one of the funniest things about 28 years later is that it completely dismisses 28 weeks later with one single typed sentence that is displayed onscreen for a few seconds.
One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play’s dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It’s one of my favourites for two reasons:
It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn’t catch you.
You’ve been dropped at the very beginning of the Clone Wars. You can tell ONE PERSON that Palpatine is the Sith Lord. That person will be able to ACT on the information but will not be able to PASS ON this information. WHO DO YOU TELL?
Please explain your reasoning in the tags and may the Force be with you.
HERE’S why I voted Artoo.
R2-D2 is an unstoppable Swiss-knife/action hero/killing machine just waiting to be unleashed.
In George’s words:
“[R2 is] the stalwart unsung hero of the Star Wars films.”
His emotions can’t be sensed, he is the messenger of the Keeper of the Whills, you tell R2 Palpatine is Darth Sidious and a week from then Palps will have THE most unlucky day of his life.
I’m talking he steps on an elevator, and nothing is there, he plummets to his death like in a Looney Tunes episode.
But hey, he’s Darth Sidious, maybe he manages to levitate himself before he hits the ground and goes splat. He looks up at the elevator which is weirdly going up instead of going down. Hm. Strange.
He goes to the Senate, his podium lifts up into the arena only for a MASSIVE holo-recording to start playing in the Senate rotunda of Palpatine putting a hood on in The Works’ changing rooms, then meeting with Dooku.
General chaos. But hey, he’s Palpatine, he has a way to spin this, “he had a secret meeting with Dooku to negotiate peace”, of course, because all that matters is ending this godforsaken war-oooaaaahhh!
The Chancellor’s podium DARTS up towards the ceiling at full speed! “System malfunction” says Mas Amedda, “we’re not sure what’s going on!” Seconds before the podium can explode, Palpatine jumps off and lands unscathed, but feigns an injury.
He gets rushed to an infirmary, and is now lying in a hospital bed wandering WTF is going on today?! Is it Tyranus? Has that octogenarian fuck finally decided to step up and become the Sith Master? Tell you what, he knew his apprentice was sneaky but to sink to this level of–
– RIIIIIIIIING! Fire alarm goes off, as do the sprinklers. But they’re not sprinkling water, they’re sprinkling GASOLINE!
R2 SMASHES through the window screaming a primal war cry:
Don’t fuck with Artoo
And as he sets the whole room on fire, Palpatine’s last thoughts are “what in the space fu–” and dies.
THAT’S why you tell Artoo and not someone like Yoda.
Artoo has that unhinged maverick energy. He’s just waiting for the opportunity to do some damage.
It doesn’t matter if he’s outgunned.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a Sith Lord.
He’s on a mission from the gods and the plot armor wears him, not the other way round.
i would tell artoo because he never tells anyone anything anyway, so being forbidden from doing so wouldn’t inherently nerf his subsequent plans
As I saw someone on here say, Artoo has two settings. He is either your best friend (whether you want to be or not, Threepio) or your worst enemy. He can and has killed people. He’s had zero memory wipes ever, so his personality is basically a peoples.
Hey, hot take, but if a company decides they no longer want to distribute a piece of media they own the rights to, then they should be legally required to sign the rights back over to the creator.
They shouldn’t be allowed to just sit on the IP for the rest of time, especially if they have no intention of ever releasing it again.
