Anakins mom died in bandage to kidnappers. She was sold to the man she married later. She was free technically by time she reunites with anakin. Correct me if I'm wrong this is just from memory.
I knew something was very wrong with the "sequel trilogy" when I detected a Mary Sue "doing Luke Skywalker" again. But, instead of a Hero's Journey, we got an "I-am-an-unbeatable/all-knowing-female" strut. I got halfway through the "Empire Strikes Back" reflux before I turned away from "disney star wars." "Rogue One" (2016) was a surprise, as much as "Solo" (2018) was a downer.
Love how no one complains about a 9 year old boy being a tech and piloting genius, winning a pod race on his first attempt, flew a star fighter, blew up an entire droid command center on accident, then went on to become one of the most powerful Jedi and Sith the galaxy had to offer and say ‘Yep that makes sense’. However Rey gets shit for being a prodigy in the force once she taps into it. See I don’t think we watched the same films because there’s always this ‘She’s a Mary sue’ angle and I just don’t see it. It’s called plot armor and the films weren’t even horrible with it, I’ve seen much more ridiculous things occur. And listen, I’m not a lover of the trilogy either but I can find more meaningful reasons besides ‘I didn’t like how the main character was being the main character’. Did you want to see a movie where Rey has to crawl through glass to get anywhere? Cus I remember even the original trilogy had some really ridiculous Dues Ex Machina’s that completely change the fate of the situation. Luke being saved by Obi Wan, Luke hitting the port on the Death Star first try while solely relying on the force, Han Solo showing up to shoot down Vader TIE so Luke could hit the shot, Yoda suddenly lifting the X wing out the swamp when it was impossible for Luke to do so, then the X wing being perfectly fine after being submerged in water which is much different than space. So again I don’t get the hate for Rey and the ‘Mary sue’ thing. In any other character it’d just be plot armor and bad writing. TLDR; I find your take on what Mary Sue is to be in bad taste and unwarranted. Luke and Anakin have displayed several feats of luck and sudden power to escape or become victorious in seemingly impossible situations, but that is seen as non problematic. It’s inconsistent is what I’m saying. Luke went from a farm boy to taking on Darth Vader in just 3-4 years. Yes he lost a hand on the way but that’s still stupidly fast. That’s like a 14 year old being able to take on Floyd Mayweather after just a few years of training. It’s not happening. There’s more glaring issues with the film other than the main character doing main character things.
The "lower volume mid song" function exists. Also, you should run your voice file through a filter. Also, your sense of humour 0:17, 4:33, 6:36, 8:20, 12:00 needs some work. Also, 36:59 - 37:35 this overstayed its welcome. 38:24 - 39:05 The fact that you did it twice really gives weight to that Stephen King quote. 5:03 You probably need a little bit more points to bridge that gap. It's a bit of a stretch to turn "being ambushed" and bloopers into "are incompetent". I'm 10 minutes in, and... Where's the Capitalism? 10:11 I recommend reading more than just that book. Dear God, he recommends Kay and Skittles. You're officially on borrowed time. 10:55 And this is why I recommended reading more than just that book. Mussolini was not a racist. He was in fact quite repulsed by Hitler's obsession with race. 11:20 Strike 2. One more time you're a self parodying stereotype, and I'm out. 12:55 Yes, because this will have zero negative consequences whatsoever... Especially with such a... "vast" understanding of Fascism". 13:27 And 2.5... 15:06 I'm pretty sure that inclination is older than Capitalism. But anyway, you ran out of borrowed time, let me skip ahead so some random points... 20:10 Remove the right couple hundred people from history and almost every development would be different. Unless you're some sort of Historical Determinist, I want to see the response you'll have to that undeniable fact. The labour of millions of people looks different when it's directed by someone as opposed to when it's not. 20:50 Ah yes, the meaning of life. Removing everything Reactionary from the picture. 21:30 If I didn't skip ahead, this would have been strike 3. Instead, it earns another skip. 32:25 Ah yes, the Democracy understander. 33:04 And with another trite analysis, I'm officially not surprised that this video got only 4000 views in 2 years, though a channel getting these numbers with 4 videos on the channel is impressive. We'll see how mine does. 34:16 Ok, so now begins the analysis with Capitalism in mind. Yes, I am saying that all previous mentions were Leftist cope. 38:24 I... What? "That's not how the Force works!" 39:40 When I'm in a "being obsessed" competition and my opponent is a Leftist coping about Reactionaries. 💀 41:10 Fun fact: there would be less of those "racists" if her character was any good, and not just a fan fic brought in because of her race. Seriously, try getting ANYONE to tell you anything about her without rewatching the movie and if it's more than "she's Asian", "she dislikes what's going on on Canto Bite" and "she kisses the black clone", I'll give you a medal. Yes, I said clone because that's how much his backstory matters too. In fact, I'm 90% sure that you need material outside the movie to even know how the troops for the new order were conscripted. 41:35 Yeah... Everyone has that criticism. 45:11 This video was... Meh. I might one day react to it in a stream just so that other people never watch the original, because there's nothing to it. Not production quality, not insight, but it was fun to laugh at.
