other stuff merely alluded to how fascistic it was.
I mean they definitely did burn a peasant farmstead to ashes and leave the charred corpses outside. Then destroy an entire planet and kill every single person living there. Then seize control of a neutral city and impose military rule on it. And colonize an entire planet and torture and murder the indigenous inhabitants...
Maybe I need to rewatch the films but it seemed more like the Empire was just evil for the sake of being evil without showing why it was actually doing anything other than quashing a rebellion. It's probably because there was greater emphasis on the POV of the Rebellion itself whose goals seemed to be vague (freedom, justice, etc) and Luke's perspective which was initially untainted by the politics (:grillman: ) and perhaps the Jedi parts muddied what would've been clearer political-economic dynamics, at least for me.
I mean they definitely did burn a peasant farmstead to ashes and leave the charred corpses outside. Then destroy an entire planet and kill every single person living there. Then seize control of a neutral city and impose military rule on it. And colonize an entire planet and torture and murder the indigenous inhabitants...
Maybe I need to rewatch the films but it seemed more like the Empire was just evil for the sake of being evil without showing why it was actually doing anything other than quashing a rebellion. It's probably because there was greater emphasis on the POV of the Rebellion itself whose goals seemed to be vague (freedom, justice, etc) and Luke's perspective which was initially untainted by the politics (:grillman: ) and perhaps the Jedi parts muddied what would've been clearer political-economic dynamics, at least for me.
idk just my thoughts