wickedness of it. Anakin's comes out of fear for those he loves ( ... )

Re: Warning: TL;DR (2/2) ladyhadhafang October 21 2012, 03:07:12 UTC

It's definitely a leitmotif in STAR WARS, isn't it? :)

And that Lucas quote definitely sums it up beautifully. :)

And so agreed regarding the EU.

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