Still enjoying this as a chance to revisit the series/read the ones I haven't yet! ^_^
(re: SU: I AM GOING TO BE SUPER LAZY ABOUT THAT SPECULATION POST, FYI!!!)
Some scattered thoughts:
- LOL the comics art is *gorgeous* (did you see that page with the stars and space & nebulas? <333). It also brings home to me JUST HOW COMIC HIS SUIT IT. HE HAS A CHAIN LINK TO TIE HIS CAPE TOGETHER? HIS FUCKING CODPIECE?!?!?!? HIS THIGH-HIGH TIGHTS THING? Anakin tinkers with his suit all the time, these are things he can change at any moment. BUT. NOPE. DRAMATIC AS FUCK CAPE A REQUIREMENT.
- I know Vader is meant to be badass, but mostly I just feel SAD for him. Yes, the kyber crystal must be taken forcefully-- but must that include bystanders? AT ANY POINT HE COULD'VE GIVEN HIS SECURITY CODE AND ACCESSED THE DATABASE WITHOUT MURDER. I think it's easy to become inured to the level of violence Anakin executes, but it shouldn't. It's horrible. He is destroying people *on his own side*. I think it speaks to the level of anger and fury in him.
- Fascinating that Anakin chooses to use a green lightsaber and then just drop it. Almost like he's trying it on for size (does it still fit him?). Or like he's trying to *show* that he's no longer a Jedi (THESE WEAPONS WHICH ARE THEIR LIVES ARE NOTHING TO ME, JUST GARBAGE).
- Lol, how quickly he adopted his Vader persona. It's been, like, a week since he's become a Sith? And he's already I DO NOT EXPECT QUESTIONS, I EXPECT TO BE OBEYED. This was such a subtle, genius way to do exposition. The droid doesn't care if it gets more information or not! It can recite names for months on end! It's Vader's choice to talk or to listen! Vader's exasperation was a treat. :D
- THE CLONES. UGH. IT JUST GETS WORSE AND WORSE FOR THEM. They are relics delegated to collecting relics; a genocide in the making cleaning up the last genocide. THEY DON'T EVEN WANT TO RETIRE, THEY JUST WANT TO KEEP DOING THEIR JOBS ;A;!!! They're still fated to get mowed down.
On your post-- YES. SO MUCH OF THIS IS SOMEONE JUST FLINGING THEMSELVES INTO ANYTHING THAT'LL KILL THEM. Spacial combat! Clones that executed order 66! A BOMB. A FIGHT WITH A TRAINED JEDI. You've said this before but this comic really highlights it: Vader is "badass" because he's got nothing to lose. His life is meaningless to him and he has nothing but rage to fuel him. It's what makes him so terrifying and pathetic. ;___;
why don't i have a star wars icon
(re: SU: I AM GOING TO BE SUPER LAZY ABOUT THAT SPECULATION POST, FYI!!!)
Some scattered thoughts:
- LOL the comics art is *gorgeous* (did you see that page with the stars and space & nebulas? <333). It also brings home to me JUST HOW COMIC HIS SUIT IT. HE HAS A CHAIN LINK TO TIE HIS CAPE TOGETHER? HIS FUCKING CODPIECE?!?!?!? HIS THIGH-HIGH TIGHTS THING? Anakin tinkers with his suit all the time, these are things he can change at any moment. BUT. NOPE. DRAMATIC AS FUCK CAPE A REQUIREMENT.
- I know Vader is meant to be badass, but mostly I just feel SAD for him. Yes, the kyber crystal must be taken forcefully-- but must that include bystanders? AT ANY POINT HE COULD'VE GIVEN HIS SECURITY CODE AND ACCESSED THE DATABASE WITHOUT MURDER. I think it's easy to become inured to the level of violence Anakin executes, but it shouldn't. It's horrible. He is destroying people *on his own side*. I think it speaks to the level of anger and fury in him.
- Fascinating that Anakin chooses to use a green lightsaber and then just drop it. Almost like he's trying it on for size (does it still fit him?). Or like he's trying to *show* that he's no longer a Jedi (THESE WEAPONS WHICH ARE THEIR LIVES ARE NOTHING TO ME, JUST GARBAGE).
- Lol, how quickly he adopted his Vader persona. It's been, like, a week since he's become a Sith? And he's already I DO NOT EXPECT QUESTIONS, I EXPECT TO BE OBEYED. This was such a subtle, genius way to do exposition. The droid doesn't care if it gets more information or not! It can recite names for months on end! It's Vader's choice to talk or to listen! Vader's exasperation was a treat. :D
- THE CLONES. UGH. IT JUST GETS WORSE AND WORSE FOR THEM. They are relics delegated to collecting relics; a genocide in the making cleaning up the last genocide. THEY DON'T EVEN WANT TO RETIRE, THEY JUST WANT TO KEEP DOING THEIR JOBS ;A;!!! They're still fated to get mowed down.
On your post-- YES. SO MUCH OF THIS IS SOMEONE JUST FLINGING THEMSELVES INTO ANYTHING THAT'LL KILL THEM. Spacial combat! Clones that executed order 66! A BOMB. A FIGHT WITH A TRAINED JEDI. You've said this before but this comic really highlights it: Vader is "badass" because he's got nothing to lose. His life is meaningless to him and he has nothing but rage to fuel him. It's what makes him so terrifying and pathetic. ;___;