the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
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don't make the series which literally had a movie about a trade embargo political
also I do agree that it is political to have black and queer representation but it is equally political to not
I need more of that thread lmao holy shit
I haven't seen the rest of the thread but I assume it consists of this lib being painfully brought to the water and then stubbornly refusing to drink.
There wasn't much more (screencap with deleted tweet restored)--he ends it by saying he was "being ironic" (???). There's some nice sources for what George Lucas was thinking as he wrote the script to refute the idea that he came up with that interpretation later, though (images of text--will provide transcripts).
First image (handwritten draft notes from George Lucas predating the filming of Star Wars)
Second image (excerpt from The Making of Star Wars, which is also the source of the first image)
edit: in hindsight I should have picked a Twitter handle that doesn't exist for the deleted tweet, but it seems to be a long abandoned account anyway so oh well
The original premise for the empire was literally "what if fascism, but it started in the US with Richard Nixon?"
That doesn't sound right