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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Do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Special days!

Friday and weekends: Caption contest. An image will be pinned, and we shall make captions for it and post them in the comments.

Wednesday: Theme day. We have Droids day, EU day, poem day, aliens day... Let the pinned post guide you. Memes with the theme are preferred.

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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:

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.
We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.
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!
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.
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).
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.
Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I do feel sympathy for George Lucas repeatedly telling people since 1977 that these are movies for children, then he sells it to the ultimate children's company and then people going to see the Disney movies are shocked that it's a fun, light space adventure.

But I knew what I was getting into and I had a very fun time with seven, whereas nine is bad to the point of being insulting to any audience, including a child audience.

I am curious to see if the critical success of Andor, a more gritty Star wars tale, rubs off on the new movies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nine has many layers to it. It's the most interesting of all of the Star Wars movies, just isn't appreciated by hot take internet culture that fixates on the nitpicks.

In one of the layers, it has a good message for children that are learning in school that their ancestors did terrible things. You don't have to identify with your ancestors, you can and should identify with the good people in the past. Even those that opposed your ancestors.

Probably don't need to go so far as changing your name because your ancestors did some bad shit, but it's Star Wars, people are always changing their names to signal their alignment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's a single layer; choosing your own family was introduced in 1977 and then abandoned in 9 because everyone splits up qnd Rey takes up the name of Skywalker which doesn't have much to do with and goes against her story that it doesn't matter where you come from.

"it's Star Wars, people are always changing their names"

There are hundreds of main characters in these movies and shows and I can't think of any characters that change their names outside of the handful of sith and Rey.

By " people are always changing their names" do you mean the sith and Rey? The four guys required to change their names and the one girl over 50 years of media?

What a tidal wave of change.

"...the most interesting of all of the Star Wars movies, just isn't appreciated by hot take internet culture that fixates on the nitpicks."

This doesn't make any sense, at least with what we've been talking about, themes and main events.

What are you referring to?