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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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IMPORTANT

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:

  1. 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.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. 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!

  4. 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.

  5. 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).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Star Wars goes from being a story about the power of the workers to a story about force royalty

The power of the workers? One of the leads from the first movie is a literal princess...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And while she's very cool, she couldn't have done it without the help of a farm boy and two career criminals. The heroes of the rebellion could have been anyone, as long as they made an effort and used the force. And back in those days, you didn't need midichlorians to use the force, anyone could do it if they received the right advice from a mysterious old hermit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I disagree on this point. Say what you will about midichlorians, but even before they were introduced, not everyone could use the force.

Granted that wasn't explicitly stated in A New Hope... that random farm boy was already special because he was the son of a great Jedi Knight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The force only works if you believe in it, and you're alive. And there's heavily implied to be some mental barriers you have to overcome to get it to work properly.

Of our heroes in the first movie, we have:

  • old hermit who definitely uses the force
  • naive farm boy who learns to use the force
  • jaded smuggler who doesn't believe in the force
  • GRAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH
  • robot
  • robot
  • princess who never discusses the force on camera but they don't rule her using the force out

And in terms of antagonists:

  • evil wizard who is looked down upon by society for using the force
  • a bunch of beaurocrats who don't believe in the force
  • weak minded fascist soldiers who don't believe in the force
  • a bartender who never mentions the force
  • an asshole criminal who never mentions the force
  • jawas

In this movie, of the characters who display awareness of the fact that the force exists, we see a clear divide between characters who believe in the force and can use it, and characters who don't believe in the force and don't try to use it. I suspect there's a causal relationship somewhere in there.