[Bigtigermike]

Now it is but the originals were just a good story to tell and weren’t trying to convey any outright political bent. Yeah Lucas interjected it in prequels and the current writers and directors injected it throughout the current films but originally one could hardly tell

[discostu]

Nope, all the way back to the beginning. The story spun out from George and Francis working on Apocalypse Now, George wanted to do a scifi version, the Rebels are the VC.

[otness_e]

Unfortunately, as discostu pointed out, even the originals were political, they were just disguised politics similar to Goebbels’ views or the views of the Wachowskis in the Matrix trilogy. Don’t believe me? Read Lucas’s own 1973 draft for the film and his commentary (and yes, I actually did photograph those pages directly from my phone):

https://otnesse.tumblr.com/post/162081709399/this-is-from-george-lucas-1973-notes-for-star

[semaj]

Saw the recent release, and hated it, and the producers for what they did to a cherished movie franchise. This, from a die-hard Star Wars fan. I will never spend another dime on any future Star Wars film.

The male characters in this latest release are all portrayed as "men" who are either illogical, inept, emotional, incompetent, and unreliable, or a combination of all these combined, while the lead female characters are all solid, unemotional, pragmatic, decisive and heroic leaders who always make the right call.

I hated it.