Skeleton Crew - Episode 7 - Discussion Thread!

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'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' Episode Discussion

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[u/emberisgone]

Yeah as given away by the line from 33 about it "being close enough" , as in "eh not really how it works but it's good enough of an excuse for me"

[u/Triskan → u/emberisgone]

That whole sequence made me want to see a more adult story about droids and their place in the SW universe. There could be potential for a tale about their free-will and how they sometimes are treated almost as slaves.

A Spartacus-like droid uprising could be a nice story.

[u/Sir__Will → u/Triskan]

The status and treatment of droids in Star Wars is so messed up. They're slaves, often abused, but they want to give them human traits which just makes them look like literal slaves.

[u/ScenicAndrew → u/Sir__Will]

Droids in star wars are and have always been basically just people who can play the role of the underlings without the audience feeling gross.

This isn't something we need to overcome as an audience, they're fictional and it's at no one's expense. It's a powerful tool that the writers have at their disposal, we can see them as people, the characters can see them as machines, and all without us coming to despise the characters for it. Doing that with all humans is basically impossible.