doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
You’re joking, right?There is zero on screen evidence in the original Star Wars trilogy that the Empire is an oppressive totalitarian regime.
The entire plot of prequel trilogy is based on the fact the Jedi and the Old Republic are a corrupt theocracy.
A military police state, wherein the emperor (literally a title that has extremely rarely been used by anyone but absolute monarchs or one sort or another) dissolves the democratically elected senate when it becomes inconvenient, is Peter ally intentionally coded to remind the audience of the Nazis, and that blew up a planet with billions of people entirely as a show of force, are exceedingly obviously a totalitarian regime.
As in, so obvious that I genuinely don’t believe that you or anyone else has ever actually believed the “The Empire was right” take.