Even ESB, the artsiest/darkest original movie, doesn't fully commit. Cf Lando giving up on saving his city doesn't HURT as much as it couldhttps://twitter.com/shadowtodd/status/808737027617386497 …
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Imagine if we had to look through Lando's eyes as the Imperials torch homes, smash up factories, line his ppl up to be arrested and enslaved
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As it is this horrible decision he makes still has it implied his ppl get out ok and it's all smoothed over by the next movie
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We can meditate for a sec on whether it's genius or just fucked that Lucas put the Dilemma of the Good German on his only black character
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My fav anecdote is a ten year old fan asked Williams "Lando, why did you sell out your friends?" and provoked him into a heated argument
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Getting into it with a little kid about how these decisions aren't so simple in a time of totalitarian government
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"Lando had a very difficult decision to make. Maybe someday if you have other people relying on you to protect them you'll understand"
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But yeah the Death Star, what a bloodless superweapon. At least we briefly saw the population of wherever-it-was in Ep 7 before they died
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Funny the EU books' ersatz Death Stars were all scarier bc they were less stupidly instantaneously deadly
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The World Devastators - unstoppable Von Neumann machines that steadily eat up planets. That's a good sci fi threat
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and then poop out more TIE fighters! Unstoppable.
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