Princess Leia, who moments ago dropped out of hyperspace after fleeing the first major battle of the Galactic Civil War: Lord Vader, I should have known. Only you could be so bold. The Imperial Senate will not sit for this, when they hear you’ve attacked a diplomatic…
Darth Vader,
who literally just saw this happen an hour ago at most and watched her ship take off: Don’t play games with me, Your Highness. You weren’t on any mercy
mission this time. You passed directly through a restricted system. Several transmissions were beamed to this
ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent
you.
Princess Leia, who received the data from the hands of a man who witnessed Vader kill a dozen people on his way there: I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to
Alderaan.
Darth Vader, who has been following her the entire time and can read minds:
Anonymous asked: IT WAS SCREAMING SEEKING SCREAMING AND I THANK YOU FOR INDULGING ME, SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE THIS MAN A NICE THING. also MAN chirrut and baze and the different things they judge people on, the different influences that shape who they can consider 'good', BAZE TAKING DARKNESS INTO HIMSELF TO SPARE CHIRRUT, JUST FUCK ME UP I WASN'T THINKING ABOUT THAT BEFORE AND NOW I CAN'T STOP
I’M GLAD MY DUDE BECAUSE IT’S ALL I’VE BEEN ABLE TO THINK ABOUT FOR LIKE THE BEST PART OF THREE HOURS NOW.
First off, I love how obscure this is. Like, is this a prompt? Is this a request for meta? Is this just screaming? Who knows!
But I’m just gonna assume it’s screaming, seeking screaming, mostly because I have to get a couple things off my chest.
*deep breath*
OKAY SO, Chirrut’s comment about the Force moving darkly around someone who’s about to kill, HERE IS MY QUESTION. Chirrut whackin’ people with his stick looks pretty nonlethal–painful, certainly, but mostly not going to kill you. (The bowcaster thing will kill you, and Chirrut will kill you, but the stick won’t kill you.) On the other hand, you have Murder Master Baze, basically holding his own version of the Space OK Corral wherever he decides to open fire.
So does the Force move darkly around Baze? Do long strips of thick, sticky darkness cling to him, where he used to glow bright with faith? Does he do the bulk of the killing to protect Chirrut’s soul from them?
AND ALSO. Cassian, God, Cassian Andor lives so much in the desperate need to know that his terrible deeds, all the things he wishes he could forget, are what the cause needs. He has to know that his Rebellion needs him and needs his ruthlessness in order to absolve himself.
How much would it have meant to him, to have someone tell him outright that he doesn’t have the face of a killer? How much would it have meant to him to know that even to these monks, he has the face of a friend?
I’m just gonna say, I was kind of baffled and delighted by the costuming here. Because the trailers, with the white cape, and everyone flipping their shit about him dramatically walking through some water etcetera– I was like, aw fuck, there’s gonna be another Aesthetic Cool villain, I don’t need this in my life
and then on the giant screen there he was with his weird white outfit that clearly nobody had ever ironed and like what is that, waterproof canvas or fucking, like, ripstop fucking nylon, what the fuck
I couldn’t stop staring at the tailoring of the shoulder things, like– that’s definitely like a nylon blend, what the hell, is it quick-drying or what, no it looks terrible. And it clearly can’t be pressed; it’s not that someone neglected to press it, it’s that on its best day that’s as good as it’s capable of looking. It can’t take a crease and is just going to sit there being sort of cold and plastic and rumpled, and it drapes like a fucking tent. Here I come, I’m so dramatic, I’m wearing a fucking EZ-Up.
Sure, it’s probably stainproof, like a goddamn raincoat, but that doesn’t mean it won’t get slowly and inexorably just– grubby. And you can throw it in the washer and hang it to dry and it’ll dry in no time but it won’t really be clean. And you can’t iron it. That’s just the best it can do.
It’s the only way to have a white cape, but it’s pretty clearly not really worth doing.
(Look at his sleeves. The cape is bluish. The sleeves are not. The cape is goddamned nylon or something, the sleeves probably something like polyester. They’re distinctly different shades of white. That’s fucking terrible.)
The extreme and obvious GQ/nerdlord dynamic tension is pretty much exactly what I wanted and didn’t know I wanted.
(Bail Organa, meanwhile, was clearly wearing some form of wool blend, with a heft and luscious drape you could really mash your face into; notice the upper part of the garment, where it crosses over the shoulders, has turned and stitched hems for structure but the lower opening is unhemmed, clearly made of something fulled that wouldn’t fray and needed no edge-stitching.)
(I need to stop, someone make me stop.)
#Important Fashion Analysis#dry cleaning bills brought down the empire#you heard it here first#rogue one (@bomberqueen17 )
imagine being a han/leia shipper in 1983 and you’ve spent three years hearing from the luke/leia shippers how there’s no chance of han/leia happening because han’s probably dead now and besides the empire strikes back literally ended with luke and leia holding each other and staring into deep space so like obviously you’re an idiot for shipping han/leia and you need to get with the winning team… and then imagine going into that movie… and walking out of that movie… imagine that level of schadenfreude and personal satisfaction
