Deconstruction Gone Wrong: A Star Wars Story
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- Deconstruction Gone Wrong: A Star Wars Story
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>"Deconstruction"
>Look Inside
>Pure Contempt for the Genre and Hatred of it's Fanbase
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME
Because that s the desired end result!
That's because the people who make it don't like Star Wars and resent it for not allowing them to make their own stories.
@@Lobsterwithinternet they could have made their own stories. Instead they decided to little sibling the older siblings collection cause little sibling felt jilted and slighted cause older sibling spent more time with the fandom than little sibling.
@@RobertWilkinsonJKekMaloy But they can't since major studios would rather throw money at major franchises, specifically blockbusters up the with Star Wars and The Avengers, rather than making medium or smaller original films.
@@Lobsterwithinternet you’re missing the point. They should have approached it as “here is our public park, lets play pretend over here with our own made up names of people”. Instead, they went and said “Oh that sand castle is shit. Here’s a better one [points at identical castle in shape but made of shit instead of sand].”
I don't think I'll ever forget that footage of Mark Hamil next to Rian Johnson. He was absolutely right with Luke becoming "Jake Skywalker". The way he looks devestated in the interview, followed by the side-eye look at Rian. Perfect representation of all Disney Star Wars.
To paraphrase Bart Simpson, if you pause it at just the right moment, you can actually see his heart break.
To paraphrase Frank Grimes of episode number 176 S8E23, I'm saying you're what's wrong with America, ‘Rian’. You coast through life, you do as little as possible, and you leech off of decent, hardworking people like me. Heh, if you lived in any other country in the world, you'd have starved to death long ago. You're a fraud, a total fraud.
Then he later gave in and started to shill for them.
Mark next to a cutout of Biden with Demonic Glowing Red Eyes should've warned you...
That shit really hurt.😢
"Breaking things doesn't make them interesting..."
Well-said.
Is it bad that when he said that I thought "elevators"
"It just makes them broken." Excellent analysis.
Depends, if you are an alchemist, a chemist or a physicist last mlinnemium, then it made things very much really exciting.
If you are a storyteller however, I highly doubt there to be any net positive...
@@BigBossBernie Goooood come-back.
The worst thing is not fan deconstruction, but showrunner deconstruction. Remember that the reason Luke tried to kill his nephew is because a WRITER DECIDED he would.
I think that came from Kathleen Kennedy.
@@bulldogsbob There's plenty of blame to go around. The "writer" in this case would include ANYONE who stuck their stanky junk into the script/screenplay. Everyone who let this happen is at fault.
@@bulldogsbob nope Ryan wrote the last jedi all by himself. It's kk's fault she let it go through on the first draft.
“There are two kinds of fool. One says, ‘This is old, and therefore good.’ And one says, ‘This is new, and therefore better.'”
Sounds like most woke vs anti-woke culture war stuff. Cynical about everything no matter what people say or mad cause character is ( something about gender,race, and or something stupid.)
@@zionleach3001 unfortunately entertainment has been plagued with autism for over a decade, and now people are reacting to the plague with equal amounts of autism
@@Rootiga Man, I'm autistic and I'm far from this manichaean view of the world. I think the problem is childishness and laziness, trying to make everything in the world fit in little binary boxes, to avoid thinking too much, and throwing tantrums every time an item from the box they don't like shows up.
One of my favorite quites I've read as of recently, and sadly can't gove credit,
"You want to burn down tradition without understanding why it was needed to begin with."
There are traditions that are old and need to be stopped, but that doesn't mean all of them need to end.
How about this is old and still read, watched, or listened to so if is likely to be good in some way. Most old things do not stand the test of time. This is new, who knows if it is any good or not, It may be bad or it may good for the moment or it may stand the test of time.
Disney is like that kid who breaks the toy rather than share it.
Not Disney, KK
@@zurc_bot….KK didn’t break the MCU; Disney did.
Sid.
You mean Melkor?
