The Sith let him live for the simple fact that he was annoying to their rivals. Never occured to them all that he annoyed literally everyone. Or maybe they did, the Sith are all sadistic and masochistic assholes.
I wonder what they see when they watch Star Wars. What do they think the Rebellion is fighting for? Who do they identify with? What parts do they think are cool and for what reasons?
It's a bit like conservative Star Trek fans. I'm not going to gatekeep, but I really wonder what they see in it.
Yeah I think it’s really easy to brush aside how big of a statement the very existence of Uhura was. This was the 1960s and a black woman is being portrayed in a position of leadership on a space ship and it’s not a thing in the canon. Her gender, race, and country of origin are irrelevant to the star fleet, she’s an expert of communication, and so the enterprise is glad to have her. Then you’ve got Sulu who is canonically an Asian American played by a Japanese American who had been interred during the world war not all that long ago.
In a time of political, racial, and gender unrest this series pointed to a future where those fights for equality and liberation not only were past and won, but so far so that it would be strange for any of the protagonists to imagine the other side. A world where anyone could become a starship captain like Kirk.
Next apartheid Clyde is gonna say he’s been a lifetime fan of the twilight zone…
Wow, that's some pretty weird language I'm not familiar with. But OK I'll agree to that. In fact I'm from Denmark, and I never knew it was a thing until the Internet became a thing. It always seemed perfectly natural to me that she was communications officer.
Yeah I’m a millennial so it was never weird to me either, but this was a show that Martin Luther King Jr was watching. It had the first ever interracial kiss on television. Race relations in America in the 1960s were really bad. I didn’t understand the significance until I learned about why they so consciously had a multiracial cast and why they specifically put women in roles of leadership.
He also said the movie Parasite was his favorite film. I think he's the kind of person that narrative and metaphor are lost on. Rather a vapid blank slate, that poorly regurgitates the last chalk image left on its edifice.
Either elon hasn't seen star trek at all and doesn't know what he's talking about, thinks its a sci-fi space show or just has a really ficked up twisted mind that twists the show into what he percives it to be
Star trek is meant to show Gene Rodenberry's version of a better humanity that is primarily set in space
Star wars is a space opera that includes exploring timeless issues, well atleast it was until disney took over and didn't get the point to that at all and just replaced it with something else entirely
Sociopaths don't really form their own opinions. They pretend to like whatever will ingratiate them with their target group of people. Elon wants to foster his techie pseudo-engineer image, so he picked a show that skews to that demographic.
That one's easy. It's a show about a bunch of people who are absolutely certain about the superiority of their own ideology, assembled into a military hierarchy that goes completely unquestioned and where everybody's happy to work without pay, traveling around the galaxy in a heavily-armed ship preaching that ideology to everyone they come across, who are nearly always portrayed as more primitive and limited than themselves.
The usual assumption is that the Federation's money-less economy is due to advanced technologies like warp drive and replicators, and that those technologies in the future are the result of capitalism in the present.
If I could choose a famous person to spend the afternoon with, he'd be way up near the top of my list. (I'm not sure who would be at the top, I'll let you know when I meet the genie.)
Speaking of The Genie, if Robin Williams were still alive, he would be at the top of my list. Not only did he have that fun personality, he seemed like a genuinely caring and empathetic person.
I've spent a couple hours with him and Kevin Eastman (co-creator of TMNT) sitting on a folding chair at San Diego Comic Con pre-2000s. Back then, Mark was heavily into promoting his Comics and refused to sign anything SW related. You learn quickly not to discuss anything SW with him actually and so long as you kept ln topics he enjoyed, he was easy to talk to. Comic books, sci-fi in general, D&D and even funny bits about his time on General Hospital were things I discussed with him.
Had a similar experience when I ran a table at a sci-fi con next to Richard Hatch. It had a really low turnout, so I kept him entertained the whole time. Really nice guy. Really into tabletop gaming.
OMG he was sooo into Warhammer for a while there in the 90s lmao. Probably listened to him talking about WH for 30 minutes alone haha. You're right , he was/is a very nice guy.
It's even worse and more on the nose. It's a First order Stormtrooper. Y'know, the remnants of the fascist empire that was attempting(and mostly successful, at first) to violently overthrow the New Republic and restore their fascist empire to the galaxy. Sound familiar?
