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ikanreed posted:Imagine if the prequels hadn't dropped the ball on this one loving thing, and we saw qui gon cutting up what we understood to be impressed sentient creatures for the sake of loving trade deals. a lot of the old EU stuff expands on the idea that if you don't forcibly wipe the memory of your slaves every year, they start to get all these weird ideas about having autonomy and start questioning why they're continuing to put up with your bullshit as you can guess, some of the writers handled it rather poorly!
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ikanreed posted:It doesn't take much thought to put together, but you can totally take a surface read of "yeah the red eye things are just selling stolen robots" i mean maybe. but robots don't lament their lot in life. hell, later on we see artoo escape and threepio is briefly tortured by luke to find out where he went
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Serf posted:once lucas sold off the franchise it basically became terrible fanfiction. he wasn't using it, and he never cared about it as much as the superfans, but now that the patients are running the asylum poo poo has just nosedived so hard This presupposes that the prequels are good
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Mayor Dave posted:This presupposes that the prequels are good *takes drag off of cigarette* they are
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Mayor Dave posted:This presupposes that the prequels are good All the secret history of star wars pretty much shows he was only good because he had multiple to compensate for his various weaknesses as a director.
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Serf posted:i mean maybe. but robots don't lament their lot in life. hell, later on we see artoo escape and threepio is briefly tortured by luke to find out where he went Yes. I know. The writers very obviously worked on that theme throughout the whole first movie, and to a lesser extent 5 and 6. You definitely can't see past "we don't serve their kind here" But I guarantee most Star wars fans never considered it.
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ikanreed posted:Yes. I know. The writers very obviously worked on that theme throughout the whole first movie, and to a lesser extent 5 and 6. You definitely can't see past "we don't serve their kind here" star wars fans don't like star wars
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Put robot torture back in Star Wars
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Stairmaster posted:the prequels are watchable idk attack of the clones is a drag but nothing is as bad as force awakens, which feels like it was made by a movie script generator
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aotc has dumb spectacle at the end
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aotc has a great detective story about the world's most thinly-disguised mystery, being strung along like a puppet, and he never becomes aware of the fact that he was played
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the jedi order is good, actually, because it's led by people named "gumpus gorpus" and "yumble" and "quib quob" instead of people named "darth icky" or "darth badguy"
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The screams of the GOnk echo through the catacombs as the skeleton robot puts the hot plate against his steam shooters
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Darth Incel Darth Pooa Darth Tradcath Darth Fasce
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Pig Demon to the Skeleton Robot: Turn on the Gonk's pain module and his screaming module so that the heat of the plate registers as pain to the steam shooters on his cute rear end feet.
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https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Socialism
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"was this powerful sith lord a badguy or a goodguy" anakin asked the old senator "oh, he was a very good guy," the senator said, as he stroked anakin's 30 year old teenage hair, "his name was darth epstein"
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https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Fascism/Legendsquote:Fascism played a large role in the creation of the Star Wars trilogy, with the story treatment notes for Star Wars (then-titled The Star Wars) made by series creator George Lucas in 1973 stating, among others, "Theme: Aquilae is a small independent country like North Vietnam threatened by a neighbor or provincial rebellion, instigated by gangsters aided by empire. Fight to get rightful planet back. Half of system has been lost to gangsters[…]The Empire is like America ten years from now[…]We are at a turning point: fascism or revolution".[3]
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can we stop with this star wars derail oh poo poo wait im already in the pop culture containment thread
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i say swears online posted:indiana jones is better than han solo What if the president knocked a terrorist off air force one and said "no ticket"
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There’s high quality robot torture in the Metabarons
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Indiana Jones murdering some Egyptian and saying "it belongs in a British Museum"
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it really is my guilty reactionary pleasure
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:The screams of the GOnk echo through the catacombs as the skeleton robot puts the hot plate against his steam shooters problematically hot
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Little leery because that guys got an anime avatar but otherwise lmao
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Uncle Wemus posted:Little leery because that guys got an anime avatar but otherwise lmao did a Reverse GIS and  quote:Description and screenshots don't give a full impression of the game- it's a 'lolicon' dating simulator with lots of panty shots, sexual scenes and stuff that scirts on the borderline of being classified as 'nudity' by technicality alone.
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NVM: completely different weird anime thing dude's timeline is suss with loli poo poo though A Gnarlacious Bro posted:The screams of the GOnk echo through the catacombs as the skeleton robot puts the hot plate against his steam shooters in the old EU (  ) the torturer droid is actually a female personality type making here a sexy dominatrix
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The whole "droids are slaves" thing falls apart the second you look at there place in the meta. They undeniably have personalities and a degree of free will, but at most they're just extentions of whatever person or group they're attached to, like a familiar. Trying to insert "doids rights" into Star Wars without making it a central conflict in the setting just comes off as a misguided attempt at virtue signaling.
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MizPiz posted:The whole "droids are slaves" thing falls apart the second you look at there place in the meta. They undeniably have personalities and a degree of free will, but at most they're just extentions of whatever person or group they're attached to, like a familiar. Trying to insert "doids rights" into Star Wars without making it a central conflict in the setting just comes off as a misguided attempt at virtue signaling. incorrect. the movie is testing to see if you can have basic empathy for a being that doesn't look like you. the oppression of droids is built in from the base level of society. such that the "guardians of peace and justice" the jedi don't even deign to consider that droids are slaves
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I started watching In This Corner of the World on Netflix just to have something to watch while I ate dinner and now it's got me all hosed up. A lot gets said about how it's impossible to make an effective anti-war movie, with Idi I Smotri being a major exception - but In This Corner of the World also really nails it from a very different approach. There are other anime movies about world war 2 that make you feel bad for the subjects like Grave of the Fireflies, but they mostly rely on base sentiments to string you along to its thesis. Corner really earns its emotional depth by building up its narrative and fully recreating the domestic life of imperial Japan. Every building and object has built up a historical significance because all of them are full of the same kind of stories that we see through the cast, which makes the impact of the war all the more devastating when it arrives. As the date counts down to the point that the raids and firebombings begin it metatextually takes on the tone of a horror movie. The protagonist also has enough talent to be a brilliant post-impressionist, but because of her domestic obligations and the burdens of the war can never work with colors until it ends up being far too late. What a great loving movie. Give it a shot if you want to get all emotional and poo poo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HHE2JTNwsE really good teardown of Jack Ryan
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what in the gently caress just happened in here i thought it was star wars chat jesus chirst.
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Even if it was a misfire I always appreciate the instinct to expose the weeb
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Freaking Crumbum posted:i do like that vader's entire character arc from 4 > 6 is the story of a guy that really enjoys his original job (killing other wizards and flying space ships) and because he enjoys it he does really well at it, but then he does it so well that he gets promoted to a higher level of management, but his previous specialization in the skills of martial assassination and spaceship dueling are completely useless for his new role (being the project director of a massively bloated government defense contract) and he's clearly struggling to tread water with his boss (who is also going to look foolish if he promotes vader and then vader can't cut it) so he ends up having to fly through space to harangue various bureaucrats and other middle managers to make sure anything gets done on time and within budget, he has to hire with a bunch of 1099 contractors to cover up for his inability to effectively retain talent, and basically just shits the bed over every decision he has to make The first Vader comic from Marvel is set right after 4 and it's about Vader being called into the office and put on probation because he botched the big project and his job is on the line and then he murders his replacements with a laser sword
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Dr. Killjoy posted:does he have to murder the HR director too? I don't remember
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