In the Star Wars movies, Obi-Wan Kenobi opines that blasters are "so uncivilized"...
...unlike the lightsaber, apparently, with which he cuts people in half, or cuts their hands and legs off.
So how about it: which are more uncivilized, lightsabers or blasters?
| Lightsabers are more uncivilized | |
| Blasters are more uncivilized | |
| They're equally uncivilized | |
| Both are the height of civility |
@ireneista @ChrisJagged @mayintoronto I suspect that the original was cribbing from the general atmosphere of samurai movies, and perhaps especially ones that were nostalgic for the old days of swords, honor, non-Westernized Japan, etc etc.
(And probably not thinking of the flipside of that history, or the anger of samurai at losing their special privileges in the Meiji Restoration, etc etc.)
@ireneista @ChrisJagged @mayintoronto My strong impression from what I've heard of the first Star Wars movie is that George Lucas was flying by the seat of his pants for a lot of it and wasn't exactly thinking it through deeply. Sometimes his gut was entirely right¹ and sometimes it was questionable.
¹ I maintain it's important to Han Solo's character and character arc that he shot first, and Lucas at the time of the first movie understood this in his gut but later lost the plot.
@cks @ChrisJagged @mayintoronto and yeah with regard to the atmospheric stuff.... we eventually decided most of the really good stuff about Star Wars was never in the movies as such, and not even really the Extended Universe... it was the things fans imagined it could be that made it so special
and if we did that ourselves, we can do it with anything, we don't have to stick with what has become a highly corporate setting, you know?
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