Star Wars is merely the Catholic faith rehashed mixed with Buddhism. Darth Vader being forgiven like Paul/Saul of the bible then the trinity of the Anikan/Obi Wan/ Yoda at the end of the third original.

(January 17, 2016 at 1:52 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:

(January 17, 2016 at 1:20 am)Tiberius Wrote: Fixed that for you.

I was working in order of canon not release.

I was working in order of actual Star Wars movies, of which there are 3 (or 4, if you want to count the recent sequel).

The prequels do not even deserve to be called Star Wars movies.

(January 17, 2016 at 1:33 pm)Tiberius Wrote:

(January 17, 2016 at 1:52 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I was working in order of canon not release.

I was working in order of actual Star Wars movies, of which there are 3 (or 4, if you want to count the recent sequel).

The prequels do not even deserve to be called Star Wars movies.

I agree, the new ones suck, the only ones deserving of being called "Star Wars" were the first original 3.

(January 17, 2016 at 12:30 pm)Cato Wrote:

(January 17, 2016 at 2:47 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: When has any republic on Earth ever had a monarchy?  

Because there's an unwritten universal law which states that fictional events in a galaxy far, far away must adhere to a tried political system on our cosmic piece of dust.

The law appearently doesn't even apply here. See democratic people's Republic of Korea, ruled by three generation of Royal kims, nor the Roman republic, whose last 400 years were ruled by a secession of monarchs, some hereditary, some not.

One point from the OP. Leia didn't yell for help, they were all in on the attempted rescue of Han except Luke. Lando had already infiltrated the Hutt House.

(January 17, 2016 at 3:19 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:

(January 17, 2016 at 2:47 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The Star Wars movies are f'ed up.  When has any republic on Earth ever had a monarchy?  It seems like Lucas missed out on civic classes.  The Republic characters were insurrectionists and terrorists. The Jedi are evil guys, like ISIS. The movies are perfect examples of brainwashing, where you cheer for the bad guys (the Jedi) and condemn the good guys who want to restore law and tranquility to the galaxy (the empire, which only has one royal member, the emperor).

Or you know, it could be just modeled after the American revolution. Bare in mind the people you called good guys murder several billion just to make a point.

War winning is as much about making an impressive points as about degrading the enemy's ability to resist. Hence Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

(January 17, 2016 at 3:38 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:

(January 17, 2016 at 3:19 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Or you know, it could be just modeled after the American revolution. Bare in mind the people you called good guys murder several billion just to make a point.

When you consider the scale of the galaxy and all of the inhabited worlds if you could stop an insurrection by destroying one planet wouldn't you do it?  Did the empire have unlimited resources to occupy hundreds of millions of planets?  How many life forms would die in a protracted galactic war?

You realize you are talking about a movie, right?

(January 17, 2016 at 4:35 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(January 17, 2016 at 3:38 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: When you consider the scale of the galaxy and all of the inhabited worlds if you could stop an insurrection by destroying one planet wouldn't you do it?  Did the empire have unlimited resources to occupy hundreds of millions of planets?  How many life forms would die in a protracted galactic war?

You realize you are talking about a movie, right?

Actually we're discussing current events.  The question is always how long should you engage in a blood and money draining war if you have the means to end it in five minutes?

(January 17, 2016 at 3:19 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(January 17, 2016 at 12:30 pm)Cato Wrote: Because there's an unwritten universal law which states that fictional events in a galaxy far, far away must adhere to a tried political system on our cosmic piece of dust.

The law appearently doesn't even apply here.  See democratic people's Republic of Korea, ruled by three generation of Royal kims, nor the Roman republic, whose last 400 years were ruled by a secession of monarchs, some hereditary, some not.

Learn history before commenting on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic
"The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana; Classical Latin: [ˈreːs ˈpuːb.lɪ.ka roːˈmaː.na]) was the period of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire."

(January 17, 2016 at 4:07 am)Evie Wrote: WOG, I wonder when you'll get an avatar..? 3000+ posts no avatar?

He's a rebel