"I didn't actually come here to free slaves." Well then Qui-Gon, you're a dick.
"The Jedi are against giving a fuck about anything unless it serves our interests."
Can't imagine why Anakin rebelled.
To be fair he tried to liberate his mother too. He just noticed that it was impossible without risking everything (the engine and Anakin).
If he had survived I think he would have actually come back for the boy's mother. Specially once he saw Anakin having a hard time about losing her.
There was also a weird chemistry there between Shmi and Quigon. I think he'd definitely come back for one reason or another.
We'll see, this all happened long long ago. As we'll all know slavery has been the norm through all of history. It wasn't until America (fuck yeah) came along and we told everyone it wasn't cool.
Land of the free!
I always hate plot holes where problems could be solved with money, especially when a character is super rich. Obi-wan and Anakin had years to raise the money to buy Shmi's freedom from Watto. Qui-gon had plenty of Imperial credits, but Watto wouldn't accept them.
So, Ani wins the podtace and then as soon as you're off planet, hyperspace it to the nearest Republic outpost and trade the credits for some money. Go back, buy Shmi, or just cut Watto the slaver in half with a lightsaber. Obi-Wan cuts a dude's arm off for much less.
Or, like, Jedi mind tricks don't work on Watto, but I bet theres a Durosian jeweler across the street that isn't immune to Jedi mind tricks. Trade his Republican credits for all the cash in his till and the nicest Aurodium necklaces in the shop.
And why couldn't Harry take his best mate Ron shopping with him to pick out some decent dress robes or a new wand? Kid's got a vault full of gold, and he basically lives at his friend's house half the time.
why couldn't Harry take his best mate Ron shopping with him to pick out some decent dress robes or a new wand?
That would have put a strain on his relationship with the Weasleys:
He would willingly have split all the money in his Gringotts vault with the Weasleys, but he knew they would never take it.
- Goblet of Fire, chapter 10
The few times Harry does buy stuff for Ron, Ron gets quite uncomfortable. Also, the first thing Harry does after giving startup money to the twins is to tell them to buy Ron some new dress robes.
Yeah I’ve been seeing this Ron and Harry meme all over the place. I’m not a potter fan, I don’t think the books are anything super special, but still
It’s very clearly shown that Harry would be willing to help them out financially but they don’t want Harry’s money in the slightest
There are a lot of plot holes from the movies that are explained in the books. That doesn't mean they aren't plot holes for the movies, because those parts (holes) of the story weren't included in the story (plot). Like the entirety of the titular mystery of The Half Blood Prince.
Maybe there's a novelization of the Phantom Menace that shows Qui-Gon going to all the merchants and failing to exchange his credits for local currency or goods. If it wasn't in the movie, it's a hole in the plot.
The closest we ever get with money issues between Harry and Ron is when Ron tries to buy candy from the trolley, realizes he only has enough for a pack of gum, and declined Harry's offer to pay.
I love how Dragon Ball of all franchises avoids this problem via Bulma just throwing money at every problem that can't be solved by Goku just punching it really hard. And if she doesn't do than Hercule aka Mr. Satan does it.
Which is lampshaded by TFS' End of Z dub "Man I'm glad all the people with money only use it for good!"
And it's hard to argue otherwise because weirdly enough, he's right, in Dragon Ball excessive wealth is never actually shown to be a bad thing in and of itself. Even the characters shown to be dictators like Frieza are more concerned with causing violence than accumulating wealth.
Heck the Nazis even show up (the Red Ribbon Army) and the only thing they really want to accomplish is making their leader taller.
There's a lot to criticize about Dragon Ball's story telling, but weirdly enough it never occurred to me "Whitewashing of billionaires" is one of them.
Even if we get the movies involved, only two DBZ movies involve money. One of them is a billionaire who hosts a tournament, and the only problem is he screws up and accidentally hires REAL aliens instead of actors for the space theme of the final battle, and the other rich guy we see uses his wealth to create super powered clones that obey his every whim.... Their only intended purpose is to debunk Hercule/Mr. Satan's martial arts prowess, which isn't really an evil act since Mr. Satan is considered a major celebrity due to heroic feats he never did and is incapable of.
I don't think I've seen this meme format where Anakin and Padmé are reversed. Love it.
Sadly, Anakin's mum had already been claimed by Watto, and Padme didn't know about unclaimsies.
(for anyone confused, this is a reference to Skeleton Crew).
After Book of Boba Fett stabbed me in the heart right where my love of Star Wars is, and then Andor twisted the knife (and got applauded for it), I don't watch those shows anymore. What's unclaimsies and how badly does it break the lore?
