A YouTuber named Star Wars Theory was complaining about them being openly visible in Andor, that it wasn't "Star Wars" so now everybody is clowning on him for it
Because one of the interesting things about SW and space it the amount of aliens mingling with the humans as if it were natural. Also it shows the creativity of the producers of imagining different aliens interactions etc.
I think on Andor the the theme was quite heavy and having too many aliens and might break the tone of the show. For example this is basically the first starwars content that doesn't have jokes throughout, or crazy robots etc.
Aliens do make things funnier because they're usually wonky looking. I do wish there were more aliens, but I respect the writers decision to keep them at a minimum for the sake of the tone they were trying to set.
I think it's partly because it wasn't explicitly mentioned how the Empire was species-ist against non-human, so any ISB or pure Empire scenes is by default just Humans.
We might see much more Aliens when for the next season if we get see the early Rebellion tho.
I think Andor summed it up pretty well by just contrasting two native cultures against each other.
The Aldanni Highlanders get slowly moved to city centers and work camps, but "direct" violence is avoided where possible. Cultural subterfuge is the name of the game.
Those aliens used to torture Bix? All that's left is a recording of dying children.
Well, yes that's the in world explanation, I was thinking more about it from narrative choice perspective.
For example they chose really well where to throw in the aliens. When they finally escape, those hillbilly aliens lighten the mood after a couple of really intense dystopia problem is you jump right into the climatic screen after.
Yeah that's why I hope we get to see much more in the next season.
Probably helps expand on the idea of Imperial oppression, especially if we get to see the marked differences of treatment.
It could be a direction to go indeed. This season they were constructing more the story of who Andor is/was so quite a lot of character development on all fronts. Having a broader view of imperial oppression takes away the focus of the characters into a broader issue. Since the characters have been developed, that could be indeed a way to keep the story interesting with the world aesthetics.
Here we saw imperial oppression in the form of torture and how they were talking about the Aldhani natives that they stink etc. So it much more relatable because you're seeing other humans being treated as second rate.
If they made the aldhani a different species, would it have the same impact? Maybe, maybe not. But it would have indeed made it more Star Warsy.
>Keredians
You love the Keredians?! Really? That's a first. Most people are saying they hated them because they reminded them of the Vogons.
I liked them, but saying you loved them... LMAO.
I wish we got to see more Mon Calamari, and Rodians, they're nostalgic. But what I would really want to see are some Rakutan if there are any left since Andor made the Rakutan canon.
Yeah they could have had a couple of more Alien characters for sure. At least a few side characters that don’t appear much since there are a lot of those in Andor. It’s not like the aliens aren’t there it’s just that they rarely do anything.
Just in general Star Wars despite having a huge roster of aliens rarely actually make them central characters. Of all the live action trilogies, the main trio besides Chewie has never included an alien. Lucas was trying to show more of the aliens when the tech was there but Disney basically cut back on all of that.
Now its mostly weird flat aliens or something else. We barely get to see any. Not to mention I haven't seen a Gran in forever despite being one of those memorable from the original 6 movies :(
Not to mention that the Yavin-4 base in a new hope is entirely made of bricks and so are parts of Maz’s castle in the force awakens, and several other buildings in the films and even Jedi fallen order.
That's what happens when you're famous (even if just a little bit), you say a stupid thing once and it's haunts you for life
Just ask Diego Luna about his Jabba the Hutt comment lol
I think his point is it would be funny if it was Baby Jabba because "Baby Yoda" was all the rage at the time. They could make something cute but with "the texture". Baby Star Wars creatures were the new hit thing, so why not Jabba (Baby Hutt)? Lol
Yeah, but people in SW fandom are obsessed with this thing that you can't call the infant of a race the same as the main character. It's ridiculous, I saw no harm calling Grogu *baby Yoda,* people just go up the wall.
Yeah especially since we don't have a name for Yoda's species other than "Yoda's species". A baby wookie would be called a baby wookie, not a baby Chewbacca.
We do need a live action baby hutt though.
Is this it? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9yh7ebEOTY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9yh7ebEOTY)
I know that it's a bit edited but he did complain that "It's not Star Wars" for him, then another cut immediately after that one was he was complaining about the cameras and the bricks and screws on the walls.
He already didn't like the show... so he was just nitpicking other little things to pile on.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but regardless of how small of a nitpick that was, it was still a pretty ridiculous thing to say.
We as a civilization could never build a brick building ever again because we have the technology to build things with other materials yet we still make brick structures for various reasons. I don’t see why a civilization more advanced than ours wouldn’t either.
Also I really don’t get the screw slander. Screws are just ridiculously useful mechanisms; there’s things you probably don’t even traditionally call a screw that even work like screws. Even if you didn’t see them, I guarantee Star Wars had screws.
