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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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Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta
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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:
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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).
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Movies and TV shows starting with "Star..." are not known for their hard-science fiction.
Star Wars is just a western, set in spaaaaace.
That's why the good guys wore white and the bad guys wore black.
Ah, but Luke was considering joining the dark side at that point, and the white inside of his outfit showed at the end. (He was always truly good on the inside)
And the storm troopers were shiny and bright looking on the surface only. Their body suits are black underneath.
It's almost like there's some sort of intentional visual language of symbolism in films or something.
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Alllllmost like old westerns
I never saw Luke considering joining the dark side. A MAJOR personal challenge of his, perhaps his greatest struggle, was reckoning with his father's fall to the dark side.
As depicted in the only six Star Wars movies made before I started refusing to watch them, Luke Skywalker manages to be on the light side, and fully human. The Jedi as depicted in the prequel trilogy have to sand most of their humanity off in order to remain on the light side. No family, no friends, no favorite foods, and only emotions that Barney The Purple Dinosaur would approve of. Luke is able to let out a war cry, pound his father into submission, amputate his hand, and then say "Nah, see: rage and violence against abject evil while it's actively trying to harm you, your friends and innocent civilans is something good people do, so I'm a good guy, QED."
Then Vader goes "Like this?" and throws Monster Mash down the Lucas pit and his redemption is complete.
Moral of the story: Extremely hurt bad people.