AnotherExhaustedMillenial
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Aug 7, 2022 3:40 PM
AnotherExhaustedMillenial
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bwizzle360
Live long and prosper. ?
AtsaMattaForMe
Volpe42
I hear he has an 8 pack
AreYouABadPerson
Totally shredded.
DocTanner
Well... he _would_ have been a prince of Alderaan. But his grandfather decided to eliminate that job title.
AreYouABadPerson
Tarkin did actually, IIRC. Vader didn't even like or want the Death Star.
DocTanner
Technically. But Vader was there. https://www.starwars.com/video/destruction-of-alderaan
AreYouABadPerson
Well yeah. But it was Tarkin's idea and Tarkin's order. Vader wasn't exactly involved in that decision making and Tarkin out-ranked him.
enderite
I don’t know who this is. I only recognized Luke, Lea, han, and chewie facing the empire and leading the rebellion to victory.
DanaConti5
Han Solo’s cause of death.
enderite
Oh.. and the Mandalorian and grogu.
eightyearplan
The stories we know of hercules, athena, zeus.. (and your favorite religious figures) weren't handed down from heaven carved in stone..
eightyearplan
rather- they were traded over a million diners and campfires and hikes and days of labor.. and evolved..
eightyearplan
all side-lines and spin-offs and ships and re-writes explored.. then forgotten or re-told.. now we have super-human online forums
eightyearplan
for fanfic.. voted up or down.. -> online cooperative spaces for audio-drama actors, artists, animators..
eightyearplan
crowdfunded.. voted up or down.. and you're waiting for disney or nothing?
xstickman
Nah it's cool, we can use the character again in further films via this groundbreaking screenwriter technique: "Somehow, Kylo Ren returned"
TCGView
Yep, they missed SO MANY opportunities with his character. They seriously screwed up.
ashaliel
*spoilers* i was so hoping he would have stayed alive and Rey died. Struggling with being good, after his acts, would have been a good story
BUBBLETRON
Radar technician Matt agrees
SteamingTheCat
There's not much he could do once they jammed the radars.
AtsaMattaForMe
Volpe42
I hear he has an 8 pack
eromitlab
That Kylo Ren is shredd-ed
2HeadedBear
That guy looks like he weighs 30 pounds soaking wet underneath that little black dress.
KingAardvark1st
Who's Ben Solo? There's a Ben Skywalker and a Jacen Solo. Also a Jaina Solo.
thetonestarr
The queen of Naboo is an elected position with terms. Padme ceased being queen between eps 1 and 2, so no, Ben Solo is not a prince of Naboo
ThisGuyPostingThings
Thank you! I was about to comment that Naboo's "royalty" was elected, not inherited.
doesntmatter
Why quotation? Electing kings and queens has been common throughout history. Sweden elected ours up until 16th century.
ThisGuyPostingThings
Mainly as Sweden's electing of kings was more of an indefinite election of a ruler, whereas Naboo had a set term for a child figurehead.
Enoan
I cannot contest the "figurehead" status, but Padme was truly exceptionally young for a roll usually held by adults
daromander
The one elected didn't have to be a child from my understanding. Padme was the youngest Queen
Gee422
Darth Emo
IPoisonedDorcasMutton
Technically don't think he's a prince of either. Alderaan is gone and Naboo only had Queens serve for like... 5 years at a time or something
Papatart
The last Skywalker but they killed the wrong character who was the actual last Skywalker and not whatever the fuck Rey was.
SeraphimTech
M̶a̶r̶y̶ S̶u̶e̶ Rey is the only important character in the modern Star Wars movies.
fnoigy
It's almost as if the movies were trash that preyed on our nostalgia for the sake of giant corporations we can't stop buying from
Lassannn
I'm like 95% sure that's Kylo Ren.
jejorda2
From a particular point of view.
CitizenClam
From my point of view his name is Ben Ren
paperfanman
From mine it’s Ben Ten
tappersparty3
kylo solo
definitelynotaspider
The sequel trilogy actually had a bunch of interesting ideas and explored exactly none of them
JEMbalaya
Because Lucasfilm writers have become shite. I said it
CelestialSea
The new Star Wars movies aren't about people. They're about explosions. You story? We'll give you explosions!
wetllama
He wasn't exploited... But we were
BuckDitkis
But that would require writers and dialogue. That doesn't leave room for lazer swords and spaceships go zoom.
PlaidBastard
Got friggin' back and forth, hot potato resurrection kiss'd to death, too.
Riehuu
I haven't watch the The Rise of Skywalker and I'm happy with my decision. But I like Adam Driver.