Evil cannot create anything new...
Yep. "Deconstruction" is how you get Galadriel/Sauron fanfics financed by Amazon.
It only hijacks and corrupts. Wokeism in nutshell…
@@JCWinters-bu8de I wouldn't say it's wokeism that's the issue. It's extremism. These days it seems like you either get far left nutjobs or far right nutjobs running the show and making a mess because they can't set aside their insane ideals for even a second to make a good product.
Considering that's a stolen statement, does that make you evil as well?
idk about the validity of that quote considering human history but yeaaah in this case true
Common misconception that “balance in the force” means an equal number of light side users to dark side users.
Lucas himself elaborated saying dark side use is pure corruption, so elimination of dark side users is balance.
No one wants a highway with an equal number of sober and drunk drivers.
Yup. The big mistake of the Jedi was equating emotion with the Dark side. Emotions can lead you to either fate, but to be ruled by emotions is a quick path to the dark side.
Agreed. That is, unfortunately, where the Mortis arc in The Clone Wars fumbled the ball - The Force isn't meant to be equally split between some deity of good and some deity of evil who are evenly matched, the point is that the Dark Side _itself_ is like a sentient cancer in the universe with how it encourages depravity. The _very EXISTENCE_ of the Sith brings malicious destruction. This is entirely why the Sith are unequivocally the villains of the entire saga, because they must be either destroyed or (ideally) redeemed back to the Light Side.
It's totally fine to show the Jedi as flawed people who sometimes get caught up in dogmatism or bureaucratic red tape. But that's the thing: _they are _*_FLAWED,_*_ not _*_EVIL._* Trying to write it so that the Sith actually do have any moral high-ground over the Jedi goes completely against the themes and The Force's mechanics all the way back in the Original Trilogy. The Jedi might sometimes make big mistakes, it is objectively fact that actual Sith like Sidious, Tyrannus and Vader are *_MUCH_* worse than the Jedi could ever be.
In 1979 a kid in the trailer park I grew up in took my Luke Skywalker action figure and threw it in a thicket. It was my favorite because I really liked Luke. He told me only baby’s like Luke Skywalker. Basically, I’m kinda getting the same feeling now from Starwars, the access media, and the new Disney show runners and writers.
You get your Luke back and kick that kid's ass?
@@dougsmith6262 No. in fact, I got in trouble for losing it. We were …. Not well off and I got it from my grandmother for Christmas. I was too ashamed to tell my mom what happened which is why I remember it so clearly.
@@ericpaisley8501 Ah, the worry of a child is a true wonder. I'm sorry that happened to you though. It sucked to be bullied like that.
You know what’s wild is that’s George Lucas already deconstructed the Jedi in the prequels, and he did it perfectly
I wouldn't say perfectly, but looking back, you are right. Before the prequels, being a Jedi was about being this powerful being that could go whatever they wanted.
@@zero1zerolast393 I disagree. Yoda’s teachings in empire have nothing to do with making someone powerful who can go wherever they want. And in RotJ, Luke declares himself a Jedi after he embraces his shadow.
@@lastjedi-1 I agree but I'm talking about public perspective. True fans always knew that, but more casual fans were more like I described. The prequels just made the casual fan catch up
@@zero1zerolast393 ohh now I gotcha. Good point homie 👍😌
@@lastjedi-1 Hell, even KOTOR II deconstructed the Jedi better than what Disney has done as of late.
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." Tolkien knew what he was on about.
I wonder where else that applies..... Oh, wait.
>order steak
>get a plate with shit on it
>complain
>"it's different, so it's better"
>order steak
>get a raw steak
>complain to the waiter
>waiter pretends to only speak french
>dont get a new steak
>dont get your money back
>everyone else at your table tries to gaslight you into eating your raw slab of beef
>leave the restaurant
>never go back to paris
This is little more than playground fights at this point: some kid is envious of another kid’s toys, so the first kid can either steal the toy or simply break it, so that nobody can have it.
