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SithShodan
Hey look, virtue!
MalterWitty
I think they’re going with uyghur genocide-1 now
ScarecrowSticks
thetagger
...saving to favorites...
MoreAwesomerDan
Haiddon
their entire naming scheme is "[character]'s starship" people aren't complaining about luke's x-wing not being called red 5
Sauroctonus
Or Greivous' "Soulless One".
FatherAlexanderAnderson
Marketing decision. All of those toys are now worth double.
UnagiFerrin
Lego has always tried to be family friendly. Though this probably was Disney. I remember when they refused to release any sets with guns
WoodfolkFae
this was indeed disney, lego just has a thing against modern war because the original owner was against war toys
WoodfolkFae
which actually helped greatly in sales because their biggest customer became Germany and the Germens didn't like war things anymore
CaveCanem
To be completely fair, I think this is marketing and not trying to be pol correct. Vader's X1 is simply known as Vader's Tie Fighter, or
CaveCanem
H-2 Executive Shuttle being sold as Palpatine's Transport. They never once say any of the ship names in movies OR shows, so it's for plebs
RM641a
This is a very valid comment I had never thought of. +1
TheTripleLindy
Just call it a Firespray
TheSkleebler
Had to scroll down way too far to find this.
potentiallyunsafe
And call the Millennium Falcon a YT-1300 light freighter
TheTripleLindy
Sure!
4vie
Really, "Firespray 1" does sound pretty cool. That, or Twang-Drop 1.
FrankTheThunderbird
*Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah starts playing in the background*
Kaileeb92
fun(?) fact, that movie was considered racist as fuck by audiences at the time of its release...in 1946. let that sink in.
Kaileeb92
sidebar: the animated shorts in it are still fantastic and fun interpretations of early african-american folklore
OrionRed
Well I seen a bullseye, I seen a googly eye, I even seen a eagle eye! But I done seen about everything if seen another Jedi.
csullivan
sniper3kgt
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/boba-fett-s-starship-75312
PrincessLeliana
Oh, its the trashy tiny one with no detail. Lame.
seannikiforuk
Yeah they discontinued the good sized one and gave us this. Wack.
billyrayvirus
Do they keep Anakin, a literal slave, in their sets?
DeeDoubleYu
Hard to word this thought; but wouldn't the idea that the word slave can only be used in the context of black American slaves be way worse
DeeDoubleYu
Also in this context (a machine) doesn't it make more sense as it's machine definition I. E. Slave system/slave drive?
OhHiMarkOhHeyLisaHiDannyHiMiUnderwearesOhHeyLisaSpooooons
Yeah that's why we're fucked
LincLoud
Disney in America: We're family friend, progressive, look our twitter account has the rainbow flag! Disney in China: Work harder! Rich kids>
LincLoud
in your country need to consume our shit! Die for the mouse!
Domehammer
Isn't the name to be ironic? Cause Jango Fett was a slave or something in the true EU canon.
Cpthornswoggler
Does that mean Slave Leia is also no longer? That was a big part of my childhood.
Xcalibar25
The figure based on it was referred to as Leia as Jabba’s prisoner.
JimboTCB
They were going to go with Comfort Woman Leia but that did not go down well in China at all.
B3N15
I think it still exists, they're just not making toys or action figures of it anymore.
yuugian
Wraid
titaniumsnail
Oh Carrie. Rest in badassness.
AmHumanNotLizardMan
It's now "Boba Fett's Leia", we need to be considerate here.
Green223
They officially call that outfit "Huttslayer Leia" now which to be honest I don't really mind.
bekkayya
im 105% here for that
arawhotdogsuspendedinatupperwareofvaseline
Okay that's actually way cooler
Yacobs21
Aight, that's pretty metal
B3N15
Not going to lie, I always thought Slave-1 was a bad name to begin with.
