u/Saberian_Dream87

I ain't even debating their point, I feel like someone below convinced me on a black Helen of Troy when he said Ethiopians fought in the Trojan War. Okay, fair enough then.

So what AM I objecting to? The poster below acting as if black people are oppressed and they don't get good roles in entertainment media. What? Spoken like a true, very young hard-line progressive who is ignorant to all the great black roles we had in media going back to the 1990s and even the 1980s. I could name the MANY black actors and actresses from my childhood who got MAJOR roles in movies and television shows back then. These were household icons to us, and he's just pissing all over that.

And then they wanna claim the other side is rewriting history? What do you call this when you blatantly rewrite history this way and pretend black people are starved of good roles, which wasn't true in the 1990s, and isn't especially today? SMH

But seriously, that is what you do over there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/saltierthankrayt/comments/1uz4cmc/i_wonder_if_amazon_will_cast_a_greek_actor_to/

It's just easier for a white guy to play another race that is from another traditionally dominant white region than for a white or black guy to play a character who was either originally African or Caucasian descended in the source material.

Basically, what you see on the tin. Ignore the prequels for a second. Ignore everything we know about where and why and how Anakin fell to the dark side in George Lucas's Star Wars. Let's say that George gave other authors leave to write the prequels. What EU author would you like to see come up with their own completely original ideas as to where and why and how and when Anakin fell, with only the hints we saw in the original trilogy?

For me, it's gotta be John Ostrander. I love his version of Quinlan Vos the best, and I think he'd REALLY tap into the justifications Vader tells himself to keep committing his evil acts.

That is, which author fundamentally seems to understand them and their core philosophy? For me, it's gotta be Jude Watson. I know the Jedi, especially during the time of the prequels, get a lot of flak for being stuffy, callous droids who don't feel anything, but that's not the case at all, and Jude Watson REALLY demonstrates that, with a few simple lines that Qui-Gon tells Obi-Wan and that Obi-Wan tries to teach Anakin - that it is okay to process your emotions, really feel them, before letting them go. Letting go is an important lesson, but if you let go too fast, it's not healthy, you bottle them up and they're bound to come out later at inopportune times. I think some EU authors, even the great ones, really struggle with this. Qui-Gon even goes so far as to say there's no shame in our feelings, and he was talking about Obi-Wan's fear! Which, as you'll know, fear also goes against the Jedi teachings. But we have these emotions for a reason, they're not evil, and I think Jude Watson really tapped into that without going overboard into Sith apologia like Palpatine does.

But that's me. What do you think?

Seriously, for me, Golden Girls ends at "Home Again Rose," and I also skip Golden Palace. In my headcanon, Dorothy didn't get married, and they all stayed together at Blanche's house.

Imo, the best is the one where Dorothy tells Blanche that if you lose a parent, you might as well be six. That it makes you an orphan, and pushes you right up to the front of the line. As my mom advances into her twilight years, I think about this quote a lot.

For me, it's when he gave a bunch of poor kids a nice Christmas by dressing up as Santa and handing out his novelty fire engines. You can tell this is a man who has his own kids and loves them to death, based on how he acts.

I'm a heterosexual male, but even I find him charming, and he gave a great performance. Positive gay representation in the 19-freakin'-80s, holy shit. That's groundbreaking and it's one of the reasons that Golden Girls is so great.

Seriously, for slice of life 1980s Miami, it's a stunningly gorgeous place to live, just a cozy little house in the suburbs. My favorite room is the kitchen, ofc that could be because they spent so much time there. Insert a Sophia crack about them overeating here, lol. But yeah, great house. It looked and felt very lived in. I remember living in a house similar to that when I was growing up in the 1990s, so it's very nostalgic for me.

What about you?

For me, it's in the second season when they buy a "new" VCR and act like a 1950s family getting their first TV set, and they mention going to "rent videos" at a video rental store, which is just so antiquated compared to the modern era, that it just makes me a little sad, since I grew up with and remember when VCRs were a big freakin' deal.

But that's me. What's yours?

It was always subject to George's whims, but he never discontinued it, the new owners did. However, it was canon because until 2014, it carried all the benefits the current Star Wars canon does, which is promotion and acknowledgment. To date, the EU as Legends gets no promotion or acknowledgment from Lucasfilm. There's no Legends panel at Celebration. The Legends reprints get almost no promotion. They focus their efforts on their canon, whereas it just wasn't that way in the old days. You could find whatever you wanted in online searches regarding the Star Wars EU, and it may not have been George's story, but it was everywhere you went because of that. That to me is the argument advocating that it was canon, even if it wasn't George's story (like, no shit, he made movies, not books or video games). It was canon because its existence was marketed and acknowledged. Unlike it is today.

That's my definition of canon after all the years of being an active part of the Star Wars community. I hope you'll see where I'm coming from.