RyanH42
The monarch of Naboo was an elected position.
Evi1Gav
Alderaan doesn't exist, so no there, and naboo had an elected Queen position, it's not hereditary, so no there as well.
Yuktio
Listen, there's plenty to criticize about the Disney sequels, and this character, but this is just making up issues. Alderaans' gone, Naboo
Yuktio
likely moved on when Padme stopped being its queen and was in no way relevant to the First Order's plans, and while he might be the grandson
Yuktio
of a former slave, Kylo himself wasn't one, so why would he go on any sidequests related to it? There's nothing to 'explore'.
TakeYouAway
Also cool how one liberated "child slave" storm trooper got free and decided "fuck all the rest of my brainwashed comrades" and nothing more
JudgementalMan
Just because they were indoctrinated doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing. They could just be bad people that Finn can't "save"
AgamemnonsMemes
There was really no space for Finns story and honestly, i think he should have had his own whole movie(s) to explore that.
AreYouABadPerson
Finn's entire plot got done disgustingly dirty. He should have been force sensitive and he should have led a Stormtrooper rebellion.
AgamemnonsMemes
He doesn't need to be force sensitive to be a hero, but he kinda needed his own whole movie(s) for that sort of story, no time for him.
AreYouABadPerson
TFA was absolutely teasing he was force sensitive.
AgamemnonsMemes
Oh it was, i just don't think its absolutely necessary for every star wars hero to be force sensitive. He could be a hero and explore 1/
AgamemnonsMemes
what he went through and go through a whole story about freeing other captured child soldiers without being force sensitive
iaiahastur
I would have watched the hell out of 'General Calrissian and his army of force sensitive ex-stormtroopers', which IX had unsubtle hints of
AreYouABadPerson
We need that "Adventures of Lando" series with Donglover as Young Lando and Billy Dee Williams as Old Lando narrating.
AreYouABadPerson
Before, you know, Billy Dee Williams keels over dead. Not that it stops Disney anymore but hey.
Nusete
Bc in the sequels, anybody who isn't Rey doesn't matter
cominginhot
Ray* https://imgur.com/02mX8se
metalrulercid
Rey doesn't matter either. If there ever was a token protagonist.
DVSBSTrD
And now she doesn't matter either.
thedarklord187
To be fair even Rey's own backstory didn't matter
JohnTheStork
Rey who?
LurkerOfDarkness
That's what happens when your sole idea is "it must be a woman" instead of just writing a good character and then try and find an actress.
Varenvel
merry sue the movie.
superconfused
And ultimately she didn't matter either - it was so poorly thought out, it makes Lucas look like a narrative/dialog genius
Stuey1221
Her acting was so bad. It was only on the second/third play through where I realised how truly wooden she is
Ikusame
You dont like the two human emotions of confused and scowlin?
popejubal
I think that’s intentional. I don’t like the directing choice to make Jedi wooden, but the Prequels were all like that too. If you’re 1/
popejubal
getting a wooden performance out of Samuel Mutherfucking Jackson, then it’s an active choice for the movie and not the actor’s fault. 2/2
SerenePrincess013
They said the same thing about Kirsten Stewart, before realising that she was acting the character as it was written & directed.
AnonymousBach
Yeah as much as I hate the sequels, and I do hate the sequels, it might not be Daisy Ridley's fault.
Stuey1221
You make a damn good argument there
SerenePrincess013
I despise the sequels. But not bc of Daisy or any of the actors. It was bc Disney still refuses to crown Leia as a Disney Princess.
MisuseOfLiterally
it definitly isnt her fault. the prequels acting was stiff and bad also and yet natalie portman isnt "terrible" herself. Altough ewan /1
MisuseOfLiterally
managed to do something right with bad scripts, gotta end it to him
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Finn is proof Stormtroopers are more than drones, the most original concept to happen in a SW movie since ESB, with a potentially great arc>
TittiesMcgeeDaTurd
Kyle Katarn was a stormtrooper too. Loved his pragmatic cynicism next to Luke's unrelenting optimism.
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Yup, there is a reason I mentioned the movies, not Star Wars in general.
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
In the end, he doesn't get to do anything with that, other than be in the vicinity of others, and didn't get to say his "dying" proclamation
blank00009
The mandalorian did a much better job of that for several characters.
4vie
His story arc go flattened so bad, it leaked into the negative y axis; he basically reverted....
SirQuackerz
So we could make way for Rose ? War bad. Love win war. War bad.
