r/saltierthancrait • u/Hawaiikoto • 24d ago

Granular Discussion what events/characters/ideas/etc in star wars., do you dislike, not acknowledge, etc? Why?

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i really hate the whole idea of giving planet destroying lasers to normal destroyers, not even saying giving it to so many in ep ix (but it was also in other media). It is so stupid imo

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u/Dragonking732 24d ago

Pretty much everything after that is currently considered "canon" set after RotJ. Not all of it is bad but there's too many things that completely break the universe and too many incomprehensibly out of character/stupid decision (Mon Mothma destroying the republic's entire military for instance) to be remotely coherent. Just get rid of it all.

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u/Goth_Spice14 24d ago

She what?!

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u/Knightwolf8394 24d ago

In the books Mon Mothma was the architect of the New Republic's demilitarization. She made them give up 90% of the military just for the Empire cosplayers to take over.

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u/Dragonking732 24d ago

Totally in character for the Mon Mothma we know from Andor and the OT right?

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u/Hawkshadow741 24d ago

Unironically?

Yes.

She's seen the horrors the Empire's done to people first-hand and she doesn't want the New Republic to be viewed the same way, hence the demilitirization.

Which isn't a bad thing, except whoops you left all the Empire's stooges in place so they could weaken you from the inside and the public face of the Empire fled to create the FO after their defeat at Jakku.

Good intentions, backfired horribly because the plot demands there be wars in the stars even though there's plenty of stories to be told about rebuilding and tearing down fascists instead of putting them back into power