Superweapon VII

fmalover said:

Anthony Ingruber would’ve been the perfect young Han Solo, as he looks exactly like a young Harrison Ford.

I thought the same at the time Solo was going into production. Physically, he’s perfect. But just 'cause he can do a spot-on impression of Ford as Han doesn’t entail he has the necessary acting chops to carry an entire movie.

Someone should cast him in a fan-film to test his mettle.

tl;dr: fandoms and social media suck.

Eyes Wide Shut. Feature-length troll post, that’s what it is.

You’re right.

Guess I’m just so sick of blind nostalgia, I’ve become susceptible to blind anti-nostalgia.

“COMING FALL OF 2022”

BedeHistory731 said:

Would that be with or without the kidnapped and tortured sex worker plots?

Yes.

Just when I thought my appreciation for Dark Empire couldn’t rise any higher, the universe gives me this belated birthday present.

I think the Overton window in North America is skewed so far to the right that your average citizen thinks anything more progressive than milquetoast centrism is “radical leftism.”

That’s decades of Red Scaremongering for you (not that assholes like Stalin didn’t play right into their hands).

You make a good point.

JF_Sanderson said:

The series would be better if in ROTJ Luke was Vader’s son, but Anakin was still a different person. Leia could be a little older and the “real” Skywalker.

Yes.

Spuffure said:

The USA really isn’t all that bad. Yes it has serious issues (such as the whole abortion issue), but it’s still a decent country. It is in NO way a “shithole”. Be glad you’re not living in North Korea.

Tell that to all the Indigenous people who died or lost their culture to genocide, and the black slaves who experienced the same. Tell that to every poor American currently suffering and dying needlessly to preventable illness due to America’s inhumane health care system.

As for those living in North Korea, I’m sure they’d be doing a smidgen better if the US hadn’t first bombed the place to near-oblivion, not to mention all the sanctions in the decades following.

But I’ll end my spiel here, if that’s your wish.

1. TESB
2. SW
3. R1
4. ROTJ
5. TFA
6. TPM
7. ROTS
8. AOTC

TFA was an underwhelming disappointment. R1 was a decent fan film, but the writing was clearly on the wall; this franchise was running 'round in circles and would continue to do so to diminishing returns. I couldn’t be arsed to finish the ST or check out Solo.

https://libcom.org/library/brief-explainer-radical-ideas-socialism-communism-syndicalism-anarchism

Not to mention cynical and reductive.

Evan Rachel Wood

Started watching Westworld. This woman is breathtaking.

Anakin Starkiller said:

The Nordic countries ain’t socialist, either.

I would define them as socialist. Socialist =/= communist.

They’re social democracies. Social democracy =/= socialism.

https://jacobin.com/2018/08/democratic-socialism-social-democracy-nordic-countries

If a corrupt neoliberal oligarchy degenerates into a fascist dictatorship, just transition back into that selfsame oligarchy.

Star Wars is a terrible guide to follow. Trek’s better. Woefully utopian and short on theory, but still better.

fmalover said:

I guess the higher-ups at Disney got scared at the prospect of doing something original.

The SW universe can’t be expanded, only extended.

Looks like American imperialism has played no small part in Venezuela’s situation. Colour me unsurprised.

https://michael-hudson.com/2019/02/venezuela-as-the-pivot-for-new-internationalism/

SparkySywer said:

Emre1601 said:

Nearly 20 years we thought, nearly two decades, a generation. Now instead only 8-9 years. Not such a long time, now.

Do you not think 9 years is a long time?

Not speaking for Emre1601, just myself. Nope. Not at all. Hell, even twenty years feels like yesterday to me.

To quote Noam Chomsky, “State socialism is a contradiction.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_3sG1igy3k

The Nordic countries ain’t socialist, either.

Shelagh Fraser and Mark Hamill shared a close enough resemblance that it’s easy to buy their characters as biologically related. Beru also seems to regard Anakin’s memory with more warmth and happiness than Owen ever demonstrates. Those are the reasons why I think Beru makes for the better Skywalker sibling.

I like Owen better as Ben’s brother. Resentment/jealousy over Ben leaving the farm to become a Jedi — along with Ben’s botched training of Anakin, especially if Owen and Anakin were best friends — go a long way towards explaining Owen’s antagonist with Ben and his overprotectiveness of Luke.

Those Tuskens may walk like men, but they’re vicious, mindless monsters. Ergo, it’s alright to indiscriminately massacre them.

America is an authoritarian, imperialist, settler colonial shithole and has been so since Day 1. Just as evil as the British Empire that sired it.