German warship blasts Darth Vader anthem in heart of London. 'No deeper message,' navy says
German warship blasts Darth Vader anthem in heart of London. 'No deeper message,' navy says
Germany’s navy says there was "no deeper message” in the choice to blast the famed Imperial March — Darth Vader’s theme song in the “Star Wars” films — from one of its warships as it cruised down the River Thames through London.
‘The warship’s commander “is a big ‘Star Wars’ fan’
Lmao the commander is a top tier troll. I mean who wouldn’t love to float a giant grey warship down the Thames blasting the Imperial March??
A German warship blasting the anthem for fictional space Nazis isn't great optics.
What's the point of getting out of bed if everything is space nazis and bad optics?
It's cause you're not using space lasers.
Wasn’t the Death Star pretty much full of people with a British accent 🤷♂️
And also Nazis. Strange bedfellows and such.
Lmao. That's funny on multiple levels.
weird how 70 years later german military is glorifying the empire in star wars, which borrowed a lot from nazis but then became its own cultural thing
Borrowed? Heh. Nicked whole-cloth, more like: General Hux, addressing troops arranged in the "Nuremberg" pattern; the battle of Mimban = WWI Western front, in space; stormtroopers in Stirnpanzer; Soontir Fel = Red Baron — to say nothing of Baron Valen Rudor, and Vault Skerris; etc.
Hell, if you'd like a fun rabbit hole, look into the Twi'leks' Ryloth liberation as French Revolution, OG Sith as ancient Egypt/Aztec civs, Empire expansionism as HRE/Spain/US, etc. 🤓
The man's not known for ingenuity. Then again, neither is GRRM. 🤷🏽♂️
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Whomst among us?
Better blast an anthem than shells.