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 No.17399 [Last50 Posts]

Why does the sequel trilogy suck so much more than the prequel trilogy?

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 No.17400

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>>17399

1. because the sequel trilogy is non-canon anti-art and made by non-factors. It is worth less than dog shit. Disney Wars will never amount to anything.

2. because the prequels were hand crafted by the master of kino himself and are actually in fact kino and never sucked, it is we the audience that sucked.

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 No.17405

>>17400

Nicely earned dubs, Naboo-fag.

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 No.17417

>>17399

Disney, feminism and numales.

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 No.17424

It doesn't. Episode III is the only good movie in the lot.

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 No.17427

>>17424

Even if that were true, that's still one more good movie than disney's made.

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 No.17429

File: ef399fe13675ea3⋯.jpg (2.51 MB,3099x1777,3099:1777,starwars.jpg)

>>17400

my bad, here's the updated guide

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 No.17436

>>17429

I would object to the OT not being given enough credit, but the way it is now will trigger OT purists all the harder, and makes it more likely that they'l re-evaluate their choices, something that a more polite poster wouldn't do. And mature, well-adjusted people who like the OT will be able to those jabs standing up instead of getting triggered over them.

Anon's Star Wars guide shits on the OT. Here's why that's a good thing.

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 No.17438

>>17429

I must admit, I do personally hate seeing people blindly shit on the PT, but it is frustrating to see a guide that implies that enjoyment of them is based on knowledge of Shakespearean drama and the modern political landscape and to not enjoy them is to be ignorant of those things.

The PT does propose some incredibly interesting questions upon the ideas of Good and Evil, and how even the best intentions placed by those in power can ultimately unravel the very peace they strive to keep. The Jedi and the Senate are flawed and there's many arguments to be made about how if the Jedi were less involved and prideful that the Republic might have been able to continue. This is all really good.

I guess my issue is that a lot of that is undercut by the transparently rushed scripts and the lackluster direction regarding the actors. Very few people in the PT are able to give a truly compelling performance whilst navigating both of these issues and I honestly believe Christensen does his damndest, especially once he falls. There's just a lot to be distracted by when navigating underutilized characters, plots that required entire books to make more coherent(Darth Plagueis), and comedy that comes off as incredibly forced placed alongside decapitations and the murder of children.

It's frustrating. There's a ton to love there and to dissect and discuss, but I think a lot of people have gotten super defensive about it due to RLMfags aggressively attacking anyone who enjoys it at all.(Which really pisses me off because I've watched them all and rarely do people who shit on the PT acknowledge the significant portion of the RotS review where he discusses the larger themes and story attempted in the prequels.)

Apologies for ranting, I just think there's a better way to acknowledge the flaws in the PT and the OT in the chart without undermining how much better they are than Disney's shit.

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 No.17440

>>17429

>patrician

>foir liking soy wars

More like proto-reddit

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 No.17502

File: b6481f90e754d04⋯.webm (1.8 MB,1920x1080,16:9,What Disney Star Wars Bas….webm)

The Prequels have better fight scenes, ship and alien designs. Sequels had better dialogue and acting. By his own admission Lucas is a shit director for actors and he wanted the 1940s style dialogue which was offputting to nearly everyone.

One major difference though and I can't believe I'm saying this: CHARACTER GROWTH. In the Prequels and Original Series we see the characters grow. A bit less in the for some characters in the prequels but it's fucking there with Anakin & Luke. No change at all with Rey, none needed. She's perfect.

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 No.17503

File: e0861a0db659abe⋯.png (439.98 KB,621x458,621:458,The man who sold the world.png)

>>17502

Damn, there can't be two Big Bosses.

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 No.17508

>>17399

Because Lucas was a genius and Kekkady is a brainlet whelp

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 No.17515

>>17502

>Sequels had better dialogue and acting.

I profoundly disagree. It has the same awful hollow quality to it that all of Hollywood has been doing for the better part of the decade. It's the worst.

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 No.17563

>>17515

The dialogue is better written, it sounds a lot less stilted than the prequels.

