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Why did George Lucas say the Empire is America? How does public perception of conflict change? And is Star Wars REALLY about the Vietnam War?
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I don't care what the haters say, The Mandalorian S3E3 "The Convert" is secretly a huge banger. It's the best look at the New Republic we've had since Aftermath, and features some delightful performances. Elia Kane has my whole heart.
The newest episode of
#TheBadBatch
deadnames trans composer Deana Kiner in the credits. This shouldn't have happened in the first place, so it's something that LFL or Disney need to fix NOW.
Trans people are a part of Star Wars, we're here to stay forever and always. We exist in stories, behind the scenes, and in this community as equal and legitimate members. We will fight endlessly for that equality, as is our right and duty. Happy
#TransDayOfVisibility
!
Young Jedi Adventures just aired an episode where an offworld developer comes to Batuu and pitches a glamourous resort--for which they'd have to cut down the natural features of the planet and gentrify the outpost. He's thrown out by the locals who value their home as it is.
A treasured tool of the reactionary pop culture critic is to say that something "breaks lore" instead of trying to figure out how it *fits into* established storytelling.
It's deeply incurious to say "I don't like this thing, so there's literally no way it can exist."
It's honestly so funny how fans say the Holdo Maneuver "breaks lore cause we'd see it more often" meanwhile Anakin literally did it within the first 4 episodes of the Clone Wars like cmon guys
Han and Lando are at odds before ESB, which has meant at several points in extended story materials, they part on extremely bad terms. However, neither Legends nor Canon as of yet have gone with the most logical conclusion—the source of the tension being a VERY messy breakup.
The backlash Hamill got from right-wing freaks for being reasonably horrified by Trump kinda turned him into the Ultimate Liberal™. So you get these weird moments of him advocating for the Biden Admin with sheer confidence after the US has supported a genocide for seven months.
A fantastic thing that The Bad Batch does is illustrate the ways fascism can *take hold* of places and people. Crosshair is essentially your friend who got radicalized into right-wing thought because he was antisocial and looking for meaning and found it in the worst place.
I just think Andor and Bad Batch complement each other in such a strangely beautiful way. Tonally they’re very different from each other, but they both depict fascism in a very honest and truthful way, and how it reaches like rust into everything around us.
I prefer my Star Wars to be center-leaning and apolitical, which is why my favourite character is Nute RonaldReagan'sEconomicAndWelfarePolicyWasBasedOnRacistLiesAndIncreasedWealthInequalityForDecades
"George Lucas would never have such overt partisan politics in his movies" the chud typed, next to his action figure of prequel character Darth Republicansarebad
A huge element that people forget about when talking about political allegory in media is that WWII was within *recent memory* of the 1970s. It was as close to Star Wars as the 90s are to us. None of this stuff is as far off as we tell ourselves, politics are the air we breathe.
Star Wars does not exist in a vacuum. It replicates, and indeed reifies, certain ideas about the world we exist in. The idea that women, especially marginalized ones, are predisposed to *enjoying* sexual violence is a way our culture excuses that violence.
@Queener_Weener
I am now convinced that there are a class of fans that want every single Star Wars alien race, culture and civilization to conform to modern ideological norms. Norms that are not representative of our home countries let alone what one would see traveling today’s world. The end
So, I've noticed that there definitely seems to be an excited audience for 'The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire'. Well, as you've all been so good, maybe you can have a little sample chapter as a treat.
Who wants to hear about The Clone Wars...?
Honestly insane how LEGO has been using basically the same exact mold for their Battle Droids since they were first introduced in 1999.
Almost 25 years later and nothing’s changed.
HOW TO ASK A WOMAN OUT:
❌"Hey, come here often?"
- BORING
- CREEPY
- WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW?
✅"Have you read Nemik's Manifesto?"
- IMMEDIATELY COMPELLING
- ATTRACTIVE
- TEST OF CHARACTER
Was this done with malice? I thoroughly doubt it. But it is EXTREMELY careless, particularly because the previous three episodes, as released a week ago, didn't carry the error. Someone fucked up big.
mfs when Star Wars parodies American imperialism, names a character after Reagan, and references 9/11: "omg so cool!! 🥰✨🤩🥰🤩🤩✨
when Star Wars includes a woman holding a lightsaber: "NOOO NOT POLITICS 😭😭🤬🔥😭🔥🤬🤬"
I understand and even agree with several criticisms of the sequels, but there are two I’ve never gotten
1. Rey isn’t given sufficient reason to be powerful, or trained
2. They’re overtly “political” films
Around 2003 in Chile, when the original trilogy of Star Wars began airing on television there, they did this funny thing to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. They stitched the commercials into the films themselves. Here is one of them, with the English dub added in.
food: $200
data: $150
rent: $1000
star destroyers: $100,000,000,000
utilities: $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my empire is dying
What's this guy's name? Ozon Nimbee. NIMBY? Listen, he's a wealthy developer, and not a local advocating against positive infrastructure or housing improvements. But goddamn is it a return to the "George Lucas School of Naming Politically Charged Characters." Loved this episode.
used to be you could send your son to Jedi school and he wouldn't kill his fellow students and turn to the dark side. but you can't anymore. because of Snoke.
An additionally interesting dimension of this storyline is that the location, Batuu, is *literally the place portrayed in Galaxy's Edge, the Star Wars theme park*. I don't intellectually know what to do with that yet, but it's a curious choice on the part of the writers.
Chuds complain about modern Star Wars being woke leftist propaganda, but there's more on-the-nose class critique in the Taris section of KOTOR than in all of the new films combined.
@JenniferCorbett
@DisneyPlusHelp
The new episode was excellent, and I'm a big fan of the show. But please, this is a huge error, and it should be rectified.
