freamonSep 23, 2023

After they Destroy the Planet to Make Way for an Interspace Bypass

https://feddit.nl/post/3713864

After they Destroy the Planet to Make Way for an Interspace Bypass - feddit.nl

Show threadPossibly linuxSep 23, 2023
I don’t get it. How is this related to star wars
Show threadtheinspectorst

'So long and thanks for all the fish!' is what the dolphins say in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, when they leave the Earth and fly off into space, shortly before the Earth's destruction to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

The Purrgil's in Star Wars are also a species of space-faring cetaceans and OP is making a meme linking the two.

Sep 24, 2023 at 12:21amWeb
Show threadPossibly linuxSep 24, 2023
What is a Purrgil? I don’t remember that from the prequels or the sequels
Show threadOutlierBlueSep 24, 2023
It’s from the series Ahsoka.
Show threadtheinspectorstSep 24, 2023
Space whales that paid a key plot role in Rebels and now again in Ahsoka? If all you've watched is the Prequel and Sequel movies (not even the OT?!) then there are going to be an awful lot of Star Wars memes you might not get.
Show threadquinnlySep 24, 2023

Jfc I haven’t kept up with the Disney SW stuff but it really sounds like they jumped the shark.

Space-faring whales…cmon now

Show threadCortSep 24, 2023
Space-faring whale-squids that can jump to hyperspace.
Show threadquinnlySep 24, 2023
I have no words
Show threadtheinspectorstSep 24, 2023

Space-faring whale-like creatures are an extremely common science-fiction trope.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceWhale

Space Whale - TV Tropes

Space Is an Ocean. This is a well-known phenomenon. For some reason, though, the ocean of space is pretty much devoid of fish. But not of whales. Somehow, at some point (probably in the 1970s), the ideas of space and whales became permanently …

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Show threadquinnlySep 24, 2023
Being extremely common doesn’t make it any less stupid