Hmmm we disagree a bit but I do kinda understand how you got to where you are. Star Wars is good though, at least under Lucas. Yes there's a space cult and magic involved but I genuinely think it serves no political or ideological purpose other than to put wizards in space for the sake of making the story more interesting. I don't see Jedi or Sith as competing religions. They are space wizards learning light magic vs dark magic. It has DnD influence if anything, which I think you can see a lot of when you look at the varied party-members during "dungeons" that they're investigating and the skills of the party members ranging from ranged combat to melee to lock-picking and/etc. Jedi are the space wizards of the party.
Honestly, 95% of the time I talk about HP these days, it’s just to shit on the author. I cannot explain why I feel compelled to redeem it that other 5% ahaha
I’ve always liked the Jedi, tbh, before I started doing a political reading. They remind me of Buddhist monks, and I like a lot of the teachings they carry. Plus, they do it with badass space swords and are committed to fighting to the death to protect their values. V cool.
Jedi are the space wizards of the party.
I can’t believe it took like less than an hour for me to come around on Star Wars haha thank you for enlightening me o7
Right right but I'm mainly focused on what Lucas was directly involved with. When I say "Star Wars is based on vietnam" I'm definitely solely referring to Lucas' works. I'm sure there are huge chunks of the EU he had absolutely nothing to do with.
I’m sure there are huge chunks of the EU he had absolutely nothing to do with.
Yeah, pretty much everything in the EU had ~0 Lucas involvement, thats why a lot of it is, you know... good
But semi-joking aside, from what I remember from interviews and stuff, he basically wanted to make a ww2 film, in space, with samurai movie elements and that morphed into whatever the hell it is now
Hmmm we disagree a bit but I do kinda understand how you got to where you are. Star Wars is good though, at least under Lucas. Yes there's a space cult and magic involved but I genuinely think it serves no political or ideological purpose other than to put wizards in space for the sake of making the story more interesting. I don't see Jedi or Sith as competing religions. They are space wizards learning light magic vs dark magic. It has DnD influence if anything, which I think you can see a lot of when you look at the varied party-members during "dungeons" that they're investigating and the skills of the party members ranging from ranged combat to melee to lock-picking and/etc. Jedi are the space wizards of the party.
Honestly, 95% of the time I talk about HP these days, it’s just to shit on the author. I cannot explain why I feel compelled to redeem it that other 5% ahaha
I’ve always liked the Jedi, tbh, before I started doing a political reading. They remind me of Buddhist monks, and I like a lot of the teachings they carry. Plus, they do it with badass space swords and are committed to fighting to the death to protect their values. V cool.
I can’t believe it took like less than an hour for me to come around on Star Wars haha thank you for enlightening me o7
Thats way more of a thing in the old EU, particularly the old republic era stuff
Right right but I'm mainly focused on what Lucas was directly involved with. When I say "Star Wars is based on vietnam" I'm definitely solely referring to Lucas' works. I'm sure there are huge chunks of the EU he had absolutely nothing to do with.
Yeah, pretty much everything in the EU had ~0 Lucas involvement, thats why a lot of it is, you know... good
But semi-joking aside, from what I remember from interviews and stuff, he basically wanted to make a ww2 film, in space, with samurai movie elements and that morphed into whatever the hell it is now