TodayIsSlapANaziDay
In order to please the West Taiwan overlords, it’s now ‚Re-education Camp Inmate - 1‘
ExoCyberBit
Why are people being so pissy about not calling a ship Slave?
fartharder
It's a good move.
bangbangbangbangbangbangbangban
I just found one of the old gods
RealWorldNPC
I will never not call it the Slave 1. Fuck Disney. Close their eyes to all of CCP's atrocities, but no, we can't use the word slave.
mesowetodit
Come on folks, u know all this BLM, Asian Hate, Juneteenth is just for show man. All businesses in the world is integrated with China.
Trumpolicious
No one told you what to call it. Corporations do things to make money. They think this makes money. They don’t care about you.
tyrunn
Nuubopotamus
Where is the audio? Never seen this
tyrunn
It's some incel throwing a fit over the Rick and Morty sauce at a McDonald's
Nuubopotamus
Not sorry I missed that, thanks!
Domehammer
Someone just wants to call the ship its proper name, no need to throw a tantrum.
tyrunn
I missed that part in the incel rage about China and all the tears
MadMupp
Many things use the name Slave that arnt linked to slavery. Folks are too sensitive and overly addicted to being the bestest activist ever
MattyMattFFS
They want to still feel superior, just with pointless social warrior actions. It's just bad grandstanding
sindorius
Yeah but the bigger the brand, the more they gotta cater to anything that could trigger anybody.
smparreira
slav(e) as in the act of indenturing a person of slavic origin in ancient rome
TheIronPenguin
How many of those things are directly marketed towards children though? Because this is about toy sales.
LordBaneoftheSith
I guarantee you the person that thought this up doesn't think they're an activist. They're a moron trying to get good PR from twitter idiots
ThePastmaster
Or rather avoid bad PR from casuals.
SarcasticComment
Likely this. Disney bought Star Wars for the consumer appeal and merchandising ability. If the name "Slave" won't sell the average person
SarcasticComment
/2 toys, they're going to drop it all together. You know who outnumbers the diehard fans? The average consumer grabbing a toy for their kids
Mostlybored
But Fett is a slave. All the clones were. They were bred to fight for a war??? It works.
Hashbrown123
No, Boba was just a standard clone. He had none of the changes the rest of the clones received.
Datarage
Boba Fett got to live a “normal” life. I agree with the clones but he was just his own father
flamingflamingo
I don't think it's about being too sensitive and just avoiding the unneeded use of "slave" in this precarious era
MadMupp
But this isnt an unneeded use of the word slave. Its the ships name. And have absolutely no link to slavery on Earth. So wheres the issue
flamingflamingo
It's not that deep. Disney is a huge marketing conglomerate, they're just avoiding even the potential of bad press. Also, I think the ship >
flamingflamingo
>is gonna feature heavily in future installments and they don't wanna be weighed down by that potentially controversial word.
MadMupp
Slave is a word. Every nation and race has been a slave at some point. But the name isn't related to any of those instances
stja
You're right. I'm sure if we pretend the word does not exist the history will alter itself and contemporary human trafficking will cease.
MadMupp
Boba Fetts spaceship in a sci fi movie series is likely to make people forget slavery was/is a thing?
stja
No. What I am saying is, tabooing the word describing an act in an effort to decry said act is dumb and at worst directly counterproductive.
flamingflamingo
This is Lego/Disney. Not a history book. It's less about revision and more about marketing and PR.
silverskeeter44
The character who owns the ship was a slave tho.
flamingflamingo
Boba Fett wasn't, he was a free clone. Nor was his dad a slave.
Pimparoo3
I think people are just wondering why, slavery is still very much a thing in starwars cannon, just seems like something no one was
Pimparoo3
Complaining about, at least that's my take. Fett is supposed to be a pretty bad dude, but I guess they have to get him ready for his show.
AtsaMattaForMe
itzwibble
What movie is this
IupvoteAussies
deetatron
IMe7
RookVector
13th amendment in a nutshell.
ch1ckensandw1ch
“It’s my birrrrrrrrrrthdaaaaaaaaay”
awesomecat42
The prisoners with jobs thing hits different once you know about the “except as punishment for crime” thing in the 13th Amendment.
