Cf how Ep VII of Star Wars "ruining" the original ending is the most realistic and interesting thing about ithttps://twitter.com/ouranosaurus/status/802313094932230144 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
On both the political scale (fascism doesn't go down cleanly or easily) and personal (survivors don't get a trauma-erasing fairytale ending)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Interestingly, though, the original EU also showed that fascism didn't go down easily.
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Oh yeah. Was just adding to the conversation. The movies always take up more space in the cultural imagination.
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But I was building up to saying that despite that, the new films are even harsher about the reality check than the books.
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yeah our first glimpse of the new setting is a brutal massacre
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followed by seeing Rey live in desperate poverty in a postwar hellhole
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It's bleaker. The Rebels are still...Rebels, not the New Republic. And the Jedi are on the verge of being myths.
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they're populated by people who read the New Republic
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