(03-28-2023, 11:53 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Also, let me clarify: Really, it's just episode 8 that's woke. The other two just have typically Hollywood messaging (although I still think the mary sueing of Rey is one of the worst things I've seen in film). SO many missed opportunities. To be fair to the director, maybe he had a better way of explaining it in the follow up film that was scrapped by Rian Johnson.

I guess you're really just talking about the DJ monologue in 8? He hacks his way onto a rich gambler's personal yacht ship and shows how the guy is making money selling weapons to both sides of the conflict? That part was total nonsense, and totally universe breaking, but I don't see how it was "woke".
There are certainly weapons manufacturers in many wealthy countries that have, maybe inadvertently,  profited from both sides in some civil war or another, say a conflict in Africa or Central America for instance.  And you could imagine that done on a galactic scale, where one rich planet sells weapons to two different poor planets that are fighting each other.  But none of those weapons would be a death star capable of destroying all planets.  Any civilization that made such a thing would never sell it.

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