Like the big thing abt real-life rebellions we don't see in our fantasies is 1) they usually lose, hard 2) they usually aren't very nice
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And those two things are kind of obviously related
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Star Wars was always wanting to have our cake & eat it too. Rebels are plucky underdog resistance but they also follow all the rules of war
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They're more noble and upstanding and committed to honorable fair fights than the enemy that wildly outnumbered them
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(The tie-in works moved to fix this almost immediately but even then our grizzled antihero Kyle Katarn is that way bc he's ex-Imperial)
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Idk anything abt Rogue One aside from the trailers but it sounds like they're willing to make uncomfortable parallels w RL insurgencies
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The deal where there's a holy city under occupation by the Empire that grudgingly allows pilgrimages, that cuts close to the bone
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Hopefully there'll also be some examination of how you know as the high tech superpower we are the Empire
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Like lets be honest - Empire's exhaustion at rooting out Rebels city by city, village by village = USA in 1945
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Empire's excitement at having a Death Star that can end the war NOW = Truman and the Manhattan Project
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The shit abt how Rebels will never ever stop fighting to the last man woman and child = what we were saying abt the Japanese, as a bad thing
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Hey there's even a bit abt how the US chose to bomb Hiroshima bc a pure military target would be "too remote to serve as a demonstration"
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thanks for the info. I always wondered why they chose someplace so heavily populated-not as much as I wonder about Nagasaki
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