47:00 Uuuuuuuuuuuuuh... The First Order is not the New Republic. It's an insurgent group at the fringes. Also, the movies don't show that Canto Bite is the norm. And you're literally talking about a system of planets, the actions going on on one doesn't dictate the general state of the others. I didn't expect the conclusion to be worse than the video.
The idea that force sensitivity is inherited is from the ORIGINAL TRIKOGY. It tires me to no end when people attribute this idea to the prequels and not to Luke saying "the force is strong in my family". Jedi powers were never something that could be called on by anybody. Why would Obi Wan care about Luke so much if that were the case? He could just train an army of Jedi to fight the Empire instead.
Just because someone can free the slaves of an entire planet using an entire force of Jedi (because I doubt just one could do it, unless it was maybe Anakin pre-Vader suit) doesn't mean they have the legal authority, nor the moral obligation to do so. Slavery was rampant in the Star Wars galaxy and remained so even in the EU after the fall of the Empire. Shoot, most people believe that slavery no longer exists in our real world, while that is certainly not the case
@@TheStickManYT Jodorowsky's Dune was an attempted film adaptation of the novel Dune written by Frank Herbert. The preproduction for Jodo's Dune, especially the storyboards and art design, were HEAVILY used by Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner, and pretty much every other original sci-fi and fantasy movie made after 1975. The auteur genius behind Star Wars was not Lucas, it was Jodorowsky.
To be fair, George Lucas invented the concept of midiclorians all the way back in the 70's when he was writing the originals. The reading that the force is available to everyone may have been possible to take from the originals because there was nothing that contradicted it, but it was never part of George's plan.
@@edgaracajabon9522 "According to the book The Making of Star Wars , the first record we have of George Lucas discussing the concept of midichlorians is from 1977: It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells."
I have watched a few episodes on your channel. You have a great attitude and thoughtful perspective. Get your audio levels right (which is time consuming, I edit my own stuff, so I get it) and you have a really great show. Looking forward to watching your channel grow!
@@TheStickManYT The music is too loud, the narration is not balanced (volume varies). You need to adjust levels to match both music and narration tracks or at least bring the music down from 11. Your editing program should allow you to adjust volumes. If you don't already do this, wear headphones to listen to your cuts and listen to it through speakers connected to your monitor or what ever display you use. It will make a huge difference.