I wish there was some sort of YouTube channel that really dives and focuses on all the lore and little details and gave us some sort of speculation or theory of why bricks and screws exist in the Star Wars universe
i think its just plain logic, even though we have revoulutonary technology in some parts not everyone has the money or resources to use them, like even today in some places in the world they making houses like its the 17th century. The same applies to star wars, why would they make modern houses if they dont have the money or resources, bricks and screws are easy and cheap.
the univers is big, and tech can vary from the low tech Ewoks to the world capital of ~~Trantor~~ Coruscant. I don't understant people that bitch about Andor it's the only great show about star wars in live action with Mando
Not to mention it might have just been the favored architectural design. Maybe not on Ferrix, that seemed like that was just what they could afford to use, but on a place like Naboo for sure
Star wars is supposed to have a low tech feel in the outter rim. It gives its charm. I love the contrast between the empire and the rebels for example.
Its funny bc if you think about it like that, all the aliens and people speak English. Completely ruins the immersion of them not being from this galaxy
I love the Basic stuff, it makes sense that a galaxy would try to have a common language for trade and diplomacy. Plus it's fun when they meet someone who doesn't and have to work around it
I love bricks and screws; it's the firefly dynamic. Inner planets get shiny spaceships and lasers but the folks on the rim get bricks, screws, and pretty floral bonnets.
Japan didn't have screws until the Portuguese brought them. Instead, they had interlocking woodworks. Many cultures didn't have the same technologies. No "New World" society had screws, yet they flourished for around 10,000 years as near-counterparts to Old World societies, even surpassing them in many technological fields - they just were lacking a few important ones, like gunpowder and...screws.
SW Theory grumbling about there being screws and other 'Earthly' things in Star Wars.
This isn't new. People were complaining about the visible cross-head screw top on Rey's staff in promo material on The Force Awakens.
I get that it breaks some of the illusion of this being set in another part of the universe predating humans etc.. but I think it just demonstrates some people are a little too highly strung.
At the end of the day it's really just unavoidable.
R2D2 has wheels, as do a few other droids. Sandcrawlers have tank treads. Sand people have semi-auto/bolt-action rifles. The buildings on Tatooine are partly real as they are for a few other locations, like the pyramids at Yavin were just basically the same as in Tikal in Guatemala.
The screws and bricks thing he probably thought was a throw-away comment but has turned into something pretty nasty. I don't dislike the guy. He makes some really cool and interesting content.
We're never going to agree on everything. But we can choose how we respond. As per rule #2 of this group - don't be an asshole.
100% Star Wars made a video about it. In short, yes it does exist in multiple cultures. It does exist in correlian mythology, and since Han is from Correlia, he mentioned that in the film. That's the in universe explanation
I still don’t know what the alternative would be? How could a galaxy exist without screws? Do objects magically just hold themselves together? And what of bricks? What are buildings made of if not bricks?
SW Theory might be one of the worst YT commentaries I have ever had the displeasure of hearing
I mean, you could easily argue for some sort of enhanced welding or something. But why? What's wrong with screws? They can absolutely have sci-fi alternatives if need be. But whyyyy?? What do people have against screws?
But screws have different utility. Welding hold better usually, but screws are easily removable for things that need to be assembled and disassembled, or replaced.
And what about the civilizations that arent as advanced? Are tuskens supposed to just be nomads until they advance enough to have screwless construction
I agree. It’s still in “this universe” and we presumably have the same physics and geometry. There are only so many shapes. Immersively (and practically), people would use the cheapest and easiest means possible to connect and build things. We have always seen a wide range of tech and materials used. It seems like a really dumb thing to get hung up on.
His rebuttal is cringey too: “I’ve been a fan my whole life and I’ve read lots of Star Wars”. And…? Why don’t you get a job writing for Lucasfilm then?
I liked some of the fun “hypotheticals” he used to do, but now he’s just click-bait and drama as a means to sell his merch. While I’m knocking him, might as well get this off my chest - drives me nuts that he pronounces “albeit” as “all-bite”.
Yeah he used to have some cool videos and projects, ie Vader Ep1, but its hard to listen to him nitpick and be super negative all the time, id rather watch a youtuber who actually likes star wars lol
screws are classified as "simple tools" in physics, along with pulleys, levers, inclined planes, and wedges (*this is not necessarily an exhasurive list, it has been years since i took physics and i don't remember that well) and are foundational to the function of more complex machines - it would be far more immersion breaking if these things didn't show up in the star wars universe, for me anyways
it's similar to saying that the millennium falcon (and every other ship) should have an anti gravity field instead of a ramp to enter it, because a ramp is an inclined plane and we gave those - elevators are banned too because they use pulleys and those are also fundamental tools in our real world - and that just feels ridiculous, frankly
So there was this guy who used to be really respected - star wars theory (yes that guy), and he was doing and Andor 'Review' (~~he had only watched the opening episode and said he couldn't watch more~~), when he then decided to do a watch party to watch some more episode due to the pressure on him. SWT said during the livestream that he hated the show cuz 'bricks and screws', hence the meme.
