Because I don't really give a fuck about splitting hairs about whether it's genocide or gigadeath or something else, but looking at political parallels to the baddies in Star Wars is really interesting.
Example: A friend of mine pointed out that the Republic in the prequels can be easily turned into an analogue to the Confederacy, since slavery seems to be legal to the point where the Jedi refuse to "steal"/rescue Anakin and instead try to just...buy him. Like, it's not what happens on every planet, but the Republic's response to planets where it is common seems to be "Meh, it's their culture."
Re: Political stuff you see in the Empire/First Order
I always saw Star Wars as similar to Ancient Rome. I know there was a rumor years ago that Lucas had based the OT off Ancient Roman civilization and politics, but I'm not sure if there was any truth to that.
Re: Political stuff you see in the Empire/First Order
He was deep into Joseph Campbell's monomyth, so whatever elements of Rome you might find are simply reflective of how Rome's history has been fit into monomyth.
Which is a lot - see: Livy.
Re: Political stuff you see in the Empire/First Order
Kylo Ren really reminded me of the European teenagers/young adults that fall prey to ISIS, and leave their own countries only to come back months/years later to commit attacks. Especially with the discussion between Han and Leia where they wonder if they can ever reach their son again.
From BFA, the New Republic is the European countries between the two world wars. They watched the Nazi party rise to power and didn't do anything when it invaded Austria, for example. From the contemporary era, they're the bad guys; but from their point of view, they were focused on protecting peace, and didn't think the Nazi party was that bad.
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Political stuff you see in the Empire/First Order
(Anonymous) 2016-03-05 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)Example: A friend of mine pointed out that the Republic in the prequels can be easily turned into an analogue to the Confederacy, since slavery seems to be legal to the point where the Jedi refuse to "steal"/rescue Anakin and instead try to just...buy him. Like, it's not what happens on every planet, but the Republic's response to planets where it is common seems to be "Meh, it's their culture."
Re: Political stuff you see in the Empire/First Order
(Anonymous) 2016-03-06 01:00 am (UTC)(link)Re: Political stuff you see in the Empire/First Order
(Anonymous) 2016-03-06 01:49 am (UTC)(link)Re: Political stuff you see in the Empire/First Order
(Anonymous) 2016-03-09 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)He was deep into Joseph Campbell's monomyth, so whatever elements of Rome you might find are simply reflective of how Rome's history has been fit into monomyth.
Which is a lot - see: Livy.
Re: Political stuff you see in the Empire/First Order
(Anonymous) 2016-03-06 08:48 am (UTC)(link)From BFA, the New Republic is the European countries between the two world wars. They watched the Nazi party rise to power and didn't do anything when it invaded Austria, for example. From the contemporary era, they're the bad guys; but from their point of view, they were focused on protecting peace, and didn't think the Nazi party was that bad.