Oh no, I'm being converted...

Idk if it's a replacement so much as inevitable, complianct democracy leads to faccism, both in star wars and the real world. Ancient jedi teaching and flawed founding fathers constitution mean nothing when there is a tiered power structure. Without justice for the subjacted and endless wealth to the subjactor, there is an endless cycle of righteous rebellion kept in check by all of the resources of wealth, it's an endless boiling point.

The answer is raise the floor and lower the ceiling, drastically. But so long as money = power, those with wealth will did all they can to maintain hegemony. Even if that just invariably kicks the can down to a more explosive rebellion / boot to the neck. Democracy was never equipped to deal with class warfare, hell, you weren't even a person in revolution America if you didn't hold land.

Luke is the modern neoliberalism order trying to make incrimental change to a system that needs to be scrapped and restarted.

What execs? The Prequels are basically the highest budget indie film project ever. Lucas had total financial and creative control.

I did a rewatch of the prequels just to show a friend all the Darth Jar Jar evidence that never comes to fruition. We were robbed of a better experience.

Man, I really wish that all went somewhere.

I have a really hard time separating a character's decisions and the director/cinematographer decisions

Like, did Yoda do that or did someone decide he would do that because test audiences thought it looked cooler (or something like that). I hope I conveyed that properly

High acceleration has... undesirable effects, let's say, on a sack of meat and bones. "Space magic", sure, but I'd argue that in a high-stress situation like the middle of a fight it'd be a lot less risky to move the pillar. If you fuck up calculating how much force (lol) to use, you might end up with Obi-Was instead.

I don't remember the scene exactly. But it might be that the pillar was falling fast enough that he couldn't move them (or it would be risky). Moving the pillar was way safer.

As ive grown older i find myself disagreeing more and more with the jedi whom as a child i idolised as paragons of good. But palpatine, vader, and the empire are so many things before being "poor good revolutionaries" trying to take down the status quo simply from the good of their golden hearts. Theres always more than 2 choices people :)

But tbh I think that if we take the original trilogy, the Rebels are cleary fighting a reactionary imperialist power, ie. an analogy to the Vietnam war

Lucas was very explicit that this was always the intent. It's not reallt subtle honestly, asymmetric jungle freedom fighters fighting wealthy imperialist?

I don't want more crazy political views

Agreed but I did sometimes wonder what the ideal galaxy would look like to the rebels? Obviously it's a fictional world, and they wouldn't all hypothetically agree anyway, but would it be regressive or progressive?

Disclaimer: I don't know a lot about Star wars

Man that guy has done a lot of cocaine in his life.

What this meme is pointing out though is that they didn't just use lies to overthrow the existing power structure, they also used truths.

He's more of a Gray Jedi

Yoda's husband Paul was investigated for insider trading because of some extremely well timed trades just prior to battles with the empire.

This is a big reason why I personally like episodes 1-3 more than 4-6. It's just more interesting because neither side is 100% good or 100% bad, and there's a couple times where you're like "wait, the bad guy actually has a point", or "are the good guys really doing the right thing here?". That sort of conflict makes for much better storytelling and more interesting characters, especially when compared to the run-of-the-mill hero's journey story and characters in 4-6.

There's a really good moment in "The Solitary Clone" in the Bad Batch where Cody and his squad reassure a separatist child that they're here to help before the child's mother pulls him inside and shuts the door. To me it really illustrates how to the average separatist the republic was always a kind of oppressive empire.

I am just coming from a thread discussing voting for Biden or not is okay under the current circumstances. Reality meets fiction.

I mean, it has worked historically, just extremely rarely. Singapore was one such recent example.

The issue is that people die and the next person usually fucks everything up again.

Anarchy has similar issues.

The real problem is just us; humans.

Wasn't a big part of the Jedis' problem their standoffishness?

Far from wielding power, they played at peacemaker and diplomat long after open war had erupted, resorted to questionably sourced mercenaries to do their dirty work, and relied enormously on prophecy to save them without properly understanding what it implied.

"Too Little, Too Late" might as well have been the motto of the late Jedi Order.

The power structure is the problem.

The lack of structure was a recurring problem for The Old Republic and the Jedi Order. The Trade Federation's greed went unchecked early on, because the Jedi-as-space-cops presented no material threat. The Senate routinely dithered in the face of adversity, as it was easily subverted by staling tactics and backstabbing. No standing military meant a reliance on an assortment of killer robots, mercenaries, clones, and bureaucrats-turned-shock-troops, none of whom proved to be particularly reliable.

Far from "power corrupts" as the theme of the Prequels, I might argue the real moral was "power abhors a vacuum". If you're not willing to occupy the center of political gravity, someone else will.

It's also one of the main ideas behind the American constitution but we try to regulate power with checks and balances but because it's kinda hard to understand having multiple leaders that rule over different parts of the government and make sure no one gets corrupt people over time seem to have only given a shit about who is in charge of the military and now we have presidents that can effect normal citizens by enacting laws and are unanimously considered our leader

There are a some type of wines that you can enjoy on ice during summer in France. So nothing too alarming here. But don't do that with a Pomerol or I'll chop your head myself.

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Could be sangria.

Lucas had an uninituative meaning of “balance”. It wasn’t light and dark being equal, but dark side users being eliminated.

A better word would have been “tranquility”. If the force is naturally a calm lake, then dark side users are making waves I suppose is a clearer analogy.

And that's exactly what happened. Jedi tried to eliminate the Sith, the balance was lost, the Sith created the Choose One to bring back balance to the force, a whole lot of death and destruction ensued, and balance was restored.

Tried googling some key phrases and just came across a comment about it being from the Clone Wars novelization. I'm not sure which book that would be though.

I think not. I've never hear of the Satanic Temple rolling into a Sunday School and slaughtering all the children.

People trashed Last Jedi for everything but that. That was the one highlight and people were upset it wasn't followed up on in Rise of Skywalker.