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SoIidLegacy posted...

Basically this. The audience had to have it spelled out for them that Palpatine/Vader/the Dark Side were in fact the bad guys. I get the feeling this 'spelling it out for the audience' is a thing that grows increasingly more obvious as time passes, like how in more recent Star Wars things like The Old Republic the Empire is like this human nationalist group who make no secret of how racist they are to non-humans.

Although the Imperials in the OT all seemed to be human, I don't recall any occasion where anything racist was uttered to a non-human sentient, yet even as a kid I understood that the Imperials were supposed to be the bad guys.

Back when Lucas still owned Star Wars Palpatine was a speciesist and disliked women. Thats why the Empire would enslave non-humans and why there were no women in the military. Disney just decided to throw all that away, but then do the exact same damn thing all over again with their movies. Of course they didn't bother to tell EA when it came to the games.

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