Tokenism actively hurts representation. Strong characters take up conceptual space and they need to be broadly appealing. I'm female. I can find relatable characters in an all-male cast (in, say, military or historical fiction - if it's spaaaaaaace I'd question the artistic value), and I'd hate it if the marketers shoehorn in a woman and say, "This is for you. This is you. We'll be sure to tell everyone. Those other characters are Not You."
They think they have infinite money. It's also style over substance. This reminds me of the way Alex Kurtzman is handling Star Trek. He wants the franchise to have a "cinematic feel" (he doesn't give a shit about the story or what Trek is all about) so everything is shot in cinemascope (instead of 16:9), the sets are poorly lit, there's a lot of color correction and heavy constrast in terms of picture, etc. Because of the reshoots in season 2, some of the episodes ended up costing more than 15 million to make. It's insane. I remember during the Stargate and BSG era, the producers had to fight to get a tiny more than 3 million for an episode.
The (((banking clan))).
2 male characters from different species can be considered as gay? If a guy has sex with his male dog, that's not a gay relationship, that's zoophilia. In a science fiction setting, it would be "xenophilia", right?
Not exactly, or at least, not according to this chart here.
Like I said, I think people are taking the financial situation of Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s, and putting it in the Star Wars universe, which is not how things work. Those nations did not have full autarky, but depended on foreign nations for trade of resources and products. To finance the war they basically loaned money from whoever was offering. The problem is the Star Wars writers are doing the same faulty logic like the morons who read Wages of Destruction and think the Third Reich would have a financial crash once they were no longer at war, which is not how it would go. The goal was always autarky, at that point foreign trade, credit ratings, foreign banks, it holds no meaning.
Also, unless I'm forgetting something, Palpatine has ALL of the resources from the Old Republic at his disposal from AoTC forward. You can't tell me that the man who politicked his way into the Chancellorship in a Senate full of hundreds of different planets and species can't figure out how to identify a no-collateral high interest loan. That's pants on head exceptional.
You expect faggots who cannot even understand why historical nations take out loans comprehend the scale of having thousands of planets worth of resources and manpower at your fingertips?
Now Disney canon is so messy it might be different now, but in old canon the old republic were taking massive loans to finance the clone wars, but this was always with the plan that once the war was over, the galactic empire would simply nationalize all their debtors. You could say a in universe justification for the creation of the galactic empire was to bring the corporate interests under government control, and ensure the galactic government wouldn't collapse once the war was over
That's what I was trying to remember, thanks for reminding me. Even so, just like with the Mustafarian shit that General posted, I don't expect the writers to actually keep that stuff in mind.
It was a thing going through the late 90s like around the time of those dumb Dr Seuss hats, there was those tshirts with the big x-treme version of the cheshire cat, stuff like that
We all know the answer to this, it's the nameless fatcats from The Last jedi in Canto Blight, the elite 1% that has all the money and funds both sides of the conflict, although we're never given any motivation, no goal, and no conclusion
Inb4 it was Snoke all along.
Oh yeah, that guy who sold driftwood sculptures and that other person who was a legit lawyer before working for the mob because Hidalgo can't write for shit.
Yeah now that other dimensions and galaxies are on the table I guess it's marginally less stupid to have financial powers beyond the Empire
