• wanderwisley@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    12 hours ago

    At least the evil empire employed people to eventually build the Death Star. I don’t think the American evil empire will employ anybody to build their Death Star.

    • Snowstorm@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      And I always wondered how was the debt structured to build the death star almost twice!

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    6·
    13 hours ago

    I’m sure that would never happen in real life.

    As a matter of fact I have been living in a cave since 1997, why do you ask?

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
    50·
    24 hours ago

    That movie gives us some insight into the solution:

    Slice the problem in two, and throw it in a hole.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    24 hours ago

    I mean if you ever thought the Darth Jar Jar theory sounded unrealistic, just look at Trump. If you can play a convincing enough dumbass, entire nations will repeatedly dismiss the evil you’re committing as blundering from one ‘mistake’ to the next that just so happen to consistently and ravenously destroy democratic processes while strengthening the same handful of evil dictators again and again.

    …also it’s written into the music, which isn’t something that just pops in as a continuity error, so THAT SHIT’S REAL, PEOPLE!

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    44·
    1 day ago

    Just send an envoy with a Jedi and his padawan. We knows how this plays out, we just have to make sure we rescue both the slave and his mother this time.

  • nectar45@lemmy.zip
    29·
    1 day ago

    And people said that phantom menace talking about trade disputes and tax increases was boring.

    Not so boring in real life is it?!

    • mmddmm@lemm.ee
      8·
      1 day ago

      I keep having to point it, because it’s not obvious nor easy to notice: the prequels story is really, really good.

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Nah, the high level themes are alright but the execution is pretty dogshit. I think the Clone Wars cartoon from Filoni does a much better job exploring the themes of societal decay while also being a generally more competently made piece of media. Just… skip all the Jar Jar episodes.

      • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
        8·
        21 hours ago

        Ehh. The broad strokes had the potential to be interesting, but the presentation and details are awful. Actually watching the prequels is such a chore, with 75% of the time spent thinking “why,” 24% “ooh pretty” (though a lot of the CGI hasn’t aged well), and maybe 1% is an actual “hmm yes interesting.”

        Palpatine and populism had a chance to be interesting, but it’s mostly done completely off screen, with lots of assumptions needing to be made by a viewer who needs to already have an understanding that this is the future Emperor. The closest we ever get to seeing the true corruption of the Senate is Palpatine’s speech denouncing the Jedi, and even that winds up being carried hard solely by Palpatine’s actor.

        They completely ignore the moral, logistical, and spiritual questions raised by usage of a clone army. Coverage in EU and Disney doesn’t count in a discussion of the prequels, but even there it’s rarely explored. You’d think the whole point of clones vs robots would be to raise interesting questions by way of contrasting the two, but no, it’s just so you don’t have to feel bad watching the armies blow each other up.

        Anakin and Padme. Good God.

        There’s so much more but honestly I don’t want to write more of an essay. Apologies for the YouTube link, but this is a video I really like about what made the Jedi so special in the originals. I think most of the problems in the prequels parallel their mishandling of the Jedi–a superficial understanding that Thing Is Cool, but then missing the point thanks to a formulaic, blunt, needs-to-be-marketable approach to making the movies.

        I dunno, they’re more bearable than the sequels. I can even enjoy watching them; I grew up on them and can put on the nostalgia goggles to get through them, but under any examination they completely fall apart.