{"id":2580,"date":"2015-01-22T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T23:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2015-01-22T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T23:42:26","slug":"gritty-star-wars-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2580","title":{"rendered":"Gritty Star Wars Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I wish we could have a gritty Star Wars series<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…where the struggle between the Rebels and the Empire was more about people…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…and less about explosions, and zany aliens…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It would be great to see stormtroopers represented as elite infantry, not clumsy cannon fodder…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…and be reminded that they are human beings as well as soldiers…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…and that they have suffered mightily as the Empire consolidated power.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What would it be like to follow the story of a conscript? Would a poor kid, conscripted into the imperial army, have ever been to orbit?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…let alone set foot on exotic worlds?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maybe some of them really believe in what the Empire is doing? Maybe some of them just want to go home?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Some of the Rebel soldiers are still true blue heroes….<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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..but there could be charismatic leaders who are basically terrorists….<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…using propaganda just like the Galactic Empire….<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…in an attempt to depose the emperor and write themselves into galactic history. (like Tom Zarek from Battelstar Galactica)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…they prey on the ideals of soldiers…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…who believe that the Galactic Empire is a monocultural oppressive regime which must be overthrown…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…and maybe the ends too often justify the means…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Galactic Empire has worlds that are highly industrialized and densely populated, like Coruscant…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…but there are also worlds that are barren and lawless, like Tatooine…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…suggesting a huge disproportion of wealth and resources between developed and undeveloped worlds throughout the empire.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Rebel soldiers would basically be defectors from the imperial underclass…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…but many Rebel soldiers wouldn’t fully appreciate the legacy of the Old Republic they are trying to restore…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…and that by eliminating the emperor, galactic power will only transfer from a dictator to hundreds of wealthy senators…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One character of the series could be a kid from the Imperial homeworld, Coruscant, who had received a formal education. S\/he joins up with the Rebels because they’re sympathetic to the Rebel Alliance’s mission to build a multicultural senate that represents the galactic community…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…but their dissolutionment upon discovering the unspoken motivations of corrupt and self-aggrandizing Rebel leaders would be a way to examine the hypocrisy of the Rebel Alliance…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Another character could be a poor kid who witnessed the invasion of their homeworld and the indiscriminate slaughter of its inhabitants…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…we see the brutality of the Empire’s campaign through the pain of a character who has lost their home, culture, and identity…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…and we can understand why some of the rebel soldiers are merciless and pragmatic, and think that actions akin to terrorism are completely justified.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How about instead of giant space battles the Rebels realize early on that they’re vastly outnumbered…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…and the only way they can succeed, is to lure the Empire into a brutal war of attrition?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The massive resource-intensive mission to destroy the Death Star could be an against-all-odds assault at the end of the 1st season. where the Empire has forced the Alliance’s hand by locating the secret base on Yavin 4.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…imagine if the Rebel assault on the Death Star was a last ditch effort, and it failed, the Yavin base gets destroyed, and a bunch of characters die Game of Thrones style? Wouldn’t that be awesome?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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We could also see the graft, violence, and vice in Mos Eisley…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A less hapless C-3PO could make droid espionage pretty cool.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maybe we could see how the politics of Mos Eisley as an administrative center, affects the moisture farmers in terms of political representation, taxes, civil rights…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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…this would set the table for us to really appreciate a new character in the following season: the badass nephew of a moisture farmer from a backwater planet whose uncanny pilot skills turn him into a war hero and a symbol of hope for the Rebels. Maybe kind of like a Star Wars version of Shepard from Mass Effect. His affair with the Alderaanian Princess leading the Rebel Alliance could provide some political intrigue.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Oh yeah, the Jedi. Taking down a Star Destroyer like a boss.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thank you for reading! Instead of a cat, here’s Jar Jar getting punched by a stormtrooper. Sorry if this artwork has been posted before, I hadn’t seen it so I thought I’d make an album.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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