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?
“Wannabe serial killer” Mark Twitchell being a big fan of prequel Anakin was no surprise to me. The man even defended the youngling slaughter scene on TheForce.net forums back in the day.
Reminds me of EU fans who defend the Sith Holocaust. Those folks are definitely sus.
I agree with what SparkySywer said above.
I get what George is trying to say about attachment, but it bugs me that he considers emotional connection to your own mother, or simply the act of falling in love with someone, as something problematic. Anakin falling for Padme is portrayed as a dangerous thing, like it’s a “sin,” but Anakin’s behavior towards Padme doesn’t become overtly possessive until RotS. It’s hard to gauge what Lucas considers to be crossing the line from “good” love to “bad/possessive” love. And we don’t really see much of the Jedi showing that compassionate love to people. And maybe that was intentional, but I don’t think it was.
I understand the resistance to the ideas about attachments but that’s really something to take up with Buddhism/Hinduism more than Lucas who is being a pretty loyal messenger to the eastern view on such things, rather than misinterpreting or inventing.
From the Bhagavad Gita, I’m sure it will sound familiar:
https://panindiahindu.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/love-vs-attachment-in-the-context-of-gita/Exactly. It’s very difficult for a secular, materialist, western audience to accept the idea of not leading yourself by your emotions or what gives you “fulfillment” or sexual desire.
Something which shouldn’t be ignored is that unlike the Jedi, the average Hindu/Buddhist can still practice their faith without having to become an ascetic. It’s not the doctrine that’s the problem; it’s the Jedi’s dogmatic adherance to it. Them taking children too young to give informed consent only compounds the problem.
Superweapon VII said:
I’m sure others with a better understanding of political machinations than me can pick this logic apart. Regardless, this is space fantasy; its politics don’t have to align with the real world.Seems like it’s always being described as a space fantasy. It’s meant to be a space opera.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera
“Star Wars really isn’t a science-fiction film, it’s a fantasy film and a space opera.”
— George Lucas
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a32507/george-lucas-sundance-quotes/
I used to identify as a cisman, but after reading/listening to experiences of nonbinary folks, I’ve come to recognize I’ve always had feminine qualities. Not sure how I’d label myself — demiman, genderfluid.
And only recently I’ve thought that in SW, Vader answers to Tarkin, In ESB, EVERYONE answers to Vader, and in Jedi, Vader answers to the Emperor. Just something that crossed my mind.
I think the comparison isn’t completely fair between the films. In SW Tarkin and Vader seem to be friends who respect each other but Tarkin is the military boss who is in charge of the station. Also Vader doesn’t have much to do really on his own.
That’s obviously the current retconned explanation. But when Leia meets Tarkin for the first time, she says that he is the one “holding Vader’s leash,” heavily implying that Tarkin was actually supposed to be Vader’s superior before ESB retconned it. It’s not too much of a contradiction though.
Not really. I don’t even follow any current retcons. I think it’s more about Leia just wanting to insult Vader. She also says that Tarkin smells right after so I wouldn’t take her wordings as gospel.
Both of those have to come from some place of truth, though
Tarkin smells of Depends and death sticks.
The OOT. That’s it. If the other stuff piques their interest, they can watch it at a friend’s house.
Think I might’ve contracted COVID last month. The first day, I developed soreness in the back of my throat, then developed a fever the next. The fever broke after two days, but I developed a horrible cough and spat up phlegm which took several weeks to subside. I’m still not completely over the coughing fits.
I’m not sure it wasn’t just the flu, as I suffered no breathing problems. But my sister developed similar symptoms around the same time, and she complained of feeling some fluid in her lungs, so I dunno.