What are your unpopular geek opinions?

[Davies]

Alderaan was a military target.

No. It was not.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

Joss Whedon "witty banter" style of scriptwriting ruins the tension and suspension of disbelief in his projects.

Related: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is cringibly unwatchable.

 

[Blue Orange]

The Case for the Empire - Washington Examiner

STAR WARS RETURNS today with its fifth installment, Attack of the Clones. There will be talk of the Force and the Dark Side and the epic morality of George Lucas's series. But the truth is that from the beginning, Lucas confused the good guys with the bad. The deep lesson of Star Wars is that

www.washingtonexaminer.com

(Written in 2002.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/10/29/the-destruction-of-alderaan-was-completely-justified/

(2015)

 

[Davies]

The Case for the Empire - Washington Examiner

STAR WARS RETURNS today with its fifth installment, Attack of the Clones. There will be talk of the Force and the Dark Side and the epic morality of George Lucas's series. But the truth is that from the beginning, Lucas confused the good guys with the bad. The deep lesson of Star Wars is that

www.washingtonexaminer.com

(Written in 2002.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/10/29/the-destruction-of-alderaan-was-completely-justified/

(2015)

Oh, so Desert Gled is a plagiarist as well. Good to know.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

An interesting take in a sort of terrorism against a oppressive totalitarian regime isn't terrorism way.

If they’re terrorist, all rebels are terrorists, and the word becomes useful only to oppressors.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

You mean, aside from that time they dissolved the elected portion of their government and then blew up a planet?

I sort of questioned them turning farmers into bloody skeletons to find plans a little…harsh. Not imprisoned and questioned, but roasted

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Oh, so Desert Gled is a plagiarist as well. Good to know.

Lol yeah it isn’t even a fresh take.

it was absurd in 2002, and it’s absurd now.

 

[MarkB]

It was established in the prequels that the senate was an illegitimate and ineffective form of government.

Ineffective I'll give you, though how much of that was deliberately engineered is another matter. But where are you getting "illegitimate"?

Alderaan was a military target. Literally every single on screen character shown from that planet is a militant terrorist.

Okay, so you're saying the Empire is bigoted as well as totalitarian and oppressive.

Tragic, yes, but no more oppressive or totalitarian than any other time one warring faction has destroyed the capital of their enemy.

And how many times is that? I'm having trouble recalling a time that an entire capital city and its population were destroyed, let alone a case where it was done by someone who wasn't oppressive.

 

[Umbran]

Oh, so Desert Gled is a plagiarist as well.

Mod Note:
Personal insults are not acceptable. Don't do that again.

 

[Cadence]

And how many times is that? I'm having trouble recalling a time that an entire capital city and its population were destroyed, let alone a case where it was done by someone who wasn't oppressive.

Does WWII have at least four non-capital cities that were close to completely wiped out?