AtsaMattaForMe
debthepleb
Dammmmmnnnnnnnnnn. That's some serious sentiment conveyed competently and not overtly politicising the movie.
jennym123
I never spotted that! Thank you for pointing it out.
JustinOtherDrone
The amendment abolishing slavery had one exception : prisoners.
CatBeagler
And the law quickly changed to make being "homeless/poor/unemployed (ie black)" illegal so the recently emancipated could be "put to work."
JustinOtherDrone
For a case in point check out Angola prison in MS. Went straight from plantation to prison farm.
RVAALLDAY
Lmfao he’s not saying much.. He still owns them… space is a slave by any other name
RVAALLDAY
Slave is a slave *
debthepleb
RolandLovecraft
He was so good in that movie. I like to think he didn’t “act” and thats just who he is all the time. Minus the melting stick, of course.
Sheldonian
He's mf Jeff mf Goldblum, he's good in everything
MagnorCriol
“We put him in the robes, told him he’s in charge of this planet, and then just pointed the cameras at him and let it go.”
20Spades
I think you mean ESPECIALLY with the melting stick
litelbrown
I mean, have you seen him in interviews?
JodyBird
Or, Havens forbid, at a convention. . . Man's a chaos imp.
CoyoteWill
Chaos imp hahaha
Teaflings
hes on a D&D podcast now and yea he acts like that all the time. I think its just him
NoThymeForPuns
What podcast???
Teaflings
Dark Dice, but its a bit different that others. They do play, but then replace gameplay audio with RP so its more like an old radio show.
BigStacksThrowItOnThemBigFatTatties
he was acting in Grand Budapest, one of his few acting jobs. Ragnarok and other movies are just him being himself. i think.
ChevyNova1973
I'm pretty sure that's just how he is, I've watched a few of his lesser shows where he could just be himself
AtsaMattaForMe
RolandLovecraft
Photeus
I admit I laughed when Loki copied this
RolandLovecraft
When did he do that? I can’t remember.
tjn24
I pardon you . . . . . . . . . . . . FROM LIFE!
sum1ne1
I'm stepping in it!
RolandLovecraft
EnterPlayer3
Wait a minute, whats this from?
BeachsideBarghest
Thor: Ragnarok directed by Taika Waititi who is an absolute genius
EnterPlayer3
Ooooh that's the director?! I looked him up and watched Where the Wilder People Are because of his work on jo jo rabbit.
RVAALLDAY
Everything he does is fantastic tbh Jojo rabbit, what we do in the shadows, ragnarok.
BeachsideBarghest
When you see the shoes in Jojo Rabbit broke me
AydenBeeson
Thor Ragnarok, which if you haven't seen it in pretty jealous. It's glorious, get on it
AydenBeeson
*I'm
EnterPlayer3
Cool, good to know it's fun to watch. I've basically tuned out everything Marvel except for a select few. I'll check it out!
chanboxy
Get back to us when you do. It's the best marvel for humor I think.
goesballsdeep
I always called it Fett's Vett
dontmagpie
ITS FETTS VETT MR CHANDLER FETTS VETT
NonFungibleUsername
djgrom
Do you bounty hunt for jaba the hutt? Does your backpack have jets?
philorpheed
What a beautiful reference
Sigge1981
Does he have a mask over his face?
Sigge1981
I think I will have ti find that Star Wars Galaxies video of that song, now. Haven't seen it in donkey's years.
inkbot
MC Chris 4TW
TinyOctopus
Tiny Octopus notes that this began with Disney.
BigStacksThrowItOnThemBigFatTatties
So after shitting on Star Wars with the new trilogy, Disney is now rew-writing star wars lore/history AFTER favreau saved their ass ?
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BatsArentBugs
Intense. How are you fighting them yourself?