Disney is the kid that steals the toy you were playing with, and then doesnt play with it at all, they just didnt want you to have any fun
"all you are... Is bad product" nothing summaries disney better
Pretentious culture snobs: "You're just too unenlightened to get it."
Fans: "Your boos mean nothing. I've seen what makes you cheer."
The franchise is already in ruins and somehow they still need to deconstruct it.
Deep Space Nine is also a deconstruction done right, not only it challenged the Federation and its ideals, but it made it stronger.
Because no matter the flaws or hiccups, the Federation were The Good Guys. Nowhere was there attempting at tearing down the Federation. Here however, this is all about Darth Kennedy tearing down the jedi patriarchy and replacing it with.....
I don't even know what anymore.....
You know, until Picard came along...the series, not the character
@@UltraGalaxyifySheer f¥cking hubris.
Wish they would have done that with Voyager.
@@jasonkinsey6428 They flirted with it in "Year of Hell" and the Equinox two-parter. Voyager could have been so much better than it wound up.
When you mentioned CBR, you just knew the article was going to be the highest tier of garbage.
What's worse is that they're taking what others built and tearing it apart and claiming it's canon
Sounds like Colonialism. It isn't fun, is it?
@@suezcontours6653 That's a horse of a different color.
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." -Gandalf the Grey
The people in charge of Star Wars would make great Sith...
Why do you think they have spent so much time glorifying evil? Cruella, Wandavision, and Kenobi are all prime examples.
Nah. They would fail in that as well...
@@neuro.weaver Yeah, they fail at everything... They're just toxic, stupid, careless, narcissistic hacks in general... Not even Darth Sidious would want them as his apprentice...
Anyone who says that there's no such thing as good and evil is evil, full stop. And that's what these people said in this series.
They wouldn't be great Siths at all.
Well done, JSG. I think the writers forget that the Jedi aren't kidnapping children. They are given a choice to leave their homes because they have an uncontrolled power. The Jedi offer to help the kids control that power. It's not a negative. Imagine Superman lands in Kansas, but when he is very young, Kryptonians visit the farm. They say that Clark has incredible powers, but he needs to know how to control them or a lot of people could be hurt. Do you honestly think good people like Martha and Jonathan would say, no... you are taking my baby away from me?
Yep. This is also why it's stupid that Mae couldn't find good work with Jedi skills. Because the Jedi's roles as galactic peacekeepers means that they have to learn SO MANY skills: not just lightsaber combat (reflexes, coordination) and Force abilities (telekinesis, mind tricks), but also mechanical skills, piloting, negotiating, acrobatics, basic first aid, etc. It takes _years and years_ to fully learn these things (the Skywalkers being outliers), and teaching them to Force-sensitives from a young developmental stage is simply a no-brainer.
Notably, getting kicked out of the Jedi Order itself seems to not have any other long-lasting career impacts. The book version for Revenge of The Sith indicates that Anakin was actually planning on peacefully leaving the Jedi Order on his own will to live with Padme and their child(ren). So it looks like Jedi can just freely leave if they really decide that it just isn't their life.
If the counsel never told Anakin that he was the chosen one, and treated him as just another jedi, he wouldn't have turned either.
I feel part of the mistake was training him in the first place.
They had a rule in place which prevented them from accepting children above a certain age.
Unfortunately, they broke it and things went down the path they did.
Further, because his training did begin at an older age than most, his training should have also been slightly different than the standard training, to account for this and the baggage it entails.
I suppose the jedi bought into the idea Anakin was the chosen one and took his eventual success for granted. Near the end, they were distracted by a galactic war after all.
[To me, Anakin did seem immature after so many years of jedi formation/training, but it was necessary for the story to happen as it did and is a small matter]
Deconstruction only works if you actually understand how that thing works.
The Acolyte is making a point the prequels made but worst, Prequel Era lore basically explains why the Jedi failed to perceive the threat of Darth Sidious , how they grew complacent and the galaxy at large hated them.
