Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2025 - Day 6

[elrhiarhodan]

Haven't really been doing the Fandom Snowflake Challenge this year, but maybe I'll catch up.

Day 6 - Best Canon

The last scene of the last episode of Season 2 of The Mandalorian.

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I'd casually enjoyed The Mandalorian, but I wasn't particularly fannish about it until this moment. The return of Luke Skywalker into the franchise just grabbed my by the throat and dragged me quite willingly into the Star Wars fandom. Unfortunately The Book of Boba Fett killed a lot of my Din/Luke love (at least for the canon characters, and honestly, it had to -- given the whole hot mess of the Sequel trilogy.

But this scene is an amazing bit of canon and it opened the door to something I have really come to love.

Comments

[tjs_whatnot]

*sigh*

Oh but this was powerful. I had forgotten how badass Luke got there in the end of RotJ and in our absence. ♥ ♥

Also, hello! How are you?!?! I miss you. ♥ ♥

[elrhiarhodan]

Hey you! I'm alive and kicking (somewhat). Miss you too.

We differ in our SW loves, you're a Han girl, I know. My love has always been Luke. And this is why - he's such an utter badass and a sweetheart, too.

[minoanmiss]

That scene was pure astonishment.

[elrhiarhodan]

I remember watching it with utter awe.

I had no clue who was under that black cloak. Not even the old X-Wing gave me a hint, I was that far out of Star Wars, even though I'd been a maniac for Return of the Jedi the year I graduated high school (saw it 17 times in the movie theaters between opening day and heading off to college), but I'd been disappointed by the prequels and the sequels and the animated shows never grabbed my interest. But this scene, the utter devastation the Jedi inflicted, and then the end, when the hood drops and it's (CGI) Luke! Who had always been my hero! I was a Luke girl, not a Han girl, for the record (bad boys weren't my thing, though I could be swayed by a bad girl...)

[jenab]

That was such an amazing scene and still is. I love seeing how powerful Luke had become as a Jedi.

[elrhiarhodan]

Me too! It still takes my breath away.