I saw this picture this morning, and thought of you people. Thanks to Geekstir!
But I do have one question. Why is the plucky, little rebel faction carrying the evil Sith lightsabers?
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"Why is the plucky, little rebel faction carrying the evil Sith lightsabers?"
Presumably because the British were right all along.
At the time, the British were "in the right" putting down rebellious settlers who have spurned the crown.
Couldn't we say the same about the Empire? Vader's not a bad guy. He's just trying to put down the ruffians and restore order!
George Washington had wooden teeth.
By the time of the Revolution, he was practically more machine than man.
But the point is the British were the empire and the Americans were the rebels. For that matter, it should be "Aren't You a Little Short For a Redcoat".
sigh, indeed. as always, the winners got to write the history.
Why is the plucky, little rebel faction carrying the evil Sith lightsabers?
Because *those* rebels owned slaves. ;-)
Everyone knows the real heroes in this story are the British. Bowed under the pressure from annoying colonies who bite the hand that feeds them, and saddled with a syphilitic leader, they fight back valiantly against the terrorism of the populist rebels.
Yes, the rebels win a Pyhrric victory, but at the cost of destroying an entire way of life for millions of innocent people.
I can't wait for the sequel, where Obama WalkStarrer gets his hand cut off.
I can only assume this was 'shopped by a Brit. Good work, sir! When one looks back with the clear vision of history, one can perhaps wish more heart were put into the British effort; say, for example, as at the battle of the Plains of Abraham.
Walrus ivory.
Genetic cyborg chimera!!!!
"Little Man WITH A GUN IN HIS HAAAAND!!!"
Touché. It's all fun and games until a rebel faction tries to overthrow the Empire.
Touché.
Though it does beg the question: What can we call the role of sentient droids in Star Wars society?
Maggie,
"Why is the plucky, little rebel faction carrying the evil Sith lightsabers?"
It's one of the prequels where the sith lead the separatists.
Freetard,
"one can perhaps wish more heart were put into the British effort; say, for example, as at the battle of the Plains of Abraham."
Maybe this is supposed to be funny and I should just chill, but your comment kind of offends me.
Couldn't we say the same about the Empire? Vader's not a bad guy. He's just trying to put down the ruffians and restore order!
They don't call him "Darth Cheney" for nothin'.
I call them "Characters with dialogue as written by George Lucas." They all sound like sentient robots:
QED
green lightsabres for red coats - complementary colors. and red sabres for blue coats...well it's almost complementary.
I would have thought those to be planks of wood, rather than sentient robots. Robots, sentient or not, have the blessing of cold hearted logic even in a galaxy far far away.
If I was the person who created the image, I might say something like
"I honestly wasn't thinking about the factions in the star wars universe when I was adding the lightsaber effects, and thus the mapping of each real life faction was completely by chance."