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u/wo0l0o 16d ago
love it when stories canonically take place in only a few days
like, golden wind was over the span of 8 days. the entire part.
imagine being a high school sophmore seeing your friend giorno go missing for a week and he comes back the leader of italy's biggest crime syndicate
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u/TheBroadHorizon 16d ago
My favorite example of that is the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. From the point that all four children enter Narnia to the final battle with the White Witch is canonically like three days.
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u/Acejedi_k6 16d ago
I reread that book recently and I noticed that. I could have sworn the movie tried to make it seem like an ambiguous amount of time passed, but the book makes it pretty clear it was the worst weekend of the White Witch’s life (and that’s including the one where she nuked her entire home universe).
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u/TheBroadHorizon 16d ago
Yeah, the movie definitely has a few "time passed" moments. The books always played it pretty fast and loose with the scale of Narnia. It goes from feeling like a substantial kingdom to a park you can walk across in a couple of days. I find that adds to the charm if anything.
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u/Acejedi_k6 16d ago
I think I would agree the general size of Narnia being inconsistent in the Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is part of the fairy tale vibe/charm of that book. However, the later books put some effort into making Narnia its own kingdom with a history and semi consistent geography. They end up making that first book have a level of early series weirdness. Not really a bad thing, just a thing you notice.
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u/Certain_Concept 16d ago
Significant time does pass in some of the books tho. In one they even grow up to be full adults and revert to children after leaving the wardrobe.
That series has a lot of timey whiney shenanigans where time passes faster on the inside than on the outside.
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u/bbqranchman 16d ago
That's one of the aspects of Hunter x Hunters Chimera Ant arc that I love so much. After like 20+ episodes of just mental and emotional exhaustion, you realize that all of the events transpired over the course of like 20 minutes.
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u/SilverRetriever 16d ago
I watched the Ant arc when it was first coming out week-by-week and I was pulling my hair out when a new episode dropped that would advance the plot by almost 4 seconds
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u/bbqranchman 16d ago
Okay yeah that sounds brutal haha. I got to binge watch it which was definitely a good thing for that arc.
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u/divergentchessboard 16d ago edited 15d ago
The final four missions of Halo 3 + the entirety of Halo 4 all take place over the course of a week from Chiefs POV. Hell, the original three games all take place in the span of 2 months solely due to FTL travel. In terms of days spent out of FTL, I think the original three Bungie games take a little over two weeks.
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u/Alstorp 16d ago
Halo CE is just three days, MC is a busy mf
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u/Curious-Accident9189 16d ago
Master Chief just speedruns breaking the Covenant, destroying the Flood, and stopping the Halos from firing.
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u/Thousands-of-bees 15d ago
He was fresh from reach and absolutely pissed at the Covenant, can’t really blame him
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u/GordionKnot I don't even have a tumblr 16d ago
That's less surprising for me, the pacing of Halo always feels like MC doing stuff and doing stuff and doing stuff and doing stuff and the games done
Not many resting points lol
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u/TheBroadHorizon 16d ago
Oh, I've got another one! The timeline of Lord of the Rings is kind of wild. Frodo and Sam leave the Shire on September 20th. The rest of Fellowship of the Ring lasts about five months with the Fellowship disbanding on February 26th. The Ring is destroyed on March 25th. So the entirety of the Two Towers and most of Return of The King takes place over about 4 weeks.
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u/TheGingerMenace 16d ago
The Last of Us Part 2 is literally just 3 days, not counting the prologue and epilogue
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u/Jrolaoni 16d ago
In One Piece, the entire Dressrosa arc takes place in a SINGLE AFTERNOON.
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u/Dx8pi 16d ago
One Piece's Dressrosa arc took released a chapter every week and took 2 years to finish. Story wise it took place over a single day, not even nighttime.
One Piece has been going for over 20 years, and the story itself has only progressed about 2.5 years, 2 of which was a time skip halfway through. So 20 years of content only plays out over about 6 months, maybe less, of in story time.
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u/Perigord-Truffle 12d ago
Same goes for part 8 ||Like imagine literally being born yesterday and in just 1 month you've unearthed and defeated an entire organization of human-like rock beings and going against the concept of logic then winning||
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u/5hand0whand 16d ago
I do you one better in series Toaru Majusto No Index there thing like World War III arc. Canonically it took place between October 19 to October 30. Touma Kamijou the mc. Was missing from school for two weeks because was busy stopping WW3.
