May 4th - Blog Posts
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU TODAY!!!!
"May the fourth be with you" is a play on words calling back to "May the Force be with you," a common saying among Jedi and believers of the Force in Star Wars.
Tales of the Empire review, the problem with Filoni
Spoilers for "The Path of Anger" below
So, to start off with the obvious, Dave Filoni has never read a single Cannon Thrawn novel. The timeline of events in this episode made no sense for the timeline of the novels. Thrawn was an admiral, yet he was already accompanied by Rukh and Pallean, whom he wouldn't even MEET until he reached grand admiral status. At this point in the Cannon novels, he would have been accompanied by Eli Vanto, not Pallean. In fact, he wouldn't even meet Pallean until the events of Treason. The choice by Folini to overhaul this story erases the conical nature of the "Cannon" Thrawn novels.
Before I get into my real point on the problem with how Filoni writes, I'll give my review of the episode as a whole. It was fine, not much to write home about. The animation was beautiful as to be expected, and very expressive. The writing was... just ok. The empire was depicted as cartoonishly evil, though it is a cartoon so, maybe that's justified. For a short that was supposed to teach us more about Morgan and her motivations, I feel like we didn't learn much about her that we didn't already know? She's good with ship design, she wants revenge and power, etc. Nothing new. Personally, I found the pacing of the episode to be quite boring, it was very slow despite the short runtime. Overall, I don't know if I would recommend it, though I thought the episodes following Barris were quite enjoyable.
Now for the real problem I have with these episodes: Filoni's insistence on his own version of cannon at the cost of others' work. I don't deny Filoni is a good writer and director, Rebels is one of my favorite shows of all time! But he's been on this power trip after being essentially being handed the reigns to Star Wars. There was a period where Star Wars was a collaborative effort between a ton of creatives working on something they loved, the second golden age, that made it into a beloved franchise for a new generation. But now it's just Filoni, and he decides what part of other creative works he'll pick and choose to tell his own story. I feel so bad for Zhan. He created this beloved character, and wrote AMAZING NOVELS, only to have his incredibly complex character be forced into a 2d stereotype. Filoni needs to do better because if he keeps going down the path of writing he has been Star Wars is going to be a shell of its former glory.
Happy May 4th! Star Wars sketchdump be upon ye
May the 4th be with you!
HAPPY MAY 4TH YALL
May the fourth…
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. No squeezie.
My first real attempt at pixel art (based on the pokemon black/white sprites). And of course I had to draw these nerds.
I threw Matt in as a bonus ‘v’
The process of the may the 4th Darth Maul fanart I made ♡
1. First sketch:
Ngl, I think I cooked with this!
2. Color (first coats)
STRAIGHT UP NIGHTMARE FUEL-
3. More color and the tats!
4. Shadows?
5. I MESSED UP
6. Cry
7. 2nd sketch :,)
8. It's going SOMEWHERE
9. 1, 2, skip a few (steps)
And we're done! c:
NEVER BACK DOWN, NEVER WHAT???
Anyway- Happy may the 4th to you all!
It's this time of the year...
STAR WARS DAY: MAY THE FOURTH!
A HAPPY MAY THE FOURTH TO EVERYONE AND MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU ALL!!!
So, sooo much happened since the last Star Wars day!
The Acolyte, Skeleton crew, tales of the empire, The Bad batch finale, Andor Season 2, the final act of The High Republic book series, etc.
In celebration of May the Fourth, AND the announcement of MAUL: SHADOW LORD, I decided to draw, well who guessed:
DARTH MAUL:
I struggled SO MUCH with this because it's been a long time since I last used acrylics!
But I'm happy with how it turned out, and I hope you're too!
Here are some some parts zoomed in:
I will post my process in another post!
May the force be with you all ♡♡♡
Anybody remember when Grian was a guinea pig in season 6? Lol I drew this without looking at any references, so that's why his guinea pig isn't accurate.
I definitely like the first page better, it's more filled w/ life I think. Imma work on consistency and backgrounds in future artworks!
Might color and add better backgrounds later, but I'm done for today lol
Edit: Noooo, I had a layer hidden and it didn't show Permit Office Grian's speaking bubble :'(
(I have changed the image now)
Happy May 4th (and also happy first post on this account)
to celebrate this year I decided to make my Dragon Age Inquisitor, Athene, into a Star Wars Inquisitor for the day :)
May the fourth be with you all <3
(Included in this post are Day 1: Daenerys and Day 8: Jon Snow of my 365 art Challenge) every Sunday there's a Got characters.
Day 15/365: The Night King, who saw the Battle of Winterfell?
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Day 12/365: Tony Stark my favorite, who has seen Endgame?
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Celebrate May 4th with my favorite Star Wars parody series of all time
