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The thing that annoys me the most about star wars' "deep lore" is that 99% of it is the most shallow and obvious shit imaginable. Greedo was a Rodian and a Bounty Hunter - so the Rodians are an entire alien species whose culture revolves around bounty hunting. Chewbacca was Han Solo's friend and first mate - so every wookie you meet until the end of time is attached to some non-wookie by means of a life debt (which we will retroactively apply to chewie's relationship to han as well). There was occasionally something interesting mixed in there, but almost all of it was sandblasted off in order to make the franchise as smooth around the edges as possible (a process that started with that fucking cgi cartoon long before the mouse bought the franchise).
The guys in the bar trying to start a fight with Luke do have multiple death warrants across the galaxy and are not just belligerent drunks bullshitting.
My favorite things about the deep lore:
At least Frank Herbert had the balls to explicitly make Paul and Leto II Atraides bad guys to the reader.
You ever become so alienated you need to use an old rascist trope to explain the process of friendship and or trauma bonding?
I read wooliepedia articles at work in a Palpatine voice as an ongoing work gag. I have have a deep sociological interest in the fans and the series as an ongoing phenomenon. The last time Sebulba is accounted for was on some planet which name escapes me signing autographs at 10:30am on a Saturday. This is accounted for and important
The cgi cartoon is peak.
It's mid grade slop for children.
Synthesis: It's peak slop for children
All star wars is slop for children. Of that slop, the cartoon is third best after OG and Andor.
Mass effect 1 did that better, usually the alien squadmates are the opposite of their respective species stereotype.
Are they? They're all more paragons of their species traits
No? Turians are by the book strait-laced soldiers, while garrus is a punisher/thin blue line maverick type. The asari are diplomatic, social and "seductive", while Liara is an anti-social shy nerd. The krogans are dumb violent brute & mercenaries, while wrex is introspective, war-weary and loyal. And lastly the quarians are characterized as lazy polluting vagrants, while Tali is resourceful, values her home and is constantly working in the engine room.
Turians are hierarchical, Spartan, and disciplined. Garrus is all those things but he's mad that Citadel cops have to obey rules and he prefers being in the much shallower hierarchy of the Normandy following a Spectre around. Asari spend their youths exploring, learning and picking up influence, which Liara does. Being social and seductive is a stereotype other asari openly deride sometimes. Wrex loves a good fight, he's just tired of krogan-on-krogan violence specifically while Grunt is all about fighting anything with a pulse, much more like the stereotype. The quarians are a straight standin for the real Roma and stereotypes of them being lazy vagrants is pulled from real world racism. Tali isn't different from other quarians because every single one of them is a hard worker and keeps the fleet operating. In at least one of the games you learn about how quarians will dip out from the fleet to search for resources in small groups before returning. That's how you run into Tali, twice.