Qui Gon couldn't free them both from slavery because of the laws of Tattoine. The Republic had no power there (hence why their Republic Credits were able to buy them absolutely nothing on the planet). This, combined with the fact that, if he had attacked a slave owner on the planet (who was within his legal rights while on that planet to own slaves), it would be seen as a Jedi (basically, the galactic police/peacekeeping force) provoking unnecessary aggression between the Jedi Order and the Huttes. He also understood that the mission he was THERE FOR in the first place was to protect the Queen of Naboo, not free every single slave on Tattoine. I understand that you didn't say that, but really: at what point should Qui Gon have stopped freeing slaves? According to you, Jedi are 100% all-powerful and can free entire, massive populations of slaves from the extremely powerful rulers of that respective planet. It doesn't make any sense for any one Jedi to take on such an insurmountable task when it wasn't what his MISSION was. His mission was to protect the Queen, not free some little boy from an Outer Rim planet. WE know that Anakin is important already because WE already know that he is the chosen one. But if you look at it from Qui-Gon's perspective, he's trying so hard to do the RIGHT THING, while also maintaining his loyalty to the Jedi Order's WRONG MORALS. This is why he couldn't free the mom. If he had tried, he would've attracted far too much attention (meanwhile, he was right to be cautious the whole time because Darth Maul was able to track him regardless). He had to get out of there quick or else face the very first Sith ever seen in centuries. As you can imagine, he would have been caught off guard and possibly at a disadvantage if he had chosen to fight Maul there and then when first confronted
I've been saying this! especially as i have become immersed into anti-imperialism and marxism, i can see how lucas's maoism ties into all the movies and the rebellion as protracted war
I believe that when Anakin held his dead Mother in his arms and we see his furious eyes he was pissed, angry to the Jedi`s , but he unleash it on to the Tusken Raider`s camp/village.
I've been meaning to look for marxist analysis of sw ever since I rewatched the movies earlier this year, so stumbling on this video was really nice. good stuff, keep it up! :)
I think it's not so much a political issue, imo, that's caused Star Wars to be blown up by the internet (though it's a clear possibility or a partial reason), I really think it's a sense of "the original trilogy was perfect/good", let's keep it that way that been promoted for decades through a myriad of tv channel airings, vhs tape releases, dvd releases, etc. over the years. It's a matter of getting used and then believing Lucas say that this trilogy is part of a great narrative arc (the redemption of Vader), even though, (from what I have observed), it is Luke following the hero's journey in the original trilogy. People are used to a three-act structure that they can't consider the possibility of thinking of these film units as films on their own (ANH, or TESB), it has to be all three, which is where things run into problems with reality. With ROTJ, Lucas was getting burned out, his wife was going through a divorce with him, etc. And this may sound controversial, but I prefer the first rough draft of ROTJ (from The making of Return of the Jedi), since it has better depictions of both Vader and the Emperor (and their motivations, political aspects, etc.). Villains are often the backbone of a story, and they need to be treated as such. Vader has some decency in the final film, but he is far more coherent and interesting in the rough draft, imo. The Emperor, who is supposed to be over Vader and have had seduced Vader to the dark side (which I don't understand, as there seems to be contradictions to this in TESB, ANH, etc.), is somewhere between eloquent Shakespearian and ridiculous and more of the "Richard Nixon" dressed up as a depiction of the devil in outer space comes more to light at times with oddball cackling and smiling and cheesy one-liners. The Emperor's mystique may have been dated in the original TESB, but it still holds up, and I can take the character seriously, imo.
@@TheStickManYT I admit I'm curious as to why you (and a lot of other people) like the Emperor. I once liked him, if only due to mystery of whether Darth Sidious was the senator in The Phantom Menace as a kid, which blew me away when I did some reading and figured it out. To be completely honest, over time, the Emperor has looked less appealing to me, even at his most complicated (ROTS). Also, the Emperor seems to be a means of Lucas venting his anti-Nixon/anti-Vietnam rhetoric (mentioned twice in production- once for TESB, once for ROTJ) in a subtle fashion (anti-Bush for ROTS, possibly). Nixon was a complicated president, and I think he probably did some bad stuff, but he does not deserve to be bashed this hard as some devil-esque figure in ROTJ. It might be a matter of taste, but I've seen a lot of different versions of the Emperor- and I feel like Lucas's influence/preference for the character in a more stereotypical (appeal to kids) and the appeal head-on to the hero's journey aspect bleeds into the Emperor in ROTJ. (Call me a purist, but my favorite version of the Emperor is the original Clive Revill-voiced one in TESB. He is the most level-headed and slightly sinister there, with a touch of mystique.) It also does not help that Lucas decided to take concepts that were associated with Vader (destiny and "only your hatred can destroy me!") and transposit those concepts more over to the Emperor/emphasize them with the Emperor. Even the Emperor is technically over Vader (and I guess would have taught him these concepts), it makes the Emperor's character part-Vader by chronological/production influence from TESB. It also MEANT something coming from Vader in TESB, since Vader was Luke's father. The Emperor is a nobody to Luke, with no emotional or psychological ties, etc. compared to Vader, who I believe is more of a real threat/conflict to Luke. He is president Nixon who's giving Luke power, a car salesman for the dark side, as I've heard before. What does a car salesman have to do with Luke, imo? What benefit is he giving Luke in terms of an emotional/psychological connection? (Is he better than Vader as a father?) That was part of the temptation with Luke in TESB (reconciling with a sole remaining/dead family member that he looked up to), and that still hits hard at the end of that film. In ROTJ, since Luke is an equal to Vader (according to production/comments), there is no temptation besides Vader possibly peer-pressuring Luke ("It is pointless to resist, my son"), which is incredibly weak compared to the previous film and Vader's arguments there.