The acting quality varies heavily between actors. Hamill is fantastic given the shitty material. Boyega and Fisher do alright most of the time. Issac is just kinda there, and Ridley is shit. Overall I'd say it's en par.

I think the only thing that the sequels do better than the prequels is dialogue direction, but that's only due to Lucas shooting the dialogue in that 1940s-style, which was just a bad creative decision.

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 No.17579

>>17399

Because the sequels lack coherency, world building, and a respect for the OT as well as the EU that the prequels had.

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 No.17688

>>17438

>the lackluster direction regarding the actors.

It was like that in the OT aswell. I don't get it, it's not like anyone gave this great performance ever. The movies always relied on the plot, the action and the characters more than the actor's performances in itself.

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 No.17689

>>17502

>he wanted the 1940s style dialogue which was offputting to nearly everyone.

Which fucking fits into the universe he created. What was most off-putting about the Disney-sequels is the damn quips and quirky dialogue and self-aware bullshit they say in dialogue like i'm watching Spaceballs rather than the real deal.

It breaks immersion. And nobody is worse of an actor than man-jaw fish-mouth face.

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 No.17691

>>17563

>it sounds a lot less stilted than the prequels.

Which is the fucking problem in itself. It's supposed to be stilted, it's a fucking space-opera drama.

The problem is that they based the movies about an outcome we already knew. That's the major issue with the prequels making them uninteresting because there were nothing at stake. Quality-wise, they are way above the OT and the sequels, mainly in terms of ambition. Fuck, there is so much shit to analyse in most lines even, even including some off-note stuff like the tale of Darth Plageius to further the story about Anakin saving his wife from death by joining the dark side. The script is anything but stilted and rushed, that's fucking obvious because you can't make multilayered stories like that if you rush it.

You're half the problem with modern movies. The dialogue is just delivered different than modern movies which lacks the class and grace of previous eras which had it's roots more in theater than modern movies which tries to make it as "real" as possible, taking away the movie-magic in itself. Especially it breaks the fucking immersion of the universe when Daisy Ridley sound like a fucking 14 year old teenager from Manchester rather than a fucking lonely child scavenger who was dropped off at an off-shore desert planet at a young age. Or John BOYSHIEEETYega who both look and sound like he's in Pimp my Ride rather than a former brainwashed Janitor/Stormtrooper from the empire.

It's about fucking immersion and suddenly changing how people talked, was just fucking stupid. It would be like they had Leia chewing bubble-gum and talk about snorting coke and sex rather than being the fucking princess in the OT. Or Luke coming with cute lame jokes all the time rather than being this young farmer-boy that wants to be heroic. It breaks the character and doesn't make sense.

And the dialogue in the prequels are stilted aswell, because they live in an finer era, everyone is very sophisticated and high-class, which in itself is shown very evident also on the clothing-style, the settings, how they battle, how the wars are waged and HOW THEY TALK.

Stop being a fucking modernnized retard.

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 No.17703

>>17399

I'll explain it with an apple analogy. the OT is like 3 perfectly good apples, maybe there's a small bad spot on the third one, but other that, they're delicious. the prequels are like apples with rot on the surface, but they're still good on the inside. the sequels are like apples that look shiny on the outside, but are rotten to the core within, which is by far the worst problem.

prequels had obvious problems like CGI overload, Jar-Jar, etc. but if you look past that, they were built on good ideas, however flawed the execution.

sequels have fancy visuals and sfx, but the storycraft is a disjointed mess that disrespects the OT.

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 No.17705

>>17703

This essentially. The PT is a brilliant idea but with very poor execution which is mended by its spinoff material/expanded media. The ST is basically a soulless and uninspired cash-in on the brilliant idea of someone else that does nothing but copy its predecessor while adding nothing new. Sure its visually pretty, but underneath it all, there's nothing and the spinoff material/expanded media only helps to make this new copycat world feel even more dead and lifeless.

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 No.17707

>>17705

exactly. and they copy the OT without understanding any of the substance. we get a droid carrying info and a planet destroyer, but without the consistent pacing, imagination, or building of dramatic tension to a climax. we get salt hoth, jedi training, a casino planet in place of cloud city, etc, but it's disjointed and none of it rings true. it's like they can do a shallow imitation while missing the point entirely.