Nuubopotamus
Hypocrites. Can't support dropping that name but also say nothing about China. Doesn't work that way
altrdgenetics
Disney prefers real slaves.
platinumskink
... So, are they going to try to censor the word from the rest of the series, too? It's kinda prevalent in Anakin's backstory.
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
And they're fine with Boba being a murderous merc who kidnaps and sells to crime Lords?
jixathejinx
He was a bounty hunter. Bounty hunters go after "wanted" people. Who wants them is none of his business as long as they pay the bill.
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
That's pretty amoral and does make him, at least ambivalent, about slavery
BaklavaWearingBalaclavaWhilePlayingBalalaikaOnBlackLava
That's nice Disney. Still gonna call it that.
AnotherOneBitesTheCrust
Was anybody else really dropping the name? Because I really don’t think anyone else was dropping the name
skyconb
Yes everyone is. All licensed Mandalorian and future Book of Boba Fett merch will not be named Slave I, because of Disney.
JohnnyDewDew
What they mean is Disney has communicated that the name won’t be used going forward so it is being “dropped”. This is just the first 1/
JohnnyDewDew
And most high profile merch we’ve seen it happen to. When the wave of toys around the Boba Fett show comes out it won’t be on anything.
Fuckme721
Agreed.
magdalth
Everyone at Disney*
CongratsYouAreHereNow
Why four dots?
CongratsYouAreHereNow
Because idiot
CongratsYouAreHereNow
Only reason
YankeeShame
Ok tardo
macbi
Ellipsis then full stop. (I would have just used the ellipsis (or a colon), but I think that's what they were thinking.)
OscarWao
Good, it's a shitty name
HeHulk
Pimparoo3
Why, he's a bounty hunter in a galaxy where slavery is somewhat common. Seems fitting, plus Boba is not a nice dude.
eblic
Jango is very sentimental and named it slave 1 because he used to be a slave before he killed his masters and took control of his life.
MotherofCoeurls
Someone doesn't know anything about the topic they're passing judgement on
Redbulloth
It's not a good guy's ship. That was kind of the point. It was Jango Fett's, which Boba took over. You know, Jango "sure, I'll assassinate..
OscarWao
You really getting weird about them removing the word slave from a kids toy? Were talking about a Lego set here...
slinkiisu
It's not the toy that's the issue
Redbulloth
a senator" Fett?
Lucky246
Yes literally the best in the Galaxy at kidnapping children and murdering innocent people but their problem is the ship is named slave 1?
Lucky246
I hope Filoni slaps them.
BladeRan
Tbh they refer to all the ships as the owners ship. Even the Executor is just called Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer
Frostycopper
And the millennium falcon?
Shelest
Formerly Lando Calrissian's, Then - Also Formerly - Han Solo's, and Now Rei 'The Best Jedi' Skylwalker's Bomb-Ass Pimp Light Freighter
BladeRan
I think that’s one of the few ships they’re keeping the name for. Tbh I see it more for selling toys to confused parents
Yacobs21
Lando's starship. /s
tyrunn
Ask an 8 year old to name a starship from Star Wars, if they don't say Death Star, they'll say Millennium Falcon
NotoriousBadassWhoLovesMusicals
They also changed the Bad Batch’s starship Havoc Marauder to Assault Shuttle. Nobody cared. People are afraid of cancel culture, but cmon
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NotoriousBadassWhoLovesMusicals
Its because its easier to market to the kids parents. We’re talking about LEGO sets. Don’t think they change the canon name
ShittyAdmiral
This is the sort of thing that empowers it, really.
PrincessLeliana
What did they call it?
AsAHistorian
Cast Member-1
bhraal
Cast Member-1
Lichelf
214\/3-i
dandublu
Surely 514\/3-i ?
TheAmazingBushman
Darude Sandstorm
danishroyalty
Boba's Starfighter, which is wat they call all the other Lego ships: "x person's starship".
