Gone With the Hobo-Murdering Wind

[tongodeon]

Recently matrushkaka and I watched "Gone With The Wind". I have no idea how I missed it the first time, and the Wikipedia plot synopsis gives it pretty short shrift, but about two-thirds of the way through the movie Scarlett's husband Frank Kennedy, her longtime crush Ashley Wilkes, and a gang of their buddies totally murder an encampment of hobos.Here's what

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[neuracnu]

Mass murder of innocents on the still-under-construction Death Star?

[crisper]

The moment you put boots on something called the Death Star, you're no longer innocent.

[tongodeon]

We know that the Rebels called it a Death Star, but that could be nothing more than excellent PR-driven competitive branding. Is that also what the Empire called it?

[crisper]

Wookiepedia seems to believe the closest thing to a canonical answer is that it was the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, with "Death Star" possibly an internal code name on the Imperial project team and "Ultimate Weapon" as its previous designation, when it was still a Separatist project.

[adw3345]

I vote for "Brotherhood of Everlasting Peace Star".

[angel_boi]

funny you should mention that because the thing i think of is in ep two when "Ani" single handedly slaughters a whole village of sand people, children included.
and then falls into amadala's arms like got dunk and hand a bender.
and i'm like OMFG really? is anyone else here appalled?

[tongodeon]

The difference there is that I think everyone else *was* appalled, including some of the people in the movie. I think that was the idea - to show that Ani was pretty unhinged and destined for trouble. In contrast, the hobo-murdering seems pretty much OK and the narrative expects the audience to be OK with it as well.