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 No.17709

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>>17688

>I don't get it, it's not like anyone gave this great performance ever.

I'd say Harrison Ford and Ian McDiarmid were spot-on in the OT. And while Mark Hammil wasn't a classically-trained Shakespeare actor, he did put his heart and soul into playing Luke, and because of that earnestness he arguably pulled it off better than someone with more acting skill might have.

>>17689

>It breaks immersion. And nobody is worse of an actor than man-jaw fish-mouth face.

Webm related.

>>17705

Is the execution really that bad though? There are problems, but they've always been these little, isolated glitches–a wooden line here, a slightly rushed romance subplot there, and a Down syndrome-afflicted alien over here. There's nothing wrong with the execution on any wide-ranging level, it's just these aspects that some people RLM keep harping on about to no end. Honestly, when I have to admit: when I was a young, tasteless pleb with barely any idea of what a "four chan" was I didn't even know what I was supposed to dislike the prequels. I enjoyed watching them and I only realized afterwards that there was this fad of dramatically declaring the prequels "horrible". The only things that really bothered me on my first viewing IIRC was Jar-Jar, and to a lesser degree the idea of clones vs. droids–I felt like I couldn't get involved in a conflict that was legions of mass-produced mooks killing legions of mass-produced mooks. But then I realized a) the clones aren't disposable and devoid of personality, despite the Republic treating them that way, and b) the faceless nature of the war actually helped drive home the narrative that the Clone Wars were in many ways a pointless conflict Yes that's an antecedent agreement issue, I don't care enough to figure out what the correct version is, with neither side being the "good guys", and the whole war just serving to bring Sheev into power.

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 No.17714

>>17709

>Is the execution really that bad though?

He said it was "poor" execution, which I agree with, given that I can't watch the PT without getting very peeved at a few things, even if I like it overall.

They never made the Clone War feel like some "faceless conflict," it was fairly lighthearted and bright and colourful pretty much the whole way through from AotC to RotS, which is why the tone shift to Order 66 is so jarring for people. The clones all look like action figures (for obvious reasons, but the full-CGI approach makes it even more severe), and the battle droids were largely slapstick humor in tone from the outset of TPM, not a military force (in feel, not plot). The closest they got to that was the SBD's in Ep II (but they get tossed into the slapstick role as well early in RotS) and the deployment scenes on Naboo (which isn't even part of the Clone War). Your fridge logic of the conflict, while true, does not emotionally strike home in the film itself.

I really do think the poorly implemented slapstick seriously hurt the PT. Without good comedic relief, it's easy to get emotionally bogged down in the middle of the films, which happens for pretty much everyone I know about halfway through AotC and RotS.

I like the films, especially all the creativity that went into them and Sheev's omnipresent background agenda, but they are "poor" on a tonal and pacing level.

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 No.17718

>>17707

>copy the OT without understanding any of the substance.

This

They want the OT's iconic scenes (death star blowing up, emperor's throne room, etc) so badly however they do not bother with the storyline/plot leading up to these iconic scenes that they rippoff which removes any impact these scenes might have had in fact it makes it stupid…

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 No.17722

>>17691

>Which is the fucking problem in itself. It's supposed to be stilted, it's a fucking space-opera drama.

Yes, but there's a fine line you need to ride, anon. The prequels went too far in a few places.

>The problem is that they based the movies about an outcome we already knew.

That's not really a problem, thanks to the disconnect between TPM and ANH. In TPM we see that everything is fine in the galaxy. The republic has a bit of a problem with bureaucracy and corruption, but you don't see any hints of the system being overthrown and turned into an authoritarian empire. Anakin is another example, in TPM we see him as a good-natured boy, with not a shred of the darkness of a Darth Vader. That mystique should be enough to get the viewer intrigued. Add some good characters like Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon and you got yourself a promising setup.

>That's the major issue with the prequels making them uninteresting because there were nothing at stake.

You've got a bit of a point there, but I think the movie did a decent enough job making you forget that.

