Eeexactly! That ‘dynasty’s’ been going on for so long, it’s narratively ridiculous and boring.
Don’t get me wrong, despite what my initial comment may indicate, I would LOVE to see something which goes in depth into The Force’s philosophy, its spirituality, but that foregoes Skywalker Lightsaber Fight™ by its very nature… Actually, no, acceptable Skywalker Lightsaber Fight™ in the original episodes, because those moments were used to punctuate.
Honestly, I always thought Star Wars would work as a Tales From the Crypt-style anthology, just pump out interesting happenings from across the galaxy as self-contained, 40-minute long episodes and put the meat on them massive bones! I bet one could pull off at least 3-4 12-episode series without even touching The Force.
“Twist-o Eyeball-o!”
I knew it! That kitchen table’s ruining my life! And my hips!!!
FEAST ON THEIR IDEOLOGICAL FLESH!!!
My loaf is bigger than your loaf, We take more drugs than a touring funk band.
SING IT!
My loaf is bigger than your loaf.
SING IT!
My loaf is bigger than your loaf.
SING IT!
Oh, yeah?! What’ your DPS (depressions per semester)?
Can only give you my personal example:
I have a career in software QA, and I got into it because I personally believed in QA and its significance to generating good software for people to use. Hell, I even worked relatively low-paying jobs because it was compensated by job satisfaction.
Then enshittification took hold of absolutely everything, QA started being flushed down the turlet in the interest of cutting costs (and, I suspect, out of management incompetence and lack of perspective), and now it feels as though my passion got stabbed.
I still thoroughly believe in QA as an essential part of software development, I still try to do the best I can not out of dedication to a job, but to my principle-based belief that QA does more good than it does harm when properly performed. But I seldom have the context to be able to do that, instead being stuck with menial shit and/or rushed projects which don’t allow for a lot of testing.
Test your stuff, eat the rich.
“The Children of Asuryan haven’t received any new models since the 90s, y’know…”
Honestly, the most painful part of this is the dichotomy between the internet’s potential to become an evolutionary point for us and help us develop as a species, and the way we’re using it… We have the entirety of human existence digitised for our convenience and available at the push of a button and we just use it to terrorise and hurt eachother…
This must be the most 90s thing I’ve seen in a decade.
At least the water ain’t boilin’! Yet…
Exactly, pointing fingers just eats into problem-solving time at this point. Just shovel’em aside and start digging that drainage ditch, s’what I say… Once the job’s done, we’ll have all the time in the world to poke eachother in the eyes.
Ugh… ugh-ugh. Uah! AAAH! AAAH, AAAH! URGH! *hits table with keyboard triumphantly
Getting an orange in there can’t be easy:-?
Yes, 100% my point! Who needs to know stuff when the Government and rich people are already looking out for our best interests? Poverty is a non-issue, everyone owns 2.5 houses per capita, this is a utopia! Books just ruin everything!
/s.
I… I don’t even know what to say anymore.