The stories were already there but they decanonized everything cause they want their fan fiction of Space Lesbians
I miss the times when we enjoyed stories about heroes together. =)
I miss when there was Always a reason to be excited about a new game, a new movie, a new show…
Nowadays it’s always an eye roll and “what will they wreck THIS time” or “which character gets wrecked THIS time”
@@pistolbobcat5374 Or "I hope my less popular hobby/IP remains obscure because I don't trust anyone to touch it now."
To deconstruct something successfully you first have to understand said thing... And as these people haven't got the first clue what star wars is about how could they possibly succeed?
George didn't deconstruct it well in the prequels either. Nobody understands the force, not even the man who created it
@@suezcontours6653you're not wrong, but I'd still watch the prequels over any of the Disney Star wars stuff.
@@thelaughingrouge It comes down to people's preferences. You also watch trash and like trash content, this one just isn't for you
Instead of deconstructing Star Wars the series ends up just undermining it which is not even close to being the same thing.
Yeah the Acolyte is 'different'. In the same way a submarine made out of bread is different
alan moore's "deconstruction" was just being literal, people don't understand the RESPECT alan moore has for those characters, then using the pillars of those character's traits that stay the same while putting those characters in different perspectives. The joker in the killing joke is putting batman through the fear he has that people closest to him aren't safe, removing that security he had built up through the years and makes the joker, and batman, scary again.
Was there ever any time when the Jedi were shown in a good light? They have their moments but we've never seen the Jedi as an elite org. They're always being fooled destroyed or corrupted. I'd love to see them at their height.
Subversion leads to deconstruction, deconstruction leads to demoralization, demoralization leads to hate, hate leads to anger, anger leads... to the dark side.
I read this in Yoda's voice lmao
In coming essay : Common misconception is that the jedi often do not teach to suppress emotions but to master one’s own emotions, mind and let go of worldly attachment to connected to the light and preform selfless acts. In movies and novels we commonly see Jedi express care for the republic , the order , or their companions but the best of the Jedi wouldn’t allow their feelings to stop them from doing whats right and this is where anakin fell short as a Jedi in my opinion.( see ep 3 novel for example yoda/ obi wan conversation about anakin)
*_THIS._*_ THIS right here._ IIRC Lucas himself actually based the Jedi philosophy around real-life *Buddhist teachings.* Which, yes, are about mastering your emotions and recognizing that _nothing lasts forever._ This is WHY the Jedi teach against _deep_ attachments. Hell, Anakin _failing_ to get over his attachments is literally the reason why he fell to the Dark Side. It's perfectly fine to have friends and comrades to walk through life with, but obsessively looking for ways to forever keep those you love will only bring pain and wasted time from your life.
This is also the reason why the Jedi considered Anakin's natural love for his mother in _The Phantom Menace_ to be an issue. *Not* because loving your mother is bad, but because they can see the early signs that Anakin might be the type of person who would doom the entire galaxy and its billions of innocent civilians if it meant saving his small circle of loved ones... _and they were right,_ given that Anakin did indeed prove willing to help bring about an evil Sith empire that oppressed the galaxy just to _potentially_ save his wife and unborn progeny. Just look at _Rebels_ and _Andor_ for the full catastrophic consequences of that kind of attachment. It was only when he realized that saving his son _and_ the galaxy were the same thing that Anakin finally rose up again.
It's pretty clear from the showmakers and executives in holywood and gaming that this movement's ultimate objective is to replace existing fans with new fans. Therefore deconstructing the heroes and stories is a clear objective in this strategy. All in the name of money of course, since one cannot underestimate the power of Blackrock/Vanguard who are pushing this from top-down.
Problem is those new fans don't seem to exist. They almost ruined comic books trying the same thing (and are in the process of ruining D&D), all these people wanting diversity and what not don't actually consume this stuff, they just want to dictate how it should be then they move on to the next thing to change.
