This is so fucking embarrassing. I’m just waiting here for people to finally open their eyes and see this war for what it is, but with beloved actors like Hamill committing to this shit as hard as they can I feel it’s almost futile to have hope. But I’m still trudging on.
Like father, like son? Dammit Luke
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He has been cringe for a long time. He doesn’t even like the best version of his own character.
I have to ask since Luke wasn’t in KOTOR games, how do you mean?
The Last Jedi is the best Luke on screen but dude hated how the character was written because he assumes Luke is as static and bland of a person as he is.
Luke was honestly one of the best characters in expanded universe books. He was constantly nagging everyone else they should do boring jedi things, which usually put them in opposite mood and on ballistic trajectory to collide with some exciting adventure, while himself without much commentary doing usually even more outrageous stuff.
Like an old kung fu boss.
Movies Luke was boring as hell though. At least better than his absolutely cringy (in jedi version) pops.
A college roommate of mine was a massive Star Wars fan, and he said he thought of the movies as basically a gateway to the expanded universe. I was never into as much as he was, but I read (at his urging) a few of the books and basically agreed with him.
Happy cake day, by the way.
Any recommendations? I’m looking to expand my brain massaging space fantasy palette
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Everything by Timothy Zahn (including new Chaos trilogy about Thrawn, its valid in both old and new canon),
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Everything by Drew Karpyshyn
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Everything by James Luceno, especially “Darth Plagueis” book, reveals a lot of important points.
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Everything by Karen Traviss, but only if you do not hate Mandalorians, she basically singlehandedly created all lore for them
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Lando trilogy by L. Neil Smith if you favour some old school adventuring
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X-wing cycle by Stackpole and Allston
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Yuuzhan Vong cycle (19 books!) by various authors, some cringe warning and obligatory hate for the Salvatore fucker.
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After YV cycle there is the dark hive trilogy. Ugh. Imo worst SW books ever but unfortunately had some major character development for the future (in a very bad way). Better just read that shit in the wiki or something.
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Legacy cycle (9 books)
And finally at 43 ABY, Destiny cycle, not very good, but basically the finale of Expanded Universe.
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Yeah, with the caveat that a lot of particular books are trash. Overall it’s not bad though.
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They already ruined Lord of the Rings, they probably figured it was about time to ruin Star Wars.
they probably figured it was about time to ruin Star Wars
They did that a while ago lol
For me, this is peak Star Wars:
Amidala was the face of peak colonizer regime: completely sanitized (implied high hostility) relations with gungans (i bet it’s slavery as usual), ruling aristocratic regime, clean pretty “golden age” propaganda, Dalai Lama vibes, Roman von Unger-Sternberg looming in the background, sending native foederati to fight their wars, getting incredibly butthurt by few weeks of something Cuba and DPRK had to endure for 60/70 years, all the fake peace diplomacy which usually resulted in a republican coup or invasion wherever she went in the clone war, ignoring her boyfriend doing genocide and not to mention the sexual tension between 14 yo girl and 10 yo boy dammit George that was entirely unnecessary.
Which genocide Anakin did before 66 and she ignored?
Murdered entire Tusken village.
The one that killed his mom?
Yes, they probably kidnapped her for ransom or something but it clearly didn’t went as planned.
Who was Roman Von Unger-Sternberg?
An Baltic-German aristocrat serving as officer in Russian Empire army. After October Revolution he became infamous as one of the most brutal whiteguard commanders who by his actions in Mongolia and nearby earned monikers like “Bloody Baron” or “Mad Baron”.
Of course he’s now popular among anticommunists, getting increasing amounts of fanfiction.
Saved for future reference. Excellent breakdown
Elaborating about the Ungern-Sternberg part because it’s seriously peculiar: i read multiple time how libs especially want to point out and brag about Amidala wacky headdress choice, that it is based on the last queen of Mongolia, a wife of Bogd Khan, and the Bogd Khan regime was propped up by the Bloody Baron Roman himself.
And while the actual choice by movie crew might be based solely on striking aesthetics, but the lib journos waste no opportunity to bash the commies, especially that anticommunism is weird in SW universe, where there is no communism.
Therefore the face of Naboo govt is this one:
especially that anticommunism is weird in SW universe, where there is no communism.
Doesn’t it push individualism as the go-to ideology, as most western fiction does?
Yes, the center-left radical liberalism. With the real neoliberalism clearly visible behind it, some materials even straight point that out, unfortunately the conclusion is always “we need to fix the system by putting good people there” and “more liberalism”.
I believe in legends there was a prospering collectivist planet, later destroyed by yuuzhan-vongs
Ithor i think? Highly democratic and collectivist environmentalists though they also had at least one huge monopolistic corporation and held a republic near monopoly for advanced terraforming techniques and were the best experts in nature reclamation techniques.
So what if (to expand on that)… the Jedi leadership knew that Anakin, as a former slave and son of the people, was destined to lead the Jedi back to their real roots in some sort of mass anti-imperialist movement (think religion + anti-imperialism + planned economy, sort of like modern Iran). To keep that from happening, they got him involved with Amidala, who in addition to being a borderline predator like most libs, also preached “democracy” to him night and day. Amidala then, for her own political ends, maneuvered Anakin into a close relationship with her protege Palpatine, whom she had gotten elected chancellor. Of course Palpatine had his own agenda, and when the time was right, he got rid of both Padme and the Jedi, and installed a fascist government. Of course Padme, being a lib, had the nerve to act surprised and shocked at the situation she had helped create – “what’s this? Fascism again? Why does this keep happening? Oh the horror!” – and couldn’t understand why Anakin suddenly had it out for her. (In “Anakin, all I want is your love” we see the willingness of liberals to cozy up to “former” Nazis and other genocidal maniacs).
… And I just tried to make some kind of logical sense of the prequels. Man, that hurt my brain.
Lmao, you might be on something here.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an original or controversial opinion from Mark. The guy is the most boring, bland lib celeb I know of. If libs decided kicking puppies to death was the next cool thing, Mark would be one of the first celebs to post a vid of himself kicking a bag of puppies for clout.
Please don’t tell libs about the existence of Russian Wolfhounds (aka borzois aka pointy bois)
