Obi-Wan: *upon Finding Out That Anakin And Padme Are Married, Turns To Padme* Im So Angry With You, Senator.

Obi-Wan: *upon ‘finding out’ that Anakin and Padme are married, turns to Padme* I’m so angry with you, Senator.

Anakin: Master, you can’t just-

Obi-Wan: Yes I can, Anakin Skywalker! She didn’t even ask for your hand before stealing you away like some barbaric queen of old, defiling you in secret without my blessing. It’s just insulting.

Anakin: ...um... so she... hmmm... what would you have said if she asked for my hand?

Obi-Wan: The same thing any other Old Guard Master like myself would have done; given her as task of great importance. If she survived, she would have earned the right to love you as you both wish.

Padme: *deciding to play along* ...what sorta task?

Anakin: *gasp* Padme, you can’t do that! Nothing dangerous!

Obi-Wan: Oh, the most dangerous of all tasks.

Anakin: Obi-Wan, no!

Padme: I can handle it.

Anakin: *is precious dumb baby* :(

Obi-Wan: Steal Chancellor Palpatine’s Correlian brandy from his office.

Anakin: ...??? *fully thinks that Palps would laugh it off and hand it to her if she even asked*

Padme: Done. *heads off*

One hour later

Padme: *busting into Obi-Wan’s apartment in a panic with Bail Organa and Mon Mothma* YALL WILL NEVER GUESS WHAT I JUST FOUND OUT HOLY SHIT WE NEED TO CALL THE JEDI COUNCIL-

10 years later

Obi-Wan: And that, my dears, is how your mother won your fathers hand in marriage and saved the republic by ending a war.

Luke: *plays with ship*

Leia: *braiding Luke’s hair* Mom did good. I will do better when I ask for my husband’s hand.

Obi-Wan: I’m absolutely sure of it.

SO YES WHAT I LOVED ABOUT HERA IN THIS EPISODE:

Gonna start with a personal sentimental one, the fact that if A New Dawn still holds any canon value, Hera is about 9 years in this episode, which makes her the same age as Anakin when we first met him, and I just love how Star Wars seems to pick specific ages to rhyme with and you can see similarities in her and him what with the love of flying and the want to escape and explore, and even the fondness for droids!!!!

You can also see similarities with Leia, parallels with older family members kinda grooming her for the future resistance movement (Bail, Breha, I love y’all both to death but you ABSOLUTELY did), we get her urge to fly, we get her two parents who love and protect her, holy shit we get SUCH a good retrospective on Hera and Chan’s relationship because he wanted peace. HE WANTED PEACE 😭. But then we can clearly see that even at this age, Cham’s goals are more protective/reactive towards keeping those he considers his own under his protection and not thinking much further outside of that, while even at this age, Hera is recognizing that sometimes we have to think outside our own personal safety for the purpose of being proactive against the long-term problem. I’ve really liked this!

ALSO HER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CLONES, HOLY SHIT. You can see so clearly why Hera has a positive view of them in Rebels, why despite having heard from Kanan what happened, she still encourages him to trust them! Iirc she tells him at some point that they’ve saved her life and like !!!!!!! Her experience as of now has been so much different than Kanan’s, of COURSE she’d have different thoughts with her interactions with the Bad Batch and Howzer vs the horror of what Kanan went through with Grey and Styles and the others, his friends.

Like my prediction for the next episode is that Bad Batch are gonna take part in saving her from the Imps looking for her and that Howzer’s gonna help somehow, so yeah I love that insight into her character in Rebels.

Now my less excited more negative prediction for the next ep is that the spark for Cham’s change of heart back to militant rebellion is gonna be his wife getting murdered, and like, c’mon SW, it’s 2021, have we not had enough fridged women by now??? I guess their only defence for it here is that Rebels already kinda said that’s what happened to Eleni so they can’t really change it now. SPEAKING OF, I LOVE ELENI SO MUCH!!! She looks so much like her daughter and I LOVE that she’s a sniper! Also clearly a politician/warrior in her own right and SUPER interesting that her brother is another rebel AND the guy working with Numa in Rebels. I want soooo much more Syndulla family backstory now, though I get the sneaking suspicion that we won’t have any past the next episode 😆

So yeah, not thrilled that this show seems to be making most of its revenue off of cameos (though if I remember correctly, Rebels S1 had quite a few cameos too, what with Bail and the droids and Lando? But ugh idk, that just feels different. Still like TBB overall, though) but this was SUCH a good episode regarding Hera’s backstory that I kinda feel it’s almost out of place here, such an intricate look into a character from a character whose story is in another show.