@@theblindfoldedbirdwatcher570 I disagree lol, i have no problems with Nixon being portrayed that way. Also, I think the whole point of the emperor is that he corrupted vader in the same way luke is worried about being corrupted (like the cave scene in tesb). ROTJ definetly has some problems in comparison with 4 and 5 but the emperor just isn’t one of them for me lol he kinda makes the film. Maybe it’s just nostalgia but the emperor to me is like just cartoonishly evil enough to be cool and sort of creepy without the camp overpowering the tone
People likely understood the intention of each movie as its own story at first, or at least the common moviegoer took the movies as pretty much standalone flicks with good stories, similar to how most movie series don't actually have a continued and tightly connected story but rather just reuses the same cast of characters to tell another, similar story. Lucas changed the story of Star Wars into a truly continuous narrative taking place over generations with the prequels which are more difficult to perceive as standalone stories, but that doesn't and shouldn't prevent people from seeing the original trilogy as standalone movies, a 3 movie and a 6 movie narrative all simultaneously. By not accepting change and wanting to always stay true to only their own very specific interpretation it is the individual viewer who makes issues out of changes and either needs to change or evolve their interpretation or change the elements that invalidate their interpretation in newer releases either through ignorance or making their own fan-edits. A good example is the Who shot first dilemma and Han Solos characterization. Lucas probably wanted Han to come off as kind of an idiot with several of his lines. Asking Luke if he could make it work with the Princess, him completely fumbling the comlink call in the cell block, "making the Kessel Run in 10 parsecs" before novels retconned logic into it. Some people think of Han Solo as having always been a Space James Bond when much of the writing makes it easy to read him as a Space version of Breaking Bad Season 1 & 2 Jesse Pinkman who is merely lucky to have not died yet because of his schemes. Fans are bothered by the changes because Han came off as more aggressive before by shooting first, but really you could read the Greedo situation as positive and negative for both the Space James Bond and Space Idiot readings of the character if you want to.
The original trilogy had different directors too, as George Lucas only directed the first film. The sequel trilogy was taking that similar route since Colin Trevorrow was planned to direct episode 9. People who didn't like his Jurassic World films felt the Star Wars series dodged the bullet on it since Dominion turned out to be much worse than what Rise of Skywalker had.
On the original trilogy lucas having a breakdown on the first film hired directors to work the actors but he was almost everyday on set kishner even once Said you hired me let mo do my job
If Luke Skywalker survived the overdose he would have needed a Force Drip
Anakins mom died in bandage to kidnappers. She was sold to the man she married later. She was free technically by time she reunites with anakin. Correct me if I'm wrong this is just from memory.
It always felt like the trade federation was a Japanese Shogunate instead for some strange reason . . .
That's almost more like the Jedi/Sith.
I knew something was very wrong with the "sequel trilogy" when I detected a Mary Sue "doing Luke Skywalker" again. But, instead of a Hero's Journey, we got an "I-am-an-unbeatable/all-knowing-female" strut. I got halfway through the "Empire Strikes Back" reflux before I turned away from "disney star wars." "Rogue One" (2016) was a surprise, as much as "Solo" (2018) was a downer.
Love how no one complains about a 9 year old boy being a tech and piloting genius, winning a pod race on his first attempt, flew a star fighter, blew up an entire droid command center on accident, then went on to become one of the most powerful Jedi and Sith the galaxy had to offer and say ‘Yep that makes sense’. However Rey gets shit for being a prodigy in the force once she taps into it.