MAYTechnique
The Ghost. Razor Crest. Millenium Falcon. No, they don't call them all "x's starship"
Treblaine
"Genocide-2"
MeniBothanzWasMyGrandFather
Prisoners with jobs 1
ChewbaccaFCSP
"Prisoner with benefits-1"
aquestionfouru
Uyghur- slave1
Gobjin
1-evals
UnremarkablyInteresting
Slave 2
professorlemonwood
Prisoner with job-1
ThanosTheGreat
YASSSSS
SpikeTheGoat
1
MarsIsAfire
Cuntsparkle-1
BeanMugged
Amazonian-1
FeedTheNachoMan
Unpaid Intern-1
MAYTechnique
Anakin-1
RelevantImgurian
“Indentured Servant II”
ventiseii
Fett’s Vette
WinstonSmith101
Amazon Fulfillment Centre Worker - 1
MegaBiteMe
The Gina-Carano-1
YouShouldHearTheThingsIDontSay
Surprise labor 1
5knotcans
The bouncy-hunter.
FeloniousMonk13
Slave-2
Ultratoxic
Indentured Servant 1
corvettee01
Slave 1
EvilMadMonk
Essential worker-1
k4FoodSmasher
States’ Rights -1.
FuzzyX
Unpaid worker-1
Chryos
Prisoners with jobs-1
CulturallyEmbiggened
"Valued Disney Employee 1"
Lucky4Leaves
https://i.imgur.com/wgcgGfP
overpolitemidwesterner
worldsbiggestnickelbackfan
UncleBuckFutter
Also would have accepted "Amazon Warehouse Employee 1" but way to stay on-theme and stick it to Disney" +1
amcconnell92
thedewser
"Valued Disney 'Cast Member' 1"
patismaximus
Martellus
Said Employee
Hayashima
TwoSpeedTony
SkeuomorphicallyInclined
TheMonkeysAngst
Howard Johnson is right!
SkeuomorphicallyInclined
@TheMonkeysAngst Johnson is right about Howard Johnson being right!
gablestout
RorytheRedKing
Holy shit, +1
Fanaticalmoderate
Fantastic
SaintCody
Well nobody is topping that lol
MatthJolly
"boba fett's starship". Yup. Yup they did.
KiLLeRdAcKeL
Wow.
Lucky246
This is the real answer
mikeatike
Slave-2
dandublu
Haa!
Tigersterne
Electric Boogaloo?
secretdpp
Controversial opinion, I liked Slave 2 better, thought it was the cooler ship.
Sonicschilidogs
Slave-69
paintingagency
I need to get my wife to call me this.
Bigworm666999
Nice
Deephard
Nice
AGCGACCAAGACAACGUUGACGAAAGC
Happy Uyghur Volunteer 1
angryCentrist
CassySpencer
What isn’t?
CanadianPunster
Ouch…
ScarecrowSticks
ApolloSierra
MK1Maniac
anabanona531
Why is that delayed explosion sound SO GOOD? I remember loving it as a kid, too, on attack of the clones.
ScarecrowSticks
It's so powerful it affects the sound around it
0utlander
Slav-1
TheTripleLindy
Blin!
bigtwindaddy10
dustmywets
NationalistCanadianMooseWarrior
Didn't know Lada made starships
MattHolmberg
That is actually what the word slave comes from.
HellbirdIV
It's a great example of how English gets words in the most roundabout ways. Europeans captured pagan slavs, sold them to the Arab world >
HellbirdIV
> who sold them to Spanish Arabs, who consequently called all slaves "Slava", and so the word came back into Europe in that context.
MattHolmberg
Who downvotes that, it’s a real fucking fact
MyBigMouth
The fantastically catchy "Boba Fetts Starship"... space tumbleweeds.
Hrafna55
They could have used it's ship type name https://youtu.be/EernNDDUqwU
asmallcat
Because that's what parents will search for. It's only called Slave 1 in some ancillary products.
vonBoomslang
don't they name -every- ship like that?
SarahPlsz
Shoulda just called it Fett's Vette
capnyesterday
My backpack's got jets!