Recently (possibly unsurprisingly to listeners), it's been the secession of the Centrists from the New Republic. It's SUCH a big addition to how we understand both the Cold War and the Resistance-First Order conflict, and it's...only mentioned in recent reference books.
‘History tells us that, given enough time, all empires will fall. But if we do not also come to understand how and why they rise, we will remain trapped in this cycle forever.’
'Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire' releases July 2024
Update from Jennifer Corbett, head writer and executive producer for the show! We're very glad to hear this will be taken care of (please no one harass her or anything, she's cool).
I would make my mind a sunless place just to have a damn Luthen Rael story written by Alexander Freed, the author of the Rogue One novelization. I can already imagine the inner monologue.
@JenniferCorbett
@DisneyPlusHelp
I'm uncertain, but it's possible this is a regional difference—some people in the UK claim the credits are correct for them. Hopefully the US will get the same treatment.
And then it chews him up and spits him out, cause despite his devotion, he's a disadvantageous minority. He tried to play their game, to do their atrocities, and he still didn't matter.
actually i'm not nearly as political on this account as i should be, it's usually just Star Wars. i should be actively quoting Noam Chomsky in a tweet with an unrelated picture of Jar Jar Binks to stay loyal to the brand
curse Disney for inserting portrayals of fascism, racism, and colonialism into *checks notes* a movie series about the struggle of freedom against tyranny!!1!
NEW EPISODE!! We sit down with
@ChrisKempshall
, author of The History and Politics of Star Wars and The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, to discuss how to think about Star Wars, George Lucas, and their historical influences.
But Hamill's just a rich white guy. One that doesn't despise gay people, and accurately understands that the GOP is ghouls. And if you're rich, and comfortable, and you think the only issue is whether or not the Republicans have power, then of course you loudly support Biden.
Every worker deserves to be a part of a union to safeguard them from from the excesses of their employer, but for employees of a corporation as large as Disney, and a job as taxing as working in Disneyland, it's essential.
NEW: Disneyland workers are exposing the reality of their jobs.
“The magic starts to fade away and you’re just left with not being able to pay rent, permanent injuries, and management who doesn’t value or respect you.”
Today they start voting on a union to bring the magic back.
People are talking about this moment, and that's cause it's surreal—Luke Skywalker is this character who is praised for his use of liberatory violence against a genocidal regime.
Asked some friends at a party for their favourite Jedi characters who are women—and these are some of the varied answers I got. I love modern Star Wars so much!
Donald Glover says he's making the
#Lando
movie because he likes the characters, his kids love Star Wars, and he gets creative control
"I just know when something’s going to be good ... And maybe you get painted as a control freak, but ... control allows for the vision to be
The Grand Inquisitor's reason for turning to the Dark Side will never not be funny to me. He's basically a campus security guard who beefed with the University librarian because she wouldn't let him take out postgraduate books out on long loan
I guess it's a bummer to see Luke Starwars literally *speaking on behalf of Genocide Joe*. But like...this shouldn't come as a surprise to people who know how Hollywood lib culture functions. Where he's at is par for the course, it's not shocking. It's just...tiring.
Convinced that the Venn diagram of people who ardently care about what, in their mind, “George would’ve wanted” and people who ardently care about what, in their mind, “The Founders would’ve wanted” is, indeed, a circle.
I’m sorry but if you feel comfortable calling Saw Gerrera a violent extremist and a barbaric terrorist, but not Luthen Rael the same thing, then I’ve got some news for you pal.
Star Wars said
“we got antifascist themes about resisting authoritarianism, we got magic wizards traveling to other galaxies inside giant space whales, we got detective stories, we got-..”
Idk. Just a reminder that our national understanding of "left-leaning politics" is abysmal at best. And presently inextricably tied to the Democratic Party, despite the monstrosity there, too.
no, they weren't trying to "do Andor" just because they made a slower episode. the only reason people view those superficial similarities as negative is because the two released four months apart lmao
NEW! EPISODE! Let's go on a ride with
@MollieDamon
and
@StarWarsExplain
to talk about the inspiration behind The High Republic, the history of the myth of King Arthur, and America's lost age of prosperity.
To establishment libs, the status quo is basically fine. Despite widening wealth inequality, failing infrastructure, and Palestinian children being murdered daily by US-funded munitions, if your life's secure, what more do you have to worry about?
Without context, this statement is technically true. But it ignores the fact that women in fiction aren't independent actors, but are dressed and written by creatives—in this case, largely men—who are making choices within a culture that contains certain ideas about womanhood.
NEW EPISODE!! Listen as we relitigate the Resistance Bomber, map real-world battleship strategy to Star Destroyers, and categorize ships both inside Star Wars and out.
NEW EPISODE!!! Join us for an overview of Coruscant—not as a political hub, but as a city. How do its trillions of citizens get around? Why are ghettos created near industrial zones? And why is Coruscant ultimately the worst place to live in all of Star Wars?
The argument is not that media, even Star Wars, cannot depict violence against sexual and racialised minorities, or sex workers. The argument is that Star Wars does it POORLY. It does it in a way that objectifies its victims and uses them as, essentially, flavour text.
This is particularly true with regard to sex workers, who are routinely portrayed in film and literature as disposable, helpless, and *desiring* sexual violence, especially for the audience's edgy viewing pleasure.
When your political understanding is "good guys versus bad guys," the assumption is that if we don't have the "bad guys" in power then the things happening must be good. And that's just not how power works. It's not how this country works, not by a long shot.
youd think after leaving the tweet i'm referencing immediately in the replies, fewer people would be replying thinking this is my actual opinion. especially considering *gestures vaguely at this account*