Honestly, the whole Darth Jar Jar thing becomes especially believable through the lens of current events.
A character who sows chaos at every turn to rapidly advance the largest-scale evil possible in a way that everyone who watches him repeatedly just dismisses his actions as accidents or dumb luck and fails to hold him responsible until it’s too late.
Sounds ridiculous, but that’s literally Trump.
If only Democratic leadership had anything near the balls of Mace Windu. They’d pause the fight to pen an angry letter while Jedi, younglings, and the entire Republic get slaughtered.
A Sith Lord in control of the senate you say? We must call the council at once and write a formal letter to Emperor Palpatine to tell him his actions are against the founding principles of this republic! And we’ll make sure to comply with his every demand, but be strongly against the morality of this whole situation.
They were absolutely as blind as the Jedi Council, and just like the Council they waited too long to act. The Garland DoJ could have prevented this, had they prioritized justice over cowering to the rich, the powerful, and the fictional consciences of republican voters.
Bullshit. The Jedi were fighting a war and still rushed over when they finally had proof. Acting before then would have literally just been their own coup. They had grown detached, for sure, but it also wasn’t their job to do literally everything to hold the Republic together.
Trump had his Order 66 leaked and the dumbass Dems still stuck their thumbs up their asses. And it IS literally their job to hold the Republic together. There’s even a lot more of them than 10,000 per 10 trillion citizens.
Why the fuck don’t Star Wars fans understand Star Wars?
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree. I think the Jedi council was very clearly myopic and hidebound, not to mention their precognitive abilities were blunted by the influence of the dark side, much like the sanewashing of Trump in the media.
Why the fuck don’t Star Wars fans understand Star Wars?
Indeed.
Windu got done wrong but I hope we get cartoons that delve into these figures.
Hard to tell in the movies that windu was hands down the best light saber duelist in the galaxy, that his defeat was a gigantic coup for palpatine.
The OG clone wars cartoons shows windu to be the badass he is.
This line dropped as the second George W Bush term was getting underway. It felt super relevant then, too (I actually viewed him and Cheney as worse than Trump until he actively worsened COVID). But this term’s opening has been so bad so fast that the line really does hit different.
These concepts have played out in many different civilizations long before (and during) America. This is why studying history is important–and also why dictators try to erase it.
This line from something else science fictiony in the same era also hits differently now.
But I need to know how he eats and breathes and other science facts!
(La la la)
History is a snake eating itself
