• eatCasserole@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s true, the storm troopers and stuff are basically presented as automatons. I guess some audiences like not having to think, but it would have been much more impactful to show them as people with their own beliefs and motivations and stuff.

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      2 months ago

      There’s a lot of short stories about that in various books, though they tend to overuse both the tropes of banality of evil and the cackling evil maniacs.

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        2 months ago

        Oh interesting, I’ve never really delved past the movies.

        They did also choose to humanize a storm trooper with Finn in the new films, but I don’t remember him going through any “deprogramming” or anything, he just kinda realizes he’s a nice guy one day.

        It would have been much more interesting to see him struggle with his changing worldview.