>The dialogue is just delivered different than modern movies which lacks the class and grace of previous eras […]

That's no excuse for the flat, boring cinematography. You can do theatrical dialogue while making it visually interesting.

>it breaks the fucking immersion of the universe when Daisy Ridley sound like a fucking 14 year old teenager from Manchester rather than a fucking lonely child scavenger who was dropped off at an off-shore desert planet at a young age. Or John BOYSHIEEETYega who both look and sound like he's in Pimp my Ride rather than a former brainwashed Janitor/Stormtrooper from the empire.

Agreed. Ridley speaking in an English accent was stupid because that was supposed to be an Empire thing. And Boyega also looked to me like someone who sells death sticks on the lower reaches of Coruscant.

>And the dialogue in the prequels are stilted aswell, because they live in an finer era, everyone is very sophisticated and high-class, which in itself is shown very evident also on the clothing-style, the settings, how they battle, how the wars are waged and HOW THEY TALK.

There's talking in a classy way, and there's dialogue that sounds just unnatural. Sorry, m8, the prequels have their strong points, but dialogue is not one of them.

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 No.17730

>>17722

I disagree anon but to each their own.

On an off-note though, i legit thought it was a mock-trailer when they showed that sweaty nigger at the start of the first Force Awakens-trailer. I legit thought someone was pulling my leg, then i got fucking worried the second i saw it was for real.

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 No.17732

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 No.17733

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>>17502

>The Prequels have better fight scenes, ship and alien designs. Sequels had better dialogue and acting.

^this tbh. the writing may have been a little lackluster but fortunately the actors were able save it save it with what could have been slightly underwritten characters Daisy Ridley in particular

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 No.17734

>>17732

Twist:

- Boomers are the OT target, who are either computer illiterate or complete autist programmers;

- Idiot millennials are the target of the PT, and their online life is social media to chronicle their normal day to day;

- The ST is for soys and feminists: they share the same social media as millennials, with the sole difference their online life is undifferentiated from real life.

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 No.17790

>>17399

Because gender extremists are usually mentally challenged.

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 No.17791

>>17733

She looks like a guy who just finished the surgery.

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 No.18540

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>>17733

Father and Mother of Rey revealed….

Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money…

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 No.18541

>>17791

she looks like a cutie who should date me

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 No.18542

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>>18541

Don't even daydream about it.

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 No.18543

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File: 81a097b52ef44e3⋯.gif (362.5 KB,360x202,180:101,That's Poop.gif)

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 No.18544

>>18543

Just like the reboot trilogy.

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 No.18547

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>>17400

>rome

There's definitely some in there, but isn't mostly mirroring Hitler's rise to power?

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 No.18549

>>18547

I think i was a very generalized allegory for how nations can fall to tyrannical leaders. The Nazi Germany parallels in terms of imagery are the most prominent however.

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 No.18551

>>18549

Of course, but did he have Hitler in mind, or Caesar? Considering the other parallels to National Socialist Germany, I think it's the former, which is Pleb-tier.

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 No.18552

>>18551

*I want to believe that the Prequels really are completely Patrician, but it doesn't feel that way. Also, consider Red Tails, and Lucas' comments around it.

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 No.18553

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>>18552

Maybe I just need to watch them again. Still, I prefer the better parts of the EU over the films. The mysticism, while interesting, is not something I can always get behind. And midichlorians are interesting, but they do demystify things. Maybe I shouldn't post when sick, eh?

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 No.18554

>>18551

>Of course, but did he have Hitler in mind, or Caesar?

Can't speak for Lucas but I always saw Caesar. When you consider just how old the Old Republic is too, the Rome parallels start to make sense. I didn't even notice the Uncle Adolf parallels until soyboys started comparing Sheev to Trump.

