all Star Wars, all the time
Mar. 23rd, 2012 12:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardHave just finished the Mandalore arc in S2 of SW:TCW, which involves Obi-Wan and Duchess Satine, the woman he had an affair with as a Padawan. SW:TCW consistently has really, really awesome women, and Satine is no exception. She's a pacifist; she heads up the neutral systems during the Clone Wars, and she and Obi-Wan constantly butt heads (and have pretty blistering sexual tension for a pair of animated characters). She's also fierce and strong-willed, and extremely smart. And close friends with Padme, because SW:TCW is a member of the ladies getting shit done club. (Seriously, of all the media I expected to consistently pass the Bechdel Test, SW was not one of them, consdering that the main movie canon has...what, two movies where two women are in a room speaking to each other at the same time? TPM and AotC; RotS only in deleted scenes, I think, and I don't think the OT manages it at all. And yet, SW:TCW consistently has two or more women who are friends, who get things done, and who are all fierce, strong, smart characters. Ahsoka Tano, Padme Amidala, Asajj Ventress, Satine Kryze, Mon Mothma, Aayla Secura, Luminara Unduli, Barriss Offee, Adi Gallia, Mother Towsin, Aurra Sing, Jocasta Nu...ladies get shit done. Sometimes while the menfolk are busy flirting bickering. *is quietly hopeful that T'ra Saa, the Dark Woman, and Khaleen Hentz will show up in the series*)
Er, where was I going with this? Oh, yes. Satine. Awesome. (Plus, you see where Anakin learned his pick-up lines. Obi-Wan: not actually any smoother than his apprentice.)
(Totally now want to write the story with lady!Obi-Wan and Satine, because I can see it in my head and it is brilliant. Preferably with lady!Obi-Wan, Satine, and Padme, because laaaaaadies. And both the politicians Obi-Wan has had affairs with in the same room, and Obi-Wan sincerely wishing she'd decided to be celibate. Have possibly figured out how to work it into the maybe!sequel to Dirt.)
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Unrelatedly: Palpatine must have had a back-up plan to deal with the Separatists the way he did with the Jedi, yes? *muses* I mean, he's too smart to have counted slowly on Anakin showing up to slaughter everyone at his command; he had to have at least one CIS-equivalent to Order 66.
Er, where was I going with this? Oh, yes. Satine. Awesome. (Plus, you see where Anakin learned his pick-up lines. Obi-Wan: not actually any smoother than his apprentice.)
(Totally now want to write the story with lady!Obi-Wan and Satine, because I can see it in my head and it is brilliant. Preferably with lady!Obi-Wan, Satine, and Padme, because laaaaaadies. And both the politicians Obi-Wan has had affairs with in the same room, and Obi-Wan sincerely wishing she'd decided to be celibate. Have possibly figured out how to work it into the maybe!sequel to Dirt.)
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Unrelatedly: Palpatine must have had a back-up plan to deal with the Separatists the way he did with the Jedi, yes? *muses* I mean, he's too smart to have counted slowly on Anakin showing up to slaughter everyone at his command; he had to have at least one CIS-equivalent to Order 66.