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AllonzeeLV, (edited ) in The clearest way to tell a story is by starting in the middle.

Therapist: Start with a story

Disney: No

Therapist: Then how did Palpatine return?

Disney: …Somehow!

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

Therapist: you see, this is what we would call an irrational belief.

SCB,

Palpatine returned through clones and Sith magic, explained at the end of the story

The character Poe Dameron knows nothing about Force magic, which is why he says “somehow.” He is working from limited information and is not an “author voice” to the audience.

Blackmist,

All of Oscar Isaac’s acting talent cannot hide his disgust as he delivers that line. It really is something.

SCB,

I think it would be very weird if Oscar Isaac

A) did not know that characters with limited perspectives exist, as an actor, especially since limited perspectives are often key drivers of plot elements in every type of story. For instance, none of Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet happens at all without similar lack of information from characters, and actors tend to know about those plays.

And

B) was unaware of shaky dialogue in literally every Star Wars media ever, and the fact that pulpy dialogue like this is a signature element of Star Wars.

I also kind of find it weird that this line got memed into being the ur-example of “Sequels Suck” by supposed fans of Star Wars, a series well known for its brand-specific dialogue choices, which may or may not have originally been intentional, but definitely is now.

AngryMob,

Its not like it is the only example. The sequel trilogy has plenty of other annoyances just like the prequels and originals do. The problem for many is that palp’s death validates the story and actions of the characters. He lives and a new order pops up, then much of what happened was pointless. To me, picking on that line is a way of showing how much of a clusterfuck the story of the sequels is. They are amazing in visuals, acting, etc. Somewhat the polar opposite of their counterparts.

SCB,

He didn’t live. He died. Then he was coming back to life and was killed again. Palpatine couldn’t even leave his chair at the time of Rise.

People can disagree on the story and that’s fine, - totally respect just “I didn’t like the story,” that’s very legitimate - just wanted to clarify that plot element

fsxylo,

That’s a lot of words to gaslight us into thinking that line isn’t just a lazy handwave and a terrible line.

SCB,

It’s not gaslighting if it’s all true

setsneedtofeed,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

Disney: “The power of Fortnite is beyond your comprehension.”

misterundercoat, in [SWSW] Why can't we be friends?

Being a Star Wars fan is easy. You just have to hate Star Wars.

Draedron,

As someone who likes all trilogys I never feel like a star wars fan

antik, (edited ) in I don't even know how Lemmy works
@antik@lemmy.world avatar

This was a case of harassment from one user to another. That one is a developer of a successful app and the other is the moderator of a successful community has nothing to do with it. Izzy was asked on numerous occasions to stop derailing every conversation and stop targeting the user. You can not like something, you can be critical of something but at least try to be constructive. They were relentless. And when a warning was given by the admin they came back guns blazing, now also making accusations towards the admin team.

We have NO financial connection to Sync. We do not accept ANY money or other incentives from anyone exactly for this reason also, about how it might look if things go south.

Normally we don’t talk about the bans in public because whatever we say people will twist the story make their own versions of it and run with it. So I posted what we had to say about that and locked the thread.

So finally I just want to say that it is unfortunate what happened but there were MANY occasions where Izzy was offered the chance to prevent this from happening. And as a moderator of a big community he has to be an example. Moderators should be held to a higher standard than normal users.

Edit: for another perspective, the other moderator from !sciencefiction who left the community a while ago chimes in: lemmy.world/comment/3571751

Nouveau_Burnswick,
possiblylinux127,
Nouveau_Burnswick,
1984,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

All this because he was expressing his dislike for ads in the Sync client?

I don’t see why its not allowed for a moderator to have opinions about ads, as long as he is not exploiting his moderator position to remove posts that disagree with his opinions.

Anyway, I know I don’t understand the situation fully so I shouldn’t really say anything about it. At the end of the day, each instance makes their own decisions about these things.

antik, (edited )
@antik@lemmy.world avatar

What, a post critical of LW from @1984 without the thiniest bit of background information. Say it isn’t so!

Silverseren,

Your responses to WhoRoger over on that thread doesn't give me much confidence that you're on the level, Antik.

