George Nostralucas presents… START WARS!

I was taken aback last week when I discovered that my significant other had never seen any Star Wars film…

I mean that’s like finding out someone hasn’t tried bread or something to our generation surely!

So I did what any loving boyfriend would, I initiated a program of education and made her sit through all six films. As an added bonus I’m making her watch them in episode order rather than the order they came out, this ruins a few plot twists such as the Leia and Luke being siblings thing and Vader being Luke’s dad but I figured I’d rather work up to the original three films than subject her to Jar Jar and ‘Comedy3PO’ half way through the saga (There are some things I can’t forgive George).

I realized today whilst reading this from Jyoti’s blog, how most of the storyline from episodes 1-3 is reminding me more and more of the current political climate. Seriously, everyone should revisit the Star Wars films and see all the similarities.

This Wikipedia entry is a good summary too. Read the parts about Palpatine designing his own threats to the republic (Usually ones he initiates as Darth Sidious) in order to seize executive power over the senate and later dissolve it entirely. When anyone challenges him (the Jedi) they are called separatists or traitors and added to the enemies and fear.

How true to life does this sound?

Remember kids, fear leads to anger… and there lies the dark side…