gffa:gffa:STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH:“Did you press the stop button?“No. Did you?”“There’s more
gffa:gffa:STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH:“Did you press the stop button?“No. Did you?”“There’s more than one way out of here.”“We don’t want to get out. We want to get moving.“thewillowbends replied:I enjoy that Obi Wan doesn’t even try to stop him. Like, it’s pointless. Let this curly haired idiot do what he wants. I’ve got work to do and hair to floof in the meanwhile.I’M CRYING BECAUSE IT’S SO ACCURATE. AND BECAUSE IT SAYS EVERYTHING ABOUT THE TEAM.OBI-WAN LITERALLY WATCHES ANAKIN CUTTING INTO THE CEILING, like he can see Anakin doing it, but he just turns to speak into the comm instead. Sparks are literally showering past him, there are several seconds that pass while Anakin is lightsabering away at the ceiling and Obi-Wan doesn’t say shit about it.Only once Anakin has jumped through the roof–again, Obi-Wan makes no move to stop him or tell him to wait or call him back–does Obi-Wan comment, “Always on the move.” like Oh, Anakin.BUT ALSO THIS IS WHY THE RAY SHIELDS SCENE IS SO GODDAMNED FUNNY FOR THE WAY OBI-WAN LOOKS AT ANAKIN WHEN HE SUGGESTS WAITING PATIENTLY.AND OBI-WAN’S FACE SAYS IT ALL. ONE OF US STILL REMEMBERS THE ELEVATOR SCENE, YOU LITTLE SHIT.Anakin, however, is like AND ONE OF US REMEMBERS WHO DIDN’T PUT ON THEIR GODDAMNED SEAT BELT WHEN FLYING INTO THE HANGAR OF GRIEVOUS’ SHIP AND JUST FLEW OUT OF HIS FIGHTER TO ATTACK THE DROIDS WHILE THE OTHER ONE OF US HAD TO UNBUCKLE OUR STRAPS BECAUSE THEY HAD THE PATIENCE AND SENSIBILITY TO PUT THEM ON.And this is why I love them because THEY ARE SUCH AN OLD MARRIED DYNAMIC, they live for giving each other shit and bantering and snarking and I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT and I DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING and the looks they give each other.I love them because they are both So Fuckin’ Extra and they both give each other shit about it, because it’s clear that they thrive on it. Never are Obi-Wan and Anakin having more fun in the movies than the first half hour of Revenge of the Sith, that’s when we see their base dynamic, that’s when we see how much they spark off each other, that’s when we see their hilarious banter and how they work in sync and really get each other the most.I love it because it’s not just them hurling insults at each other, it’s also their flyers dipping and swooping together in the exact same move like it was choreographed, showing how they move together by instinct. It’s also the two of them moving to fight back to back against a handful of droids, because they’re so used to protecting and covering the other. It’s Anakin being unwilling to leave Obi-Wan behind, it’s Obi-Wan telling Anakin how proud he is of him, it’s Obi-Wan waving off Anakin from dealing with the Council because he knows Anakin wants to go see a politician, it’s the way they fight together rather than separately (and we see what that looks like later and how very different it is).It’s banter designed to show us that it’s coming from a place of a very established relationship, it’s designed to show us that these two people have fit themselves together both in the way they fight enemies physically and in the way they are best friends, the way they’re brothers. And then it’s backed up by showing just what they mean to each other by breaking it apart–Revenge of the Sith wouldn’t mean half as much if they didn’t love each other and we weren’t meant to be deeply invested in how well they worked together. The tragedy is a hundred times worse because we see what brilliance they were together, whether they were taking down Sith Lords or just running down a hallway and giving each other shit or gently telling each other what they meant to them. -- source link
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