The problem with that is, the Imperial team's lasers will always miss
"They would say, 'It's all white men,'" Lucas said of the films' critics. "Most of the people are aliens! The idea is you're supposed to accept people for what they are, whether they're big and furry or whether they're green or whatever. The idea is all people are equal."
Lucas went on to say that the only beings in the "Star Wars" universe who were discriminated against were the robots.
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Lucas also responded to criticism about the depiction of women in the "Star Wars" films, saying: "Who do you think the heroes are in these stories? What do you think Princess Leia was? She's the head of the rebellion. She's the one that's taking this young kid who doesn't know anything and this boisterous, I-know-everything guy who can't do anything and trying to save the rebellion with these clowns … And it's the same thing with Queen Amidala."
Lucas went on to say that the only beings in the "Star Wars" universe who were discriminated against were the robots.
Or so very much EU material on the same point, yes.Ok so broadly speaking I like his sentiment but:
I'm sorry but do we need to replay the bit where the imperials react to Chewie in ep4?
Like, I haven't been following in super detail, but a brand new era on screen without many blorbos to point to means that the story has to stand on its own, and it seems it has, so yeah, cautious positivity on my part.First reviews for the Acolyte are in, skimming social media it sounds like a lot of the early screening audience was turbofans (makes sense lol), but I've seen pretty positive reactions from some more legit critics so I'm cautiously optimistic.
Also Stackpole and Denning did not get that memo.Ok so broadly speaking I like his sentiment but:
I'm sorry but do we need to replay the bit where the imperials react to Chewie in ep4?
I mean 200-400 years is a whole different scale to 4k years. It's within living memory of several Jedi council members.Honestly I think one of the big things that's still giving me pause about the Acolyte (and really the High Republic stuff in general) is the aesthetic - it's meant to be hundreds of years before the PT, but from just a production and costume design standpoint it looks... basically identical to the PT-era? Like maybe the Jedi's robes are a little more layered but other than that it doesn't scream "A More Civilized Age".
I'm all for pumping up the fantasy part of the sci-fi fantasy equation and I know "it's not what I wanted so it sucks!" is less than worthless as a criticism, but I still long for the Edgar Rice Burrough's planetary romance vibe of the OG Tales of the Jedi comics. Give me battery powered lightsabers, Jedi Knights in actual factual shining armor, dark Sith magick, castles (possibly in space), the works.
Finally saw a clip of combat in The Acolyte and oh yes, this looks like my sort of thing. Though I feel like there are lots of little things in the way it's shot which will feel un-Star Wars to a lot of people (that brief bit of slow-mo for one), so we have that discourse to look forward to again.
Right so, I'm necessarily going to have to cover spoilers, so ye be warned - heavy intense spoilers ahead.Barriss', I ended up really enjoying the third episode, but the first two can go straight to hell. To the boiler room of hell. All the way down.
I think I will need to organise my thoughts on exactly why for a day or so.
i mean, in fairness, that just means treatment of common slaves are fairly similarI'm sorry but do we need to replay the bit where the imperials react to Chewie in ep4?
It's the same issue as with Trek, which shows a utopian future where all the human racisms have been resolved,
and even uses the 2 opposite "half-black-half-white-faces" factions who think that "our counterpart with the mirror-faces just happens to have an inherently different character in correlation with their mirror face colors" but in fact turn out to be wrong about this and just prejudiced,
but then there's still Klingons and Vulcans and Romulans and Nausicans etc. and all those others that do have different personalities and morals due to inherent differences with humans - and then sometimes they're used as direct stand-ins for specific non-American nations, like Klingons and Russians.
The "half black half white faces prejudice is unfounded, let's use that as an illustration of how inter-human prejudices are unjustified" approach wasn't consistently applied across the board here, with all the humanoid alien species.
If some would consider this to be an example of the show not being progressive enough or even (unconsciously?) doing some kinda racialism next to its anti-racialism, then maybe that's what this show and IP is like?
So it's like, same here with Wookiees, are they supposed to really be these inherently feral creatures as Han describes them (and Chewie is proud of), or are all these comments by Han, Leia and that prison room Imperial guy supposed to be "speciyism"?
Don't think there's clear answers for that here, so who knows whatever