"You think that's bad?" Arthur said, still not completely able to come to terms with his thursday. "They demolished my house to build a bypass! And then they demolished my planet to build another bloody bypass!"
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It’s bypasses all the way down.
And Vader made it look to her like she was responsible for it for not answering his questions, even though they were clearly going to blow up the planet regardless as a demonstration of power.
Still, this scene tracks the characters that Leia would go hard and move forward in the face of tragedy while Luke was still basically a farm boy at this point and overwhelmed by it all.
Leia was in complete denial at this point. She just could not accept it. Dealing with Luke’s trauma was a welcome distraction.
A new-EU comic series goes into how, even after the Battle of Yavin, she refuses to deal with the loss of Alderaan and has to be taken off active duty. She goes on a bit of a walkabout with Evaan Verlaine (the only Y-wing pilot to survive the Death Star) and also a survivor of Alderaan. Neat story.
Leia is the only female character in the original trilogy. Something important to the story of a man was happening at the time so her story didn't matter.
i was about to say mon mothma but then i remembered that she doesn't really have an arc or anything she's just kinda there.
Okay sure.
How about the torture?
C'mon, that bra couldn't have hurt that much.
The expert emotional compartmentalization just makes her all the more badass, IMHO.
Yeah I don't know if all of y'all being flabbergasted by woman being able to show emotional empathy despite her own problems is really the look you think it is.
The joke is more how her issues are completely sidelined in favour of his, which is even more ridiculous considering she lost everything. I view it as a jab at the misogyny embedded in the narrative telling of the time.
i think you're giving 70s filmmakers too much credit
Pretty sure all their issues are sidelined because they're about to be destroyed by a giant death laser.
The meme is literally about something that is not the giant death laser about to distort them.
One death is a relatable personal connection, a bajillion deaths is a cartoonish demonstration of mythic evil.
a bajillion deaths is a cartoonish demonstration of mythic evil
Uhm, countries, wars, genocides?
Did they stutter?
The death of one is a tragedy, the death of millions is just a sight you see.
Apparently using a nickname is wrong.
I know, what’s the big deal, sheep fucker?
So you're saying "Ben" is roughly equivalent to "Sheep-fucker"?
Get fucked Ben's of the world, I guess...
I was calling you a nick name.
So a man walks into a bar, and sits down. He starts a conversation with an old guy next to him. The old guy has obviously had a few. He says to the man:
"You see that dock out there? Built it myself, hand crafted each piece, and it's the best dock in town! But do they call me "McGregor the dock builder"? No! And you see that bridge over there? I built that, took me two months, through rain, sleet and scoarching weather, but do they call me "McGregor the bridge builder"? No! And you see that pier over there, I built that, best pier in the county! But do they call me "McGregor the pier builder"? No!"
The old guy looks around, and makes sure that nobody is listening, and leans to the man, and he says:
"…but you fuck one sheep…"