Hey it's me.

I think where our lines are getting crossed is yours is an American perspective and mine a British one. 

Leonardo said:

Well, we have Stormtrooper Baldrick, we need Hugh Laurie as a ditzy imperial officer!

 

JEDIT: Oh, and Stephen Fry as Grand Moff Melchett... BAAAH!!!

LOL!! oh and not forgetting Rowan Atkinson as a wily,cunning, sarcastic but ultimately yellow Imperial Captain.

Gaffer Tape said:

Apparently my use of past-tense conjugation was lost on you...

So you were agreeing with what I said then?

TheBoost said:

Gaffer Tape said:

Access to knowledge and education used to be very much "gender specific" to the deficit of women.  If we continued to maintain that "things are the way they are, we're too conditioned and ingrained, and change is scary," they still would be.

What he said. 

What I said

Gaffer Tape said:

Access to knowledge and education used to be very much "gender specific" to the deficit of women.  If we continued to maintain that "things are the way they are, we're too conditioned and ingrained, and change is scary," they still would be.

No i think you'll find access to knowledge and education is very much a financial thing, rather than what sex you are. 

Gender non conformity is required for equality of opportunity? Not in the UK. We've had a female prime minister don't forget. There are many women in high powered positions within business and government. Intelligence and knowledge go a long way. And those two things aren't 'gender specific'

Baldrick wouldn't know a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing, "cunning plans are here again!"

This man simply HAS to be in Episode VII

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2062850304/nm0929489

I understand your point. It's like when a girl chooses to be a 'tomboy' and wants to become a mechanic or whatever. It's seen as being quirky. Maybe history is to blame? And the roles of each sex, as in how we're supposed to be, is so indoctrinated into our general psyche that whenever that norm is questioned or veered from it is generally frowned upon. 

You see, my mind wasn't that questioning when I was that age. As for Star Wars? Well, my sisters loved Star Wars! At least my eldest sister did lol.

Do you mean why are Cinderella slippers gender specific? Well, call me an old traditionalist. But Cinderella (along with Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood) have in my eyes always been fairy tales designed to appeal to young girls. Now you wiil probably disagree with that (lol) but that's just the way I see it. Growing up, I was into matchbox cars and toy guns etc and my sisters were into Barbie and so on. 

^^Lol^^

You assume correctly. As for Vader slippers, i said I couldn't recall. If they were? Then I stand corrected. 

Bingowings said:

Vincent Price avatars are the latest thing from Gay Paree...

I thought it was a 70's pic of John Holmes wearing shades lol

A) i can't ever recall Darth Vader slippers being gender specific.

B) Not in my mind.(but that's just me)

I don't know Bingo, its a question I've never given much thought. It's almost akin to asking, well how can a big giant space slug be a revered gangster who gets pissed off when it deems its been repeatedly avoided by a human smuggler who owes him a debt. How could such a thng display human sentiments and emotion? It just is because its Star Wars and its fantasy and its the greatest thing ever (the OT anyway lol). Star Wars (for me personally) isn't something that has ever required people to question the ethics of it. It isn't that deep of a fable, and isn't meant to be viewed as such.

Ok that's me done for now. Lol

Bingowings said:

Look at Spartacus and imagine the droids of the Star Wars universe turning on their pampered masters with former Troopers as the trigger.

It could work.

Hmm interesting theory. But then, what would the droids be truly fighting for? Droid independence? What would their purpose be beyond what they were built for? The emotional expanse of droids in the SW universe seems to be a very limited one. A droid is never shown being deep in thought. Questioning their place in the universe. 

Surely not serious points?. 

Bingowings said:

I don't know.

I could imagine a very exciting Star Wars trilogy stemming from the duel slavery of the troopers and the droids.

The clone wars saw them pitted against each other.

Together they would be much more interesting.

Well now we're starting to delve into PT territory, and that for me is where I start to glaze over through sheer disinterest. Lol

Yeah I get your point Bingo, but that was always the innocence and beauty of Star Wars for me. How the hell can a droid have a personality? Was R2 the product of a communion between 2 consenting R units and from a little R2 grew into the R2 we've come to know and love? His personality grew with age? He just is what he is (same with Threepio) A droid with personality, and that's accepted without question because its fantasy. It isn't delved into on a deeper level because there simply is no need for it to be. 

Shut up? Bit uncalled for.

Do you know different?

ray_afraid said:

Ronster said:

 

I also admire what zack snyder did with Dawn of the dead

You are dead to me.

The remake was ok. In a good waste of an hour and a half type way. Not a patch on the original though, which is in my top 5 horror films of all time.

I don't think you can really describe robots as slaves. They were built for their specific duty. They weren't kidnapped from a planet where robots of all kinds roam free and do as they wish and forced into a life of servitude. :-D