re: #153 Romantic Heretic

Kinda on the topic of Star Wars, even if the first three movies hadn’t made it clear the Empire won the end of the second movie mad it clear that both The Republic and The Trade Federation were fucked.

On top of all that Lucas, I think unintentionally, made the Jedi Order out to be a bunch of amoral child exploiting cock-bags. Their tacit condoning of slavery already cast them in a very dubious light, but choosing to keep Anakin while letting his mother remain a slave without at least trying to go back and purchase her freedom was just an unforgivable decision. Amidala didn’t see fit to do shit about the situation either, though you can kind of overlook that since she wasn’t really an adult yet had her own planet to worry about, but the Jedi? Was this how they treated all the children they trained? Just take them from their parents under duress, without any real consent, and leave them with gigantic levels of unresolved emotional damage?

That movie was messed up on so many levels, but when it was over I couldn’t bring myself to give the tiniest fuck about whatever horrible fate awaited the Jedi.