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I think audiences like redemption stories and that's why audience accept Vader's redemption. I don't think it has to do with an analysis of the guilt or innocence of his victims. I haven't heard anyone's view change based on the prequels, but that gives me an interesting question to ask the nerdiest of my SW friends.
What would need to happen to indicate to you he didn't get away with it? For example, you attribute Anakin's burning as him not getting away with murdering younglings or baby sand people. So, if the Jawas sneak attack Mando in a future episode and he suffers a good amount of pain, does that work for you?
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It would be an interesting experiment to find people who have only seen the prequels, and then ask them if Vader can be redeemed to the point where he's considered to be on equal footing with Obi-Wan and Yoda.
That's difficult to answer because I already know that Anakin eventually died, so he did suffer the ultimate consequence. Plus, he was being heavily manipulated by the Emperor.
I don’t know that he is a good guy. I hope he’s not to be honest. I’ll f’n die laughing if he cuts baby yoda in half tomorrow.
When you sign up to work for the Empire, it's like joining the SS in Germany during the war. Even if you don't commit evil yourself, you are still endorsing it.
Right. How many construction workers were contracted to build that. I doubt they were all Hitler-esque. Or the help desk people trying to keep the network up and running on that thing.
Ok. Now I just think you're screwing with us.
When you agree to work on a space station called The Death Star, you implicitly consent to the possibility that you will be blown up during a battle.
In terms of the unwritten code of the Star Wars universe, the appropriate response would have been to attack the sandcrawler first. Then, if any Jawas threatened him, it would have been appropriate to vaporize them.
There are a lot of poor folk in the galaxy. I think it's pretty heartless of you to think they should sacrifice feeding their family and turn down honest work.
Why do you assume the Jawas are non threatening? Maybe they killed his best friend. How much do you know about the Jawas?
I assume Jawas are non-threatening because Uncle Owen wasn't threatened by them and because Luke couldn't understand why Imperial troops would want to slaughter them.
I'm sure this series will recon a backstory that involves Jawas eating baby Mandolorians.
The Jawas in The Mandalorian are from a completely different planet.
Even if we assume that these are a completely different species of Jawa, it still doesn't change the fact that the one dude wasn't posing a threat when the Mandalorian vaporized him.
you say this like it is a bad thing.
but we've only ever gotten Star Wars from a certain point of view and now in this show we are getting a whole new point of view. Hopefully they do a series based on one of the empires senior leaders so we can start to get a good picture of who really are the good guys in this world.
I always thought, wouldn't it be crazy if we were rooting for the bad guys the whole time?
In The Rise of Skywalker, we'll learn that Luke used a slur about the Jawas when he was a teenager and mockingly dressed as one for Halloween one year.
While not a real flip of the script, the TV show Cobra Kai has done a very nice job blurring the lines. Perhaps even influenced by this clever youtube video
Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.
He should have filed a report of the theft with the local barren desert planet authorities. That would have made a fascinating episode.
Who in R&M? What episode?Moe. said:
That didn’t bother me. What did was seeing Jawas on a planet other than Tatooine.[scooter] said:
He probably had a Jawa neighbor that cut down his tree.[scooter] said:
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back the truck up here. First off, the whole thing about he found their village and was indescriminately murdering jawas is not at all what happened. Anakin did that with Sand people/Tusken raiders. Mando did not do that with Jawas. Jawas were stripping his ship. Essentially stranding him on a dessert planet. One could argue that alone was a threat to his life. The only Jawas he shot were either carrying pieces of the ship or were shooting at him. Again, self defense could be argued on both counts.[scooter] said:
