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Post #501819

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TheBoost
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The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie. Or is it?
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24-May-2011, 1:51 PM

timdiggerm said:

It's not entirely baseless though. Please, consider the following:

  • The most aliens we see are on backwater worlds, or in the Alliance
  • We never see Imperial aliens
  • The guard in the Detention Block refers to Chewie as "that thing".

 

Is the Empire inherently speciest within OT-canon? It's not explicitly stated, but it sure is easy to draw that conclusion.

I've said before that going by "Star Wars" and "ESB" it's easy to assume that the Empire/Rebel conflict is a conflict in the galactic human government.

Perhaps instead of a system of oppression of other member-species of the same government body, we're seeing the Imperials bully/ignore species completely outside the political sphere of influence.

(obviously the inclusion of the Ackbars in ROTJ complicates this, but doesn't discount it)