The other problem is that investment money isn't their money to keep. Eventually it needs to be paid back somehow.
@@darwinxavier3516 The way it seems to work is that the creditors who finance these mega projects are also partly owned by Blackrock and Vangard so studios simply HAVE to score high on ESG or they wont't get the loan for the project. They never bank them with their own cash ofc because not many have $200M to burn.
You can usually tell if a deconstruction was made by someone who understands the appeal of the thing they are deconstructing.
“Not flawed, but bad” that perfectly describes why I hate it when people tear down heroes, because the hero can’t just be flawed, no they make the hero actually be bad or evil in some way.
Deconstruction, as you mentioned, can be a really good method to look at a piece of art and examine its flaws, see biases, and ways that the work could be reconstructed without most of those flaws.
Deconstruction isn’t making a work terrible so everyone hates it. That’s just destruction.
A part of Deconstruction is examining what DOES work, and why things that are easily seen as flaws do serve some needed propose.
I think it started in the sixties with cowboys and detective movie. The protagonists often gave into their addictions, unlike in the thirties and forties.
The deconstruction that ever worked in Starwars was Kotor 2. Everyone else who has attempted to deconstruct it failed because they failed to understand what Lucas was attempting to convey as an artist and a storyteller.
I got so frustrated when I saw the lightwhip be a literal whip of energy. I may be way off base but I remember the lightwhip being made of segmented “blades” because the energy given off by a lightsaber can’t just arbitrarily be controlled.
Lightsabers are pieces of speculative technology, not magical bullshit.
Yeah, you described how the EU lightwhip was. I think it also could be activated and have a sort of energy shielding around the blades, iirc? Not lightsaber energy, but something else. I remember Githany (from Darth Bane: Prelude to Destruction) used one as her weapon of choice.
@@MegaManJake I remember mostly Lumiya's lightwhip, which I think works by using "pliant energy" in conjunction with physical matter, ie metal blades, basically having the lightsaber energy forming around/through the metal pieces which give it that whip-like effect.
The light whip was dumb in the EU, and it's dumb here too. As an avid SW and reader in general, I read many EU books, and not every one was great.
Great breakdown of deconstruction JSG! Note, my fave author JRR Tolkien strongly disliked "getting into author's heads" and, or course, poorly done allegory, especially moral allegory. This bounce quote from a friend of JRRT is really nice:
"To seek for the meaning is to cut open the ball in search of its bounce"
- Roger Lancelyn Green, Sunday Telegraph, 3 December 1967
"Thank you for your most gracious review (esp. for comment on the search for source of bounce!)."
- J R R Tolkien. Letter 299 To Roger Lancelyn Green, 12 December 1967
Thankfully disney canon is only fanfic. George’s star wars are the ones I own on dvd
palpatine: "The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some are considered to be unnatural"
making twins without conception likely falls into that category. also mind-bending a child into a stupor probably counts as dark side, too.
The worse part is knowing that talking about how bad something is just drives traffic to them. Like tasting something so awful it makes you want to get others to try it out of disbelief as though if they taste it to it quells your own disbelief.
''If all you want to do is take something someone likes and tear it down, you can't expect those people to go along with it.''
A most lucid conclusion that sums up almost the entirety of Disney's Star Wars, Marvel post Endgame, Star Trek since 2009, Dr Who post Capaldi, Smith's Masters of the Universe, The Rings of Power, The Wheel of Time, Terminator... and they wonder why Hollywood is failing while Japanese movies and Anime are flourishing beyond the wildest expectations.
I mean Kotor one and two were proof that the Jedi are flawed because they made both raven and the outcast because of their actions and everyone loves Kotor one and two.
I don't know single Star Wars fan that doesn't like them.
Some people actually do dislike kotor 2 for too much deconstruction because of Kreia. More often then not they just misunderstood the character or believe for some reason that the game strictly wants the players to agree with her.