PrincessLeliana
Thank you for being the only one to actually answer the question
Silverforte
but everyone thinks they're a comedian because someone once laughed at something they said and they've been chasing that high ever since.
haquie
So it's a Chevy Corvette?
skuz95
Jbelkin
New naming strategy like the Washington football team as people get confused by metaphors or similes apparently
NetherMax1
I mean, this is brought to you by the same piss-faces that called it "Rey's lightsaber"
ThePastmaster
I can just hear a random 10yo during a demo yell: "It's called Slave-1 you casual!"
Lichelf
Not like most kids know that its name is Slave-I. This makes it a lot easier for parents and kids to find the set they're looking for.
Lichelf
When kids say "I want Boba Fett's Lego ship" most parent's are gonna look for that at the store/online. Lego refers to other ships like this
Haiddon
yeah, because that's lego's naming scheme now. if a ship has an iconic character attached to it, they include the character in the name.
theatand
I could see this as a response to search engines. Look up character name & get their playset kinda thing
Meeces
as much as it kind of annoys me, this makes a lot of sense to me.
MAYTechnique
Yeah except for the Razor Crest. Or the Millenium Falcon. Or the Ghost. Or the Tydirium. Or the Death Star. Or the Death Star II.
KevynDietz
The general scheme seems to be 'give it the name it has been called onscreen, and then a character related name if it hasn't been named
KevynDietz
on screen. It's not unique to Slave 1, other ships and vehicles without a specific name on screen get the generic treatment.
Haiddon
it appears to be a relatively new naming scheme, started after the razor crest set, but before the luke's x-wing set.
KevynDietz
Even that fits into the 'only give it an on screen name's scheme they seem to follow. 'Luke's X-Wing' never had a name on screen other
TheIronPenguin
The Razor crest is called "The Mandalorian Bounty Hunter Transport" on lego.com so they seem to have updated it to the new naming scheme.
TheIronPenguin
The Marauder from Bad Batch is "The Bad Batch Attack Shuttle"
arkuamore
Please tell me you're kidding. A ship needs a name.
RinkeModder
it also looks like a "made in china" knock off play set.
BallDoctor
In fairness a lot of ships are given names that are more recognisable. E.g. "Major Vonreg's TIE" instead of "TIE/Ba Interceptor"
Ghostlogicz
Jabba’s hard working twi-lek
TxDragnier
This way the fans know and they can keep it in. Doesn't bother me, really.
KevynDietz
The vast majority of Lego Star Wars sets use generic names like ' Ship' or 'Jedi Cruiser' or similar, especially one off ships.
Tigersterne
Yeah, but Like didn't name his X-Wing....
Hammertulski
Did Parkins or Boggs name theirs?
KevynDietz
It seems like the main determiner is if the name/ship class was said on screen in the movies or not.
asmallcat
There are, what, 2 named ships in the original trilogy? The Falcon and the Tyderium?
ThereWillBeDownvotes
Falcon and the Slave 1, you meant
asmallcat
It was never referred to as Slave 1 in the actual movies, was it?
cardboardwhales
And at the end of the day, life went on
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
Nuu this DESTROYED my childhood! This OBLITERATED my sense of self! This UNKNIT AT A MOLECULAR LEVEL my dreams! This TORE A DORSAL ASSHOLE m
GTimgur
The concern is that such pointless virtue signaling leads to dishonest, incomplete, and counterproductive examinations of history.
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
You right, tbh. Star Wars ships were my gateway to biographies of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass
WorksForTheHutts
Okay, just make sure you don't offend China or mention the horrible things they're doing to people right now. Just needlessly virtue signal.
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
The amount of power you give me over international policy and your emotional state is humbling. I'll try to live up to the responsibility.
NonCertifiedDoctor
Chill dude, people are making fun of it because it's stupid. No one is gonna lose sleep over this.
