Tasting the dirt on Crait


I can't get past this scene.

Let's get in the trench with our guns and prepare for battle!

Hmm, that guy left a red footprint even though the ground is white.

This makes me want to taste the dirt! Yes, I will taste the dirt that someone just stepped on!

Okay, it's salt everyone. DID YOU HEAR THAT, AUDIENCE? It's salt, not snow! This isn't Hoth, so we have to make sure to point out that it's not snow.

Tasting the dirt. TASTING THE DIRT!

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It isn't dirt if it's salt.

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Unless it's white dirt, but I'm just using the term to mean ground cover, not literal soil.

Like how we might say a shirt is "dirty" even though it had wine spilled on it, and no dirt involved.

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I was just being a smartass,lol. I kind of agree with your point. What if it was some toxic material?!

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"What if it was some toxic material?!"

Maybe he was hoping it was drugs. I saw someone on Reddit or somewhere who was saying that the Porgs were designed for Pokemon fans, Fathiers were designed for Harry Potter fans, and junkie teenagers get "crystal meth foxes."

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People get distracted by all sorts of insane things when under extreme stress, anything to distract them from the fact that they're about to be blown into a million tiny bits or shot full of burning holes and dying in agony.

That scene rang true, even the soldier tasting the dirt that someone had stepped in. He's a soldier, he's probably eaten worse things than a speck of dirt.!

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My first thought was that the soldier had left bloody footprints and the one tasting was checking to see if the other soldier was injured.

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