@@alexkarter5854 It's funny, I absolutely understand why people do not like Kreia. She remains a villain, even if her point about the Force causing a hyper destructive puppet dance in which people suffer remains fully accurate. (You don't fix that by killing 99% of all life, ye silly git!) The narrative doesn't try to make you side with anyone, and I love it for that. It's structured to point out the Jedi's bad decisions and that Kreia has a terrible plan to try and solve a problem. Even if you have a fly buzzing about your room, burning down the building to get rid of it is insane.
"It's just spite..."
Concise summary of almost all pop culture projects from the last 15 years.
I’m still amazed people still watch Star Wars and think it’ll turn around and be good again. It’s gone and it’s never coming back. Just some guy sums it up well in this video there is no intent to create in the franchise now, they just want to destroy it
It's like an abusive relationship, you constantly tell yourself they can change but they never do.
Deconstructing is meaningless if it isn't built into anything. The question I constantly asked in the last Jedi is, "Why are any of these things happening, and what do you have left when you destroy all the characters with any worth?" Snoke was a vague idea that's never realized because he's quite casually killed off, Luke dies for no reason after pulling off a great distraction, Kylo and his subordinates get less interesting as the film progresses, and they turn into screaming children by the end. Rey is a cypher of a character that never actually develops, she's just good at everything so there's no growth. The rewrite in the Rise of Skywalker just compounds it.
Swamp Thing was Alan Moore's first major American deconstruction with Anatomy Lesson (though he was writing Miracleman and eventually Watchmen while working on the book, and had done similar work on Captain Britain before) as the revelation of Swamp Thing being an entity separate from Alec Holland was a strong springboard for his epic run on the book. more to the point, breaking down Swamp Thing was done to ask fundamental questions about who and what he is, and during his run those questions are answered and great stories with old and new characters are woven into it.
Deconstruction is a tool to break down and build back up with fresh ideas and a bold new direction. Disney destroys, and wouldn't know a deconstruction if it smacked them upside the head.
As soon as I saw Strong Female #3 bogart Ultraman Gaia's Photon Edge in the form of a bullshit lightwhip, I was done. There's NO WAY for this series to course correct itself after performing that bullshit.
In Jurassic Park III, the weird new dinosaur killed the T-Rex just to make itself seem cooler-an in-universe deconstruction of this kind. Fans loved the original T-Rex, and when Jurassic World came out, that movie understood the need to return the epic T-Rex as the hero. I never saw the last two JW movies, but please, please, can we have someone take control of Star Wars who has the same sense as the creators of the original JW…?
When I was 17 I wrote story about two younglings raised together and taught ways of the force. One leans into the Dark Side and uses Form 7 so is asked to leave.
During the Clone Wars he is asked to join the Jedi again because they need a good warrior. He rejects his friend, who is a Jedi Master now, because he knows once the war is over he will be disregarded. Count Dooku appears a few days later to him with an offer.
Years later he is an Inquisitor hunting Jedi, he hunts his friend, saying he has found people who need him now, but the Jedi Master dies apologising for not fighting harder for him to be back in the order.
The Inquisitor then tries to kill the Emperor but is stopped. The Emperor keeps him alive as a cyborg in incredible pain because he wont give up on such a wonderful creation.
That was a better deconstruction of the Jedi than the Acolyte and I wrote it when I was a teenager
Evangelion is deconstructing fiery shonen boy with his robot
You know... If someone wanted to make a new IP that was a deconstruction of Star Wars I'd probably give it a chance since that could be really fun.
A cult of sociopaths with a savior complex and far too much power fighting against the psychopaths who oppose them with regular people trapped in the middle trying to figure out which is actually the lesser of the 2 evils sounds like a blast.
0:42 The Simpsons was a deconstruction so good that it largely supplanted the thing it was deconstructing: 80s-style family sitcoms.
Then again, Simpsons is more parody than deconstruction.
Your breakdown of Luke was absolute perfection.