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 No.18559

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>>18554

Can you explain how it is more akin to Rome? Besides all the other Nazi stuff, Sheev became dictator because of a false-flag. He claimed that the Jedi were attempting to overthrow the Republic, despite the fact that he's the one doing that, much like how a normie-historyfag will tell you that the Nazis claimed the Bolsheviks/Jews were trying to take over Germany, using them as a scapegoat so that they could rally support to take over Germany, culminating with the Reichstag fire ("uprising" of the Jedi), which they will tell you was a false-flag (even though it wasn't). Then, of course, the following genocide of the Jedi and the support given for it (republicans who were against them/Bolsheviks/Jews). Now, while there are similarities to be made with Caesar—the claim that the Senate were attempting to overthrow the Republic, the following purge of the Senate after the Civil War (although the Senate is considered corrupt), the fact that there was a senate afterwards—I don't see the armed and civilian support for the Jedi, and they are seen as largely weak, innocent and helpless, considering how easily they are betrayed and cut down, and this is seen as sad, and they're also the "good guys", as opposed to the Roman Senate, who were corrupt.

As I said, I think there's some Roman elements there, but considering Lucas' politics and what I see in the films, it seems that it takes more from Hitler than any other. I think most people, if they decided to write an allegory for how nations can fall to tyranny, would pick Hitler and the Third Reich, (which is partly why it is so Pleb-tier).

"Good" Empire >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> OT "Bad" Empire

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 No.18560

>>18554

>>18551

>>18549

the nazi germany parallels are purely cosmetic, i.e. weapons and uniforms. the empire itself is much more based in rome and britain than it is germany. but as anon said, it's meant to be a timeless parable of societies giving into emotions and shit, letting evil rise up. this is why the sequel trilogy sucks, because it's so stuck in the current year.

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 No.18561

>>18560

Do you have an argument for how is it not like how I've described? Instead of just a statement.

Also,

>Rome and Britain

>Britain

What?

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 No.18562

>>18559

>Can you explain how it is more akin to Rome?

The Republic is a centuries-old Yes I know it's millennia, but the transition from "real world" to the /sw/ galaxy seems to involve a bit of inflation government that over time has become rotten with corruption. After the transition from Republic to Empire vestigial elements such as the Senate remain but have no real power. Both Sheev and Caesar were already part of the existing aristocracy that manipulated their way to a greater position through being granted "emergency" powers and simply failing to let them go. Hitler by contrast was just some guy before he started making speeches at beer halls, and didn't do much in the way of manipulation. Palpatine and Caesar both had the support of an army fiercely loyal to them personally, whereas Hitler often butted heads with the military elite. And while Caesar rose to power through beating down external enemies and conquering Gaul, Rome was suffering quite a bit of internal strife at the time as well, although most of that came to a head in the next generation with Octavian. And he did enact something of a purge, as his counterparts on the Triumvirate were cut down and the Optimates in general ceased to exist. Seeing as he wasn't assassinated and he had to cut through internal enemies as well, I think it's best to say Palpatine is a mix of aspects of both Caesar and Augustus.

You have a point about the false-flagging and how normies would equate that to Hitler, I'll give you that. The Jedi being genocided though is honestly never a connection I thought of making. I can see some of the parallels, sure, but to me the Jedi were always more of a political faction than an ethnic group inb4 so are the Jews, and as such Order 66 was more of a political powerplay than a true genocide. But that's really a matter of personal interpretation, so I won't stress the point.

Finally, while I think that the Republic/Empire was more Roman than NatSoc, it's best to remember that Star Wars isn't meant to be an allegory for any one thing; rather, it's a gestalt of themes and parallels from all of history to create a timeless story. Just like the Rebels/Empire can be seen as America/Britbong Empire, Viet Cong/America, and any number of other events, the RotE era is just as much Rome as it is the 3rd Reich.

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 No.18564

>>18562

Okay, thanks, I guess I really just needed to watch the films again.

>a mixture of themes

This is why I said it felt like both.

In the case of the Jedi, I thought it was pretty obvious, though I can just as easily compare them to a traditional ruling elite. The Jedi have a close connection to the Force (the "Chosen people"), are "good" so to speak, and adhere to strict philosophical/mystical doctrine, are used as a scapegoat (even though the Jews were a legitimate threat), and are massacred by space-nazis (didn't happen :^) ), who listen only to their Fuhrer, their Emperor.

