Boomers at least gave us good shit. Gen-X created nothing but horseshit.
There is an aspect of generational angst with Gen X. They are the "what now" generation, the aftermath of the age of where boomers built so much through the good times earned by the blood and sacrifices of the generations before them. Then Gen Xers arrived and there was a sense that there wasnt much to do anymore and I cant help but imagine that caused some intense cultural angst.
There is a reason a lot of Gen Xers became very subversive and built media with the intention of "rebelling" against their boomer parents. Its in movies, music, games and etc.
Problem is, as is with post modernism, they ran into the problem of still having nothing to show for it after destroying everything so now all they can do now is try to pretend there was a point to it so they keep with their subversive nonsense (becoming the boomers they hated so much) or shit themselves and do nothing while assuming no responsibility.
To try to fix things now would be admission that they fucked up and are a fuck up generation that created nothing and made the world actively a worse place.
In general, Gen Xers are practically invisible in our society.
When the boomers finally die off, I wonder how how they will manage and affect the media that we watch.
Not quite invisible, they are just quietly bundled together with Boomers most of the time when discussing older generations.
Usually people are refering to both Boomers and at least Early Gen Xers when speaking ill of them but they just stick with one term for the sake of brevity.
The single greatest summation of Gen-X is The Simpsons.
A man that works a job he constantly slacks at, having enough free time to constantly drink at the bar with friends and paid enough to sustain a two floor house with a house wife and a god damn THREE kids? Dont get me started on him somehow still having time and energy to do shenanigans.
This is what the late 80's and 90's /Gen X considered a loser
In Rebels it's confirmed that Alderaan was a major funding source for the early Rebellion and even helped them get those hammerhead ships you see in Rogue One that take down that Star Destroyer. The Empire was well within its rights to destroy Alderaan. It was like Sherman's March to the Sea but with a superlaser.
Lets see...
Take your pimp planet destroying ride to some lifeless moon or planet and destroy that in Leia's front to show you mean business, while also ordering her family to be brought over from the planet (kill anyone that gets in the way) and executed one by one in her front until she gives the actual location of the planet the rebels are hiding in. Make sure Alderaan is an example as its leadership is brutally investigated and arrested, tried and then executed for crimes against the empire while showing evidences of their terrorist supporting operations behind the scenes.
Or
Destroy the planet and cause an intergalactic political shitshow, all but guaranting many more systems will openly support the rebels, even more that the station is destroyed very soon after, showing the Empire as both extremely ruthless and yet not as powerful as it thinks is. Not even getting started on the trading and diplomatic issues it caused.
Tarkin: LOL LMAO EVEN
Mf should be lucky he perished on the Death Star because Palpatine would surely made him regret treating the battle station as his own personal toy gun.