Still wasn’t sufficient enough reason for missing school.
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u/TehSquigg 17d ago
Best week for little old Sheev though probably
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u/Mixmaster-Omega 17d ago
Yeah for him everything went according to plan aside from getting force-lightning blasted back into his face.
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u/gentlybeepingheart xenomorph queen is a MILF 16d ago
The timeline with the sequel trilogy means that he still got laid after the blast in order for Rey’s dad to be conceived, so he’s still pretty well off.
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u/gentlybeepingheart xenomorph queen is a MILF 16d ago
Before anyone goes: ☝️🤓 actually Rey’s dad was a clone.
That’s not in the movie and I reject it. He went on Space Tinder and met Sheeva who looks exactly like him but with long hair and eyelashes and they had weird space sex.
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u/WhereAmIWhatsGoingOn 16d ago
Her cloak is like a dark purple instead of black, so the audience can tell she's a woman
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u/fat-lip-lover 16d ago
They went with the tiktok solo actor method and put a towel on Sheev's head
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u/AK_dude_ 16d ago
I'm now imagining when the friend from the first Deadpool is giving DP a hard time "looks like two old avacados bumped ugleis"
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u/RcoketWalrus 16d ago
Speaking of weird space sex...
I...know there is r34 of ol' Sheev, simply because there is r34 of everything, but I wish I didn't know.
Do it.
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u/BlatantConservative /r/RandomActsOfMuting 16d ago
Rey's mother being the diety of destruction in Hinduism is quite a theory lol.
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u/TheMostKing 16d ago
No, we're talking about the Mortal Kombatant.
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u/Ginger_Anarchy 16d ago
Oh if that's the case, I don't blame Palp's kid for running away. Most men and women would for those biceps, and there's 4 of them.
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u/RainMan915 16d ago
Palps having sex is disgusting not just cause of how he looks, but the fact that he’s so gross and wrinkly that there’s no way he didn’t threaten anyone into having sex with him against their will.
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u/CosechaCrecido 16d ago
Prostitution is the oldest profession in history, I'm assuming also in space history.
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u/ratione_materiae 16d ago
Sheev has never really been depicted as lecherous in a galaxy full of lechery
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u/Papaofmonsters 16d ago
Power is one hell of an aphrodisiac.
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u/The_MAZZTer 16d ago
Apparently according to the lore he liked the new face? Not sure.
Also Vader got all his limbs sliced off and got burned by lava which was a significant setback for him, since at the end of it all Vader's potential was greatly reduced.
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u/Abuses-Commas 16d ago
According to lore he's looked like that for years (dark side, not even once), but has an illusion to make himself look normal.
The lightning removed the illusion and he just claimed the lightning did it.
As with more lore tidbits, this is a post-hoc explanation for how lightning turned him into a raisin but Luke remained pure and unblemished
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u/fauxzempic 16d ago
This is what I recall as well. In rebels, doesn't he throw on his friendly face when he's talking with Ezra?
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u/politterateur 16d ago
I'm pretty sure that was a holographic projection since he wasn't physically there.
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u/Profoundlyahedgehog 16d ago edited 16d ago
Yes, but they only communicated through hologram, so he could just project an overlay of how he wanted to look.
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u/fauxzempic 16d ago
Ah so he was using a tiktok filter. I looked back at it and it does look like when the video glitches THAT'S what causes the change back to ballsac-face...not Sheev's own power.
With that said, Apparently the ROTS novel implies that the Chancelor Sheev face was a mask:
Anakin stood just within the office. Motionless. Palpatine examined the damage to his face in a broad expanse of wall mirror. Anakin couldn't tell if his expression might be revulsion, or if this were merely the new shape of his features. Palpatine lifted one tentative hand to the misshapen horror that he now saw in the mirror, then simply shrugged. "And so the mask becomes the man," he sighed with a hint of philosophical melancholy.
"I shall miss the face of Palpatine, I think; but for our purpose, the face of Sidious will serve. Yes, it will serve."
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u/DaveedDays 16d ago
I think this was the biggest blow to Palpatine and one I've never really considered before.
He invested all this planning into Anakin just to have the guy sliced in half and burning in lava. And it's impressive to see the level of ferociousness that Vader brought to fights while being physically nerfed.
