love Disney and like Star Wars just fine...
But at HS and the parade with the storm troopers coming up the street with pounding aggressive music (scary to young ones) seems very militaristic as they march in sync (similar to our enemies)
They are the bad guys right?
What is the attraction to all this??
Don't get it.
And doesn't seem to fit into what Disney is all about.
Am I just missing something?
I take things as seriously as you did and I agree.
I like SW *and* I question why stormtroopers are the only ones that get to have blasters in the parks now. My son liked it better when he got to have his Han Solo blaster (purchased at
Disneyland). Or his Boba Fett blaster (also from Disneyland). Or, heck, even his Stromtrooper blaster (guess where he got it?).
In the movies once they were Stormtroopers they were bad guys (and no, one guy, out of allllllll the others, defecting in FA doesn't count as an example).
The 501st people at the SW Half marathon were my fave part of the run, I think they are funny in person, but there's a chord of dissonance to have them marching at the parks.
Really? The hysteria is just getting ridiculous.
What hysteria?
The Storm Troopers are not trying to emulate the Nazi
Um... Maybe a chat with George Lucas could clear that up. Where do you think the name "stormtrooper" came from?
(Side note: the robes of the Jedi look like samurai robes because he was going from that tradition for them. He took a lot of stuff from a lot of places.)
Not saying the minimum wage people in the parade are, but the concept of them certainly is from Nazis.
love Disney and like Sleeping Beauty just fine...
But at MK and the stage show with Maleficent coming on the stage with pounding aggressive music (scary to young ones) seems very satanic as she appears on stage (similar to the devil)
He is the bad guy right?
What is the attraction to all this??
Don't get it.
And doesn't seem to fit into what Disney is all about.
Am I just missing something?
I agree with you, too. Even though you are not being real.
There's a LOT of scary stuff at Disney. Boggles my kind sometimes! People talk about taking first time little kids to fantasyland at Disneyland first and I really question that. (FL at MK is lighter now, less scary than at DL)
But I was that sensitive kid. My mom had to leave the theater with me during a reshowing of Cinderella when I was little because the stepsisters were so mean and I was sobbing. I was afraid of all characters at Disneyland. I still don't much like them and have to literally be pulled into pictures with them (except for when I waited to see WIRalph to show him my Tower of Terror medal (and he could not have cared less about it)). Only character I liked was Jack sparrow because he's so nastily funny with guests, but then those guests didn't like *a pirate* being like that.
Oh and we routinely have discussions at home when we watch POTC that jack and crew are BAD guys not good. Norrington and Beckett are the good law and order guys even if we don't like them. (DH and DS are in disagreement with me because Jack etc all are so much cooler...yes because "cooler" is more important than not robbing and killing people, thanks hubby!)
I have always been a person to take things seriously and think a LOT about them. Even if I like them.
