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I'm just gonna talk about superheroes, fantasy, and anime on here.
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Lol, I just googled Lorne Michaels and I realized I got his name wrong. But honestly it's his fault for having such a dumb name.
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Sufficed to say, SNL has grown out of touch and smug, and that's not funny.
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As George Carlson put it, comedy only lands when you punch up. But as a status quo neoliberal show, SNL won't punch up unless it's at the Republican party exclusively and it will go out of its way to punch down at the younger more progressive generations.
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Because despite Lorn Michaelson's protestations, SNL does exhibit an obvious and strong affinity for one particular political bloc and that's Neoliberalism. In other words, SNL as a political commentator favors the status quo which is a dead zone for comedy.
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Maybe it could be a short story. Would be fun to write in the meantime.
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The only caveat that I have for this stuff is that I will not write or allude to r**e. When sexy stuff happens in my book, it will be explicitly consensual.
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I'm currently working on a novel set in an Iron-ish Age world with heavy inspiration taken from Frank Frazetta's dark fantasy art. And I have every intention of being as explicitly and unapologetically raunchy with it.
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The only promise I'll make is that I'll try to be even handed with my lechery. Masculine, feminine, and androgynous folks alike. Asses, pussies, bulges to the north and south of the waistline, everything will be fair game. Equal and equitable ogling!
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I'll die on this hill istg!
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Now compare with his current threads. Boring. Bland. It's giving DeviantArt OC. The most interesting thing in these pictures are the backgrounds. Major L.
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It's hard to tell how much of the original trilogy is a representation of Lucas's politics of the time and how much is just the result of all the other creative voices warping his original vision, but it's fun to note how Star Wars evolved from a bad counterwave to Dune into a companion to it.
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Side note: sequel content has also expanded on the corruption and plutocracy of the New Republic.
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And the exploration of the original Galactic Republic's corruption and its direct continuity with the Empire is also a stark departure from the original trilogy's implicit premise that republicanism is a workable solution to the imperialism.
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And while this particular critique of Religious institutions doesn't exactly mirror that of the Bene Gesserit in Dune, it is still far more ideologically aligned than before.
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Suddenly, the Jedi go from being fabled heroes from "a more civilized time" to being an arrogant and ineffectual organization of rigid dogmatists who's incompetence blatantly enabled both the Republic's corruption as well as Palpatine's rise to power and the formation of the Empire.
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But things get even more interesting once you add the prequels into the mix. Because as much as much as the original trilogy reads like a reactionary response to Dune, all of Lucas's later work in the franchise reads like an opposing rebuttal to all of his previous premises.
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Which is ironic because if you were to ask Lucas, I think "conservative" or "right wing" would be the absolute last words he would describe himself with.
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But to what I was saying, Star Wars is in this juxtaposition the conservative right wing counterpoint to Dune's radically progressive revolutionary position.
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It's almost like George Lucas read Dune and wrote the original trilogy as a direct response the same way philosophers will publish the academic equivalents to diss tracks when they beef with each other. It's honestly really funny to think about it in those terms.
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Alternatively, Star Wars took all of its aesthetic motifs of Dune only to double down on the traditional Hero's Journey narrative and the glorification of Religion. The way that Star Wars actually explicitly contradicts the themes of Dune is hilariously uncanny.
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As a political commentary, Dune heavily criticized the institution of Religion and the pandemic of personality cultism in society as well as the inherent Great Man propaganda of heroism in narrative media.
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I don't remember what perspective my mutual was trying to argue as they were a general contrarian who contested opinions and assertions seemingly for no other reason than to start arguments, but I just thought I'd share my side of that interaction here today. It seems… poignant.