Especially after Jar Jar Binks.

They lost their minds over Idris Elba being cast in Thor too.

But once the Jedi were eliminated, a lot of the troopers were draftees and volunteers from all races, etc.

All hail my geekery!

All hail my denial of the prequels!

The what now? Pre-Quels? Never heard of such a thing.

There are movies that took place before "Star Wars"? Wow, hope they didn't suck.

NuclearDem: He told me enough! He told me that some badass stuff happened!
Lucas: No, here are the prequels.

Lucas presents Episodes I - III.

NuclearDem (in great distress and anguish):Nooooooooooo!

Needed to see Darth Vader as a child. Nobody. Same goes for Boba Fett and the Death Star. Want to see it being built? No George, no I don't.

Han Solo and the Falcon weren't in the prequels.

Only good parts about that trilogy.

and nearly answered the same thing. I'm not even a huge SW fan but my brother is. (I'm more ST and can also remember watching classic Doctor Who episodes, along with all the cheesy sci-fi shows of the seventies.)

Except for Boba. He was made especially for Jango and did not have that built in flaw. Around the time of The Clone Wars they stopped producing the clones on Kamino.

And yes, I too am a geek.

In Episode IV (and V, and VI) we never saw an unmasked Stormtrooper; they were always "faceless."

Still, that's better than being surrounded by assholes:

a probable central character, hero, and perhaps love interest of a precious white flower. They are still sick about Lando but this time may hit closer to home.

Maybe it's someone who stole a stormtrooper uniform for some purpose .... just like Han and Luke did in "A New Hope" ... Hmmmmm?????

Is that he's a Stormtrooper that defects. He's supposedly the short one you see in the trailer before they deploy
/nerd rant

They wouldn't be racist. If you're willing to serve the Emperor obediently, then all are welcome.

Such is usually how empires work, when they're run competently.

We forget that the deepest evil is often meritocratic.

thought provoking post

Enslavement of non-humanoid species was part of government practice after Palpatine was "Emperorized".

But chauvinism is infinitely extensible. An oppressive force can accept a bigger tent as a stratagem to exclude an even larger set.

"Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because -- what with trolls and dwarfs and so on -- speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green."

I think the Empire is pretty down on aliens - but humans are humans?

Bryant

He's got the lead role. Word is he's struggling with his past, so the Stormtrooper uniform could be flashback or him escaping the Empire..

He was Jango Fett the bounty Hunter that was hired for the cloning...here is his pic.

New troopers, no longer clones

Although the last Indiana Jones makes me weary.

then I think it'll be safe.

something like that.

fuck 'em

Dead on.

Remember that?

They can do whatever they want to as far as I am concerned. I'm still waiting for something to out due The Empire Strikes Back.

Is that people think it must be only black and white? Why no Asian actors?

Just proves they're not watching Star Wars Rebels, which is the new series and establishing post-prequel pre-a new hope continuity. We've got it there where there aren't any real clones left at that point and we're seeing the Imperial Academy and training - which had a variety of different ethnic characters.

There are those that are legitimately surprised because they've grown up with the prequels as their first view of the franchise and never really clicked that the clones were phased out. But a good chunk of those "gaining fame" over this are just plain assholes looking to create controversy or are pretty much just assholes in general.

"Wow, they are giving storm troopers a human 'everybody' face. Most revolutionary thing Star Wars has ever done."

Yeah, the dude is also black, now that you mention it...

years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. They enjoyed it too and my son was into the Lego Star Wars sets for a while and then he grew up, went to college, got a degree and a job, and got married and settled down. Yesterday evening I watched a news story on one of the channels in which they were telling me that people lined up to see a trailer for a movie that won't come out for a year. That there was one theater full of people who played the trailer over and over again and analyzed the darned thing frame by frame with a panel of fans on the stage. Pan to the panel...all middle aged people with receding hairlines and beginning to acquire jowls. I do not get the needs for this type of fandom--not with a movie franchise or a singer or a product.

People out there need to get over it.

I'm just happy George Lucas wasn't involved in the day to day filiming

Watto -- the "greedy merchant" with a hooked nose

the Sand People

Nute Gunray

Jar Jar Binks (holy crap)

and #1) Darth Vader


I was embarrassed to be in the audience of the Watto + Jar Jar Binks film. I half expected one of them to be Al Jolson in CGI. It was like watching a film written by Strom Thurman and then an editor changes only one or two words here and there -- sand people.

The sand 'people' are people that live in the sand. They are called 'Tusken Raiders'.
I agree with your pics from the prequels but what sparked outrage about the original characters?

I love that movie and that response but it's comedy.
He was always Luke's Dad. Always. Getting honestly outraged is a bit silly.

But figured someone that hadnt seen the movie would think it was a racial dig by me.

Lucas seems to have mixed the obvious WWII Nazi references, including Stormtroopers, with only ONE black character/actor. Basically Darth Vader is Hitler but Lucas makes Hitler black. I don't remember outrage at the time. On my scorecard it was only after Jar Jar Binks that people went back and took another look at the whole series. JJB was so over the top.

Lucas also makes the hero of the first film Aryan -- the blond haired, blue eyed Luke. So he has flipped the whole thing; an Aryan is the good guy and the leader of the space Nazis is Black.

In another twist, CNN loved the voice of evil so much that they created their tag: "This is CNN" using JEJ

Jones himself

There's obvious parallels to Nazis with the Empire.
The dogfights were also choreographed with WW2 footage.