• LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      This is probably old. I think it's the live-slug-reaction kiss that happens for a second in Rise of Skywalker.

      context

      They celebrate the defeat of the bad guys, and there's two women kissing. It quickly cuts to this guy live-slug-reaction. Dweebs got mad about it for reactionary reasons.

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          I can't remember if there was any dork outrage regarding Bix and Vel in Andor, but I think that show didn't have enough shiny jangling keys wow-cool-robot for pronouns types.

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            1 year ago

            It is absolutely amazing that the first good star wars in 40 years bounced right off supposedly their biggest fans.

            • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              The biggest fans with the littlest media literacy lol. Let's be honest, they were never going to be into it, and it's a miracle that it even exists!

              • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                1 year ago

                They really want a giant galaxy where only 12 people ever did anything important so they can jack off to some published fanfic about Bonti'iib Fucko's adventures in the Nood Thorwok piss mines cause he was some alien in thar bar from episode 2.

                  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                    1 year ago

                    WHY DIDNT DISNEY MAKE THE THRAWN TRILOGY?! EVERYONE LOVES THE THRAWN TRILOGY! Like, I barely know who that guy is and I'm a nerd who engages in mocking voyeurism of Star Wars fans for fun

            • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              the biggest fans gave up after how atrocious the movies were. what's left are casuals (no shade), "wow cool sword" losers, and traumatized fans who can't look away from the trainwreck.

        • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          They had the same outrage over a two second same sex smooch on that Buzz Lightyear movie too. They even claimed that that is why the movie didn't do well, and not because like, people didn't understand why the film to exists in the first place.

    • motherofmonsters [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      “stupid nerd” just hit me so hard

      like how are these clowns into nerd shir and so fucking dumb?

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Star Wars is stupid as hell, which is fine if taken for what it is, but being someone who understands the average wookiepedia article doesn't make you smart, it means you know a lot about something really dumb

        • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          They think having an encyclopedic knowledge and having media literacy is the same thing.

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            1 year ago

            But what about Porritch GamGams? The Falloopian from Ventos 12 who tried to sell Luke a handful of chuck peas in 24 ABY in the Karfart Marketplace on Wantoo

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I had a co-worker once, a really nice guy who never expressed a single political idea ever. He was a huge Star Wars nerd and would keep Star Wars toys on his desk and one for a costume party he dressed up in a full Darth Vader costume. He had never given it a thought that the movies could be an allegory of something in the real world and he was really surprised to learn about them being an allegory of the Vietnam war.

        • motherofmonsters [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          me dressed head to toe in a darth Vader outfit: wait the veterinarians fought in a war?

        • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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          1 year ago

          My wife doesn't really get subtext, and once showed me an exchange between her and a male friend, about 6 month into us dating.

          Male friend was clearly into her and she was oblivious, and male friend kept using euphemisms to avoid saying it outright, and was pissed she was dating someone "while we're talking"

          She had no idea that some people use "talking" as code for "not dating officially but super into each other" and she had no idea he was even into her. And based on what I now know of both my wife and this (now former) friend, she was being a normal nice and a decent human being instead of shitty and short with everyone at the factory, and he took that as interest in him.

          So this whole time he's going on about them "talking" she's just like "yeah we're talking? Like right now? Are we not? Is this not talking?" as in "yes we are exchanging words" and he wants to hear "I'm into you" so he things she means "of course we're talking silly".

          Awkward exchanges after that.

          And I've had to explain plenty of movies that are allegories and what sociopolitical influences made a show go a certain direction. She understands once I explain, but she probably wouldn't get there on her own.

          Some people do NOT understand subtext. At ALL.

        • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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          1 year ago

          tell me you don't know star wars history without telling me you don't know star wars history.

          The kid direction started in empire, but the studios REALLY swung hard into it, purposefully, in return of the jedi onward. I mean ewoks were literally only introduced to sell toys.