AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
TRON emerges from the virtual reality world into the real world. Looks cool!
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TRON emerges from the virtual reality world into the real world. Looks cool!
Meh, i don't think it'll top the last one; so why bother seeing it? I also think the 'virtual/fictional world/characters merging with/coming to the real world' concept is overdone and not as cool as they think.
Equation
Lieutenant General
I see the future of China and what the CPC could do. And of course the west MSM will say "at what cost?"
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
If anyone hasn't heard Star Wars in Andor Season 2 will have its first controversial rape it looks like. I have no problem with R-Rated material but even though I liked Andor Season 1, it wasn't really "Star Wars". Star Wars is about the Jedi vs the Sith and the Force. Andor season 1 had nothing to do with that. They tried to make it politically as in a realistic world as possible of what would happen at a civilian level on how a rebellion would start and that's where a rape could happen. A rape though seems oddly out of place in Star Wars especially since it doesn't involve any Jedi or Sith.
Equation
Lieutenant General
I'm still working on Andor Season 1. I like the gritty and harsh environment of Andor.
f you think Star Wars is only about Jedi or Sith, your mindset is very narrow and closed. The best Star Wars TV series have not been about Jedis like the Mandalorians and Andor just like Rogue One was one of the best Star Wars movies.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Well, you thought that Space Sweepers was good too.
The fall of the Republic was modeled off the fall of the Roman Republic, or Napoleon taking power. George Lucas said so himself.
We see how both the late stage capitalism oligarchical corruption of the Old Republic and the fascist Empire both failed the less developed worlds of the Rim (or one might call them the Galactic South). In both cases these governments seemed purely interested in maintaining the wealth and living standards of the developed Core worlds, at the expense of extracting wealth from the Rim and keeping the people of the Rim in a subsistence existence or as de facto slaves to either corporate interests or crime cartels. Neither government took any interest in actually developing and uplifting the Rim, and ultimately the forces that overthrew both governments originated from the Rim and/or were based there.
Discounting any metaphysical Dark Side Force reasons, Emperor Palpatine could have won and maintained support for his Empire if he had just been a little less moustache twirling villain. He had been head of the Republic and victor of the Clone Wars (even if he had orchestrated it behind the scenes), and controlled a vast bloated military at the dawn of the Empire. He could have turned that military against the Hutt criminal cartels under the usual Imperial slogan of peace and security. Destroy the cartels, distribute the wealth from these criminal organizations towards uplifting the Rim and Palpatine and his Empire would have been wildly popular. Using that popularity and perhaps offering the fig leaf of greater representation of Rim worlds within the increasingly powerless Imperial Senate, he could have then leaned on the aristocratic wealthy interests from Core worlds in order to create a more equitable distribution of wealth (since the one shot distribution of gains from breaking the Hutt cartels wouldn't last forever). Though he would have angered these interests, he did so in the original timeline already with the loss of their traditional graft and grift privileges in the Senate, so he might as well have gone the whole way but gained the support of the masses. Palpatine would have ended up as an autocratic socialist populist Emperor backed by a powerful military, and there would have been no significant Rebellion.
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