So close to getting it...

I'm waiting for someone to say that Babylon 5 never got "political"

Which is indeed why the Imperial officers all wore Hugo Boss nazi uniforms.

George Lucas did also say at one point that he based the red and green laser fire of the Imperial and Rebel forces on the tracers being fired by the US and Viet Cong, which was an iconic bit of imagery that was widely televised. Also:

However, when Lucas sat down with director James Cameron in 2018, he revealed how the Empire was also meant to resemble America — particularly the way it prosecuted the Vietnam War. Cameron pointed out how the Rebels are a small group using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized Empire. Today, Cameron added, the Rebels would be called terrorists. "When I did it," Lucas replied, "they were Viet Cong."

In other words, Lucas viewed the Vietnamese as the rebels and America as the invading villains. He further explained that Star Wars was a "vessel" in which to place his worldview that the United States had become an empire during the Vietnam War, doomed to fail like every empire before it. Cameron noted how those views carried over into the Star Wars prequel trilogy, especially in Padmé's line, "This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause." Lucas replied, "We're in the middle of it right now," referring to the country's political state.

(Via.)

Yeah who tf is still scrolling that shit unless they're thumbs can't unclick the dumbass X icon on their phone

Sure Aaron... You were being "Ironic"...

I actually thought he was being ironic. I thought, someone who was actually engaging with the allegory enough to acknowledge the correct answer and so quickly—this couldn't have been their first time thinking about it.

This second reply is very confusing if that's true, though.

https://xcancel.com/theronster/status/1919491001296552311#m

He trebled down a year later. I think he is actually trying to be ironic in his bio. But he's still just an idiot.

Wow what a fuckin ass.

Literally. Politics is all about the power dynamics between people. If there are two or more people there will always be a power dynamic even if the two are on good terms and do not exert power over each other.

It’s like how you can always describe the color in any given painting, even when the painting is monochromatic.

Woah there, that's leftist woke propaganda, talking about human wills and desires. I was brought up apolitical so I'm sensitive to these things - I can only vote for the Republicans because every other party is just too political.

/s

Region locked :/

Woke: whatever a right winger doesn't like

This is the best definition of how a word is actually used I’ve seen in a while

Also, Americans use the word "political" to mean ethical nowadays.

A certain segment of our population has been told to equate words like "political" and "woke" with "That person is saying or doing something that might influence someone about something I've been told to disagree with".

It's incredibly horrifying how quickly this same segment of the population has been conditioned to view the rest as "weak, sensitive, entitled weirdos who can't handle even the slightest criticism without seeing it as a existential threat" while simultaneously being conditioned to throw a tantrum when anyone takes an action to support something they've been told they should disagree with.

Every so often I wonder how people could be so stupid

Most of the world's large predators are extinct or on the verge of extinction. Interpret that how you want.

If you read Triplanetary by E. E. "Doc" Smith, the first half is basically "A New Hope".

We've made it so easy.

Which is why you should pirate Andor and ignore the rest of the franchise.

Lots of good points here. It would have been cool if Star Wars had a more complex geopolitical (galactopolitical?) environment, including more instances of multilateral politics.I feel like this was touched on in the prequels, but it still kinda boiled down to "good guys vs bad guys." The general audience will get what it wants. That's how markets are supposed to work.

Still, I feel like it was a missed opportunity to have a politically complex sequel rather than just dialing up the space-wizard lore. We could have also gotten some more complex characters rather than just bad guys or good guys that change at the end. People are way more complicated than that.

It probably would have been better if Warner Bros. Had acquired the IP rather than Disney. I'd watch HBO Star Wars all day long. I get why that wouldn't work for their marketing position, but it would have been worth it to me to hear an Ewok say, "Yub yub, motherfucker" before offing the imperial officer that burned his village.

Also, we learn that Tibbit the Ewok has a bad glowroot problem, wasn't entirely faithful to his partner, Nubni, and was a bit of a negligent father. His character doesn't really improve, but he does save the village. The resultant fame nearly destroys him, and he goes back to spicebark farming with his toxic affair partner. The Alliance turns out to be as oppressive to the Ewoks as the Empire, but they have better PR. The other Ewoks label Tibbit as a traitor for protesting the Alliance he fought for. Ewoks boycott his spicebark. He loses everything. Grikk finds his body, glowroot seeping out of his mouth. Clutched in his lifeless paw is a child's drawing. It was the one Grikk gave him on Father's Day over a decade ago. Tibbit had yelled at Grikk and thrown the drawing away in an intoxicated rage. That was the last time Grikk had seen Tibbit. To think he had dug it out of the trash and carried it for ao many years. Grikk held his dead father's paw with tears in his eyes. "Yub yub, Dad. Yub yub."

Okay, Shakespeare it's not, but tell me if it's worse than any scene in the sequels.

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