this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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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:
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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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We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.
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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!
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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.
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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).
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The closest Star Wars has come to Star Trek was in The Last Jedi when they came up with that stupid bullshit storyline about a hexamajigit door blocking them from disabling a hyperspeed whatchamacallit. They technobabbled their way into going to Casino World, that’s a very Star Trek thing to do, but otherwise, Star Wars is a fantasy world with sci-fi trappings.
Deanna Troi was a glorified HR rep who dressed very inappropriately for the job she was supposed to be doing.
And then the Super Hacker Cameo guy predictably betrays them and disappears forever, and the super important maguffin they needed him for wasn't at all necessary, and the entire plot thread could have been cut from the movie without changing any of it.
Among all the bullshit I could call TLJ on, this is the most egregious.
It's writing 101 that you cut what doesn't serve a purpose, if you can remove an entire chunk of your story and nothing changes, then you wrote an unnecessary plot point and should rework the script to account for it and make the characters do something more useful, creative, or intelligent.
Lazy. Lazy-ass writing. That's all that movie is.
Have you ever even thought about how much time it would have taken Finn to construct a stretcher and drag Rose? Forget the fact that they don't shoot him for a second, this dude covers like five miles in an implied 3-5 minutes. Finn is a super soldier apparently.
It feels like they made the trailer in a total vacuum, and then had to write the movie around the scenes they'd already shot for the trailer. Working their way backwards to design the plot.
It felt like I was watching someone play with their action figures.
How is her attire "very inappropriate"? Because it displays like 1" of cleavage?
No, because she's in a military style organization where everyone else has to wear uniforms and for some reason she's just excused from that for who knows why.