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jacquez45:
bomberqueen17:
star-anise:
dragondicks:
dragondicks:
how come the robots in star wars are property even though they’re very obviously sentient and can feel emotions?? what the fuck. why do none of the movies point out how fucked up that is
after a full night’s sleep this is still bugging me tbh like there’s this scene in the first movie where r2d2 and c3po are visibly scared of being taken apart by jawas and i guess its supposed to be quirky?? but it comes across as scary???? and in the mainstream movie canon nobody ever goes “hey why did we program these subservient machines to have personalities and identities and to be able to feel fear and distress” this is some brave little toaster shit except it’s somehow gone unnoticed in an absurdly popular sci fi movie series with a plot that revolves around morality and justice. leia how could you allow this
Well to be fair, this is also a universe that allows human slavery, so…
I have a lot of feelings about this too and they keep creeping in and threatening to derail the stories I actually mean to write, which are largely about humans kissing one another.
Should I scrap all that and just write about droid freedom fighters? Because I kind of want to.
no, just ALSO write droid freedom fighters! DROIDS.
back in the day, Basingstoke wrote a series called droids need love too which is part crack and part serious. One of the things it deals with is droid freedom.
“R2 remembered the little gold-headed boy showing off his pet droid. He would never, ever tell C3PO who made him.”
THAT REC IS SO GOOD
READ THOSE STORIES THAT IS SO GOOD
jacquez45:
bomberqueen17:
star-anise:
dragondicks:
dragondicks:
how come the robots in star wars are property even though they’re very obviously sentient and can feel emotions?? what the fuck. why do none of the movies point out how fucked up that is
after a full night’s sleep this is still bugging me tbh like there’s this scene in the first movie where r2d2 and c3po are visibly scared of being taken apart by jawas and i guess its supposed to be quirky?? but it comes across as scary???? and in the mainstream movie canon nobody ever goes “hey why did we program these subservient machines to have personalities and identities and to be able to feel fear and distress” this is some brave little toaster shit except it’s somehow gone unnoticed in an absurdly popular sci fi movie series with a plot that revolves around morality and justice. leia how could you allow this
Well to be fair, this is also a universe that allows human slavery, so…
I have a lot of feelings about this too and they keep creeping in and threatening to derail the stories I actually mean to write, which are largely about humans kissing one another.
Should I scrap all that and just write about droid freedom fighters? Because I kind of want to.
no, just ALSO write droid freedom fighters! DROIDS.
back in the day, Basingstoke wrote a series called droids need love too which is part crack and part serious. One of the things it deals with is droid freedom.
“R2 remembered the little gold-headed boy showing off his pet droid. He would never, ever tell C3PO who made him.”
THAT REC IS SO GOOD
READ THOSE STORIES THAT IS SO GOOD