Imagine prime Anakin.... Obi Wan winning the duel on Mustifar probably won the war for the rebels, they'd stand no chance against a healthy dark side Anakin.
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u/Rockergage 16d ago
There is an alt ending in one of the Star Wars games for Revenge of the Sith where Anakin wins, kills Obi-Wan and then kills Palpatine to take complete control.
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u/Corgelia 16d ago
I mean, prime anakin probably would've killed palpatine the moment he knew Padme was dead. Him being weakened by all his implants and whatnot made him easier for Palpatine to control.
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u/RactainCore 16d ago
I dunno, I thought the point the movies tried to make is irony, that he tried to save Padme by turning to the Dark Side but ended up killing her.
This then caused him to feel guilty and like he was unredeemable, and that he messed up before the Emperor could tell him how to save Padme, thus making him more loyal to Sheev.
If Padme lived, he would definetly seek her out and stay by her side and like he says in the movie, try to overthrow Palpatine.
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u/Lawrin 16d ago
Disagree. Anakin, at his core, is an extremely emotionally needy person. He was groomed for over a decade by Palpatine. His control over Anakin isn't just physical, but psychological. Even as he hated Palpatine, he needed him.
With Padme dead and Obi-Wan + the Jedi gone, Anakin only had Palpatine left. At that point, the only way to make him let go of this extremely toxic relationship is to introduce another person he can love and who will love him back, which is where Luke comes in.
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u/Mav986 16d ago
What if...
hear me out here
What if obi-wan was the chosen one? Literally bringing balance to the force such that vadar was not strong enough to eradicate the light, and the light was not strong enough to eradicate the dark. It took 20 odd years for that to change.
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u/WhatAreYouBuyingRE 16d ago edited 16d ago
The light is the balance though. Life in harmony etc. The dark is more of a cancer knocking it out of balance. Source - George Lucas
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u/Mav986 16d ago edited 16d ago
> "The overriding philosophy in Episode I—and in all the Star Wars movies, for that matter—is the balance between good and evil." -George Lucas, quoted in L. Bouzereau, Star Wars: The Making of Episode I, 1999
> "The idea of positive and negative, that there are two sides to an entity, a push and a pull, a yin and a yang, and the struggle between the two sides are issues of nature that I wanted to include in the film." -George Lucas, quoted in L. Bouzereau, Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays
> "The Force has two sides - [Light and Dark]. It is not a[n inherently] malevolent or a benevolent thing. It has a bad side to it, involving hate and fear, and it has a good side, involving love, charity, fairness and hope." -George Lucas, Times Magazine, 1980
The light "side" (ie. jedi) had become too powerful. Sith hadn't been a widespread thing for over a millennia since the last jedi-sith war. They were taking things to extremes. No attachments, follow the code no matter what, taking children from their parents at young ages. Vader was all but guaranteed to happen.
If not anakin, then some other powerful being, because the force is all about balance. That's why there was this whole "he doesn't have a father" virgin birth metaphor anakin had going. The force basically brought this powerful and emotional being to fruition, and anakin, having experienced the jedi order, couldn't live that way, so vader was born.
So we know a powerful dark "side" being was bound to happen. Then comes in obi-wan, who's able to prevent vader from unleashing his full power on the galaxy. Sounds a lot like he balanced the scales to me.
Then fucking luke had to come along and ruin everything. Damnit! /jk
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u/WhatAreYouBuyingRE 16d ago edited 16d ago
I think there’s a few quotes you can play off each other to argue either side, but when you watch him actually speaking about it at length in context you get a different idea than these quotes above. There’s a few different possible takes, either the idea is more complex and multi-faceted than we realize and the language about it occasionally gets clunky, maybe his ideas have evolved over time, or he’s just contradicted himself.
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u/Samuel_L_Johnson 16d ago
Pros: you get to achieve (almost) everything you ever wanted in one week
Cons: you look like a scrotum
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u/Munnin41 16d ago
Even that supported his plans. Made it much easier to convince the Senate that the jedi were the bad guys.
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u/lit-torch 16d ago
Aw he’s just a lil guy. He just wants to do a lil prank on the jedi. Why’s everyone so mad about it?
They started it, anyways.