See I don’t think we watched the same films because there’s always this ‘She’s a Mary sue’ angle and I just don’t see it. It’s called plot armor and the films weren’t even horrible with it, I’ve seen much more ridiculous things occur.
And listen, I’m not a lover of the trilogy either but I can find more meaningful reasons besides ‘I didn’t like how the main character was being the main character’. Did you want to see a movie where Rey has to crawl through glass to get anywhere? Cus I remember even the original trilogy had some really ridiculous Dues Ex Machina’s that completely change the fate of the situation. Luke being saved by Obi Wan, Luke hitting the port on the Death Star first try while solely relying on the force, Han Solo showing up to shoot down Vader TIE so Luke could hit the shot, Yoda suddenly lifting the X wing out the swamp when it was impossible for Luke to do so, then the X wing being perfectly fine after being submerged in water which is much different than space.
So again I don’t get the hate for Rey and the ‘Mary sue’ thing. In any other character it’d just be plot armor and bad writing.
TLDR; I find your take on what Mary Sue is to be in bad taste and unwarranted. Luke and Anakin have displayed several feats of luck and sudden power to escape or become victorious in seemingly impossible situations, but that is seen as non problematic. It’s inconsistent is what I’m saying. Luke went from a farm boy to taking on Darth Vader in just 3-4 years. Yes he lost a hand on the way but that’s still stupidly fast. That’s like a 14 year old being able to take on Floyd Mayweather after just a few years of training. It’s not happening. There’s more glaring issues with the film other than the main character doing main character things.
1:45...Volume.
He is fucking serious.
You fucked my ears twice with that Soviet national anthem on full blast. Way too loud for the sound levels for the rest of the video.
My bad 😬
@@TheStickManYT analysis was good anyway
The "lower volume mid song" function exists.
Also, you should run your voice file through a filter.
Also, your sense of humour 0:17, 4:33, 6:36, 8:20, 12:00 needs some work.
Also, 36:59 - 37:35 this overstayed its welcome.
38:24 - 39:05 The fact that you did it twice really gives weight to that Stephen King quote.
5:03 You probably need a little bit more points to bridge that gap.
It's a bit of a stretch to turn "being ambushed" and bloopers into "are incompetent".
I'm 10 minutes in, and... Where's the Capitalism?
10:11 I recommend reading more than just that book.
Dear God, he recommends Kay and Skittles. You're officially on borrowed time.
10:55 And this is why I recommended reading more than just that book.
Mussolini was not a racist.
He was in fact quite repulsed by Hitler's obsession with race.
11:20 Strike 2. One more time you're a self parodying stereotype, and I'm out.
12:55 Yes, because this will have zero negative consequences whatsoever... Especially with such a... "vast" understanding of Fascism".
13:27 And 2.5...
15:06 I'm pretty sure that inclination is older than Capitalism. But anyway, you ran out of borrowed time, let me skip ahead so some random points...
20:10 Remove the right couple hundred people from history and almost every development would be different. Unless you're some sort of Historical Determinist, I want to see the response you'll have to that undeniable fact.
The labour of millions of people looks different when it's directed by someone as opposed to when it's not.
20:50 Ah yes, the meaning of life. Removing everything Reactionary from the picture.
21:30 If I didn't skip ahead, this would have been strike 3. Instead, it earns another skip.
32:25 Ah yes, the Democracy understander.
33:04 And with another trite analysis, I'm officially not surprised that this video got only 4000 views in 2 years, though a channel getting these numbers with 4 videos on the channel is impressive. We'll see how mine does.
34:16 Ok, so now begins the analysis with Capitalism in mind. Yes, I am saying that all previous mentions were Leftist cope.
38:24 I... What? "That's not how the Force works!"
39:40 When I'm in a "being obsessed" competition and my opponent is a Leftist coping about Reactionaries. 💀
41:10 Fun fact: there would be less of those "racists" if her character was any good, and not just a fan fic brought in because of her race. Seriously, try getting ANYONE to tell you anything about her without rewatching the movie and if it's more than "she's Asian", "she dislikes what's going on on Canto Bite" and "she kisses the black clone", I'll give you a medal. Yes, I said clone because that's how much his backstory matters too. In fact, I'm 90% sure that you need material outside the movie to even know how the troops for the new order were conscripted.
