*EDIT*I am surprised to find no super heroes currently supering in New York. Damn you humanity!I blame Obama's deficient handling of the recession.
Hmm al this just a a couple of weeks after arresting an innocent princess on the subway system. (http://improveverywhere.com/2010/07/14/star-wars-subway-car/)
The imperial senate will not stand for this.
That's impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?
Even the Empire had casual fridays. They weren't monsters you know.How bad was imperial rule, anyway? Some of those planets were akin to slavery, which may have been abolished with a universal order.
See, I never saw anything that bad about The Empire. Sure, Vader and Sidious were evil on a personal level, but the only imperial-sponsored atrocity was using the Death Star on innocent planets. That's pretty big on the evil scale, but it was a single act.Even the Empire had casual fridays. They weren't monsters you know.How bad was imperial rule, anyway? Some of those planets were akin to slavery, which may have been abolished with a universal order.
Even the Empire had casual fridays. They weren't monsters you know.How bad was imperial rule, anyway? Some of those planets were akin to slavery, which may have been abolished with a universal order.
Even the Empire had casual fridays. They weren't monsters you know.How bad was imperial rule, anyway? Some of those planets were akin to slavery, which may have been abolished with a universal order.
The Empire got such a bad rap. Tht little bitch let her criminal scum lackeys set the galaxy aflame just so she could have her crown back. (http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/248ipzbt.asp?pg=1)
Okay, so if the Senate is the UN and the Trade Federation is OPEC... that must mean that Geonosis is Iraq, Dooku is Bin Laden, and Mace Windu is Barack Obama.
The Empire is also strongly inspired by the Third Reich, and they do things like opress minority groups (the aliens), take slaves, and take from the poor.
The Empire is also strongly inspired by the Third Reich, and they do things like opress minority groups (the aliens), take slaves, and take from the poor.Maybe one problem is it's not really scaled up well to galactic proportions, what was history changing atrocities on a single planet becomes inefficiencies in the margin in the margin for galactic scales.
See, whilst it feels really odds to say this, I agree. I've never seen galaxy wide oppression in Star Wars (cept Alderan), just a few really bad eggs and them treating their planets badly.The Empire is also strongly inspired by the Third Reich, and they do things like opress minority groups (the aliens), take slaves, and take from the poor.Maybe one problem is it's not really scaled up well to galactic proportions, what was history changing atrocities on a single planet becomes inefficiencies in the margin in the margin for galactic scales.
Wookies are slaves, if that helps.
Also, something not being done by George Lucas isn't always a bad thing. Gene Roddenberry was pushed out of Wrath of Khan and hated the movie, and yet, it is generally agreed upon that Star Trek: The Motion Picture did not exist, and Wrath of Khan was the first Star Trek film.
I always thought it was pretty obvious that the moral of the story was that the dark and the light side need to be in balance.
You know, Yin and Yang or that one Tarot card with the wheel of fortune. (That one. (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DeutwC_pLZ0/SwI8ph-JfHI/AAAAAAAADL8/lBfBw1GdxpY/s1600/RWS_Tarot_10_Wheel_of_Fortune.jpg)) There are two forces pulling on that wheel, that snake and that reddish thing. One force represents life and the other one death, or something like that. Creation and destruction. The sphinx supposedly represents the mystery of life or something, and should the main forces ever get out of balance, the sphinx would fall. Side doesn't pay like it used to.
Obi-Wan is a lying dickwadHe's actually quite honest, from a certain point of view. :P
Yes, just like there is nothing wrong with kidnapping gifted children and conscripting lobotomized clones, from a certain point of view. However, this point of view is unrepentent fanatical evil.Obi-Wan is a lying dickwadHe's actually quite honest, from a certain point of view. :P
There are lots of slaves in the movies. The oppression is similar, the power is similar, etc.The Empire is also strongly inspired by the Third Reich, and they do things like opress minority groups (the aliens), take slaves, and take from the poor.
You mean in the movies? I've only ever watched the movies and I never saw anything like that and the Expanded Universe is waaaay to damn complicated and not really made by George.
There are lots of slaves in the movies. The oppression is similar, the power is similar, etc.The Empire is also strongly inspired by the Third Reich, and they do things like opress minority groups (the aliens), take slaves, and take from the poor.
You mean in the movies? I've only ever watched the movies and I never saw anything like that and the Expanded Universe is waaaay to damn complicated and not really made by George.
If you watch Vader walk it looks just like Hitler. Hell, stormtroopers was the name of a Nazi organization, the SA.
The stormtrooper rifle is based on a Sterling Arms Mk4/L2A3 sub-machine gun – which were used by the British following World War II. I suppose that means the Empire are the British? They also have British accents. Damn those Galactic Imperial British Nazi Jews!
What I was saying was that I didn't see the Empire oppress minorities, steal money or take slaves in the movies.
Yeah. Alderaan is as Crystal Spires European as it gets.
I still maintain the "minority oppression" is something Lucas ass-pulled after he noticed it would make sense. Or that their budget wasn't high enough for alien costumes that could withstand the action scenes.
Welcome to 1977 Grakelin, glade you could make it. Just wait for 2002, the social commentary will blow your mind.
Now now, that's all from RoTJ.
Need to find something from A New Hope and Empire too.
Where have you been for the last three years?Presumably in 1975, 76 and 77.
The Wookies are slaves definitely comes from the Holiday Special, which is totally canon, even though it never happened.There are lots of slaves in the movies. The oppression is similar, the power is similar, etc.The Empire is also strongly inspired by the Third Reich, and they do things like opress minority groups (the aliens), take slaves, and take from the poor.
You mean in the movies? I've only ever watched the movies and I never saw anything like that and the Expanded Universe is waaaay to damn complicated and not really made by George.
If you watch Vader walk it looks just like Hitler. Hell, stormtroopers was the name of a Nazi organization, the SA.
The only slaves in the movies are in the prequels. And on a planet outside the Republic.
There are no slaves in the original movies; Chewbacca's origin story comes solely from the Expanded Universe, and the "minority/female oppression" was a Shrug of God from Lucas after fans noticed that there were no aliens or women in imperial forces. Note that there are almost no aliens or women in rebel forces, actually, besides Nien Nunb (who is a smuggler), Chewbacca (who is also a smuggler) and Admiral Ackbar (who is a goddamn squid or fish or whatever twisted into humanoid form).
At any rate, ask Lucas today and he'll say that the lack of women or aliens was intentional; most likely he pulled it out of his ass the same way he did the "Luke and Leia are siblings" plot tweest.
There is a trend forming. Man robs a convenience store while wearing a (cheap) Darth Vader mask. (http://www.freep.com/article/20100915/NEWS03/100915062/1320/Ferndale-police-seek-Darth-Vader-bandit) However, this time it's clearly an impostor. While Vader's helmet does make an excellent disguise, especially the ones with those voice-box things, it helps if you don't walk into the store with your face exposed, and then put on your "disguise" right in front of a camera.Cops would shoot you if you were armed with a gun.
Also, he robbed the place with a butcher knife, what the Hell.
Was the guy reaching for the police officer's gun? That'd probably be grounds for using it.Not really no. Should have used their geass.