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This is absurd. We already have made major breakthroughs in theoretical trans light drives. You aren't keeping up with the literature.

nuh uh

Ah, so your strawman starship is defined entirely by what has been seen in novel, tv and movies. Probably not as profound a statement as you think your premise is.

Great reminder of why I've always hated Sci Fi.

Such a great analysis!!! I loved the show, my only complaint was Diego Luna’s bland expression on all scenarios and situations. Nevertheless your analysis gave me a in depth understanding of the show and like it even more. Needless to say I find this ideology more appealing, despite the extreme are always despicable and deplorable. The political theory is there to see it when someone helps you to open your eyes, and fleshing the Stars Wars universe with the most realistic background. Real people and real situations that lack from so many science fiction. Thank you so much.

Just less than 60 years between Wright Flyer and the SR-71, food for thought.

If I'm not mistaken I think he's talking about a different type of deconstructionist story telling. Surely, you're not saying that the Last Jedi is as good as Watchmen and Discworld? That would be pretty absurd.

Dune also borrowed a lot from Foundation and the Princess of Mars, Lawrence of Arabia, wizard of Oz

well his name originally was going to be starkiller...

So long as you're willing to leave behind everyone you've ever known laser highway relativistic speed ships at high risk can absolutely get you to distant stars in human lifetimes. You just need to accept that what is a few years for you may be decades or hundreds of years for both your departure and destination making reliable circumstances hard to bet on. Also the energy for the laser comes from your departure point do best hope nothing catastrophic happens there for your centennial journey.

Very incisive. I really appreciated this as I do so much of your work. Salient and pretty much right on the mark. (And I say this as a SW die-hard who first saw the original -- and still best -- movie on July 4, 1977 as a smarter-than most 12-year-old).

Humankind will never fly, the sky is unattainable. The speed of sound will never be broken. The depths of the ocean are unattainable. Mankind will never leave the atmosphere. People will never walk on the Moon. What is unattainable today, is commonplace tomorrow.

Pffffft, starships, we already have Starship!

Good review, though for a show I havent watched, I like how you show right wingers as usual failing to deal with the real reality of corporate greed/control and instead obsessing over silly conspiracy fantasies

He’s trying to make us like It. It’s trash ,

You put infinitely more thought into this than the writers did

Hold on. Gaïa/Galaxia was a backup plan, by "the guy on the moon" (no spoilers), in case Foundations failed. The ultimate gift from Gyskar.

Somehow I think this video won't age well.

Loving this show. I'd call it simple not childish. And after all these galaxy destroying events in star wars I like that.

The characterization of Asimov's galactic empire as being topical, and the science of psychohistory being heroicized is not accurate really as far as I know. Also, the depiction of the book of these things very much more subtle. It does not endorse wholeheartedly any path including psychohistory, and psychohistory's relevancy is always in question after the first three chapters of the book. Also, saying terminus is an analog for the american colonies, is quite a stretch, and to my mind, never really a thought in azimov's mind. the story is a generalized archetypal history or intention of provoking thought, generally, and not a specific allegory of any one historical event, save the fall of the roman empire. Many people make this mistake of tolkien, thinking the lord of the rings is an analog for world world 2, which while tolkien did not deny the present had some effects on his ideas, he intended it to be a general myth, and not topical. Asimov's focus, as is almost always usual to him, is on the rationalities and competing historical forces, showing that reason and logic can prevail as a way of navigating and organizing thought and thought about things, and reasonable debate or consideration as a desired modus operandi for considering historical events and forces. He thus is eschewing ever following myth and unreasoned or hotheaded sentiment. He probably is so successful because his tone reveals a jokey playfulness and feeling for those who have emotions, feelings and need passion release valves and a jokey self effacing and endearing quality, but reason, almost a "meditative or mindful" quality of it, and consideration being guides to future actions still are his main focus. I in particular think Gibbon or know Gibbon was a clear inspiration for the setup, but I think or believe the foundation was not an analog to modern history or american power since ww2. I havent seen any but general parallels in it, not to my knowledge.

I watched the first 2 and a half minutes to have you get to your point. You are wrong. As a craft approaches the speed of light, there is time dilation. So starships are possible.

Thats the best review of this good Series. 👍

You have become an edgelord for clicks Damo. I miss your insightfullness. Though I'm happy that kids have something to watch. It is very brave of Disney to spend $22 million making each half hour TV episode for 12 year olds. This is almost as much as District 9, Looper or Limitless, and they are all full length sci-fi feature films. Wowzers!