41:35 Yeah... Everyone has that criticism.
45:11 This video was... Meh. I might one day react to it in a stream just so that other people never watch the original, because there's nothing to it. Not production quality, not insight, but it was fun to laugh at.
47:00 Uuuuuuuuuuuuuh... The First Order is not the New Republic. It's an insurgent group at the fringes. Also, the movies don't show that Canto Bite is the norm. And you're literally talking about a system of planets, the actions going on on one doesn't dictate the general state of the others.
I didn't expect the conclusion to be worse than the video.
The idea that force sensitivity is inherited is from the ORIGINAL TRIKOGY. It tires me to no end when people attribute this idea to the prequels and not to Luke saying "the force is strong in my family".
Jedi powers were never something that could be called on by anybody. Why would Obi Wan care about Luke so much if that were the case? He could just train an army of Jedi to fight the Empire instead.
Feedback time.... Your sound levels are all over the place and the music drowns out your talking.
Wrong
Just because someone can free the slaves of an entire planet using an entire force of Jedi (because I doubt just one could do it, unless it was maybe Anakin pre-Vader suit) doesn't mean they have the legal authority, nor the moral obligation to do so. Slavery was rampant in the Star Wars galaxy and remained so even in the EU after the fall of the Empire. Shoot, most people believe that slavery no longer exists in our real world, while that is certainly not the case
You have done a pretty good analysis but somehow missed the Jodorowsky's Dune connection.
Haven’t read it 🤷
@@TheStickManYT Jodorowsky's Dune was an attempted film adaptation of the novel Dune written by Frank Herbert. The preproduction for Jodo's Dune, especially the storyboards and art design, were HEAVILY used by Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner, and pretty much every other original sci-fi and fantasy movie made after 1975.
The auteur genius behind Star Wars was not Lucas, it was Jodorowsky.
To be fair, George Lucas invented the concept of midiclorians all the way back in the 70's when he was writing the originals. The reading that the force is available to everyone may have been possible to take from the originals because there was nothing that contradicted it, but it was never part of George's plan.
I heard differently. He did Star Wars to test the faith of people. Then he did midichlorians to have the Force make better sense scientifically
@@edgaracajabon9522 "According to the book The Making of Star Wars , the first record we have of George Lucas discussing the concept of midichlorians is from 1977: It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells."
The audio is way too loud. Music, scene audio, it's all too much in comparison to your voice. The interview clips were good though.
Yeah Ik the audio is terrible in this one lol. Fixed it in my following video and all future ones. Thanks for the feedback
I have watched a few episodes on your channel. You have a great attitude and thoughtful perspective. Get your audio levels right (which is time consuming, I edit my own stuff, so I get it) and you have a really great show. Looking forward to watching your channel grow!
Thanks for the feedback! May I ask what audio issues specifically? I have a hard time gauging this stuff sometimes
@@TheStickManYT The music is too loud, the narration is not balanced (volume varies). You need to adjust levels to match both music and narration tracks or at least bring the music down from 11. Your editing program should allow you to adjust volumes. If you don't already do this, wear headphones to listen to your cuts and listen to it through speakers connected to your monitor or what ever display you use. It will make a huge difference.
