Palps: "I embody all the Sith before me" Rey: "Who? what's a sith? Who are you? How do I even know you're actually my family?" *sticks a lightsaber through his face*
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Replying to @chton @BootlegGirl and
Classic JJ Abrams then. "I am KHAN." "Nice to meet you, Khan." Seriously, that name means nothing in the context of that story.
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @BootlegGirl and
But it means something to the AUDIENCE and as we know evoking paratext emotion is more important than narrative
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Replying to @Plutoburns @BetaDecayPlus and
So, I had less problem with that in Wrath of Khan than I do with TRoS. Because in the movie, people either already know about him from their history books, or they react as if it's any other name for a dangerous person. Rey responds as if she's known that name all her life.
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Replying to @chton @Plutoburns and
It's fine using a character the audience knows in order to evoke emotion, but in the case of TRoS the characters respond like the audience does, not like an actual in-world character would. They genuinely respond as if they've watched the original trilogy.
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Replying to @chton @Plutoburns and
I don’t understand this criticism. Why would people not know who the Senator who took control of the Republic as a dictator and ruled it as a fascist Empire for decades was? What evidence is there to suggest people wouldn’t know who he is?
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Replying to @della_morte_ @chton and
I think this is an audience issue. WE had no idea whi the emperor was in the OT, he was a shadowy hands of manager with no name In universe, maybe he supresses his name but it wasnt so long ago people would have forgot
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Replying to @Plutoburns @della_morte_ and
Then again, apparently a 1000 year police force/religion can become myth in 20 years
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Replying to @Plutoburns @della_morte_ and
This REALLY isn't out of bounds, especially with a active propaganda effort dedicated to erasing that memory and/or tarnishing their reputation.
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @Plutoburns and
Yeah to be fair Lucas wrote that conversation with Qui-Gon and Anakin in TPM to establish that for most people Jedi are mythic figures surrounded by a lot of urban legends and bullshit
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The shift in perception after the Empire isn't that they never existed so much as they were a cult of charlatans, which is the attitude Han takes toward Ben and Gen. Motti takes toward Vader in ANH
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