Overall, I like the series, but those "Mods" seem like just an excuse for a "clever" play on words with their cybernetics and 1960s Vespa speederbikes. Put them in Coruscant, OK, but not on Wild West/Arabia Tatooine.
I think this series was written before Cyberpunk 2077 bombed and they were anticipating that stuff would be a huge thing.
Everything in a fantasy sci fi universe is just an excuse for something. I don't agree with your logic that prohibits Mods on Tatooine but permits them on Coruscant.
I think that some of the backlash of the mods has something to do with the similarity with contemporary real life cultures. And when people see a part of society being depicted (unless it's to ridicule or condemn it) it's sometimes perceived as if the show or movie is being made FOR that part of society. And it causes resentment and jealousy in those fan who feel that it's not being made for them instead.
EVERYTHING we've seen on Tatooine in all the movies and shows fits in with the rundown desert wasteland motif until now, with the flashy, colorful Mods. They stick out like a sore thumb. It's as if you put the Three Musketeers with their fancy clothes and plumed hats into a Viking movie where everyone else is in chainmail and bearskins.
And I wouldn't call 60s Mods "contemporary culture". They were a thing about 55 years ago.
And yet Luke Skywalker, resident of this run down desert wasteland, still has experience of sophisticated technology hat means he can pilot a state of the art star fighter.
Star Wars has always been full of anachronisms. There's not meant to be logic about the way everything looks. The mods and their bikes stick out because they want them to.
I didn't think I'd need spell it out, but the Mods and their "other"ness is feared and ridiculed by other Tatooine folks. It's clearly a broad and loose analogy for what's perceived as "alt" communities IRL. Whether it's gender or sexuality related or just cultural. There's a reason why they're all young.
You're getting way hung up on the scooter design. The Mods themselves don't wear 60s fashions but they clearly peacock in the way that 60s and later mods did and still do. They aren't meant to symbolise a specific time. But youth and modernity in general.
Same as now. Over the years (and it has been some years since ROTJ) towns, cities and villages can change dramatically, often depending on the type of people who choose to live there.
The OP is thinking of Mos Eisley as it was in the original movies. Things will inevitably have changed over the years.
Yeah. IT's ridiculous to assume that the new generation in Mos Eisley should want to dress and drive exactly the same as the previous generation. Why should it be any different from what kids do IRL?
shareDidn't see too many flashy colorful mods in Mos Eisley in last year's Mandalorian series, either.
It's obviously an ill-conceived attempt at cashing in on Cyberpunk 2077, written before the flop of said game and never revised.
I don't get an oppressed, "other" LGBTQ vibe from the Mods at all. I just get a stereotypical youth gang vibe mixed with the ill-conceived ideas of a writer who thought Cyberpunk 2077 was going to be the greatest thing evar! They actually remind me more of some crappy '80s teen SF movie like Solarbabies or Pray for the Rollerboys.
shareI never said oppressed. I said ridiculed. Kind of like the way you're lazily invoking "stereotypical youth gang".
Nobody cares about Cyberpunk 2077 except its fans and its haters. And neither group is very large, thankfully. It trended for about two weeks. Do you seriously think a major production is going to get locked in on a short lived trend like that and not be able to change tact just because the writer jumped the gun?
You don't have to like it. But your logic for it not being permissible is very thin at best.
Literally everything else these shows have shown us of Tatooine is exactly the same was it was in the old movies. They DO stick out like a sore thumb. They DO seem like something that belongs in Coruscant. It's OK to say something seems/feels REALLY out of place, if it clearly does. I felt the same way.
If you didn't feel that way, great. But obviously they are an element that didn't really fit into literally everything else we've been shown. And frankly, Boba could have done a lot better for his "heavies" than a bunch of cyber street punks.
Garbage. There's loads of shit in the Mos Espa scenes, particularly the pod race, which is unlike anything seen elsewhere in the saga's Tatooine scenes. I don't care if they belong on Coruscant. That's the point. The mods obviously acquired them because they would stick out amongst most of the crap on that planet. Star Wars has always been full of anachronisms. The technology that is most often on display in Tatoiine looks like shit because it doesn't belong there either. No technology really "belongs" there. It's a wasteland.
shareIt's not the fact that mods exist, it's that the look stupid and they DO look out of place with literally everything else on the planet - which I can buy to a degree.