And, I thought about how Sheev was a bit of a mixture of Caesar and his heir, but we were speaking of Caesar, I didn't bother. Also, I did mention that there was a purge of the Roman Senate, but not to the extent of Octavian Augustus'. Anyway, thanks for convincing me. I've grown to hate WW2 themes/allegories in stories because it's done so frequently, and because it's some of the only history normalfags are really acustomed to. So, it's nice to see some classical themes.

Good night /sw/.

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 No.18565

>>18564

*ah, and of course, the Jedi had some power, the Jews are acknowledged to have been "pushed" into banking and media, the argument being that the evil goyim made it so that they couldn't get jobs anywhere else and were "forced" to become businessmen

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 No.18566

>>18561

what is the british empire, you dolt?

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 No.18568

>>18566

I think he was asking about how Sheev's rise to power has any similarities to Great Britain.

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 No.18570

>>18568

oh, i was meaning britain more towards the OT empire. i'm sure there's some charlemagne n shit in sheev.

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 No.18571

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

Observe. Do you see anything from Disney's efforts equal to this?

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 No.18574

>>18571

Wow, if only I could feel that when watching the films :^)

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 No.18575

>>18574

*In all seriousness, I really wish I felt that when I saw the films. It's a shame I didn't.

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 No.18584

>>18575

Perhaps it's time for a rewatch. Give it a look with less jaundiced eyes.

>Remember that line, "I need your help, son"? That's a word Anakin has waited to hear for all his life.

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 No.18585

>>18571

>end of video title is best goy "Star Wars Explained"

>uploader of video is pro-EU "Star Wars Theory"

I'm confused.

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 No.18586

File: f60ee00845981a5⋯.png (586.57 KB,927x675,103:75,Why_Hayden_Christensen_Pla….png)

>>18585

>end of video title is best goy "Star Wars Explained"

¿Que?

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 No.18587

>>18586

As in the last three words of the title. SWT is a pretty cool guy, while SWE is a Disney shill whose videos are featured on the nu-wiki and I believe he's shittalked SWT a couple times.

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 No.18589

>>18584

Problem is I watched them when I was very little, and so for whatever reason I had trouble paying attention when I do rewatch them. As I result I am rather reluctant to rewatch even the Original Trilogy.

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 No.18590

>>18586

>>18587

Perhaps he innocently thought he could use those words.

By the way, be sure to keep your eyes on your email by the weekend. Kinda want to ask you some stuff.

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 No.18591

>>18587

>and I believe he's shittalked SWT a couple times

More like an all out flame war. Some even draw cringy art of Explained fighting Theory.

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 No.18592

File: 68802aa9b84acbf⋯.jpg (61.08 KB,283x213,283:213,sailor_yaranaika.jpg)

>>18590

Are you two gay lovers? :^)

>>18591

Well, post it goy :^)

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 No.18593

>>18592

>Well, post it goy

>:^)

Not with that ugly face.

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 No.18594

File: 9880470c4225a01⋯.png (413.91 KB,561x1500,187:500,Yaranaika_Trooper.png)

>>18593

やらないか?

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 No.18595

File: 6738e00cd32c78b⋯.jpg (121.12 KB,1280x720,16:9,maxresdefault.jpg)

>>18594

I can't fucking find it now. All I could find was the G&G vs Explained one which is just a cheap shoop.

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 No.18596

>>17399

Because star wars does not run on soy

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 No.18602

File: 3722a1084c25e28⋯.png (163.21 KB,392x324,98:81,372.png)

File: 0e91a3fd2ea6bc8⋯.jpg (15.71 KB,374x274,187:137,299c83b25e7d9f5fe3c59b6b7a….jpg)

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>>17734

>tfw gen x losers brainwashed the millenials into hating the prequels too

it's not fair

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 No.18655

>>18602

it's okay, there are new schisms within the fanbase that A) like all three trilogies B) like everything pre-disney and some disney elements and C) like everything pre-disney and none of the disney sw

what we need to do is shitpost across fan sites to make it seem like group C is growing more and more each day to the point that it drowns out the soyboys and boomers

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 No.18891

File: bfc945fac359965⋯.gif (943.99 KB,500x500,1:1,waiting.gif)

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