The damning thing about old, bitter Luke is that it *could* work, but we need to see more than Luke petting R2 for 1 second, standing on a cliff for 10, and an asspull of "I'm gonna murder my nephew!"
The difference between deconstruction and destruction is that after deconstruction you can put the thing back together again.
One problem I had is that they portrayed two Jedi as emotionally unhinged - Tobin and Sol. Their behavior was ridiculous is the flashback. And it’s ridiculous that the Jedi counsel, or whoever is in charge of away missions, would assign two such unstable individuals to the same one. Unless it was on purpose in the hopes that Indara would bring them up to snuff. Which the episode almost gets at, then ruins with it being Indara that wants to lie to the council and Osha.
I am amazed that even in a show about how full of hubris and entitlement the Jedi are they still ask whether the kid wants to join or not.
Two things:
1) at the time of The Clone Wars, the Jedi don't take children without the parents consent. The rodian mom during the holocron heist arc even says that she wasn't expecting the Jedi to come for awhile longer.
2) in legends, there ARE other branches of the order that the "rejected" younglings can join. So technically, even if Osha's training was halted, she could have still been in the order, just not as a knight.
This is one of the most fair and balanced critiques of The Acolyte. Great work.
This may be THE BEST analysis I’ve seen on RUclips. KK has destroyed Star Wars and Bob Iger gave her the authority to do it. Excellent video.
Deconstruction is destruction with a con. Take out the con and all you're left with is destruction.
Exactly! People hear fancy words and are wowed by them. All they did was add con to hide the truth
I thought from all the material I have read that the Jedi looked for volunteers? That people would volunteer their children to the Jedi because they thought it was a great honor?
If that sentiment has been waning for some time and the Jedi have changed their ways, it would have been nice to explain that.
Deconstruction was seen in every issue of MAD magazine.
You can disassemble thing to show people how it works. In some cases it requires it to be broken. But if you disassemble mechanical clock and try to persuade everyone that “half of those springs really doesn’t matter, and that crank is evil”, you’d be laughed at even by bystanders who don’t know anything about mechanics.
Greetings,
as someone wise responded to another "formerly wise" person who claimed :"The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.!
'
In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.' - Gandalf”
As someone that's very broken (mentally and physically) I can attest to that, not that I'm not interesting I was before I got broken but as I haven't left the house in 15 years due to illness I'm now far less interesting and also interested.
I'm not even an avid SW fan but even I know that the Jedi is supposed to be an honorable path. Thanks Footface Headland.
*wheeze*
"Footface Headland" Nice. XD
Thanks for so eloquently expressing what so many of us feel
Even in Ahsoka case there is nuance
_ Plo Koon & Obi Wan tried to help her within the limit of the rules
_ Yoda due to his position has to be impartial & pretend not to care but e told Anakin to break the rules to help Ahsoka
_ Anakin follow his advice & break the rules & get result in time
_ Mace is the only ass hole who has been accusing her the whole time then tried to sweep it under the rug by saying "it's a test by the Force"
You know whats a broken hero? Malcolm Reynolds of Firefly. He saw his home lost to war, and his Rebel superiors just give up. He became jaded, closed off, but in the end he was still the same man.
Jake Skywalker is just a destroyed Luke Skywalker.
10:30 not related to the point of the video but something I heard a while ago that stood out to me.
So many fallen heroes could've been saved by basic therapy but Anakin especially would've responded really well to it because he was actively looking for help. Anakin was desperately looking for any way to make things better and fell because nobody around him had any good answers, if he'd had access to a therapist the entire galaxy could've been saved.
breaking things is the whole point. there is no pain quite like having what you love taken from you only to have it given back in a corrupted, vile, broken condition.
just like LotR RoP, this is all a naked exercise in spite. it isn't even arrogance - it is just hatred set loose upon the world.
At this point it really is painful to read all these statements, because they people in charge really *almost* get it right...And then lack every ounce of talent and insight to realize it and make it a story. I am all for examining the flaws of the Jedi. But what we got here is just...Nothing, really!
