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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · Aug 14

Star Wars | Technology Is Just a Tool

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Star Wars | Technology Is Just a Tool

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 29m

Also, this person’s bio is just a ripoff of a Calvin and Hobbes joke.

Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 29m

These people don’t actually want to have their questions answered. They could find the answer for themselves by simply reading up on how the latest “ceasefire” is going so far (spoiler: it’s going as well as every prior “ceasefire”)

They have a humiliation fetish. That’s why they post these things.

Hobgoblinoid @hobgoblinoid.bsky.social · 5h

Woman asks a good question now that President Trump has made peace in Gaza, where are all the pro-Palestine people?

Shouldn’t they be celebrating this? Or was this never really about peace for them?

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1h

Like, setting aside how wrong such fans are anyway -- that is just such a cavernous gap for someone to leave when they wanted to, as RJ claims to have have wanted, make sure that Star Wars could "move forward and stay vital."

Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1h

How in the world TLJ fans can agree or disagree with the film's overall framing of the Jedi Order when the film has literally nothing to say about how the titular Last Jedi deals with death is far, far beyond my understanding.

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1h

A major point of disagreement among pro-Jedi vs. anti-Jedi fans is over how they interpret the Jedi's philosophy around how to process death. The fact that we don't see how "the last of the Jedi" deals with the death of his best friend is one of the biggest losses incurred by RJ's poor decisions.

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1h

Fans of this movie talk about how you can appreciate it more if you understand how it prioritizes being emotionally impactful. Well, Luke Skywalker becoming emotional upon realizing Han's son and Luke's nephew has killed Han was apparently not a priority for the filmmaker.

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1h

Periodic reminder that TLJ is a two and a half hour long movie -- the longest Star Wars film by several minutes, and during the editing, Rian Johnson couldn't find twenty bloody seconds to spare for Luke Skywalker to process the death of Han Solo.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 9h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking hell

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1d

And if you’re inspired by the works of Jackson Pollock, you can accomplish both at the same time… 😏

[arthandle] @arthandle.bsky.social · 1d

Drawing art is kinda like jerking off you just feel this overwhelming urge to get it out of your system.

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1d

But opening his own jazz club consistently remained his foremost goal throughout his arc, just as becoming an actress remained Mia's goal. Seb's dream was not Mia, and Mia's dream was not Seb's.

Their romance wasn't their dream, it was what they did in the meantime while achieving their dreams.

Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1d

Even though textually, it's only working at only a fraction of the density of Lucas' films, Andor is basically a show in which every flowery speech about finally fighting back against the Empire, laid over a montage of a riot manages to have everyone who loves it proclaiming, "Amen!"

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1d

It's the West Wing effect, even though I'll admit that politically, Andor is far more based than West Wing.

But to put it simply, it seems like lot of prestige TV is designed to make its viewers feel like good and important people when they watch it.

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1d

Something I realized after season two swept the Emmys a few weeks ago is that a lot of what fans of the shows seem to love about it is how great Andor makes them feel about being on the right side of history.

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 1d

Both characters make all their dreams come true at the end of the film, though.

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 2d

This is just one of several ways the the ST’s meta-commentary on their inability to create characters as memorable and beloved as Lucas’ characters rings as such stubborn self-consciousness.

Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 2d

Vader’s reasoning for doing all of these things is always crystal clear in the narrative, which is why his character is so much better crafted than Kyle.

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 2d

This makes it much harder to be emotionally moved by any of his major evil actions, like killing a school of Jedi padawans and setting their temple on fire, creating a Death Star, killing his father figure, and trying to turn the protagonist to the dark side.

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 2d

A major side effect of the creative leads’ neglectance to plan out the character arcs for the main cast at the beginning of production is that it’s incredibly unclear what is motivating Kyle in any given scene, and how much responsibility he really bears for his own decisions.

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Kyle does in all three sequel trilogy films, and everything we’re told Ben Solo did before TFA started, is centered around Snoke (and the voice of Sheev) having gotten him to do recreate Anakin pledging himself to the Sith when he was a newborn.

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 2d

Oh gosh, this was the appraisal that he did where puts forth the notion that Rey is like an avatar for Star Wars fans, right?

Rey “Luke Skywalker? I thought he was a myth” is a lifelong Star Wars fan, says Bob.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 2d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 2d

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps the author knows, in his heart, that Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is kino

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 2d

In this article that criticizes the “No Good Art Comes from Greed” article for having statements that “couldn’t be further from the truth,” this author uses the example of Hollywood products like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Indiana Jones was produced by Lucasfilm.

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