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imception:
its funny how we all just forgot the existence of the guavian death gang and kanjiklub and most of that entire scene, like its wholly ceased to exist in our collective psyche? which would make sense because it was dumb filler and none of them mattered even remotely, but there’s always someone devoted to giving characters like that unwarranted attention? usu a mixture of the people who stan the white men with 2 lines and like hardcore bounty hunter fan types but this time around the first type latched onto hux and those first order officers for various reasons instead, and and latter type are what, still watching tcw? and so bala-tik & co have gone to the dust
anyway I still have a vague appreciation for bala-tik as a minor villain as he had both the best accent and most concise and searing han solo drag i ever heard bad luck mate in a huxless timeline you could have been the undeserving twerp with 5000 fics on ao3
I feel so called out because, though not the character in question, I have a weird amount of thoughts about this guy who showed up in the same scene:
That’s right, Tasu Leech, the leader of Kanjiklub. I mean, I think this is the first time in the movies we’ve seen a human character speak a native language other than Basic. I’m no SW language expert but to me it sounded like he spoke Huttese, except his people actually overthrew Hutt rule and his weapon is literally called Huttsplitter. He also refuses to speak Basic because he thinks it’s a soft language for soft people, how badass is that?
And yes, this plays into all sorts of racist tropes about Asians being the Other who don’t speak “our” language, Yellow Peril, the Mongol hordes, you name it. But I can like a thing while recognizing its problematic aspects and I have a lot of fondness for this character and his badass Hutt-slaying people.
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imception:
its funny how we all just forgot the existence of the guavian death gang and kanjiklub and most of that entire scene, like its wholly ceased to exist in our collective psyche? which would make sense because it was dumb filler and none of them mattered even remotely, but there’s always someone devoted to giving characters like that unwarranted attention? usu a mixture of the people who stan the white men with 2 lines and like hardcore bounty hunter fan types but this time around the first type latched onto hux and those first order officers for various reasons instead, and and latter type are what, still watching tcw? and so bala-tik & co have gone to the dust
anyway I still have a vague appreciation for bala-tik as a minor villain as he had both the best accent and most concise and searing han solo drag i ever heard bad luck mate in a huxless timeline you could have been the undeserving twerp with 5000 fics on ao3
I feel so called out because, though not the character in question, I have a weird amount of thoughts about this guy who showed up in the same scene:
That’s right, Tasu Leech, the leader of Kanjiklub. I mean, I think this is the first time in the movies we’ve seen a human character speak a native language other than Basic. I’m no SW language expert but to me it sounded like he spoke Huttese, except his people actually overthrew Hutt rule and his weapon is literally called Huttsplitter. He also refuses to speak Basic because he thinks it’s a soft language for soft people, how badass is that?
And yes, this plays into all sorts of racist tropes about Asians being the Other who don’t speak “our” language, Yellow Peril, the Mongol hordes, you name it. But I can like a thing while recognizing its problematic aspects and I have a lot of fondness for this character and his badass Hutt-slaying people.
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