Posted on 03/19/2024 5:24:13 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Turned? He was already there from the start. This was literally the same guy who bragged repeatedly since ROTJ (and actually had development notes dating back to 1973 to back up his claims) to modeling the heroes after the Vietcong and the villains after America itself.
No, only Disney got seduced, Lucas if anything was with the Dark Side from the very beginning. Let’s not forget he specifically modeled the Rebels after the Vietcong and disguised them as more American just to trick audiences into rooting for the enemy (and worse, even KNEW full well at the time he did so that he modeled them after a mass murdering terrorist group).
No, they’re not stupid, they’re just following Lenin and Voltaire’s playbooks of demonizing the ones in charge then doubling down on the actions they condemned once they themselves are in power (let’s not forget, Lenin literally said when asked about the about-face on freedom of speech “I only was for free speech when I was the opposition.”). The more fitting term is unscrupulous.
Try earlier than that, when he had Obi-Wan, one of the good guys, outright PROMOTE the idea of truth being relative rather than absolute back in ROTJ. Not to mention modeled teddy bears after the Vietcong, and implied the Rebels were cut from the same cloth.
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