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My take is that they have not gone far enough until they depict the Rebels performing acts that everyone would criticise the soviets for carrying out but would wholeheartedly support the Rebels doing the very same thing against the empire.
Saw's partisans are mention of doing big terror attacks in the books and other media but i think if they show it to libs, they will just try to seperate them from the whole rebel alliance as some unrelated extremists
Saw isnt really ideologically aligned to the left, just very heavily coded. There isnt an equivalent for communism in star wars, unlike the various flavours of fascism.
And they coat it in a "that is kinda bad sweaty
" kind of way (looking at you Star Wars Rebels). Saw was 100% right
Yeah, Saw is almost always portrayed as the wrong way to run a rebellion, and they like to have him kick a metaphorical puppy just to drive that point home.
But Saw doesn't have Jedi. He can't manipulate the threads of fate ⸻ he has to make difficult moral choices that people like Ezra don't.
Like the cutesy Geonosian holding onto a baby that he threatens to kill lmao. Look at this fucking Glup Shitto
Such a cutie!
Have the Rebels capture an Empire allied Royal Family and then tell them they're gonna do a hologram capture of them...