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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
Superweapon VII said:
I prefer making Beru Anakin’s sister and Owen his brother-in-law, but okay.In ANH, Owen is clearly the authority over Luke’s life. When Beru has an opinion, she waits until Luke is out of earshot, expresses her opinion privately to Owen, and defers to his authority. If it’s Beru rather than Owen who is the adult relative of Luke, that seems kind of sexist.
Owen does have some big chauvinist energy.
Nostalgia is bullshit. You wanna know who the ultimate nostalgic was? H. P. Lovecraft — that racist, ethnocentrist, misanthropic, nihilist fuck. And every fascist is a nostalgic, too. Nostalgia is the bedrock of fascism.
Originaltrilogy.com needs better safeguards against spambots.
Shh. They’ll cast a death spell on you if you’re not careful.
“I thought they smelled bad … on the outside.”
Not gay enough. Maybe Part Two will be gayer, but I doubt Villeneuve will put a sweaty, codpiece-wearing Feyd-Rautha in his film.
The new Canon has taken many of the worst aspects of the old EU and brought them back in even worse ways.
Sometimes it isn’t even the worst aspects.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ulic_Qel-Droma
If this article’s accurate, Disney Ulic has the same exact history as Legends Ulic. Tom Veitch originally intended Ulic to die unredeemed. Why couldn’t the new writers honour Veitch’s vision and provide longtime readers a fresh, new take on an old character? There’s a painful dearth of creativity at play.
It bugs me when fans dismiss the old EU as worthless simply because a corporation doesn’t recognize it as official Canon.
Me too. Regardless of whether they’re indifferent newcomers or oldtimers who’re upset their beloved stories aren’t “true” anymore.
My relationship with modern SW in a nutshell:
They keep finding new and better ways to maximize my indifference. It’s truly amazing.
The problem with this, though, is that no human is capable of living a life without sin. George Lucas is a Buddhist Christian, and if heaven is where the righteous come to live with God in the afterlife, and sin is antithetical to God’s very being, heaven should be entirely unpopulated. An infinite being has infinite moral standards, and no human is perfect.
That’s where the mitigating factors of infinite love and infinite patience would come in, presumably.
Maybe this would be resolved in the ST by whatever comes next focusing less on the unattainable goal of teaching people how to totally avoid the dark side of the Force, and more about teaching people how not to let it cloud their judgment.
Leigh Brackett’s TESB draft took this route, IIRC. I may be misremembering; it’s been so long since I read it.
The ST should be given the Armin Tamzarian treatment.
I’ve come to entertain the idea of the Separatist Crisis as a distinct, separate event from the Clone Wars. According to pre-1999 EU material like The Farlander Papers, there were decades of peace between the Clone Wars and the fall of the Republic. Why couldn’t the Separatist Crisis be a response to the rise of Palpatine’s New Order, perhaps even the precursor to the Galactic Civil War?