I do beleive disney-wars was bad because of bad writing but also because they threw out the whole entire vision and point of star wars because they didn't understand it and replaced it with bad writing
The point of star wars was it being a space opera portraying timeless issues from what I recall and disney abandoned that
Shooting Nazis is good and making out with your sister. Also do not trust space wizards theyre all assholes, hang out with the space warriors who take in orphans.
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"The Force is strong in my family"
Proceeds to dress their child up as characters who represent the Nazis.
Well, her father is a Sith lord. Just an especially stupid one.
Darth Stupidus
Darth Competent (following the Sidious/Vader naming pattern.)
Took me a moment to get that, you must be Darth Telligent
I'm a bit lost, can you explain?
INsidious, INvader, INcompetent.
Darth Drumpf
He is no where near smart enough to handle a light saber
They let him have the plastic one at the Sith Academy. He was like their mascot.
They purposely trained him wrong, as a joke
The Sith let him live for the simple fact that he was annoying to their rivals. Never occured to them all that he annoyed literally everyone. Or maybe they did, the Sith are all sadistic and masochistic assholes.
damn today i learned the 501st is a bunch of nazi scumbags :/ that sucks to hear
Pretty sure the kids costume is a First Order Stormtrooper. The clone troopers are cool.
501st also do stormtrooper costumes i would assume
Welp now I'm reading Wookieepedia and assumed that they all were gone by the end of the Clone Wars because ::: spoiler Clone Wars TV show spoilers
They all died after the Siege of Mandalore on the ship that crashed after fighting Maul, Ahsoka, and Rex :::
but I guess some of the Stormtroopers in the OT were part of the 501st Legion, until the Battle of Endor. 🌈⭐ The more you know.
I wonder what they see when they watch Star Wars. What do they think the Rebellion is fighting for? Who do they identify with? What parts do they think are cool and for what reasons?
It's a bit like conservative Star Trek fans. I'm not going to gatekeep, but I really wonder what they see in it.
This is what went trough my mind when Elon Musk called star trek the best tv show.
I literally cant come up with a show that is more fundamentally woke.
Yeah I think it’s really easy to brush aside how big of a statement the very existence of Uhura was. This was the 1960s and a black woman is being portrayed in a position of leadership on a space ship and it’s not a thing in the canon. Her gender, race, and country of origin are irrelevant to the star fleet, she’s an expert of communication, and so the enterprise is glad to have her. Then you’ve got Sulu who is canonically an Asian American played by a Japanese American who had been interred during the world war not all that long ago.
In a time of political, racial, and gender unrest this series pointed to a future where those fights for equality and liberation not only were past and won, but so far so that it would be strange for any of the protagonists to imagine the other side. A world where anyone could become a starship captain like Kirk.
Next apartheid Clyde is gonna say he’s been a lifetime fan of the twilight zone…
Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura, would have left the show because she didn't see the importance. Martin Luther King convinced her of the importance of her role
How is Uhura not canon? The show defines canon by definition, by what other source do you define it?
Sorry, not a thing as in no big deal, not as in not present
Wow, that's some pretty weird language I'm not familiar with. But OK I'll agree to that. In fact I'm from Denmark, and I never knew it was a thing until the Internet became a thing. It always seemed perfectly natural to me that she was communications officer.
Yeah I’m a millennial so it was never weird to me either, but this was a show that Martin Luther King Jr was watching. It had the first ever interracial kiss on television. Race relations in America in the 1960s were really bad. I didn’t understand the significance until I learned about why they so consciously had a multiracial cast and why they specifically put women in roles of leadership.
I was also wondering that.
Apparently he means it's a presented as a non issue.
He also loves the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He doesn't realize he's most like Zaphod Beeblebrox or what that says about him.
I wish Douglas Adams was still alive to tell him where to get off.
He also said the movie Parasite was his favorite film. I think he's the kind of person that narrative and metaphor are lost on. Rather a vapid blank slate, that poorly regurgitates the last chalk image left on its edifice.
Either elon hasn't seen star trek at all and doesn't know what he's talking about, thinks its a sci-fi space show or just has a really ficked up twisted mind that twists the show into what he percives it to be
Star trek is meant to show Gene Rodenberry's version of a better humanity that is primarily set in space
Star wars is a space opera that includes exploring timeless issues, well atleast it was until disney took over and didn't get the point to that at all and just replaced it with something else entirely
Sociopaths don't really form their own opinions. They pretend to like whatever will ingratiate them with their target group of people. Elon wants to foster his techie pseudo-engineer image, so he picked a show that skews to that demographic.
