My Wholesome Fascist Empire would never condone SA! Cw: SA and Andor S2 spoilers
This dude is arguing Darth Vader cares about imperial war crimes.
And here is a thread talking about the many times SA has been mention in SW
cw: expanding upon SA in the scene mentioned in the tweet, spoilers for episode 3 of Andor season 2
I can excuse destroying an entire planet and everyone on it, but I draw the line at SA.
-- Darth Vader, probably
the "Empire Did Nothing Wrong" meme and it's consequences have been a disaster for humankind.
and also too many are sucked in with the "they have cool ships and gear"
yes I too love disposable poorly trained infantry hordes and fragile spacecraft designed for wave tactics
vs combined arms spec-ops teams and multi-species highly competent space forces
Content Warning: Expanding on topics in the post title, fictional coercion
As if the Star Wars fandom couldn't get more
A 3+ million sub youtuber who has made their whole personality being a Star Wars-guy has not experienced or has no working memory of the original radio play(1981) that accompanied the og Star Wars where the interrogation of Leia is expanded in grisly detail. Wherein the movie the scene mercifully cuts to black with a door closing behind the torture droid with the scary needle, it appears it was always the intention to portray the scene and the writers had in mind what occurred off screen.
I'm not actually going to listen to it again. But the theme was present in the original movie and it's even a little wild what you could get away with implying in a film and still keep a PG rating in 1977. But I guess I'm just trying to cancel Darth Vader.
SA is usually used in fiction just for pure empty shock value, it isn't about how it affects women, 90% of the time it is just used to "inspire" the men in the story to seek revenge. So usually I'd agree with this statement of it not belonging in a work of fiction.
However, context does matter, and it does just seem like this guy is mad that his cool TV fascists are doing actual fascist things instead of just being "badass" or whatever.