4vie
... I wonder if that line delivered to from a PoV perspective would have worked better... not that there's any real saving *that* line.
SirQuackerz
It doesn’t work because what Holdo did like 30 mins prior, completely kneecaps whatever point Rose was making. Why didn’t anyone stop Holdo?
Vter1
Rose's sabotage of Finn's heroic sacrifice basically ruined both character's story arcs for me. She carpet yanked it for selfish reasons.
SirQuackerz
Preach??. I mean wasn’t Adm Holdo CELEBRATED while sacrificing herself to kill thousands? No power of love speech needed for her I guess…
jennym123
Rey's backstory also gets pulled around a bunch and ends up stupid. Daisy Ridley was wasted in those movies.
GCRust
EVERYONE was wasted in those movies. So much potential, none of it realized.
iMcFly
The biggest problem was not coming up with a narrative direction/plan for how they wanted the trilogy to end before shooting the first one.
kojenk
Admiral Ackbar swinging the ship around to warp into the empire with the enemy general pondering then realizing outloud that its a tr..
4vie
Well, we got to enjoy Ian McDiarmid as Emps one last time, so....?
GCRust
I can safely say I did NOT enjoy seeing Ian McDiarmid again. Especially not with a script like...that.
4vie
True... true... .... at least Ian got to chew the scenery like the pro he is.
TheVampireDante
Everyone was.
caerulakid
J.J. Abrams was probably used to as great effect as he could be.
Sauroctonus
The only thing that wasn't wasted was Original Trilogy starfighter designs. Seriously. Would it hurt to spice things up a bit? Sure >
Sauroctonus
< the new A-Wing looks nice, but pretty much everything looks like a new model, instead of something with ancestry in the previous gen.
TheVampireDante
Think the point was the rebellion was using old ships because that's all they could source, and the Empire's never been one for change...
Sauroctonus
It would have been far more interesting if the Empire was running on limited resources, forced to use more cost-effective starfighters >
ConsumerOfStories
...there kind of needs to be an Alderaan to be a prince of Alderaan.
Anarchduke
Its Prince of "The Asteroid Field Formerly Known as Alderaan"
Wapusk
Prince of Aleraanian diaspora.
Elroydb
SomebodyGet2020APuppers
Too soon
AntikytheraMechanism31415
Ill get a broom...
kevbot5000
There are absolute reams of fantasy lore that contradict that statement.
RenaldoMooon
CEO of Alderaan brand kitty litter.
rareunicornmeat
Fine! 'Former Prince' of Alderaan, happy?
CitizenClam
Citrakite
His planet blew up and Vegeta was still Prince Vegeta. Just means Leia never got to be Queen of Alderaan after her father's death.
Mephane
AdmiralJohn
Too soon.
qtRaven
Prince Vegeta would disagree.
Randomman96
And Naboo's monarch is decided by vote, not by lineage.
Eatingofthepies
they elect a small child empress?
PineappleLoopsBroether
The meme’s premise is now deader than Kylo.
JustDontCare
Not really. Exploring the waters of a dead world that used to have so much say in the galaxy? It’s survivors in limbo and wanting.
yournamechecksout
Alderaan is a people, not a place
jimplaysgames10
Pretty sure almost all the people were on the place
KillerTofu69
Now they're among the stars. In teeny tiny li'l bits.
yournamechecksout
Alderaan is a people and in many places
zerovanity59
False, she was Princess of Alderaan not the Alderaanians. See the King of France and King of the French.
GodEmperorOfImgur
I was about to use the Romanov family as an example against this, but the latest claimant died in 2014 and they're arguing who is next.
LurkerOfDarkness
That doesn't change that they would all be holding the various titles, but you could use tye greek royal family which all are also ½
LurkerOfDarkness
Princes and princesses of Denmark, but not princes and princesses to Denmark. 2/2
abraxasfury
So he's king of an Asteroid field
ActionJohnnie
ghostofGracchusBabeuf
Honestly that sounds kinda space-piratey and that’s more awesome than what they did with the character.
ThePastmaster
So he's a space-pirate prince.
Taalii
Pirate king!
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Don't tell that to Vegeta.
7Rhymes
my son, the planet, or me?
Yeeeuuupyupyupyupyup
...yes
Yrmsteak
He's the Prince of Saiyans, the race. There's like 3 of them! and he's prince of them all!
porcubot
Four and a half
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
I think 5.25 if we really go mathematically. There's Gokarot, Vegetes, Brody, Go-chan, Tucks, Gohen, Bumma, and Pat.
Winterturtle
Upvote for relevant username