That one's easy. It's a show about a bunch of people who are absolutely certain about the superiority of their own ideology, assembled into a military hierarchy that goes completely unquestioned and where everybody's happy to work without pay, traveling around the galaxy in a heavily-armed ship preaching that ideology to everyone they come across, who are nearly always portrayed as more primitive and limited than themselves.
I wonder how many of them saw the episode(s) where it explains why they're happy to work without pay lol
The usual assumption is that the Federation's money-less economy is due to advanced technologies like warp drive and replicators, and that those technologies in the future are the result of capitalism in the present.
But were they wrong?
Guns go pew pew, spaceships go zoom zoom.
"Rebels mean gobermint bad. Liberals are the Empire."
JFC....you're probably right.
They probably think the rebellion is them in their infinite stupidness
I mean, just look at the picture - the one kid is into Star Wars. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd never watched it themselves.
If you think that’s fun, try walking a “Wolverines!” shouting Red Dawn fan through who the “Soviets” are when the US invades Iraq.
Mark Hamill is a national treasure
If I could choose a famous person to spend the afternoon with, he'd be way up near the top of my list. (I'm not sure who would be at the top, I'll let you know when I meet the genie.)
Speaking of The Genie, if Robin Williams were still alive, he would be at the top of my list. Not only did he have that fun personality, he seemed like a genuinely caring and empathetic person.
Yes I would not trust a genie with ressurecting the dead
Robin williams was The Genie I was referring to.
I've spent a couple hours with him and Kevin Eastman (co-creator of TMNT) sitting on a folding chair at San Diego Comic Con pre-2000s. Back then, Mark was heavily into promoting his Comics and refused to sign anything SW related. You learn quickly not to discuss anything SW with him actually and so long as you kept ln topics he enjoyed, he was easy to talk to. Comic books, sci-fi in general, D&D and even funny bits about his time on General Hospital were things I discussed with him.
He's eclectic, that's my description of him.
Had a similar experience when I ran a table at a sci-fi con next to Richard Hatch. It had a really low turnout, so I kept him entertained the whole time. Really nice guy. Really into tabletop gaming.
OMG he was sooo into Warhammer for a while there in the 90s lmao. Probably listened to him talking about WH for 30 minutes alone haha. You're right , he was/is a very nice guy.
Was. He unfortunately passed away in 2017.
He liked me because I made him laugh. One time, someone came up and said, "You're uh... uh..." and I quickly said, "Dirk Benedict!" He liked that.
He's the crouton that they serve on a wedding reception salad, which are somehow soaked in offensively vinegar heavy dressing, yet are still too dry.
Also, since when are stormtroopers force sensitive? The post doesn’t even make sense.
It's even worse and more on the nose. It's a First order Stormtrooper. Y'know, the remnants of the fascist empire that was attempting(and mostly successful, at first) to violently overthrow the New Republic and restore their fascist empire to the galaxy. Sound familiar?
It's implied in the Sequels that Finn is force sensitive, but they were also shit, so 🤷
Yeah some likely were. Storm troopers by the time of the ot were taken from the population
I do beleive disney-wars was bad because of bad writing but also because they threw out the whole entire vision and point of star wars because they didn't understand it and replaced it with bad writing
The point of star wars was it being a space opera portraying timeless issues from what I recall and disney abandoned that
What timeless issues?
Good vs evil. Training yourself to be better. Trying to make it with your sister. Normal things everyone goes through.
For the humanoid condition, I would assume the most prevalent is bigotry.
Shooting Nazis is good and making out with your sister. Also do not trust space wizards theyre all assholes, hang out with the space warriors who take in orphans.
https://youtu.be/wRqVdcE5oyI?si=mLtMfzizEhisR32Z
It was mentioned somewhere in this interview if I recall correctly but I do not remember the time code
Kyle Katarn was a stormtrooper.
I thought he was an officer.
Isn't that kid a little short to be a storm trooper?
I wanna buy him a beer so badly right now.
The post: https://twitter.com/MarkHamill/status/1178394628464070656