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Cappn

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I like vidya games, plastic trash, movies and animu. Generally friendly! Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CappnRob/streams Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/CappnRob/films/ Backloggd: https://backloggd.com/u/Cappn/games/

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Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 7h

It could've been possible for an entourage to travel to Tatooine to buy Shmi her freedom, but the fact it didn't happen means there must be some reason why. No time? Difficulty allocating the money? I can see the possibility, but I can also see it isnt weird that it didn't happen too.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8h

After the events of the movie the Naboo court probably could have done this, but the question then becomes, would they do that? A republic world being found hiring hitmen to shake down backwater traders is an ugly look, and those optics do matter in the republic.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8h

Huh, so it is. 100% aluminum? So even the buttons and shit? Who the hell is this meant for lol

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8h

yeah what the hell, what's different about this one??

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Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8h

My unhinged watch order is OT'94 (the final release pre-SE), then the PT, then OT SE as kind of a rewatch bonus with context to see how things changed :)

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8h

The ST is "woke" in the same way a company changing its social media logo to a rainbow every June is "woke".

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13h

Does anyone else think the Star Wars sequel trilogy might just have been too woke?

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8h

lol you're doing god's work with these posts, i just made an angry screenshot rant to get around text limits (and also I'm too lazy to grab and edit movie footage).

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Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8h

it's like asking why in the real world the UN Peacekeeping Forces don't go to fuckin' Thailand and liberate the human trafficking of prostitutes.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8h

Because 1: they probably are, when they can do so and 2: in a galaxy of trillions of trillions of people, an ascetic order of like 1000 dudes isn't going to systemically dismantle evil societies that don't even acknowledge the legitimacy of the "good" government's existence.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8h

almost as if stories go through drafts, and thus ideas change through them!!!

also like, how is this hyperfixating on the worst ideas? Han Solo isn't this in the final product! You're disproving your own point!

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8h

I think some crude concept art for it exists? But yeah, it was a CONCEPT lol

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8h

Popular social media poster makes a funny but misinformed post about a movie plot point and the subsequent reply chains drive me insane with how many people are missing the point, or simply don't remember things, or just don't care, to the point I need to screenshot rant to get it out of my system.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 9h

This is forgetting that the heroes on Tatooine are trying to keep a low profile and killing a salesman over a slave dispute isn't that. Best case scenario, Quigon gets drawn and quartered by Jabba and the Skywalkers get sold to someone else, and the rest still somehow have to repair the damn ship.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 9h

What's really funny is later Last Jedi would go and say the same kind of shit in so many different words and people would eat it up. "You expect me to go out there with a laser sword" or however it goes - its the same idea! You can't just brute force justice no matter how much we wish it could.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 9h

Ehhh kinda. Tatooine is outside the jurisdiction of the Republic, it isn't like the Jedi have the logistic power to go and deal with every crapsack world like it. But the congestion of justice tied up in bureaucracy is very salient in TPM regardless, with the senate scenes discussing Naboo.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 9h

Tell me exactly what reflects poorly on a man trying to save a mother and child from slavery? Quigon only fixed the dice roll because Watto was using loaded dice to try and screw Quigon over from even freeing just Anakin! The fuck else is he supposed to do here??

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 9h

And like, the movie literally says "Tatooine is just as dangerous as being on a Federation world" with the ONLY caveat being "the Hutts don't know who we are". Killing Watto over a slave dispute would've made attention they couldn't afford.

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Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 10h

The money from the race winnings combined with selling Anakin's pod was not enough to cover the cost of both the ship's parts and two slaves, the movie explicitly says they don't have the cash needed, because the kind of currency they have isn't good there! Everything is riding on winning the race.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 10h

This whole thread of replies makes me actually fucking mad like I feel like I'm losing my mind the movie ADDRESSES ALL OF THIS

Like the fuck did they want Quigon to do, murder Watto on the spot? Yeah that'd been badass but then good luck getting off the planet with that kind of heat on you.

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Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

It's almost certainly a grift. I see lots of games in DVD cases (ie PS2) sold without manuals, and its clear they're just intentionally leaving the manuals out on purpose to drive the prices up of the ones that do have them.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

No, not really, you fuckin' wankers

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

what's the matter snowflake, can't enjoy a classic like goatse? you wanna cry about it? maybe go hide in a safe space? fuckin' WUSS

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

this is all to say that sadly, the world of star wars, at least as the OT's ending depicted it, is better than ours.

and thats a world where fat bastard slugs feed sex slaves to kaiju they keep locked up in their basements.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 3d

TELL ME WHAT YOU SEEEEEEEE

i can not tell you now....

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 3d

Becoming increasingly wild-eyed as I painstakingly explain the complete timeline of the Ayreon Cinemusical Universe to people

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 3d

a man with a beard and a cape says " i 've been looking forward to this "

ALT: a man with a beard and a cape says " i 've been looking forward to this "

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