Hunger Games is about revolutionary anti-imperial class struggle

George Lucas said the Empire is inspired by America and the Rebels by the Viet Minh

The Matrix was created by a trans woman and at least partly an allegory for being trans

Divergent is shitty lib fanfiction but very obviously anti-conservative

Alan Moore was a communist or anarchist

wow these movies are just like January 6th when we resisted communism by smearing our shit on the capitol walls!! so-true biaoqing-copium

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    was always suspcious of anyone who was like “the Empire just looks cooler and has better gear/asethetics”

    never got that. even as a kid. the rebel alliance had combined arms tactics, brilliant generals/admirals, special forces commando teams, used camo, carried more advanced infantry weapons and used vastly superior, albeit outnumbered, combat space craft

    like how tf do you root for the human wave/swarm tactics guys who cheap out on even basic defenses for their space craft?

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      space battleships are pretty cool, imperial prop direction wasn’t exactly ugly either. basically everything in star wars had to look ‘cool’ for merchandising after all. actually thinking about it that Han Solo movie & Andor were the only installments that had the imperials looking mostly ugly & unpleasant. everything else the costumiers can’t resist making a new cool design to sell toys with

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          And yet, some of the worst Empireheads are the old EU nerds

          They point at Grand Admiral Thrawn just like all the Wehraboos who idolize Rommel

          And guys, I don’t think being a fan of the “brilliant tactical mind who fights for their empire despite disagreeing with it ideologically” trope makes a difference

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            just like Rommel’s ‘disagreement’ with the Nazis is overwrought and superficial; Thrawn was still a fascist, just less racist by virtue of being a Blue Guy

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              With Zahn seemed to know on some level in HTTE, and then shifted from by the end of the trilogy, and by the time Hand of Thrawn comes out he is rehabilitating his precious Thrawn.