Skeleton Crew - Episode 7 - Discussion Thread!

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[u/Triskan]

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/transmogrify → u/Sir__Will]

We can't really ever have a legitimate moral reckoning about droids because it would really tarnish the image of a lot of otherwise heroic characters, most of the main protagonists. Wherever the story goes of droids in Star Wars, it will have to walk some kind of razor thin line where it defines the droids as not being universally abused.

[u/Sir__Will → u/transmogrify]

They haven't seemed to have that issue when it comes to shitting on the Jedi order, but I get what you mean and agree, nothing's really going to change

[u/transmogrify → u/Sir__Will]

There's quite a difference between saying that the Order fell victim to pride, and saying Luke Skywalker owned slaves.

[u/viper459 → u/transmogrify]

you don't need to say it, it's already true. Droids are clearly and obviously sapient and capable of decision making, creatinb bonds with people, getting past their programming, hell they show quite a lot of feelings. Whether anything "reckons" with that or not, is, quite honestly, moot. Luke skywalker was a slave owner. Period.