I almost wish they had fit this episode into Rebels S4, given it was already shorter and what with how a theme of the season is Hera’s personal relationships and how she handles rebellion and loss, and the parallels with how S4 literally OPENED with another planet resisting Imperial occupation and saving a relative from a prison transport.

bravely default 2 gang!!

the future...is beautiful

okay here is my happy headcanon, because the very idea of the world in Batman Beyond makes my heart hurt. Batman works all those years in Gotham and feels like he’s not doing much good or making any progress. Maybe one day, he’s getting older, he’s injured, he permanently retires. Alfred has also passed away, and rather than hardening Bruce, it softens him. He needs a break. Maybe Damian finally takes over as Batman.  And a few more years go by and something is shifting. The reports from Arkham Asylum are increasingly more like updated Date of Death files and less like escape warnings. The villains of Batman’s youth and prime are…also aging? They’re starting to die. And Bruce Wayne, limping around his house, waits and worries about who will replace them for his son, what new evil Gotham will give birth to. Except this is a Gotham that was once full of petty crime and organized crime and insane criminals. And those criminals are aging out. And their children are dissatisfied. They don’t like the legacy their parents gave them. And just disliking it wouldn’t be enough. Except their Gotham is not the Gotham of their parents’ own childhood, the Gotham where Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered. No, the sons and daughters of Gotham’s criminals grow up in a world with the sons and daughters of Batman. Everywhere they turn, Batman is getting their abusive dad off the street and into prison, Robin is saving a classmate’s life, and then there are more of them: rumors, legends, fading into reality. The Batman has an army, the Batman has a team, the Batman has a family.  And an entire generation of kids grows up like Steph Brown. Not all of them don masks or capes. Most of them don’t. But Gotham is changing. The children of Gotham’s crime generation are fed up. They grow up. They leave for college, they stay. They get jobs. And they are sick of what their city looks like. The collective youth of an entire generation finds hope and change in the Batman and what he stands for and puts their foot down: Enough.  Enough with the cycle of crime. Thanks to the Wayne Foundation’s youth programs and houses, the priests that Batman has saved and spared and offered protection, the schools that are in increasingly good shape, crime in Gotham doesn’t explode out of existence as much as it just slowly…fizzles…out. The cops who grew up admiring and loving Batman, wishing they could be Robin, are fed up with the older cops and their bribes and their drinking and push them into early retirement. The shop keepers don’t pay for safety, don’t fund the crime rings of elderly mob bosses. And one day, Damian Wayne looks around and realizes it has been months since patrol was anything more than just a routine. He’s not really doing anything anymore. No super villains out. No Batsignal. And when he does almost stop a mugging, before he gets there, two men around his age walking by on the street are intervening, “Hey, you? Leave that lady alone. Yeah, you heard me. Go, before I call the cops. My buddy and I will hold you down if…” So, he hangs up the cape. He’ll come back for it if he needs to, if the city needs it. He goes into veterinary science. And by the time Bruce passes away, several years down the road, he is surrounded by family who put up with his crotchety complaining and mumbling about things, and show up for dinners on Friday anyway. With kids.  Damian’s a vet, Dick is going to be police commissioner within a year, Babs is running R&D at Wayne Tech after Lucius Fox retired, Tim is running the business and financial side of Wayne Industries and showing photography on the side, Cass runs a dance therapy school, Steph works in pediatric counseling, and Jason is a librarian because he needs SOME quiet after all those years of guns and he manages a dense schedule of afterschool programs, Duke Thomas runs an adoption agency specializing in hard to place kids. And Bruce dies thinking they’re maybe just in denial or that it’s the calm before the storm; he can’t imagine that this is for real, not some kind of trick. But he enjoys it anyway. He just can’t, after all those failures and years of uphill battle, believe that maybe he and his little ragtag family of orphans did it. 

They ushered in Gotham’s golden age. It makes Metropolis look like a rough city. The kids of this generation grow up hearing bedtime stories from parents about a Gotham of terror and darkness and a hero and his tribe that are the stuff of legend, seem ridiculous in the context of the Gotham in which they live and the safety there. And eventually, maybe in the aftermath of mourning Bruce’s death, the Wayne kids make a decision: open the cave. Open it to the public. They set to work preparing it, making it safe, making it a memorial, a museum. 

They go public, and Damian Wayne, a man quiet and preferring the company of animals, says very little in the press release and the speech he gives when the media and crowds descend:  I think you ought to know the man who saved this city. Because they’re okay now. 

Marisa/マリカ

this is the funniest tweet i’ve seen in months bye