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tangerine is so whimsical for putting the diesel sticker on the barrel of his gun he doesnt get enough credit for that

I feel for Master Sol. He did what he thought was best from his perspective of things. He really did care about Osha and wanted to protect her. He was good-intentioned the whole time, ignorantly so. He's just a Space Dad doing his best.

But he's like the perfect personification of the Patriarchy. Save the girl. Teach her how to live. Tell her to stop being so emotional. Downplay all that trauma you caused her. Keep the truth from her and let her blame herself for years.

The fact that he tries to say 'I love you' with his dying breath is insanely tragic. Especially since it's what causes Osha to complete her arc. She warns him to stop talking. He doesn't listen. He can't see that his love is hurting her. She finally stands up for herself and it makes her the villain.

This show was so clearly written by a woman. In this essay I will...

anybody wanna guess what insane lessons lucasfilm is gonna take from the acolyte not reaching their renewal threshold? since these are the people who decided fans not liking solo means they shouldn't recast established roles and go with deepfakes instead

casting people of color in major roles alienates fans

nobody wants a new female protagonist

filming on location and building sets is never worth it

people aren't interested in stories outside the skywalker era

creators who aren't dave filoni or alumni from his shows can't be trusted with new projects

don't hire outspoken queer people

spending extra on good action is pointless

Ik that this probably isn’t a new take, but I haven’t seen it talked about enough: I think the reason why so many Star Wars fans dislike the Acolyte is because the fan base is dominated by men and the genres that the Acolyte occupies tend to attract female audiences. Star Wars started out as an action-adventure sci-fi story which are genres that attract male audiences and features the Hero’s Journey which has roots in ancient mythologies and is often accompanied by the main character transitioning from boyhood to manhood. However, the Acolyte is dark romance mystery/suspense story, which not only attracts a more feminine audience, but is also (to an extent) the exact thematic opposite of the stories that men typically read/watch.

The interesting result of the audiences being used to different genres is that they identified different characters as the focal character. Male and action/adventure accustomed viewers picked out Sol as the hero of the story as he at first seems like the most heroic and likely to go on a Hero’s Journey; female and dark romantasy/mystery accustomed audiences, however, saw Osha as the main character because she resembles the classic YA Fantasy protagonist (sources: instagram posts and other random opinions I’ve come across). Episode 3 painted the Jedi in the best possible light and Mae and the witches in the worst possible light, and while female audiences immediately identified it as an unreliable narrator moment, male audiences took it at face value and thus assumed the inconsistencies of the witches’ deaths and Mae’s motives were careless writing. Then, when the Jedi’s actions weren’t painted as heroics, the criticism from male fans shifted away from the writing being poor to the show “glorifying” the Sith and breaking down the Jedi=good Sith=evil dynamics, while the female fans began getting excited for Osha’s corruption and Mae’s redemption.

So, in conclusion, this show is just a different genre than the rest of Star Wars and men need to just accept the fact that they were not the target audience.

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The fact that we as a species haven’t dropped absolutely everything for science baffles me.

You want to go to war? When there are dinosaur bones under your feet? When there are diseases that could be cured? When trees can communicate?

I will never understand.

so I edited agents of shield like a disney channel show…

I got more offline but the images. The images call me back.

i want so badly to be more offline but alas the siren call of images

they are swimming around ur blog