However what I can't buy is how terrible the actors are, especially the main female mod. Absolute GUTTER level acting which amplifies how out of place things are. An actual decent actor would be able to make it work but not her.
See when you twerps get the fallacy of your supposed argument pointed out to you and then you just shift the goalposts and move over to calling people's work "gutter".... Get a life son. Or find something that makes you feel good instead of petulantly crapping on things you suspect are the reason you feel bad.
shareThe actress is gutter, so what?
As long as she is happy sluzzing who cares?
It's the execution. Implants, tech modifications and enhancements, and cyborgs have been a part of Star Wars universe since it's inception. But the colors, music, and way they behave is all off. It doesn't fit with Star Wars. It looks like it's from another series.
shareWow, I just watched a video on YouTube, and had a good, hearty laugh.
I thought OP might have been exaggerating, but no... the criticisms don't do the awfulness of those new-age Cyberpunk punks justice. And yeah, it really does look like someone saw Cyberpunk 2077 and decided to Star Wars it up.
For anyone who hasn't seen it, this video here does a good job of showcasing it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzOMyhS4TBA
Definitely a low point for the franchise.
shareSeriously, they look like something out of a cheesy low-budget 1980s movie!
And yes, 2 of the "Star Wars" films were actually made in the 1980s, but thing about them is... they didn't look at all like the 1980s. They looked like Star Wars films, with completely timeless production design.
Bingo. The concept is fine. Luke has a robotic hand, Vader was a cyborg - so it's not a foreign concept - it's just the execution was sooooo out of place. It looked like The Ice Pirates or Power Rangers. Their bikes alone are laughable.
shareTattooine is definitely a place that'd have a youth gang problem, I'm fine with that, but yeah the execution sucked. Their bikes looked heavy and clunky and not cool at all (they should have been given light fast-looking things), their fashion is painfully 1980s, and the Aussie accent made the steal from Mad Max too obvious. And their look was just too colorful for Tattooine, where everything is washed out and bleached by the sun.
The whole show is a mess, from the basic concept all the way through the execution. Not painfully, embarrassingly, enragingly bad, just lame all the way through. If it weren't for putting all this Mandalorian stuff in the wrong show, I'd just forget it all happened.
The show is great. The mods were great. You take fiction too seriously.
shareI'm definitely not the only one.
share"The mods were great."
You are the only person on the planet to think this.
People said the same thing about Jar Jar Binks.
https://youtu.be/gx7TGv7VfHU
luke left tatooine like 8 years before this show? were there any mods at the cantina where he and obi an went?
shareI was more bothered by their claims that they had to steal water because they couldn't afford to pay for it. But they could afford to pay for their fancy bikes and cybernetic enhancements. Just ridiculous.
sharePriorities! Also if I remember correctly, they just stole it as the water dealer was selling it for a ridiculous price, not because they couldn't afford it at all.
shareAs if he was the only guy in town selling water. If he's charging too much, his competitors will undercut him. That's just basic economics.
shareMaybe they are intended to make it fun for kids, however it is so hyperviolent only a child abuser would let kids watch this.
shareStfu. Tatooine is a huge planet. They are gonna have variety.
shareOdd how we have had like a thousand scenes on Tattooine during the whole SW saga and never saw anything remotely like the Mods.
shareThere were not a thousand scenes ever on tatooine. I guess according to you there are no family outings, or parties, or other towns, or murder, or kids going to school,.or marriage, Or people having office jobs, etc.etc.etc.
This is like one of the stupidest things to complain about. Is called world building adding to the foundation . Everything cannot be created all at once. 20 years from now people will still be adding to the story....jesus christ you Fannerds are a weird lot..lmao..
I'm not a fannerd of Star Wars. I just felt that the Mods matched with the theme of Tattooine like strawberry jam goes with pepperoni pizza.
shareOh bullshit. Look at all the variety on the planet earth. We have so many different cultures, vehicles etc. If this show is gonna be on Tatooine I dont want them to keep showing the same shit like the Cantina in Mos Esiley or brown land speeders or Jawa Sandcrawlers etc. That shit gets boring real quick. Oh and you are a Fannerd. I made the word up. I dont use a hyphen either because it looks nerdier without it. You are indeed a Fanatical Nerd....😂
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