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JOExHIGASHI posted...

so jedi are jewish?

The Jedi are basically ronin crossed with Buddhist monks. Because that's what the characters essentially were when Lucas stole them from The Hidden Fortress.



papercup posted...

I think in the expanded universe they go more into how the empire was anti-alien or something.

It was the EU explanation for why there are more aliens in the prequels than the original films. The real answer being that it was more difficult to do make-up and costuming in the 70s/80s while shitty CGI made it easier to cram aliens in pretty much everywhere in the prequels, but that's an out-of-universe explanation, not an in-universe one.

It's similar to how the EU pushed the idea that there was a galactic recession once the Empire took over because the ships looked cleaner and sleeker in the prequels but clunkier and more beat up in the original movies (even though that was stupid because most of the ships you see in the original films are being used by the Rebellion - which by definition should be using older, more obsolete tech they've scrounged rather than top-of-the-line tech).

But the expanded universe also no longer exists as canon, so it doesn't really matter what reasons they came up with. Because they no longer count.