God damn. I love Star Wars, but why is Star Wars almost a documentary these days? Between this, Obi-Wan’s speech about the fall of the temple, and the events of Attack of the Clones…we just don’t have spaceships.
The political things that happen in Star Wars have happened in our real life history, often more than once. It’s not that Star Wars is starting to sound like a documentary, it’s just that we’re repeating the same stupid, short sighted, errors that those movies took inspiration from.
The fact that even the vast, legendary popularity of Star Wars hasn’t helped in that regard kind of makes me question the ability of fiction to make an impact in society’s way of thinking, sad as that is to consider
Watching the prequels in the current year made me appreciate just a little bit how… so forward thinking they were. Emperor Palatine didn’t become an emperor overnights, you see, he was made into a Chancellor democratically and then he just… played chess against himself to eventually become Emperor.
Granted the modern breed of fash spreading all over the world aren’t that horrifically smart, but it’s true.
As far as I know, yes. I don’t know the exact political events that happened in Germany at the time, but it’s not lost on me that the title Palpatine got out of the no confidence vote was Chancellor. It pretty much is WW2 in space except the only thing against the Space Axis are a bunch of rebels who have to keep relocating bases.
God damn. I love Star Wars, but why is Star Wars almost a documentary these days? Between this, Obi-Wan’s speech about the fall of the temple, and the events of Attack of the Clones…we just don’t have spaceships.
The political things that happen in Star Wars have happened in our real life history, often more than once. It’s not that Star Wars is starting to sound like a documentary, it’s just that we’re repeating the same stupid, short sighted, errors that those movies took inspiration from.
The fact that even the vast, legendary popularity of Star Wars hasn’t helped in that regard kind of makes me question the ability of fiction to make an impact in society’s way of thinking, sad as that is to consider
Watching the prequels in the current year made me appreciate just a little bit how… so forward thinking they were. Emperor Palatine didn’t become an emperor overnights, you see, he was made into a Chancellor democratically and then he just… played chess against himself to eventually become Emperor.
Granted the modern breed of fash spreading all over the world aren’t that horrifically smart, but it’s true.
This is how liberty dies!
Isn’t Palpatine just a re-telling of Hitler’s rise to power.
Also storm trooper are just stormtroopers and most of the rest of it is WW2 in space.
I thought I’d heard it (at least the original) was based on the Vietnam war, with the US inspiring the empire.
But Palpatine doesn’t really feature until far later, so it may well be a mix.
Edit: https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-vietnam-war-inspiration-explainer/ is a start.
As far as I know, yes. I don’t know the exact political events that happened in Germany at the time, but it’s not lost on me that the title Palpatine got out of the no confidence vote was Chancellor. It pretty much is WW2 in space except the only thing against the Space Axis are a bunch of rebels who have to keep relocating bases.