What's unclaimsies and how badly does it break the lore?
Skeleton Crew is set in the world of children as much as it's set in the world of Star Wars, and is concerned as much with pirate lore as it is Star Wars lore. "Claimsies" and "unclaimsies" is just "finders, keepers!" and another child's attempt to reverse that.
There's a key moment in the show where it combines those two concepts - the made-up words and rules of children, with the made-up words and rules of pirates -
spoiler for episode 7
A droid decides that a call of "unclaimsies" is "close-enough" to pirate lore that it will let them re-take a ship that's been commandeered by a pirate.
It's all very delightful.
I enjoy the meme content.
I enjoy the appropriate inversion of the meme format more.
... So very wizard of you????
It's a thing in Star Wars, lol
Maybe they were trying to write wholesome or something
I'm just going to go ahead and assume it's a KKK reference.
Technically Padmé did try to free Shmi. She sent Sabé (played by Keira Knightley in the movie) to free as many slaves as she could find about four years after Episode 1, and Sabé did manage to free 25 other slaves, including Anakin's childhood friends, but was unable to find Shmi since she had already been freed by that point and had left Mos Espa. The only sign Sabé could find was the symbol of the White Suns on the door, who were a slave liberation group (and of which Beru Lars was a member), and unfortunately they wouldn't tell Sabé anything because they didn't trust her, since she'd decided to try to get information out of local gangsters and criminals rather than going to the White Suns directly. Padmé wanted to send Sabé back to finish the mission, but by that point she was appointed senator and Sabé had other duties to protect her.
They did write a book about her trying to do this - Queen's Shadow.
"Trying"? She should have listened to Yoda.
Words I live by "... Do not, there is no try." ~Yoda
That's worse.
They know that having her half ass the attempt and then give up with an entire planet behind her is worse, right?
She wasn't a queen in the traditional sense, it's an elected position on Naboo. Hell, even on Earth it's not necessarily an omnipotent position. Just because they hold a high position doesn't mean they can wield that power for whatever whims they want. They have a whole planet to take care of, first.
Revolutions tend to overthrow monarchies that ignore the needs of their populace.
Well they did find Shmi, but by then she'd been freed and married to Cleig Lars. She did free a shitload of other slaves from Tatooine, but at that point there's no reason to steal Shmi away from a reasonable life.
The Jedi order didn't want Jedis to have any attachments. They probably would have try to block Anakin reuniting with his mother, or expell him from the order if that happened.
Qui Gon, as he was close to almost rebelling against the order, was probably the only one who understood that the kid needed his mother and that there wasn't nothing bab about that.
Maybe that's why the Emperor send Maul to kill Qui Gon, he needed Anakin oppressed by the order so he can turn to the dark side.
Maybe that’s why the Emperor send Maul to kill Qui Gon, he needed Anakin oppressed by the order so he can turn to the dark side.
This is actually why the song for the fight is called Duel of the Fates, because its outcome actually decides Anakin's ultimate fate in falling to the dark side due to Qui-Gon's death occurring in it. Had it ended differently, Anakin would have been trained by Qui-Gon Jinn, and likely found himself confiding in Qui-Gon instead of Sidious.
In both scenarios Obiwan is considered a pretty shite mentor. Seems apt.
Qui Gon, as he was close to almost rebelling against the order, was probably the only one who understood that the kid needed his mother
Qui Gon wasn't in rebellion against the Jedi. Just the opposite, he was all the way into the Kool aid, chasing fantastic prophecies about Jedi Messiah.
His final wish wasn't to see Anakin grow up with his mom, but to see Balance Return to The Force (a problem that's never properly illustrated in the movies, just mentioned as a philosophical hang up).
Maybe that’s why the Emperor send Maul to kill Qui Gon, he needed Anakin oppressed by the order so he can turn to the dark side.
Maul wasn't sent to kill Qui Gon specifically, just to eliminate the Jedi interfering with the plot to spark civil war.
Anakin was one more useful idiot for Palatine to exploit. Only useful until he couldn't kill that last lingering Jedi.
The Jedi do seem to have a huge attachment to no attachments. There's got to be a middle way, right?
Hence the grey Jedi in legends.
"Okay you can join the Jedi order, but you can only have one sketchy garage full of your stuff locked in there. One! And no moving in a bed and bringing family members to live in there, kapeesh? Skywalker I'm looking at you!"
"Ani... I would have... but Tatooine is so very... far far away, and I was so busy constantly restyling my hair!"
And the industrial strengh hair dryer was just too heavy.
"I did, Ani! But she, uh, said she liked it there, and that she, uh, always hated you!"
She was getting around to it!