Qui Gon couldn't free them both from slavery because of the laws of Tattoine. The Republic had no power there (hence why their Republic Credits were able to buy them absolutely nothing on the planet). This, combined with the fact that, if he had attacked a slave owner on the planet (who was within his legal rights while on that planet to own slaves), it would be seen as a Jedi (basically, the galactic police/peacekeeping force) provoking unnecessary aggression between the Jedi Order and the Huttes. He also understood that the mission he was THERE FOR in the first place was to protect the Queen of Naboo, not free every single slave on Tattoine. I understand that you didn't say that, but really: at what point should Qui Gon have stopped freeing slaves? According to you, Jedi are 100% all-powerful and can free entire, massive populations of slaves from the extremely powerful rulers of that respective planet. It doesn't make any sense for any one Jedi to take on such an insurmountable task when it wasn't what his MISSION was. His mission was to protect the Queen, not free some little boy from an Outer Rim planet. WE know that Anakin is important already because WE already know that he is the chosen one. But if you look at it from Qui-Gon's perspective, he's trying so hard to do the RIGHT THING, while also maintaining his loyalty to the Jedi Order's WRONG MORALS. This is why he couldn't free the mom. If he had tried, he would've attracted far too much attention (meanwhile, he was right to be cautious the whole time because Darth Maul was able to track him regardless). He had to get out of there quick or else face the very first Sith ever seen in centuries. As you can imagine, he would have been caught off guard and possibly at a disadvantage if he had chosen to fight Maul there and then when first confronted
I've been saying this! especially as i have become immersed into anti-imperialism and marxism, i can see how lucas's maoism ties into all the movies and the rebellion as protracted war
I believe that when Anakin held his dead Mother in his arms and we see his furious eyes he was pissed, angry to the Jedi`s , but he unleash it on to the Tusken Raider`s camp/village.
The comparison between Hiroshima and Alderaan is quite an impressive reach, I’ve only seen acrobatics like that from the Jedi.
But it's not a story the Jedi would tell you, and what about the droid attack o-
*Five gunshots*
such good video!
I've been meaning to look for marxist analysis of sw ever since I rewatched the movies earlier this year, so stumbling on this video was really nice. good stuff, keep it up! :)
Thanks!
I thought this was gonna be about a new Hope
you should link your twitter
I would lol but I think most of my subs found me on Twitter
Damn
I think it's not so much a political issue, imo, that's caused Star Wars to be blown up by the internet (though it's a clear possibility or a partial reason), I really think it's a sense of "the original trilogy was perfect/good", let's keep it that way that been promoted for decades through a myriad of tv channel airings, vhs tape releases, dvd releases, etc. over the years. It's a matter of getting used and then believing Lucas say that this trilogy is part of a great narrative arc (the redemption of Vader), even though, (from what I have observed), it is Luke following the hero's journey in the original trilogy.
People are used to a three-act structure that they can't consider the possibility of thinking of these film units as films on their own (ANH, or TESB), it has to be all three, which is where things run into problems with reality. With ROTJ, Lucas was getting burned out, his wife was going through a divorce with him, etc. And this may sound controversial, but I prefer the first rough draft of ROTJ (from The making of Return of the Jedi), since it has better depictions of both Vader and the Emperor (and their motivations, political aspects, etc.). Villains are often the backbone of a story, and they need to be treated as such. Vader has some decency in the final film, but he is far more coherent and interesting in the rough draft, imo. The Emperor, who is supposed to be over Vader and have had seduced Vader to the dark side (which I don't understand, as there seems to be contradictions to this in TESB, ANH, etc.), is somewhere between eloquent Shakespearian and ridiculous and more of the "Richard Nixon" dressed up as a depiction of the devil in outer space comes more to light at times with oddball cackling and smiling and cheesy one-liners. The Emperor's mystique may have been dated in the original TESB, but it still holds up, and I can take the character seriously, imo.
Idk I kinda love the emperor tho
@@TheStickManYT
I admit I'm curious as to why you (and a lot of other people) like the Emperor. I once liked him, if only due to mystery of whether Darth Sidious was the senator in The Phantom Menace as a kid, which blew me away when I did some reading and figured it out. To be completely honest, over time, the Emperor has looked less appealing to me, even at his most complicated (ROTS). Also, the Emperor seems to be a means of Lucas venting his anti-Nixon/anti-Vietnam rhetoric (mentioned twice in production- once for TESB, once for ROTJ) in a subtle fashion (anti-Bush for ROTS, possibly). Nixon was a complicated president, and I think he probably did some bad stuff, but he does not deserve to be bashed this hard as some devil-esque figure in ROTJ.
