Literally the Star Wars.
Including “…somehow Palpetine returned”
I don’t watch trailers to movies because I don’t like movies I know I’ll watch to get spoiled. I just groaned when I read that Palpatine had returned, and they put it in the opening scrawl!
What, you mean you missed the canonical Fortnite event of Palpatine’s voice ringing out across the galaxy? And then felt like you had somehow missed key plot events despite having watched all the movies because you didn’t participate in some fad videogame marketed to tweens? So it showing up in the opening crawl felt forced, unimaginative, and honestly just stupid?
Yeah, that sounds like my experience too.
I really ponder how anyone over age 21 can interpret it any other way. There are no supernatural books or stories. All kinds of people claim they hear the voice of god, it’s the popularity of these specific stories that defines them as religions.
Science shows religion stories fit the pattern of schizophrenia: https://www.wnyc.org/story/dr-joseph-campbell-inward-journey-schizophrenia-and-mythology/
I really ponder how anyone over age 21 can interpret it any other way.
Indoctrination from an early age explains it.
Santa and Easter Bunny we indoctrinate people into at a young age and we don’t have trouble explaining that they are fiction… still are useful stories.
Community. They do it for other reasons than the stories. They will defend the stories and say they aren’t literal because you are on the outside. And once you are on the outside it’s usually where you stay.
Mormonism is so totally Christianity fan fiction, it’s had weird sex stuff added to it
The Torah and the Bible already have weird sex stuff in it. There’s relatively explicit stuff like the Song of Songs, but then again you also have weird nonsensical incest such as the daughters who get their father drunk to rape him for no reason whatsoever, which you cannot convince me wasn’t written because some Israeli writer was horny. Just people writing about weird kinks like we’ve seen people do ever since the internet went live, except that the fellas making up the religion needed texts to add to the lore and said “Fuck it, let’s get this one in too”.
What I’m saying is that you just have to be born at the right historical time to get your kinks made part of religious canon.
Not just Mormonism, all Christian and Islamic branches are basically fan fictions based on the original books.
The trilogy isn’t complete without a Jar-Jar Binks type character to play as the Antichrist who secretly rules the galaxy as a Master Sith Lord.
