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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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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:

  1. 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.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. 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!

  4. 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.

  5. 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).

  6. 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.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of complaints about characters showing up in live action for the first time and people complained that they don't look exactly like their Clone Wars versions.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I agree, but also,

That guy looks cool, imposing, badass.

That guy looks like a dork.

The real life actor played the part well, but he looked silly. I understand they were limited in what they could do, and a tall head might have looked even worse, but what they did put together just didn't quite work.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He was Pa’un wasn’t he?

The last time one was seen in live action being Episode III

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah not all characters translated as good to live action as others.

But perhaps these were constrained by other factors, like budget or time or whatever else was going on. Like a few more things in the Kenobi show felt weirdly low-budget, while other things in the same show seemed very high-budget, it was all over the place.

They could've gone for a more similar look like the ones in ROTS, but I'm not sure how well that one would hold up in longer scenes.

That said, a lot of the animated characters were based off live-action actors, and like the OP example they don't look like their live-action models much and they're very heavily stylized. The Inquisitor was an animated-only character, so they had a lot of liberty with his design, that's probably harder to translate back to live-action. Loved the actor though, did a marvellous job of translating the Inquisitors mannerisms.