First week back and already I’m having scheduling issues. Spending half of last week trying to wake up and Tuesday being loaded (none of that has anything to do with drinking, I assure you) has messed with my schedule, so I’ll have to save my other big commentary for next week.
Lucky for me I do have a couple of videos a bit long for a daily quickpost, and I’m using one of them now. Media Zealot’s series “Advanced Sci-Fi Civilizations Too Stupid To Really Exist” recently dug into the Star Wars prequels with a rarity for his series. The Separatists are all really stupid, but that may also be why Darth Sidious chose them as his pawns to conquer the galaxy. Create an enemy to distract the Republic and use the opportunity to slowly take over. There’s a joke about current LucasFilm in there somewhere.
This is of course HOW George Lucas lost LucasFilm, or was convinced to give it away. Let’s not forget the prequels deserved many of its negative critiques (though I’ll still defend Jar Jar conceptually and what happened to the kid who played Anakin in the first movie was just awful). Given how badly Lucas’ life went after making the first three, especially his wife leaving him for the guy designing his dream project, Skywalker Ranch, I can’t blame the guy. Lacking the same assists he had in the beloved original trilogy, the prequels were kind of a narrative mess, though I bet most of the fans who insisted Star Wars needed to be “saved” from its own creator regret that overreaction now, as the franchise has been plagued by ill thought out series, pet characters, social pandering, and weakened character arc by people not all on the same page. But at least George Lucas isn’t redoing the backstories or adding unnecessary sparklies. Yes, both things can be a mistake.
On the other hand, making the Separatists dumb may actually have been on purpose, as Media Zealot points out. That doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of them, though. Let’s laugh at the idiots, and continue the Tuvok clip drinking game.
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