Star Wars is meant to be lighthearted and mostly for kids, but there definitely is some critique of empire, and like The Emperor manipulating war to gain power was partially inspired by George Bush during the Iraq war.
Mass Effect is kind of interesting because they do deal with some issues relevant to real world politics, particularly like the way the genocide of the Krogan is justified and carried out, but it also does silly shit like having species of aliens who are always bad guys.
I really like the DLC where the only possible outcome is to do a genocide on the Batarians. You know, the only alien race (other than the Reapers) that's always depicted as villainous, and who are basically just a stand-in for black and Jewish stereotypes.
I always saw the Batarians as the stand in for muslims. The entire mission is about trying to stop them from suicide bombing the station. The slaver and slave raid theme has pretty serious barbary corsairs vibes to me as well.
Terrorist was pretty much synonymous with muslim back in 07. They even refer to it as a crusade (I guess Jihad would have been too on the nose).
When you do a Cowboy Bebop and put neoliberalism in space but forget about the critique part.
Just Mass Effect/Star Wars/Western Sci-Fi in general things
Star Wars is meant to be lighthearted and mostly for kids, but there definitely is some critique of empire, and like The Emperor manipulating war to gain power was partially inspired by George Bush during the Iraq war.
Mass Effect is kind of interesting because they do deal with some issues relevant to real world politics, particularly like the way the genocide of the Krogan is justified and carried out, but it also does silly shit like having species of aliens who are always bad guys.
The rebels in the original trilogy are modelled on the Viet-Cong IIRC
The prequels depict how democracies can slip into fascism a la Germany, but maybe George Bush too and the patriot act.
Bioware are pure libs. It’s why the 4channers don’t like them, they just see idpol where we see liberalism.
I really like the DLC where the only possible outcome is to do a genocide on the Batarians. You know, the only alien race (other than the Reapers) that's always depicted as villainous, and who are basically just a stand-in for black and Jewish stereotypes.
Just looked at the wiki and their explanation for this is that the Batarian government is paranoid so only the criminals are able to escape.
Real, NRA propaganda logic there.
I always saw the Batarians as the stand in for muslims. The entire mission is about trying to stop them from suicide bombing the station. The slaver and slave raid theme has pretty serious barbary corsairs vibes to me as well.
Terrorist was pretty much synonymous with muslim back in 07. They even refer to it as a crusade (I guess Jihad would have been too on the nose).
Always thought Firefly got it fairly right allthough that is basically just Cowboy Bebop anyways