I’m a 59 year old woman , who’s most cherished memory is our Star Wars wedding in 2005- before cosplay etc… I LIVE Star Wars since I saw it in 1977- 49 times that summer in Manhattan cinemas… and because of her love of SW and other pop culture- grew up to draw comics- most notably for Archie Comics-I AM enjoying Acolyte 🤩 because of the chaos of life I wasn’t sure why BUT now I do!!! Thank you for organizing the this and that which was floating around 5am Wednesday morning when I’d tune in to watch a new episode ! 9pm is just too late for me😜 I’m also a huge Disney lover- I was taken by my sweet grandparents the first year Disney world opened. So it does saddens me my heart about the corporate poop😔. I’ve already blabbed on and must get to the drawing board- so a big thank you for another informative and insightful video essay…. May the Force be with You 🙂‍↕️

I think you also missed a critical point.. was the original Star Wars trilogy written for 12 year olds or did they get this passion for the good story and great characters?

I came here trying to get perspective and your argument is "its made for kids" well... so was Avatar the Last Airbender and its generationally defining so the "made for kids" is bullshit. They also named a korean man (WHO LEARNED A NEW LANGUAGE FOR THE ROLE) Seoul...they twist it my spelling it Sol but if you dont have subtitles on you dontnknow that... that alone says all you need to know about how prejudice Disney Wars is. Js

It's people like this who have continued to hold back humanity since ancient times. "We can't, you can't, humanity can't, my pee pee is small". It's people like this who crashed the British Empire and collapsed Rome.

A starship does not need to go FTL to be a starship where did that conclusion come from? Even with an orion drive, NSWR or fusion drives it's possible to reach 10% lightspeed. With things like laser sails and antimatter we are talking speeds over 50% lightspeed, travel time being even shorter for anyone onboard due to time dilation.

You can have starships , heck the ISS is just a starship with no real engines. You would want to build it in space I would imagine. But none of that is really the point. The point is , WHY build such a stupid thing ??. Its not like its going to take you anywhere good. The whole idea is pretty damn silly and just an example of humans being busy just for the sake of being busy.

Those graphics are weak af. Look like that 150 million went to the disney laundry mat. How else do you explain such low quality with such a high price tag? Like...mandalorian didnt even use that much money. Make it make sens. Star wars and fans have been utterly FELTED. And ya know what....we will take it on the chin and walk away from this "jungian psychology" woke bull crap even though we lost all our chips at this casino. And if enough people walk away with their money...then disneys stupid money laundering stsr wars machine will either clean up or go bye bye. I for one enjoy the entertainment of watching it burn now. Burn it all down🔥🔥🔥

I just started this video but she clearly says she left. Which means she abandoned them

Tau Zero was a favorite book of mine for a while. I probably first read it around 1973 when I was 12. Later I stumbled across reprints of E. E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensman books, in which a device that makes spaceships inertialess lets them go faster than light. Late 1940s into the 1950s: my local library had a first edition of one of the books (all originally published as stories or in installments in magazines). Smith was indeed a doctor in that he had a Ph. D. in the exciting new field of food science and was THE expert on commercial mixes for producing doughnuts…

The same can say of warships the only thing that make difficult have space warship is tech remember you live in a world that is steps of world war 3

Its dogshit. I simplified it for ya. Complete shite

This dude smoking 12 year olds

Sorry but this show is absolute garbage. Poor acting, poor script. Dislikable characters and goes against cannon. Thats before we get to the cringe lesbian witch cult 😂 "The power of two" 😂 absolutely ridiculous. Disney please stop making anymore star wars related stuff, you're ruining the franchise

I wouldn't go as far as calling it good, but it's not bad either. It's watchable. At the very least it shows more ambition than Abrams' mystery box storytelling or Filoni's dependence on self-references and easter eggs. I reckon you are right about its target audience, it is young adult fiction essentialy. The problem is that the title and some of the marketing kind of implied it would be a thriller and it did this show a disservice. I wouldn't exactly agree with your view about how teenagers wouldn't be interested in shows such as Andor. I grew up watching prequels and even though I liked the Revenge of the Sith back then (going back to that movie certainly ruins some of these memories), I still felt it fell flat in what it promised. Even back as a teen and young adult I wanted Star Wars that would engage in politics in a more thorough and complex way, as Andor did. I found aspects of it in some of the Expanded Universe media, though it never was quite the way I wanted, so I guess part of the reason why I loved Andor so much is that my feelings of a teenager that such stories could be told in Star Wars.