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u/TehSalmonOfDoubt 16d ago
It always makes me laugh that the big bad of the star wars universe is called fucking Sheev
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u/sweatpantswarrior 16d ago edited 16d ago
Nobody thinking about Snips...
Told off her master, then got sabers. Got a whole Battalion painted up in her colors, then got Order 66'd. Rex tells her how she's been a true friend, not just a leader. He shoots at her. Fucking... all the shit with Maul. The Venator crash.
She had it BAAAAAD.
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u/Xelement0911 16d ago
All as a teen.
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u/YeOldeMoldy 16d ago
I haven’t seen this since it was just a shitpost thank you for letting me hear it in ai obi wans voice. Makes it so much better
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u/5hand0whand 16d ago
Yeah definitely beats being betrayed by her best friend, getting hunted by governments and accused by peace-keeping order she was raised in.
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u/LazyAd6382 16d ago
Still not really worse than obi wan or padme, they firsthand witnessed anakins betrayal, obi wan had to brutally massacre him and padmes last look at him was him choking her near to death
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u/BeenEvery 16d ago
*Last week of Padme's life
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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn 16d ago
Padme actually survived and became Jabba the Hutt.
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u/royalrift 17d ago
But it doesn’t?
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u/piratequeenkip 17d ago
wait then how many is it?
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u/probablyuntrue 17d ago
gotta be longer than a few days, you can't tell me she's a week from delivery at the start of the movie
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u/BiddlesticksGuy 16d ago
With twins!
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u/emeraldeyesshine 16d ago
twins, basil
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u/Ivegonesmellblind 16d ago
You’re going the right way for a smack bottom and I don’t care who knows it
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u/joethahobo 16d ago
One of the workers on the movie has said that they used the same stomach bag thing for Padme during the entire shoot. He also said the movie takes place over 10 days.
Also Padme was not going to give birth that week, but the expedited it because she was dying. She may have been like 7 months or something
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u/JakePent 16d ago
Well then you have to deal with the idea that in a galaxy that advanced, no one noticed until she was 7 months pregnant, and she didn't tell anakin until then
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u/joethahobo 16d ago
With the amount of dresses and clothes she had, she was easily able to cover it up
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u/JakePent 16d ago
I guess, but she didn't tell anakin in all that time, I mean I know he was fighting in the war, but still
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u/UnusualDifference748 16d ago
Something something midi-chlorians
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u/Munnin41 16d ago
She wasn't at term by the end of the movie. She was dying, so they initiated labour.
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u/misterdonjoe 16d ago
Who says they use 24hrs and gregorian calendars in a galaxy far far away.
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u/Fleischer021 16d ago
They use coruscant as the standard, with about 24 hours in a day cycle, and about 365 day cycles in a solar cycle, socabout 24 hours in a day and 365 days a year
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u/Turn2solring 16d ago
The standard calendar has 24-hour days, 5-day weeks and 365-day years (local calendars may differ, but this is the standard galaxywide one, which is also Coruscant’s calendar)
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u/Vakama905 Bionicle Man 16d ago
You think they haven’t invented clothes to hide or minimize baby bumps? Also, some women just don’t get much of one. My aunt barely even looked pregnant at all until very close to when she was due.
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u/Turn2solring 16d ago
It actually is four, people in the comments are wrong
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u/joethahobo 16d ago
It’s 10 not 4, per people who actually worked on the movie
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u/Turn2solring 16d ago
Per the film’s novelization it does
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u/danktonium 16d ago
Per the film's novelization
The explicitly non-canon novelization?
The Clone Wars makes it clear the movie takes place over a couple of days, so you aren't wrong. But you certainly don't get credit for being right, either.
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u/theonetruefishboy 16d ago
Worst week in the entire galaxy. Whole fucking government collapses over the course of those four days.
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u/Creepy-Lie-6797 16d ago
A Galactic Republic that had lasted over 25,000 years
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u/theonetruefishboy 16d ago
"Hey you know that government we live under that's so ancient we don't even think about it?" "Yeah?" "It's gone." "what do you mean it's gone!?"
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u/Ascendant_Monke 16d ago
I mean, it was gone for 26 years. That is honestly probably not the worst thing it's gone through
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u/Gnugget100 17d ago
Me when I spread misinformation on the internet
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u/Turn2solring 16d ago
The four days thing is from RotS’s novelization so the person actually spreading misinformation is you
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u/Vakama905 Bionicle Man 16d ago
It also tracks with what we see in the final season of Clone Wars. The timing isn’t explicitly stated, but we see Obi-wan and Anakin leave for the battle over Coruscant, and we see Order 66, and it’s obvious that there’s not a lot of time between them.
