Fight Club, Star Wars and American Psycho join in as the most notable films to have fanbases that have wildly different interpretations of the art that is… concerningly bad to say the least
TLDR from a non-geek, got it explained thru beers by a colleague in an office party: while using the dark force, Palatine (or some other) could predict the future and he foresaw that a new alien race, way stronger, would invade their Galaxy. The Death Star was a prototype weapon to fight them, and he wanted to create a militaristic society ready for that intergalactic war.
For anyone more curious, that was mostly (or exclusively) in the Expanded Universe, or books/comics that were published throughout the 90s/2000s. There's literally hundreds of books and comics from those decades. Not to mention the games.
The Expanded Universe is full of loads of wild and crazy stuff that's more contradicting than the movies themselves.
When Disney bought the franchise they specifically decided only the Movies and Clone Wars TV Show would be 'canon', only later taking certain characters, plots, or stories and adapting them into the new canon. Like Thrawn or Teras Kasi.
The idea that Palpatine knew a greater threat was coming also never justified his actions or how he went about preparing to deal with it. There's no good or rational reason for his tyranny, oppression or fascism. The dude legit was just in it for power.
Even if a new danger was looming, he still wanted to be top dog.
Yeah, think that this comes from a folk that also loves the Legion in FONV xD I'm not that geek. And to add a film, Starship Troopers xD when Neo Facism planet wise is presented as a good thing xD
Well Starship Troopers is satire. It being presented as 'good' is part of the critique. Paying attention to what's actually happening on screen should make it clear that it wasn't meant to be seen as positive.
It also doesn’t exactly match up either. Palps is still absolutely, unquestionably evil in the EU. The unifying against the Yuuzhan Vong theme seems to be a conflation between Palpatine and what we hear about Revan’s motives in KOTOR 2 (that Revan was trying to unite the galaxy against the actual Sith Empire in the Unknown Regions). Palps knew about the Vong (ish), but they weren’t enough on his radar to worry about.
Look, I'm a fan of a lot of the EU stuff that got decanonized, but the Yuuzhan Vong were some edgy 90s bullshit that belongs more in Warhammer than Star Wars. (I am also a fan of Warhammer, this was really just a way to demonstrate how tonally inconsistent they were.)
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u/Jiellyeum 23d ago edited 23d ago
Fight Club, Star Wars and American Psycho join in as the most notable films to have fanbases that have wildly different interpretations of the art that is… concerningly bad to say the least