I mean this in all good intentions but a lot of these examples don’t really work.
The hunger games is a mess and I do remember the “good” side was also super not cool.
Star wars is even worse since the rebels even after winning things got much worse, so yeah now I cheer for the empire when watching the old movies.
I even back in the day thought the machines had a better point then the humans in the matrix movies.
No one watched Divergent, so who knows?
And in V for Vendetta the whole hook is the story gets you to sympathize with a literal terrorist. Like really a main point of the story is to question authority and not blindly follow like this post expects people to do.
Yeah who the ‘resistance’ is is not cut and dry. The Empire was resisting the rebel forces. It’s not enough to just say the underdog is right. Even this tweet, I have no idea if this guy is a Trumper or the one painting Ruth Bader Ginsburg murals on all the trendy restaurants.
Yeah, It just kinda bugs me that people just toss aside critical thinking like this. Mostly the star wars example bugs me as The empire in the first 3 movies was based of the 3rd reich and very clearly the bad guys, but then when disney took over and removed any story from cannon after the 3rd movie (that covers making a new republic). Now you have this weird situation where canonically the empire was a functional government (that is evil) that is overthrown by the rebels that for some reason don’t become the next government but instead the whole galaxy is now just a massive post apocalyptic hellscape with slaves and worse and somehow the emperor is back leading a crap version of the empire (but with out actually governing anything).
I mean this in all good intentions but a lot of these examples don’t really work.
The hunger games is a mess and I do remember the “good” side was also super not cool.
Star wars is even worse since the rebels even after winning things got much worse, so yeah now I cheer for the empire when watching the old movies.
I even back in the day thought the machines had a better point then the humans in the matrix movies.
No one watched Divergent, so who knows?
And in V for Vendetta the whole hook is the story gets you to sympathize with a literal terrorist. Like really a main point of the story is to question authority and not blindly follow like this post expects people to do.
Wild.
Yeah who the ‘resistance’ is is not cut and dry. The Empire was resisting the rebel forces. It’s not enough to just say the underdog is right. Even this tweet, I have no idea if this guy is a Trumper or the one painting Ruth Bader Ginsburg murals on all the trendy restaurants.
Yeah, It just kinda bugs me that people just toss aside critical thinking like this. Mostly the star wars example bugs me as The empire in the first 3 movies was based of the 3rd reich and very clearly the bad guys, but then when disney took over and removed any story from cannon after the 3rd movie (that covers making a new republic). Now you have this weird situation where canonically the empire was a functional government (that is evil) that is overthrown by the rebels that for some reason don’t become the next government but instead the whole galaxy is now just a massive post apocalyptic hellscape with slaves and worse and somehow the emperor is back leading a crap version of the empire (but with out actually governing anything).