george lucas literally set up return of the jedi to be an allegory of/protest against the Vietnam War
revenge of the sith
was so anti-Bush (Anakin even paraphrases a Bush line at one point) that people boycotted it
emperor palpatine was very deliberately based on Nixon
lucas later went on to compare Bush to Darth Vader and Dick Cheney to Palpatine, plus he’ll talk at any given opportunity about how political he wanted the prequels to be
but please, keep talking about how ‘the sjws’ have ‘destroyed star wars’ by bringing politics into it
sith trump when
“We’re gonna build a space-wall around Coruscant, and we’re gonna make the Bothans pay for it.”
Please stop making it political; about politics. Who frickin cares. It’s a legendary movie series, don’t ruin it for me, or other people.
Star Wars was always about politics. Always political. That’s what this post is saying. If politics ruins Star Wars for you, Star Wars is not what you thought it was.