you know almost every character in every Star Wars has a direct political analogue in real life and almost none of them would be popular on this website
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Elon could be an IG type droid, they fancy themselves assassins and bounty hunters but they're very awkward and don't seem very effective at hitting targets despite their destructiveness and overkill armament
Statement: Which is why you should never hire a cheap-produced assassin robot and instead look for a trained automaton also versed in protocol and etiquette.
Genre fiction love the idea of the heroic thief and lovable criminal. In real life such people are at best antisocial malcontents or just regular old dangerous psychopaths.
I'd disagree with the at best characterization, since those archetypes have actually existed IRL, but yeah there's a definite tendency for genre fiction to way overstate how many times/how often it actually occurs compared to antisocial malcontents/psychopaths/sociopaths.
People who really irrationally hate the Jedi Order and think they deserved everything that happened to them almost always align with people who irrationally hate the Democrats and think they deserved losing to Trump.
It's a widely accepted position in the SW fandom that the prequels are a story of how the Jedi were such worthless pieces of shit that they forced a guy to become a school shooter and nazi.
The text supports a synthesis, which is that the Jedi were vulnerable because of widespread systemic flaws and practices, but notably, all the victim-blaming has to be read in
Yeah, "it's their own fault that a guy who repeatedly lied to them and broke their rules went on to commit genocide against them" has never been my favourite take. Like people blame the Order's rules for causing Anakin to fall but notably, the people who follow the Jedi's rules don't fall.
90% of that is Karen Traviss’ fault. She injected her crypto-fash militarism fetish into all her Star Wars (and other) works and decided the Jedi deserved genocide, and that warped the fandom hard.
I was not surprised at all to learn she’s a Reform UK supporter.
Biggest mistake George made was the “no marriage for Jedi” rule and Anakin being a slave. I think 99% of the Jedi hate stems from that, because Anakin’s only choice being “slavery or a lifetime under a restrictive ideology” + being forced to leave his mother behind. Pretty bad look for the Jedi
Qui-Gon made the choice to take Anakin, leave his mother, and make the Jedi train him! All because Qui Gon decided he alone knew the will of the Force.
Qui-Gon repeatedly made cold-blooded choices in Episode 1, and that was one of the major ones.
Qui-Gon could have threatened Watto to free Shmi too after he'd gotten the parts he needed. As if the Hutts would give a crap Watto got robbed or know which Jedi had done it!
Instead he left Anakin's mother enslaved.
Qui-Gon wanted Anakin, he got Anakin, that's all that mattered to him.
Also everyone who makes it to adulthood and has any sort of interaction with kids is at the very least guilty of serial child neglect if not outright abuse
I’m looking at you, Din “Somehow the Most Abusively Evil Mercenary Dad this One Guy Has Played, Out of At Least Three” Djarin
Everyone in Andor is a tankie except for the ones who are MAGA cops, but again we know that (except for Mon Mothma, who… let’s just say would be getting extremely ironic comments on Space Bluesky)
she’s so useless, she doesn’t understand the gravity of the moment, they are LITERALLY building a Death Star and she’s talking about the COURTS? WHY DOESN’T SHE DO SOMETHING is anyone from Chandrila up for a primary? I know it’s a red district, but maybe if we caved on the traditional gender rituals
Btw I’m committed to also that Young Luke Skywalker is probably way too far left to be considered a sensible person
Like, he was ready to join a militant group and I just don’t believe he had the information that made that the right decision even though we know it is
He’s also canonically racist at least a bit (does not understand or particularly sympathize with the Tuskens, who are an oppressed ethnic minority) and just… doesn’t have any of the motivations that make Cassian et al sympathetic, and unlike Leia he’s not in the know about the Empire
One of the reasons I most hate Din getting Grogu back in S3 is that what made him sympathetic before is that he was doing his best for a kid who had no one else. Once he chooses to take Grogu from a perfectly good home, all the terrible decisions become squarely his fault.
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My favorite character has always been Lobot.
R2 - Mayor Pete
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Maximilian_Rebo
Nice example to set for the women in the audience.
I don’t mean “oh yeah Anakin is a young neoreactionary” etc, that guy’s been cancelled longer than anyone’s sympathized with him
I mean almost everyone is a fringe religious zealot or directly tied to drug cartels
I’ve seen more Jedi haters than anakin haters
The Jedi do tend to get blamed for every evil under the sun
I was not surprised at all to learn she’s a Reform UK supporter.
Qui-Gon made the choice to take Anakin, leave his mother, and make the Jedi train him! All because Qui Gon decided he alone knew the will of the Force.
Qui-Gon repeatedly made cold-blooded choices in Episode 1, and that was one of the major ones.
Instead he left Anakin's mother enslaved.
Qui-Gon wanted Anakin, he got Anakin, that's all that mattered to him.
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I’m looking at you, Din “Somehow the Most Abusively Evil Mercenary Dad this One Guy Has Played, Out of At Least Three” Djarin
Like, he was ready to join a militant group and I just don’t believe he had the information that made that the right decision even though we know it is