There you go, making all the sense.
Thank you.
6:07 Mark Hamill looks really annoyed at Rian Johnson in that clip.
/standing ovation. You are completely *right on*, JSG.
A very perceptive and intelligent analysis and discussion. Well done, Just Some Guy.
When one finds that one's creations are actually just the ruins of what others who came before had created, it's time to pause and reflect.
The only time breaking canon can be acceptable is when you have to accommodate the medium in which you’re working. Otherwise - source material is the logos for the universe portrayed… that’s what’s gone wrong.. no one cares.. thus we are slowly giving up on caring.. don’t remember the last time I was really happy for a prequel, sequel, spinoff, remake…
I feel this argument on deconstruction or rather tearing down also applies to modern live action Star Trek, that being Discovery, Picard, and Strange New Worlds.
3:24 Not only this but the whole massacre by (possibly) a group of jedi is just the Padawan Massacre by the Jedi Covenant but instead its a faction of witches 😂
I think this particular video is one of the best summations of Disney Star Wars as a whole and not just the acolyte. Your breakdown of deconstruction is fantastic.
I always thought that the prequels were already a good enough deconstruction of the Jedi Order. People meme on the fact that when it came out, people were expecting the legendary Jedi Warrior Peacekeepers to be doing badass things, yet the first scene in the prequels is the Jedi discussing about spice trade routes. They've become too embroiled in the Galactic Politics that they're less peacekeepers and more extended arm of the Galactic Senate's reach, threatening anyone not following the major power of the system with laser light swords. All in the name to keep the "status quo" that they think is peace. Even inside of the system, there are people suffering from literal slavery and exploitation and they do nothing to stop it.
One time I deconstructed my guitar amplifier. I could never put it together after.
that one Anakin quote "From my point of view, the jedi are evil" stretch into a show
I miss the Yuzon Vong...
As cool as the Yuuzhan Vong were, I'd rather have liked to see a return of the Ssi-Ruuk, their entechment tech was both fascinating and terrifying.
As usual, well reasoned, thought out and explained.
Spite seems to be the primary motivation for Lucasfilm, Marvel and Disney when it comes to beloved IPs.
Well-heeled, inspired, thought-provoking take! This video was a *gift*!
One Thing to Point Out
The Force is Balance when there are No Darkside
Its Same as in Avatar with the Avatar Spirit it surpressed the dark one because the Moment they broke of the Dark was coasing absolut Chaos making the Other Spirits Go Mad, aggressiv and violant
And funny Thing i Decontracted the word Balance thats how it works
Yup. The fundamental flaw of the Jedi was they came to assume emotion = dark side. When the truth is that emotion without self restraint is the path into darkness. You get mad, sad, even wrathful, but you restrain yourself. That's being in balance, you feel, you care, but you are not ruled by either your emotions or heartless logic. The Darkside is a slippery slope, a bad friend whispering toxin into your ear, so it can control you. If the force were to be fully balanced, there wouldn't be such an outside force, only the darkness you yourself bring. Thus eliminating the dark side entirely wouldn't result in an end to evil, or even just to evil force users. But it would prevent things like Darth Vader from happening.
Thanks Guy, excellent analysis with examples
You are right in your analysis of the Jedi and Star Wars universe
An emotionless child stealing monster? I thought you were talking about Hedland’s old boss for a minute there.
Time and time again it just feels like people who like the show pay less attention to it than those that see it for what it is. A money grab that crashed and burned
Deconstruct does not equal Destruct.
Deconstruction has been in effect since at least the Del Ray era. The difference is that it was done well back then without trampling over decades of source material.
JSG, you must be force sensitive because you have been reading my thoughts from the beginning. Spot on and I applaud you.
For the 10,000th time, THATS NOT HOW BALANCE IN THE FORCE WORKS. Except for that, you get everything else right.
This is a good analysis.
I’ll never forgive Ruin Johnson!