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The implication is there I guess. If it's that crucial and these are kid's movies then they should have made an actual point of it. Cause also what even is a human in the star wars galaxy? And wasn't the senate mostly weird aliens? It seems humans were the vast minority in that organization and territory. They needed bug men to build their robots and long neck freaks who live in apple stores on a rainy planet to clone the clones. I'll allow some eu bs here, but like...why was Palpatine racist? Just.csuse he's evil? Darth Maul was an alien, if he had killed both the jedi in phantom menace and became the Darth Vader, what was his an there? I for sure have seen it by implication and get the symbolism, but it raises more questions than it answers. Star wars is stupid as hell
It really is. Lucas had a few good points, and maybe some writers have done something interesting with the setting, but it's ultimately just vibes based slop and even Lucas didn't do a very good job of articulating his points.
I think the most impressive thing about the franchise is that a janky sci-fantasy samurai cowboy movie about Space-WWII-Vietnam-War-mashup in space managed to mainstream and legitimize sci-fi as a genre.
Sfdebris (super old online video guy, like rlm ancient) did a really good George Lucas examination. Part.one is The Heroes Journey covering his rise to star wars, the shadows journey about him becoming a corporate hack (the videos do it more gently) and the hermits journey about the prequels. It's super well researched and fairly sympathetic to.the guy. George Lucas at this pont to me, with what I know, is a pretty tragic story and I do think as a person he really really didn't want to become who he is. He thought he could use the money and the money used him.
https://sfdebris.com/videos/special/herosjourney.php