• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    The way starfighter combat works is definitely WW2. There’s some hand wavy explanations in-universe for why it works that way, but it clearly comes from WW2 fighter and bomber turret footage.

    Politically, the empire is pretty clearly Nazi-coded, but I don’t think Lucas ever had more than a surface level understanding of fascism.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      1 hour ago

      Sure, but it’s not about WW2 specifically in a way that would make Return about Vietnam instead like their comment implied. Anti-fascism, sure.