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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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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.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 month ago (13 children)

This was the moment I checked out of the prequels. Vader, as a child, built C-3PO? I'm supposed to continue suspending my disbelief, now? Impossible.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Definitely one of my least favorite aspects of them. Everyone must get a backstory, and they must all be interrelated. The galaxy's a small place apparently.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Story takes place in a whole-ass galaxy. Everyone winds up back on Tatooine for some stupid reason; the planet with barely one ecosystem, practically zero vegetation, no economy that matters, yet populated with two (?) cities. Other planets also have exactly one ecosystem, culture, and one optional urban center^1^. There's also only 12 or so planets that matter, yet half of everyone you meet are from all the other ones. You may not like what you see, but this is peak sci-fi writing performance, right here. /s

This story could take place in a diverse corner of a single Earth-like planet and it wouldn't be all that different.


^1^ - Meanwhile planet Coruscant is an urban center where the ecosystem can best be described as "traffic" and the culture is "city folk that inexplicably eat at 1950's-style diners".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why was Tattooine featured SO MUCH in a galaxy of planets?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Because Star Wars was based on Dune

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

Even Frank Herbert would have suggested adding more planets.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe C3PO was a kit. Like a gay robot Lego set for ages 5-12. Those Jawas can sell practically anything.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

He built it out of junk. Most of internal components were prolly cherry picked and then maaaybe fixed up a bit. Sheesh. Like, kiddo may have been good at soldering, so he fixed a few electronic parts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

There are other bots we see exactly like 3po so clearly not much custom work

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This is my favorite theory. I mean, I'm not a star wars historian deep in debate, buffet plate at Bennigan's, but I like to think I know my stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Gotta make the money, credit's no good. When the Jawas run the shop in your neighborhood

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Not when, in a universe known to contain non-organic beings able to perform tasks like smuggling plans, a gunnery officer decided to save lasers (as though they were apparently a precious resource) and not fire on an escape pod with no life signs? I feel like that would be the most appropriate moment to stop taking Star Wars seriously.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's okay to accept it's got a bunch of plot holes and enjoy it for what it is: grungy WWII fighter pilots/samurai/wizards/Vietnam war allegory in space.

Edit: also nukes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

You need to treat the empire like a corporation. They do tons of dumb shit lol

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right? And Luke leaving behind a prosperous moisture farming career to go fight baddies? Um, no thank you. Know your audience, Lucas.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Look, that dog is making fresh Dilithium Crystals - someone get a bag!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think he's supposed to have designed it or anything. I think it's an existing model, and he just scrounged for scrap to put him together. It's basically the thing he's known for as a child. His pod racer seems a little more unbelievable, right?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Not that he couldn't have put together a droid, but that he put this very specific, very integral-to-later-events one together himself. It's ludicrously coincidental.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

it’s very synchronous rather than causal. i don’t think the rhetoric and messaging of the original star wars was for you. if you’re familiar with the concepts and ideas that went into star wars in the first place then, at least imo, it’s a very natural plot turn that threepio was himself built by vader. yes, the story revolves around anakin in this grandiose and cosmic way. that’s a feature, not a bug.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Hence why star wars is a chosen one, hero's quest, prophetised fantasy. Not a Sci fi.

When you and your kin are all prophetised to do important shit, there is no coincidence. it's all part of a bigger divine plan of fate. Or it's the midi-chlorians or something I dunno, I slept through the prequels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Makes more sense when you realise there's only like 30ish people in the entire star wars universe

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (8 children)

That's what you're supposed to do, though. They're fun space cowboy movies. Anybody who gets upset about the prequels being cheesy or having plot holes is just remembering the originals through rose-colored lenses.

Revolutionary for the time, sure, but the fact that some of it didn't work in spite of the level of ambition is (for me, at least) part of the charm.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Hold on hold on. You trying to argue that the prequels are the same quality as the originals, that’s just batshit crazy. The revisionism these last years about the prequels because all the kids who were born right around then and grew up watching them is wild. They are not good movies. Sure there’s stuff to like and anyone can find enjoyment in nostalgia, but to say the originals are just as bad and it’s only rose colored glasses is just wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Revenge of the Sith was the only one I found worth watching.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Mine was Padme dressing in BDSM gear around the incel monk with an obvious crush on her, and then saying he made her uncomfortable when he started creeping on her

Generally I think women should be able to wear what makes them feel pretty/empowered/safe without getting creeped on, but goddamn, read the room chica!

Also, "I hate sand". Kenobi H Christ, it's awkward

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The whole Anakin-Padme romance was just awful. Weird Al's line in The Saga Begins:

Ah, do you see him hitting on the queen Though he’s just nine and she’s fourteen? Yeah, he’s probably gonna marry her someday

sums up the absurdity quite well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Its a five year gap. When their young, its no good. But once they're both in their 20s, who cares?

It is weird/creepy that they included it so blatently in the first movie with the kids. A real 9 year old would have showed her his toy dino collection and a real teenager would have to play along while despretly looking for an escape route.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think about this line more frequently than I would expect. Weird Al is a master of parody.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

We can't be together, I'm a senator!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

What. When was Padmé in BDSM gear?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It's hyperbole, but inspired by this outfit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

"If you're going to insist on existing while being so hot, don't be surprised if I break my solemn vows, and possibly kill a bunch of kids and sand people. Okay? It's your fault really."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

BDSM Padmé

I'm not sure it is hyperbole.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Since her outfit is white instead of black I don't think I would ever have noticed if it hadn't been pointed out to me. Nothing wrong with it though, it is mostly funny. XD

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

"The 3PO-series protocol droid, also known as the 3PO-series protocol unit, was a model of protocol droid produced by Cybot Galactica sometime prior to the Invasion of Naboo. They were equipped with a TranLang III communication module, and as a result were fluent in over 6 million forms of communication. C-3PO was an example of this model, though he was rebuilt out of spare parts. TC-series protocol droids appeared similar to 3PO units."

Wookieepedia

There are a ton of 3PO-series droids in the Star Wars universe.

Vader would not look at a 3P0 droid and think "maybe that's the droid I built as a child and left on a plant in the outer rim"

Same with R2-D2

It's just for the movie sake that there aren't 30 CP0s and 50 R2-D2 units running around in the background. "Wait did Biggs just get R2 in his x-wing?" No, it's some completely different droid I've never seen. Some things have to be adapted for the movie.

As for difficulty, no harder than building like a PC. If there are a ton of CP0 units, he simply takes working parts from a dozen broken ones and pieces them together. He's a child, they fib and stretch the truth. He could have just attached new legs to the unit that needed only legs and then went through the setup process of "programing" him.

He didn't Tony Stark C3P0. He pieced together a robot from pre-made CP0 scrap parts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

And according to other posts in here, they're sentient, and property. And they let kids build them. He also happened to build the one that would be partially responsible for his downfall years later. Star Wars. The universe that keeps on giving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Anakin was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Suspend it and buy the merch!

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