Sunforged, in Mark Hamill casually out memeing everyone since before the internet was a thing.
teft,
@teft@startrek.website avatar

You got 200 upvotes in under an hour. How many do you need King Xerxes?

Sunforged,

You Mark Hamill got 200 upvotes in under an hour.

I’m just a dirty reposter in this scenario.

SupraMario,

The fuck is an upvote? This is Lemmy not reddit.

knyuqlr,

What do you call them here?

Sunforged,

“UpLem obviously.”

SupraMario,

Perfect!

Widowmaker_Best_Girl,

Upvotes

teft,
@teft@startrek.website avatar

Ascending Plebiscites.

massive_bereavement,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

Means of production

davidgro,

Hover your mouse pointer over those numbers on the webpage (which was coded by the Lemmy devs) - It says things like “2 points • 4 Upvotes • 2 Downvotes”

Reddit didn’t invent those terms.

demlet,

I assume the intended purpose is the same here as it is on Reddit - to flag spam, bots, and other intentional misuses of the platform. Maybe there are instances that don’t utilize the feature?

Default_Defect,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

Strange that I’ve seem someone complain about this before any usage of the term “sublemmy” instead of community.

SupraMario,

I was more making a stupid joke, but people didn’t seem to like it lol

Default_Defect,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

Yeah, I learned the hard way that using /s is 100% required these days.

SupraMario,

Yes I’m noticing more people are just in fight mode these days, and anything that sounds like an argument, they go for the throat.

altima_neo, in The Trekkies didn't like (and in fact got angry) at the mere image of Jedi Master Kirk, with his lightsaber phaser.
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar
c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

The slow photon pierces the deflectors.

Technotica,
@Technotica@lemmy.world avatar

Dang, now we know why we live in the worst timeline… No Patrick Stewart Jedi… We could have had Patrick Steward in Star Wars…!!!

darth_tiktaalik,
@darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml avatar

May the earl grey be with you

LeafOnTheWind,

Hot

CrayonRosary, in art enthusiast

MORAL

LongbottomLeaf,

The mural of the story could be improved by some R&R, sir.

Cort,

Morel can improved by sauteing in oil

Nouveau_Burnswick,

Sunforged is my editor

OctopusKurwa, in No one can mock you, quite like family [SWSW]

Troi legit sucks at her job. Most scenes of her in a therapy session usually amount to “I dunno eat chocolate about it maybe”

Meanwhile down in Ten Forward, Guinan would be asking questions that get to the heart of the issue.

I’ll be the first one to say I actually love Marina Sirtis, but let’s be real the writers did her dirty.

TheShadowKnows,

Guinan lived through the entirety of the development of psychology on earth and probably hung out with many of psychology’s prolific figures. I could totally see her hanging out with Frued and Jung at a bar in Vienna.

Meanwhile Troi probably got credit in the academy for being a empath. She probably wrote off a ton of courses that others probably had to go through to get her position. She has really crutial to some arcs in the show, but not for her therapeutic environment/style. Someone else should have been the ships psychologist.

kn33, in I guess they don't have moisturizers on a moisture farm.

You should see some of the folks over there in Arizona

themeatbridge,

Can we take a moment to appreciate how spot-on that casting is, though?

CobblerScholar,

I’m glad they gave Owen and Beru a little time to be brave badasses even though outmatched

tacosanonymous,

They got nothing on folks from Key West, FL.

Kolanaki, in Diplomatic Immunity
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

“What plans?”

“The plans that were delivered to you.”

“He delivered me hope. Didn’t you see the previous scene?”

teft, (edited ) in Posting on the Edge
@teft@startrek.website avatar

There’s only one man who would dare post Spaceball memes.

Sunforged.

Sunforged,
Pons_Aelius, in I'm still angry about this. They ever give a reason?

Chewy is standing on a lower step so all three of them are the same height.

Rodeo,

He’s too tall for Leia to reach to put the medal around his neck. So he just doesn’t get one.

fartsparkles, in Han is the man

“Um, Actually” Han didn’t turn up with Vader’s daughter, he came to rescue her from her father who had just obliterated her foster parents.

