This dude is arguing Darth Vader cares about imperial war crimes.
And here is a thread talking about the many times SA has been mention in SW
cw: expanding upon SA in the scene mentioned in the tweet, spoilers for episode 3 of Andor season 2
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I just finished that episode, and the presence of that scene isn’t the worst one I’ve seen, it wasn’t overly graphic, but you understood what was happening. We all know SA is used as a lazy motivator for a man’s revenge because “his woman” was violated. This didn’t seem like that, although I haven’t seen Episode 4 yet, so they certainly could go down that route. I hope not. At the end of episode 3, everyone on that ship seemed traumatized. You see it in all the actor’s faces.
I think the inclusion of this scene is to show that there are opportunists working under a fascist regimes that abuse real life undocumented workers all the time. The imperial officer knows about her undocumented status, he says this in the episode, he uses the threat of deportation to try and get what he wants. When that doesn’t work he gets more aggressive and violent. Bix fights back. Kills her assailant. All the characters already have established motivators for fighting against the empire. Bix doesn’t and didn’t need a man to rescue her and certainly doesn’t need anyone to “take revenge” on her behalf.
Maybe episode 4 will explore more about how SA affects women, we will see.
I can excuse destroying an entire planet and everyone on it, but I draw the line at SA.
– Darth Vader, probably
the “Empire Did Nothing Wrong” meme and it’s consequences have been a disaster for humankind.
and also too many are sucked in with the “they have cool ships and gear”
yes I too love disposable poorly trained infantry hordes and fragile spacecraft designed for wave tactics
vs combined arms spec-ops teams and multi-species highly competent space forces
Content Warning: Expanding on topics in the post title, fictional coercion
As if the Star Wars fandom couldn’t get more
A 3+ million sub youtuber who has made their whole personality being a Star Wars-guy has not experienced or has no working memory of the original radio play(1981) that accompanied the og Star Wars where the interrogation of Leia is expanded in grisly detail. Wherein the movie the scene mercifully cuts to black with a door closing behind the torture droid with the scary needle, it appears it was always the intention to portray the scene and the writers had in mind what occurred off screen.
I’m not actually going to listen to it again. But the theme was present in the original movie and it’s even a little wild what you could get away with implying in a film and still keep a PG rating in 1977. But I guess I’m just trying to cancel Darth Vader.
