@Taggerung:
We don't see a farmer community on Tatooine, that's all Owen's farm.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tosche_Station
That group of people Luke hung out with, along with Biggs. Stuff filmed and everything, but got cut from the final movie. It's even still in the scripts, probably the novel but I never checked.
The entire bunch of characters was human.
Ten bucks says if that had been a sequel scene Lucas would have added aliens, also non-white people if it were Return of the Jedi.
It was the seventies, it was going to be a bunch of white people. With sideburns.
We saw maybe an 1/100000 of Cloud City, that place is enormous. We saw the equivalent of a couple floors of one building in an entire city and we got to see that android guy and those ugly things that ripped C3PO apart.
Cloud City wasn't hidden from us. We saw establishing shots. Scenes there to show us "this is this place and what it is like". Not "here's a tiny bit of a thing you won't have a clue what it's really like though!".
It's hard for me to tell how much the EU has influenced by ideas. I only came across the imperial racism thing because I read the Thrawn trilogy so it's possible that I wouldn't have this line of thinking without it. I'm only saying the movies don't do anything that strongly contradicts this idea though. Could you reach this thought process through the movies alone?
I don't really disagree that the original movies discourage it. I'm just saying the prequels do. And thematically it makes sense honestly.
If Lucas really really wanted to have shown the Empire to be racists I'm sure we would have had some awful scene in Episode III where the stormtroopers did some nazi stuff to a CGI cartoon.
By the the time Jedi comes around, it becomes obvious that the Imperials are the all human all trooper army and the ragtag rebels are supposed to be made up of many races. Honestly Jedi was the only movie that felt like we were seeing the full might of the Rebel Alliance anyway so it makes sense that the Mon Calamari's show up. Up until then we were looking at hidden outpost on worlds that were clearly not a battleground or being contested so that implies we were only seeing scattered pieces of the whole.
I dunno if I got that impression. There's a LOT of rebels on Yavin and Hoth, but yeah they're weaker then. The feeling I got was that by Jedi they had grown in size, with more groups adding to them. Like the Mon Calamari seem like they were their own group who joined the rebels for some reason or another. I think the opening scroll of Empire even said something about the first Death Star blowing up being some sort of PR victory? Swear that was somewhere.
e see some of the most powerful ships the Empire has and no shots of any aliens anywhere, not even as janitors on the Deathstar. My mind nowadays would think that is really odd, my child mind would probably register it but not take it all the way to racism. Authoritarian powers are often depicted as masses of the same faceless cookie cutter soldiers across all kinds of movies and shows.
Aside from the Mon Calamari there isn't much in the way of rebel aliens. There's Nein Nunb…and uh some guy in the background at the conference who I only know about because of the Decipher cards I had as a kid lol.
And like I said the Calamari looked like they came into the rebel fold together, like they were all hanging out on their ship bridge together. And those huge rebel ships are Mon Calamari ships.
As for the Sith stuff, I don't think the code is explicitly stated in any of the movies. However Palpatine's relationship with his various pupils shown in the movies should show how highly he thought of them once he felt they were no use to him or if he saw something better. He treated none of them like his successor, not even Anakin.
Yeah but that vaguely "yeah kill me dude! It'll feel great and make you evil!" shows an even deeper level of crazy satan shit.