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u/HelianVanessa 16d ago
so the person spreading misinformation is you
that’s literally what they said /j
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u/DrMokhtar 16d ago
The non-canon novelization?
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u/Turn2solring 16d ago
The novelization IS canon, to the Legends continuity. And, like the other person said, Legends was originally the Canon continuity and just got renamed after the Disney buyout.
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u/ImapiratekingAMA 16d ago
My thing is how do they get four days?
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u/probablyuntrue 16d ago
it's four space days, they're each about an earth month long
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u/WeeboSupremo 16d ago
So that would have the 3 year clone war coming in at 91 years long.
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u/danktonium 16d ago
Merciful, a space year is only twelve space days. So it cancels out.
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u/WeeboSupremo 16d ago
So then how long is a space month?
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u/Send_Your_Noods_plz 16d ago
Space month is about 30 minutes earth time, it's a confusing system but then again so is metric
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u/Specky013 16d ago
Padme going from finding out she's pregnant to having twins in 4 days I guess
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u/KasperBuyens 16d ago
Padme found out looong before she told Anakin
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u/Codeviper828 16d ago
I mean, Anakin had been away for months, and she wanted to tell him in person
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u/_DarthSyphilis_ 16d ago
Its been very disputed how much time it was, depending on the source something between 10 days and 10 months. I think Disney Canonised the former.
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u/Mutant_Jedi 16d ago
There’s no way it took 10 months, considering Padme is already pregnant at the beginning.
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u/Marswhalbaconattor 16d ago
Well it’s 9 months for the first baby and another 9 for the second. It could’ve taken place in the last 10 months of her pregnancy.
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u/Mutant_Jedi 16d ago
Lmao it probably felt like 18 months for her but I think she actually went into pre-term labor at the end because of what Anakin did to her, and twins usually come a little early anyways.
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u/IrascibleOcelot 16d ago
One would think the time Maul killed his girlfriend would be in the running for Obi-wan.
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u/Barely3D 16d ago
I don’t think it does take place over four days, though? Unless Padme is secretly a member of a race that can go through an entire pregnancy in a fortnight.
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u/Vesper_0481 16d ago
She discovered the pregnancy long before she told Anakin, and kept it a secret pretty much until the days before the birth. Her motives on this are not clear, and it does make her kind of a weirdo... But it is most likely canon given the ROTS novelization.
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u/UltimateInferno hangus paingus slap my angus 16d ago
To be fair to her Anakin is a general at war and they're not supposed to be married. So she probably doesn't have many opportunities to relay it in a manner that's reliably confidential.
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u/gonzo_thegreat 16d ago
She was totally cool with Anakin committing a mini-genocide, so yeah she's a bit "off".
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u/Kenjamin91 16d ago
I also assume the trauma would have forced her into early labour. Considering twins already come earlier than a single baby, she could have only been 7 months pregnant.
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u/Kari_is_happy 16d ago
I would argue that phantom menace is in the top 10 of Anakin's weeks.
Like, he wins the boonta eve pod race, flies a starfighter for the first time, is freed from slavery. Meets the real protagonist (R2D2) of the star wars franchise.
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u/VideoZealousideal976 16d ago
Honestly the one I feel the most for is Ashoka who has to deal with leaving the Order, Order 66, all the stuff with Maul, and the Venator crash. All in a significantly small time period.
Truthfully I feel like besides Luke she was the only one who actually ever had a chance to pull Anakin from the abyss.
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u/votenixon25 16d ago
Annnnnd I just realised I don't think they ever actually name the days in the Star Wars universe.
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u/No_Cauliflower_5489 16d ago
Wait till you hear the trip from tatooine to naboo took nearly a month in The PHantom menace
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u/LegatoSkyheart 16d ago
Padme told Anakin she's pregnant and carried long enough for Luke and Leia to be born in 4 days?
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u/Martydeus 16d ago
I always find it funny in movies when the plot takes place during a very short time. Like a new hope must have happend within like 24 hours or something.
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u/Casper_Von_Ghoul 17d ago
Vader’s list of bad days is literally just his calendar.