Senguie
Well I wish you were right. But some people I know lost their mind. Fuming in anger. But being a SW fan for years, I’m not surprised sadly.
GTimgur
Welcome to the internet!
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
He's literally proven wrong in these comments lol
huffdogg
Disney made this decision, not LEGO
bazookasoup
"I dont want you to use the name of the ship we bought the rights for"
BilboBagginslol
Is that the same Disney that makes movies right next to slave camps?
Sauroctonus
Yup.
Bbbrrr000ccckkk1
I don’t they are (or really can) change the name within the story. They just don’t want it on merchandise. “Hey ma! I want the Slave 1” 1/?
Bbbrrr000ccckkk1
Isn’t exactly something you want to hear a child yelling out in a Target with little to no context. 2/2
KnightKrypto
This and all they literally did was change the name to boba fetts ship which is still true. its still canonically slave 1, but more visable
CaptainHightower
CoarseAndSalty
If your girlfriend makes you dress dumb because she's got a leash on your cock I'm gonna give you shit too. She's not it, you are.
Bossco20
They also chose to make a movie in China next to some concentration camps and thanked China for being so cool
Weentit
that's probably why to distance themselves
TheInsensitiveOne
and they were perfectly happy with china removing finn from their star wars posters lmao
tone0508
Thats like saying Hollywood movies are near las Vegas...
Weentit
new kinds of stupid all the time
tone0508
I know right. Morons pointing at Chinese camps while America bombs sovereign countries. Fucking idiots
blaghart
I love how you have no response to the reality of chinese concentration camps besides "other bad stuff also happens!"
Sthawwaths
No, it isn’t. They were actually next to concentration camps at times.
tone0508
They actually aren't at any time. They're in the same area of China. But that area could be a country all on its own
ropetopus
Ok, so we're ok with human rights abuses as long as we don't get too close, then? Exact proximity is secondary to the issue, yo
TheDudzzly
This comment needs to be higher
huffdogg
So you spake it, so mote it be. No idea how one bitty comment gets 750 upvotes lol
TheDudzzly
Because you spoke the Truth. Obviously, it matters on imgur! /s
GoodGuyGonzo
socraticmeathead
Which too bad because exploring the idea that the Clones eventually saw themselves as the Jedi's slave army would be fascinating.
Bacxaber
Slick did. They killed him for it.
Acc87
oh god I only just understood the name "Slave-1"
ydwyrd
Which is funny because not only were they *Palpatine's* slave army, the Jedi actually cared deeply for the clones under their command.
V1K1NGFVNERAL
*sneers in Pong Krell*
socraticmeathead
Pong Krell reconsidered as moral absolutist who saw how immoral the situation was, but blamed the clones instead of the Republic and Jedi.
ydwyrd
Pong Krell had already fallen to the Dark Side and was actively sabotaging the Clone Army to get in the good graces of the Seps and Sith.
V1K1NGFVNERAL
Yup, it's one of my favorite arcs from the show. It really stands out, visuals and story.
Bacxaber
Wrong. Jedi happily used the slaves they were given. If they cared, they'd recruit a volunteer army or fight their wars themselves.
ydwyrd
The entire point is that there was no other way to get an army of the scale they needed in the time available. Even then, the Jedi always 1/
Bacxaber
Imagine defending the use of a child slave army. I'm cutting you off here, you don't get to speak, scum.
ydwyrd
treated the clones as people, not properties, and made a point of fighting on the frontlines alongside them.
socraticmeathead
That's what makes Sideous' plot so great: He forces the Jedi to compromise their morals again and again until they rot from within.
ydwyrd
Which was a major point behind Order 66: strengthen the bonds between the Clones and the Jedi so the Jedi wouldn't see the attacks coming.
socraticmeathead
Imagine a post-66 arc where clones struggle with the fact they were forced onto the side of traitorous Jedi--I think the word "slave" works.
socraticmeathead
Clones embrace the term "slave" as a reminder of where they came from...not unlike certain Civil Rights movements. Could be interesting.