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::: I used to think that as well, regarding the Rebels anyways, probably also the Empire being Nazis too. Unfortunately... Lucas deciding to open his big fat mouth pretty much changed all of that. The start of that mess occurred when Bill Whittle made that [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns1m_aXJa58 afterburner episode Han Shot First] when Whittle first mentioned the Vietcong's ties to the heroes' conception (though there he was technically referring to the Ewoks more than the Rebels themselves, it nonetheless tarnished the Rebels somewhat since it implies they probably weren't based on America after all.) and how America was meant to be the Empire ("Lucas has since said, by the way, that the Ewoks, the little native good guys, represent his mind the Vietcong, while the evil Empire, the one we spent our own childhood rooting against was in fact ''America''! You feeling better now? You're welcome."), and what made that very blatant was Chris Taylor's book retrospective on Star Wars. I don't even root for villains generally, and in fact I make it a rule to never root for the villains even if the heroes aren't my cup of tea either (and in the latter case, I generally don't root for either group), so the fact that I actually am forced to make an exception in this case just shows how badly I took the revelation. Besides, going by a fairly recent Charlie Rose interview where George Lucas literally said he preferred Soviet filmmaking over American filmmaking, you know, the same type that would result in you being executed on a mere whim by the Soviet leader if he deems anything even remotely bad about it, I'd say he probably has little problem with the USSR. On a related note, I also intensely dislike comparisons between the American Minutemen and the Vietcong, as well. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 05:56, 11 September 2017 (EDT)

::: I used to think that as well, regarding the Rebels anyways, probably also the Empire being Nazis too. Unfortunately... Lucas deciding to open his big fat mouth pretty much changed all of that. The start of that mess occurred when Bill Whittle made that [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns1m_aXJa58 afterburner episode Han Shot First] when Whittle first mentioned the Vietcong's ties to the heroes' conception (though there he was technically referring to the Ewoks more than the Rebels themselves, it nonetheless tarnished the Rebels somewhat since it implies they probably weren't based on America after all.) and how America was meant to be the Empire ("Lucas has since said, by the way, that the Ewoks, the little native good guys, represent his mind the Vietcong, while the evil Empire, the one we spent our own childhood rooting against was in fact ''America''! You feeling better now? You're welcome."), and what made that very blatant was Chris Taylor's book retrospective on Star Wars. I don't even root for villains generally, and in fact I make it a rule to never root for the villains even if the heroes aren't my cup of tea either (and in the latter case, I generally don't root for either group), so the fact that I actually am forced to make an exception in this case just shows how badly I took the revelation. Besides, going by a fairly recent Charlie Rose interview where George Lucas literally said he preferred Soviet filmmaking over American filmmaking, you know, the same type that would result in you being executed on a mere whim by the Soviet leader if he deems anything even remotely bad about it, I'd say he probably has little problem with the USSR. On a related note, I also intensely dislike comparisons between the American Minutemen and the Vietcong, as well. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 05:56, 11 September 2017 (EDT)

::::Ever since Disney and J.J Abrams have been (in my opinion) ruining Star Wars more than it already was, I lost interest in most Star Wars stuff except for the Expanded Universe/Legends material. Granted there was a lot of Legends stories that were awful, but I really liked the Imperial Civil War that followed Episode VI and found the Before the Republic era mysterious and fascinating. The Imperial Civil War was really interesting era and Abrams could have used it as a setting for an original Star Wars movie, but instead decided to make a half-baked 2015 version of Episode IV. And that's me being generous. [[User:KommissarReb|KommissarReb]] ([[User talk:KommissarReb|talk]]) 16:19, 11 September 2017 (EDT)

::::Ever since Disney and J.J Abrams have been (in my opinion) ruining Star Wars more than it already was, I lost interest in most Star Wars stuff except for the Expanded Universe/Legends material. Granted there was a lot of Legends stories that were awful, but I really liked the Imperial Civil War that followed Episode VI and found the Before the Republic era mysterious and fascinating. The Imperial Civil War was really interesting era and Abrams could have used it as a setting for an original Star Wars movie, but instead decided to make a half-baked 2015 version of Episode IV. And that's me being generous. [[User:KommissarReb|KommissarReb]] ([[User talk:KommissarReb|talk]]) 16:19, 11 September 2017 (EDT)