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dasakuryo:

dasakuryo:

star wars: people in the rebellion and the resistance are freedom fighters!! :)))

oscar isaac hernández estrada, retorting latinely: you mean the alliance and the resistance are guerrillas, they’re guerrillerxs.

star wars: ???? no, they’re both paramilitaries!! they’re freedom fighters!! :))) :))

oscar isaac hernández estrada: They.Are.Both. GUERRILLAS.They.Are.All. GUERRILLERXS.

@justahalfling

sorry this may sound dumb but whats the difference

no worries, let me clear this one up. Lexically, there is no difference, as both freedom fighters and paramilitary are English equivalents for guerrillerxs and guerrilla respectively, the difference lies, however on the implications the terms in Spanish and those in English carry.

As I said, linguistically they’re the lexical equivalents and “accurate translations” of both terms. Yet, it’s particularly interesting that Star Wars is deliberately choosing to use the English equivalents and avoid the use of the loan words altogether (which are actually used in English and have a pretty high degree of occurrence). 

It’s interesting because of a) the socio-historical and political context in which the OT sees the light (ie: the Cold War, the US intervention on third world countries to stop the ‘threat of communism’ deposing democratically elected left-wing governments and installing dictatorships to protect US interest/ensure control/stop the spread of left-leaning (esp socialist) governments, which in turned caused guerrillas to spring up… do you really think the fact the Rebel Alliance symbol is red is a coincidence and a purely aesthetic choice? More so when ahem GL himself actually hinted the Empire was, in part, meant to take after the imperialist policies of the US at the time); b) the use of said third world countries cultural traumas as plot devices in most of US modern science fiction-oriented media, star wars included.

And I do not find it surprising in the slightest that it was a Latino whose background is tied specifically with the harms of US interventionism (as Oscar is part Guatemalan and part Cuban) the one who reminded everyone that the Resistance (and by extension, the Alliance) are actually guerrillas, and that the FO (and by extension the Empire) can pretty much be read as a symbolism of the US.

johnnyclash87:

So I have a head cannon/theory that while in Harad, Aragorn put together a team of Haradrim Rangers to resist Saurons rule. I’m thinking up OCs for this team. Since I think the Haradrim were sorta based on North Africa I was thinking using Berber names.

I’d always thought of the Haradrim as Indian, although I now realize elephant-mounted warriors with brown skin could fit either region. I imagine Rangering would be very different in Harad than the forests that Aragorn was used to, so there was probably learning involved on both sides.

Rian: I am going to make a Star Wars Movie. I want it to be Good, so I will do Research on the Internet to see what makes a Good Star Wars Movie. Hm. It seems the Originals are the best. I will make my movie like those. Wait. Reddit says The Force Awakens is too Similar to the Originals. I will take cues from the Prequels instead. Hm. Reddit says the Prequels are Bad. That must be why they’re so Good. I must make my Star Wars movie Bad if I wanna it to be the Best Star Wars Movie Ever.

This sounds dishearteningly plausible. He has all the hallmarks of a creator type who copies things that look cool without understanding why they were cool in the first place. He also comes across as a shallow chaser of adulation who has no core or principles of his own, which explains why his movies have a surface charm but are fundamentally empty. He can do well as a director on a visual and technical level if kept tightly controlled, but he really shouldn’t write.

I’m pretty sure my being a
SW fan is compensation for Frank Herbert’s Dune being so dense and obscure and also,
amazingly, even more problematic than SW. Dune was hugely popular in the mid-to-late 20th century yet
seems all but forgotten now (though they’re coming out with yet another doomed screen adaptation attempt–give it up lads, it’s not filmable past the first book), and I bet even most of the people who do
know it haven’t gotten into the deeper weirdness of the later books.
It’s got a lot of interesting ideas but is so so strange and racist and
Islamophobic, 1/10 would not recommend tbh.

Going back to my alt-TLJ setting, Snoke’s secret plan (which wouldn’t be revealed until the third movie) is to tear down galactic society altogether and leave it in chaos, and is setting up a civil war in the First Order/Empire between Rey and some disgruntled officers. So Rey is trying to use her position to do as much good as possible and then gets caught in that, while the Resistance may not be so understanding of her decision.

I’m reminded of Leto II from Frank Herbert’s Dune books, who ruled the galaxy for thousands of years by becoming effectively immortal before being assassinated in a death he foresaw and planned for from the start. His plan, called the Golden Path, was to make humanity absolutely dependent on his tyranny before he suddenly died, plunging the galaxy into chaos and forcing them to seek out new frontiers. Humans would come back from their scattering evolved in completely new ways, and become so sick of dictatorship from Leto II’s rule that they would never seek god-rulers like him again. Leto also bred a bloodline that would be invisible to future sight, genes that would spread throughout the gene pool so humanity could never again be predicted and controlled like he was doing.

I’m meh on the Golden Path for several reasons. For one thing, “I will ruthlessly control and mold you in order to force you to be free” is so contradictory and paradoxical, it’s laughable. For another thing, I’m very skeptical that even a four-thousand-year-long galaxy-wide tyranny could make humanity swear off dictatorship for all time. Humans have short memories, which tend to get even shorter in the kind of chaos and institutional destruction that Leto’s death unleashed. You see this in Star Wars as well, with people forgetting about the Jedi and the Force within a generation of the Jedi being purged.

Snoke’s plan here seems like about half of Leto’s, the total chaos and breakdown of society part, without the grand vision or rationale. Destroying society for the sake of destruction is not only evil in itself, without any motivating goal or plan it’s just nihilistic. It makes Snoke seem more like the Joker than anyone else. Or maybe he is a bit like Leto, if part of his plan is to be a tyrannical ruler first. If so it feels like SW going back to its roots, since it’s been joked that SW is watered-down Dune.

I also don’t like the idea that Rey sees some good in going along with Snoke, something the Resistance evidently don’t have the foresight to see. It feels incongruous with her character and I kind of resist the idea that the Resistance aren’t as smart as she is.

I mean don’t let any of this stop you, of course, I hope you enjoy this rewrite and have a lot of fun with it. But I presume you wanted my feedback since you asked me, and that’s my opinion of what you’ve told me. Also it was good to reminisce about Dune, man that was a trippy series in retrospect.

How would a love triangle in your opinion work with Rey, Finn and Kylo? What about Rey, Finn, and Poe? I’m not advocating any of this but reading Courtship of Princess Leia now and just wondering about love triangles in general where polyamory isn’t the ultimate answer.

FinnReyLo love triangle: Kylo Ren is a creepy incel who stalks and negs Rey until she guts him at the same time Finn cuts off his head.

Likelier ReyFinnLo love triangle: Kylo Ren obsesses over Finn and keeps threatening him. He shows up to a trap set up by Finn and Rey where he thought he was going to catch Finn alone, and proceeds to be beaten up and kicked down a high cliff.

ReyFinnPoe love triangle: Rey and Poe duel over Finn’s hand until Finn shows up to break up the fight and admits he loves both of them. Rey and Poe in turn realize they love Finn not only in himself but for his love for the other person, too, and the trio becomes a triad.