agreed.
Sexy Chewbacca outfit.
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agreed.
I think mainly it was the skin involved in their favorite movie was a bonus. There were plenty of movies out during that time that showed a lot more skin that were accessible to that same generation of teenage boys (and girls).
That's my assumption, too. Bet that slave bikini is worth BIG bucks, and not to be trifled with.
It's just part of the emotional autism of the entire OT, and I accept it as the Star Wars "thing." I don't see it as any weirder than, say, the way Luke and Leia's families are murdered in ANH - and Leia's planet is blown up right in front of her - yet neither of them seem to be in catatonic shock or enveloped by murderous rage like a normal person would be. They just bounce along with the whole adventure like nothing happened.
Consider how bizarre it is that Leia's planet has been destroyed, she's been tortured, and when a stormtrooper opens the cell door, certainly she has to be expecting to be taken to her execution. Instead of being a spitting, defiant demon like we'd expect, she just makes a breezy quip about the guy's height. Okay, maybe she's planned the quip as a show of defiance, yet that isn't the way it comes off at all. There's no sense of raging emotions behind it, and not a hair on her head is mussed. I'm sure the Organas raised her to be tough and self-possessed, but that's just too much to believe.
Or, when Luke's landspeeder rolls into Mos Eisely, why doesn't Obi-Wan have to physically restrain Luke from trying to murder the first stormtrooper he sees with his bare hands, after having seen the people who raised him from infancy turned into BBQ? Why doesn't Luke rage against against Obi-Wan's ghost for allowing him to fall in love with his own sister? Why don't either of them act at all freaked out upon learning the truth?
In that context, if Leia had been raped by a giant slug, would we have expected her to have any sort of reaction at all? These characters are like emotional Wil E. Coyotes, falling off thousand-foot cliffs and snapping back into shape, none the worse for it. Sure, maybe someone should re-do the OT and let the actors have a bit more leeway to "make it real," but only after we've re-done the PT, where emotional autism is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Only for scaaary October.
Frankenvorta said:
All valid and salient points, I suppose. It is a little messed up when taken as a whole like that.
Right - unlike Harry Potter, which sometimes takes place in the present-day real world and is clearly meant to be taken more or less seriously at a psychological level, the OT is a fairy tale that never aspires to any significant degree of emotional maturity. I'm more disturbed/annoyed, frankly, by the PT's lack of speaking female Jedi and Padme's demise.
Now that I think of it, why did I ever think that Star Wars could pull off a complex, rule-breaking story like "the hero becomes evil" considering that it would require a story with a whole lot of psychological insight, which Star Wars has never had? 
Pfftt ... A female wookie.
There are no female Wookies? 
Wow, I had no idea. The Wookie race is doomed? 
Well if it's EU, I'll ignore it. Don't like the idea that the Wookies are a dying race.
I don't know where Nightstalker is getting his information from, but there have been many female Wookies in the EU and Kashyyyk has a thriving population at least up to Legacy of the Force. I've never heard anything about Wookies being on the brink of extinction.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
the ewoks are the extinct ones...
seriously, all that hard radiation and scrap metal raining down on Endor, that's a fucking ecological catastrophe right there. goddamn Rebel scum...
seriously, all that hard radiation and scrap metal raining down on Endor, that's a fucking ecological catastrophe right there. goddamn Rebel scum...
Well if it's EU, I'll ignore it. Don't like the idea that the Wookies are a dying race.
He's getting it from Lord of the Rings. It's a joke.
