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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 08:59:15 JST Evan Prodromou

   I'm a qualified yes.

   I watch the movies and the TV shows. They're some of the best TV around.

   I dislike the complicity of the heroes on-screen with slavery, both of humans and of human-equivalent AI. They don't question their unjust surroundings. Exception: droid uprising in "Solo".

   I also don't like the model of history: two secret mystical societies locked in galaxy-wide battle for thousands of years, veering wildly from decadence and hypocrisy to fascism and back. It is so bleak.

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     :heart_pan: jo (jph@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 08:59:14 JST :heart_pan: jo

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     @evan I also liked the “it’s their planet we’re the invaders” bit in Solo.

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     Martin Hamilton (m@martinh.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 08:59:24 JST Martin Hamilton

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     @evan I thought the way Andor approached the Empire was really powerful - the banality of evil

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     Karen Simpson (vesperto@gladtech.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 08:59:26 JST Karen Simpson

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     @evan

     Most aliens are humanoids with human characteristics, i wouldn't call it varied, only variations of the little green men. Sorry, persons.

     It's hard to image aliens to begin with, but they could've tried harder. Maybe not Solaris, but something in between.

     As for robot rights, they're just bits and bytes inside tins, c'mon, no never systems there, no sentience.

     But the general worn out look of the universe is very compelling indeed. The Alien movies are another example in that respect.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 08:59:27 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I used to dislike that the SW universe was so messy. Now, I'm kind of into it.

     I like the big world.

     I love in the Mandalorian where Din Djarin has to explain to someone what a Jedi is, and they're like, oh, whatever. Uneven distribution of information is very interesting.

     I think the variety of aliens is cool. I don't like that every language is like "oota boota schmoota".

     I like that the music is called jizz and that they doubled down on it.

     I like R2-D2.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 08:59:28 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I really liked KOTOR. I liked KOTOR 2 less but OK.

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     :heart_pan: jo (jph@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 08:59:36 JST :heart_pan: jo

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     @evan I’ve been a SW fan since I was little and I think two of the things that attracted me to it is how for a sci fi world it felt lived in instead of sleak. I love people banging on the side of starships to make them work. And also the implied scale of the universe. It just let my little imagination run wild

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