>>211821382>Which do you think is more likely in the context of Star Wars as a work of fiction>Which is more in-line with what Star Wars is, as a movie, in its original form?I think that Star Wars, as a movie, in its original form, was a samurai movie with war as a backdrop, and didn't care about politics.
The prequels were where things went wrong.
I would say George's implied opinion is that republics (like America's) are inviolably Lawful Good. But every time he's tried to show us how his galaxy works he seems to go braindead and give reasons why the goodguys are badguys, whilst also saying things like "There's a third faction called the Hutt Empire. You know that Jabba guy from Luke's home? He's not a local crimelord but is in charge, but with other slugmen. Huttland is just like everywhere else but a common social greeting is shooting someone. They aren't in the war. I love young, supple Twileks..."
I think anon is justified in using canon lore, that is not hidden in some discontinued book or comic, to say Republic Bad Empire Good. I think that
>>211820258 is ranting about some kind of IRL politics. I think that IRL America is an Empire, always has been.
I am also old enough to remember people cringing over the end to A New Hope. Not because it's wall to wall white human males, but because it was trendy to say it's fascist to hand out medals to protagonists in a military gathering. But combining that with the modern white human male = evil, then you would have to concede if you're going to babble schizophrenically about IRL politics, the rebel alliance ARE ALSO the Empire. Perhaps moreso as in the same movie the Empire uses an alien spy on Tattooine but it takes until two movies later for the rebel alliance to have aliens and blacks serving in its ranks (chewie doesn't count, Han was an adventurer, not a part of the alliance).
