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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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Other universes to visit:

!lotrmemes@midwest.social

!tenforward@lemmy.world

Separatist systems:

!prequelmemes@lemmy.world

Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

!star_wars@lemmy.world

!starwars@lemmy.ml

!starwarstelevision@lemmy.world

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IMPORTANT

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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[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I member when this meme would've been OT vs prequels... Now I'm not bold enough to say we'll ever see the sequels redeemed and considered at least passable/sparks joy, but I'm also old and realize they weren't really made for me. Then again the prequels kinda were and I kinda hated them as a kid (aside from 3)...

[–] Fogle@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I watched them recently, they're worse than I remember for sure. There are still fun things about them. But they're not particularly good movies. I think the same thing can be said about the sequels

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is 100% spot on. They are all a lot of fun and I'll watch them again at some point, but they're not good movies. My bar for Star Wars properties, like for other media, comes in two layers:

  1. Would this be a good movie/show/game/book if it wasn't set in the X universe? and
  2. Is this a good movie/show/game/book when compared to the better properties in the X universe?

IMHO, the first one is the more important question and the thing that Star Wars media constantly fails at. Andor was a fucking masterpiece and would have been an amazing piece of prestige television even absent any Star Wars connection. That's the case with Rogue One and The Clone Wars, as well. The Prequels and Sequels don't pass muster on criteria 1 and even a few don't succeed meeting criteria 2.