The rules are simple - I think of a Star Wars character, you have to ask me a question to which I can answer "yes" or "no", and then you have to guess which character I'm thinking of.

Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope

So. The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. Ten years.

People really hate the Sequel Trilogy and its not hard to see why. Now, are they as bad as everyone says they are?

IDK, maybe. I'm not as much of a Star Wars Mega Fan as some others are, so maybe they are.

But in 2015, I was taken to see the Force Awakens, and I was around 7 at the time. It thought it was good, though I did question why look was listed in the credits despite never speaking (I used to think you needed to speak to be credited because of getting used to animation crawls smh). 

Now call it coincidence, call it destiny, call it fate, but Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens might have played a role in my emergence of creativity. Maybe the Force Awakens releasing around that time encouraged me to blend it with the beginnings of my creativ arts of ANOTHER legacy film about a popular brand that sparked my love for creativity. While also coming with a certain LEGO Toys to Life video game.

The Force Awakens, even if just as an astetic or something like that, still played a role in sparking my creativity, and yes it is pretty derivative of previous entries, but there is still stuff to value in the movie that took us back to the galaxy far, far away. Star Wars has inspired millions of people for many generations, and Rey, alongside Lord Vortech, Captain Underpants and Charlie Brown, has inspired me, just like how it did for the fans before me, and the fans that will follow.

I really do love Star Wars, as if dressing up as Boba Fett and still have Bladebuilders is anything to go by. Star Wars, despite how it is now, will always be a part of not only pop culture, but our world as a whole...even if we lose a part of it.

And the LEGO game was pretty cool as well.

And so against my better judgement, and at the cost of being permanently banned from being a Star Wars Fan, I choose to give Rey Skywalker, and the Sequel Trilogy as a whole, a very slight pass. Its very, VERY valid to hate, but I think there's a bit to much of that going on already.

Because even if its ended (for now), Rey Skywalker's story will live forever.

For better or worse.

Wake up the force

Happy 10th Annviersy TFA

Just finished watching Season 3 of YJA, and I'm surprised that neither the show's final episode summaries nor the character biographies have been updated yet in this wiki. And no one even thought of making Apexx's profile. Just look how badass he is during battle.

For some reason (bad set design) the TIE Fighter is impossible to recreate using clay and straws.

So I'll be back with better equipment.

No wonder he became an unconventional Jedi- that would screw up anyone

I am aware that Drew Karpyshyn did not create the Sith Emperor and it was mostly the SWTOR team. However, I never knew who specifically wrote him originally or if his character was written by different people in the SWTOR Expansions. And I was curious if anyone knew these things.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and pre-, not assume that this wasn’t intentional on George’s part, but I love the symbolism of the setting Qui-Gon and Obi-Wans’ duel with Maul. Naboo is blessed with natural plasma goo oozing from its honeycomb outer core. Apart from being the essence of a lightsaber blade, plasma’s also the most chaotic state of matter. Ionized gas equal hyperactive gas. Like gas molecules are the Tasmanian devil, but plasma is him pumped full of uppers and caffeine. It’s pure, unpredictable chaos. It goes hand-in-hand withe the uncertain outcome of the duel and its massive consequences for Anakin. In a plasma, stuff that seems minor at first actually are the deciding factor (Maul kicking Obi-Wan’s hilt down the core shaft but not Qui-Gon’s). The two Jedi being separated increases the stakes, which is where the laser gates come in.

The laser gate corridor to the generator core is inworld symbolic of hte Naboo’s belief of the 6 gates against chaos. They’re there to contain the damage so that if something ever went wrong with the generator and it was going to go Chernobyl, Theed wouldn’t become a radioactive, poisoned ghost city like Pripyat, Ukraine. Ironically tho, by separating Obi-Wan from Qui-Gon, they end up causing future chaos for the galaxy (Anakin is deprived of a father figure, and potentially a grandpa figure in the form of Dooku).

I’ve included a pic from the Kristin Lund’s (now Legends) book Inside the World of Star Wars Episode I for more insight

This might sound like a rant, but I promise this has a purpose to it.

The first time I watched the first sequel, I was excited. I thought that Finn was going to be the next jedi, and it would have been an insane (but great) concept to have an ex-trooper as the main character. However, I was vastly disappointed as the main character and jedi was...Ray. And not only that, but they recycled the idea of her being from Tatooine, just like Luke...and Anakin. I understand the parallelism, but it makes me a little annoyed how they did not make up a more ‘underdog’ and ‘interesting’ idea. Yes, being a slave makes you an underdog, but that’s when (uh oh!) culture comes in. 

As a black person, I couldn’t help but wish there were more black jedi involved. So far, I’ve only seen 10 black characters in... all of Star Wars history. The closest we got to a black, main character jedi was Cere Junda from Star Wars: Survivor, and the classic Mace Windu from the prequels. When I saw Finn first pick up the lightsaber, I was so excited. I thought that, through becoming a jedi, he would learn to control his fear and become the best version of himself. But then it all crashed when I realized that his only role in the films was to scream “RAY!” Nice. 

Anyway, I won’t go on, because I understand how hard it is to make a Star Wars film, and you can’t please everybody. Who knows, maybe my community will get some more representation in the future... 

Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker)

Experimented around with shading. With a proper environment I could probably do better, more akin to my previous Sutekh art, but as a quicky I think this turned out well. Also decided to do a version where he is invoking Sith Alchemy.