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Message: [QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 3219364, member: 87"] There has been political stuff peppered throughout the saga. I vividly remember the scene from Ep 3 which was a shot at George W Bush's "You're either with us or you're with the terrorists" line. It was basically parroted by Vader, to which Kenobi responded something like only a Sith thinks that way... It was clearly a way to call Bush evil, but at least it fit with the scene and the plot. So meh, not a huge deal. The difference in TLJ was that they diverted a good deal of the entire film to this side track against the 1% and the "military industrial complex" (recall the scene where Benecio tells them that the same people sell weapons to both sides) - my question about that is how did it advance this story in any useful way? Especially knowing the urgency to wrap the whole 40 year saga up now in just 2 hours and knowing the wasted 30 -45 minutes on this political side trip in the last movie. [/QUOTE]