It might be a matter of taste, but I've seen a lot of different versions of the Emperor- and I feel like Lucas's influence/preference for the character in a more stereotypical (appeal to kids) and the appeal head-on to the hero's journey aspect bleeds into the Emperor in ROTJ. (Call me a purist, but my favorite version of the Emperor is the original Clive Revill-voiced one in TESB. He is the most level-headed and slightly sinister there, with a touch of mystique.) It also does not help that Lucas decided to take concepts that were associated with Vader (destiny and "only your hatred can destroy me!") and transposit those concepts more over to the Emperor/emphasize them with the Emperor. Even the Emperor is technically over Vader (and I guess would have taught him these concepts), it makes the Emperor's character part-Vader by chronological/production influence from TESB. It also MEANT something coming from Vader in TESB, since Vader was Luke's father. The Emperor is a nobody to Luke, with no emotional or psychological ties, etc. compared to Vader, who I believe is more of a real threat/conflict to Luke. He is president Nixon who's giving Luke power, a car salesman for the dark side, as I've heard before.
What does a car salesman have to do with Luke, imo? What benefit is he giving Luke in terms of an emotional/psychological connection? (Is he better than Vader as a father?) That was part of the temptation with Luke in TESB (reconciling with a sole remaining/dead family member that he looked up to), and that still hits hard at the end of that film.
In ROTJ, since Luke is an equal to Vader (according to production/comments), there is no temptation besides Vader possibly peer-pressuring Luke ("It is pointless to resist, my son"), which is incredibly weak compared to the previous film and Vader's arguments there.
@@theblindfoldedbirdwatcher570 I disagree lol, i have no problems with Nixon being portrayed that way. Also, I think the whole point of the emperor is that he corrupted vader in the same way luke is worried about being corrupted (like the cave scene in tesb). ROTJ definetly has some problems in comparison with 4 and 5 but the emperor just isn’t one of them for me lol he kinda makes the film. Maybe it’s just nostalgia but the emperor to me is like just cartoonishly evil enough to be cool and sort of creepy without the camp overpowering the tone
People likely understood the intention of each movie as its own story at first, or at least the common moviegoer took the movies as pretty much standalone flicks with good stories, similar to how most movie series don't actually have a continued and tightly connected story but rather just reuses the same cast of characters to tell another, similar story.
Lucas changed the story of Star Wars into a truly continuous narrative taking place over generations with the prequels which are more difficult to perceive as standalone stories, but that doesn't and shouldn't prevent people from seeing the original trilogy as standalone movies, a 3 movie and a 6 movie narrative all simultaneously.
By not accepting change and wanting to always stay true to only their own very specific interpretation it is the individual viewer who makes issues out of changes and either needs to change or evolve their interpretation or change the elements that invalidate their interpretation in newer releases either through ignorance or making their own fan-edits.
A good example is the Who shot first dilemma and Han Solos characterization. Lucas probably wanted Han to come off as kind of an idiot with several of his lines. Asking Luke if he could make it work with the Princess, him completely fumbling the comlink call in the cell block, "making the Kessel Run in 10 parsecs" before novels retconned logic into it. Some people think of Han Solo as having always been a Space James Bond when much of the writing makes it easy to read him as a Space version of Breaking Bad Season 1 & 2 Jesse Pinkman who is merely lucky to have not died yet because of his schemes. Fans are bothered by the changes because Han came off as more aggressive before by shooting first, but really you could read the Greedo situation as positive and negative for both the Space James Bond and Space Idiot readings of the character if you want to.
The original trilogy had different directors too, as George Lucas only directed the first film. The sequel trilogy was taking that similar route since Colin Trevorrow was planned to direct episode 9. People who didn't like his Jurassic World films felt the Star Wars series dodged the bullet on it since Dominion turned out to be much worse than what Rise of Skywalker had.
On the original trilogy lucas having a breakdown on the first film hired directors to work the actors but he was almost everyday on set kishner even once Said you hired me let mo do my job
Your simplistic view of the original Avatar, is kind of, shallow and pedantic.
I mentioned avatar in this video?? What did I say and what’s wrong with it?
@Stick Man the original star wars was the original non original movie which stile from everything that came before it
@@mrillis9259 Did you just google these words or have you had them all saved up in you copy/ paste bin?
@@TheStickManYT This guy is psychotic and this is coming from a diagnosed schizophrenic
@@sithspitdanikan4725 this comment is both deep and pandantic.
Your sardonic, eh?