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They're continuing the rehabilitation of the space nazis (with celebrities! 🎉) and now doing a "the robot slaves are grateful to serve" thing. Everything's going great.👍

  • AHopeOnceMore [he/him]B
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    1 year ago

    I thought the previous one wasn't so bad. Both of the "reformed" characters are presented as unreformable: one as driven to pursue eugenics work regardless of the reform framework preventing it, the other clearly a neo-imperial and utterly unreformed.

    This episode had Jack Black as a dumbass bourgeois "reformed" imperial buffoon who continually fucks up but is rewarded for it by a system that continues to be bourgeois.

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Another thing that bothered me about Space Mengele was what finally set him off...

      S03E03 spoilers

      The Republic was decommissioning and scrapping old Imperial ships including their onboard inventory of medical supplies, which, OK, at face value, yeah, maybe that stuff could have been useful for people affected by the bloody war against the Empire and/or the Imperial Remnant, but no, not really. The Empire is extremely speciesist and human-centric -- you almost never see non-humans aboard an Imperial vessel or station unless they're bounty hunters or test subjects. The Star Wars universe has how goddamned many sentient, space-faring species in it, and we never see so much as a Twi'lek comms officer or whatever (Thrawn notwithstanding). Therefore, it's safe to assume that the med kits on those ships aren't going to be very useful for non-human physiology -- hence the fact that they're going in the trash. Like, fuck, dude. As if having cravings for space MREs wasn't bad enough; duder can't even get moral outrage right.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Continuing his trend from Clone Wars, Filoni is great at telling a story about the failures and intrinsic problems with liberal democracy that you have to analyze to get because he’s completely unaware he’s doing it