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Post #684091

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RicOlie_2
Parent topic
Flaws, plotholes, and "could-have-been-done-betters" in the OT (alternate plot points especially welcome)
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Date created
17-Jan-2014, 11:56 AM

Star Wars, being a fantasy, contained a lot of symbolism. Traditionally, evil is given a physically ugly appearance in such works, while good is portrayed as beautiful or good-looking (hence the "good" in the latter). Of course the idea that one shouldn't judge things by their appearance can be portrayed symbolically with good guys being ugly and bad guys being good-looking, but in Star Wars the first was employed, so we have ugly bad guys and handsome/pretty good guys/girls.