Locomotive Breath:
Wow I felt like I was reading my own post. You hit it right on the head. I was watching a making of Jedi back in 1982 and Lucas casually mentioned the Vietnam symbolism with the Ewoks. It was the first red flag from something that had been a large part of my life until that point. Of course if I thought that was hamfisted symbolism well 20 twenty years later Lucas would resort to a sledgehammer. What it is even more screwed up is I’m not sure Lucas knows what the heck he’s talking about, the as the Old Republic slides into corruption the only people to save democracy are a teenage elected queen elected and a bunch of hippie samurai that you have to born as or you don’t get into the club…WTF?
A friend of mine summed it up all very well “It’s our own fault, during the last 40 minutes of Jedi we should have seen this coming.”