Lux,

“Um, Actually” Han didn’t know she was there until they already got there

fartsparkles,

You totally win that point! And to anyone who hasn’t watched Dropout TV’s “Um, Actually” and enjoyed this thread, you’re going to love that show.

jedibob5, in Bssmmm

Man, the “only a Sith deals in absolutes” line was really one of those things that sounded a lot better on paper than it actually turned out to be.

Even beyond the obvious self-contradiction, “dealing in absolutes” is such a weird attribute to describe as unique to the Sith… Like, the identifying mark of a Sith isn’t their hunger for power and control, nor their mastery of the Dark Side, it’s that they aren’t moral relativists? Really?

beebarfbadger,

The Sith deals in absolutes, the Jedi uses absolutes recreationally.

Bondrewd,

Its because you dont cease to be a moral relativists just because you say certain words.

Imagine: Obiwan is a moral relativists and that is how he said this. What do his words mean then?

wombatula,

Actually it’s more of a George Lucas is terrible at dialogue situation, the operative word in the sentence is “deals”.

He wasn’t saying “Only a Sith recognizes absolutes”, he was saying they only “deal” in them as in they refuse to compromise or recognize nuance. To a Sith anyone that isn’t currently aiding you is your enemy, if they aren’t your ally they are to be destroyed. It’s not that he was trying to say there are no absolutes, he’s saying that there are other options in this situation, and that by viewing Obi-Wan as an enemy because he opposes Palpatine he is “dealing in absolutes” as in he is making this a life-or-death situation when it doesn’t need to be.

It was never meant to be a philosophical statement, it’s just a very awkward way of saying “Anakin we can work this out and compromise, you and Sidious are only acting like this because of the Dark Side”. Unfortunately this bit of dialogue was written by the same person that thought “I’m haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating…hoping that kiss will not become a scar” was romantic and thoughtful, instead of the type of thing an emo teenager would write in their diary.

If you want to see what George Lucas is capable of without someone there to fix his weird choices, go look up the “Adventures of Luke Starkiller, as taken from the Journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars” screenplay, the untouched version of Star Wars that he originally thought up, there are even comic book adaptations out there. If you are brave enough to read it, you will very quickly see that George needs someone else to proofread his work and ESPECIALLY his dialogue, because the entire thing is a mess and practically every other line out of someones mouth sounds like a grand philosophical statement because of the phrasing he uses to give it more gravitas.

TL;DR - George Lucas uses weird phrasing and should never be allowed to write dialogue.

Rodeo,

written by the same person that thought “I’m haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating…hoping that kiss will not become a scar” was romantic and thoughtful, instead of the type of thing an emo teenager would write in their diary.

95% of all TV and movies are pathetically juvenile like that. Mature dialog and writing is the exception in film.

Ghostalmedia, in Someone uploaded this emoji to our corporate Slack.
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

From time to time religious people in the office use this emoji unironically. It makes me laugh so hard whenever it pops up.

lnsfw3,

It says “100% real” right in the name

dditty,

Yeah and it checks out I mean Jesus was a Scottish jedi

marcos,

I wonder how many replies of “Hello there!” those people get, and if they believe people become extra polite answering more because of the emoji.

Furbag, in I guess they don't have moisturizers on a moisture farm.

19 years of Luke whining will do that to anybody.

deadbeef79000,

Aaaaw, but I wanted to go to Toshi’s station to pick up some power converters

You can pay with your friend when your chores are done.

Repeat every day for 20 years.

vaultdweller013,
Honytawk,

Why does he have broccoli on his chest?

vaultdweller013,

He’s the Joker he does what he wants.

PersnickityPenguin,

Living the dream!

FrostAce,

I think that’s a Doctor Who reference. Fifth Doctor, to be exact.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Indeed. And it’s celery, not broccoli, although five’s celery wasn’t usually so leafy.

hydrospanner,

Mark Hamill is a fucking treasure.

PersnickityPenguin,

Bwahahahaha!

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