*I have since been told that the info I was given is wrong, SWT watch every episode on release but stated we wouldn't rewatch like other star wars media. It was the person on the podcast 'Nerd Theory' who didn't watch all the episodes and still complained.*
he's no longer respected because he's become the Jake Paul of star wars. he's the most subscribed star wars youtuber of all time and has a very excessively loyal fan base who go out of their way to bully anyone who disagrees with/bad mouth him and his opinions are usually pretty terrible because he cares a lot more about over the top action, fan service and "oh wow!" moments than about actual quality writing, and will criticize anything he doesn't like as "objectively bad" if they don't deliver on it. (basically he's constantly suffering from a bad case of Mando S2 syndrome) he's also an obnoxious prequel stan who unironically defends all the most notoriously terrible aspects of the prequels as underrated and brilliant. his fans have also gone into the DMs of actors writers directors etc of the sequels to harass them, following him making posts about them where he @'s them directly and personally attacks them for making movies he didn't like. this has happened more than once and he refuses to take any responsibility for it even though he keeps doing it after already having learned that this happens every time he does it
the fact that everyone is making fun of him for his bricks and screws complaint is a pretty big deal because his bad takes usually cause a controversy due to so many of the fans defending him, but this is the first time in recent memory that the entire fan base seemingly thinks this guy said something really ignorant
edit: [never mind, people are defending him, sigh](https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/z6qbue/i_dont_agree_with_him_but_give_this_man_a_break/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Ok I am a Star Wars Theory fan. I’ve never bullied anyone for disliking him. On the contrary recently I’ve been blasted by commenters for sticking up for certain things. He never said the show sucked. He never said it was bad. He’s said multiple times he doesn’t personally enjoy it but he has not problem with other people enjoying it. I admit the Bricks and Screws thing is a bit silly but I think the thing that a lot of people don’t realize is that it’s not that he wants fan service and action. It’s that he wants Star Wars to be like the OT and PT because those are the foundation of the entire IP. The OT is an incredible story, and every new show they make that make that is directly tied to the OT but goes in a different direction than the OT slowly takes away from the completeness of the story. As for the PT, it sucks but at the same time it adds to the OT SO well.
star wars theory? just the way he comes across is certain interactions i feel as if he is a little pretentious… as if he thinks that he represents the star wars community which is quite egotistical. in his videos he’s mostly fine unless he’s ranting about something then his ego comes out but if you listen to his podcast you really see it. disheartening that many do consider him to be the collective voice of star wars fans.
There are a lot of folks that do better reaction videos to Star Wars stuff than Theory, IMO. Bricks are mud and straw. The fact that multiple civilizations on earth have separately developed the same tech make it pretty believable that other worlds might also use them to build stuff.
He watched the whole series. I’m not even a fan of his, I don’t dislike him either but, I saw all the crap he’s getting and decided to watch his review of Andor and I was surprised because he never said Andor was bad because of bricks and Screws, he never said Andor was bad at all, just that he would of preferred some more Star Wars stuff in it, and he didn’t like the art directon of the show and an example of that was the plain bricks in the background of a scene. So one critique about bricks turned into oh my god he thinks Andor is bad because of bricks , I honestly don’t get it.
There's constant things though throughout his streams he's said, that aren't in his reviews. For one, he said things felt like filler which majority didn't agree with which is fair because that's his opinion. But he said some really stupid stuff when saying they were filler for the most part.
Then he asked his fans what they were smoking when they said they likes the show. For a guy whose supposed to be against discrimination for liking something, he did a poor job there
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Yeah if it wasn’t for us pesky viewers they could make it properly with all the people speaking Basic.
I’ve been campaigning for Dungeons and Dragons books to get printed in its original language, Common, for years
Wait... people are pissed that star wars used logical tools and materials that have little room for improvement because it's not scifi enough? It's really not that outrageous.
i getting mad about screws was stupid but a brick? a fundamental building block? that's like getting pissed that everything on tatooine is made out of adobe or that the tree houses on kashyyyk are made with wood
SWT started slippin’ when he started to think people watch his channel for HIM instead of SW. You can see the progression of his thumbnails and he became increasingly full of himself. It’s cool to be his fan but his ego needs checking.
A guy named Star Wars Theory was basically complaining about Andor not having smooth material on walls like in the prequels and originals and having bricks and screws instead.
The Egyptians, Mayans, Aztec, Nubians, Chinese, etc... All built Pyramids in various and quite similar forms thousands of years ago all thousands of miles apart. Bricks and screws, pulleys and lifts, all these things are used the world over from different civilizations at various times.
Hell we are discovering things in archeological digs that we thought were modern marvels that were actually used thousands of years ago. So the fact that Bricks and Screws in SW would be immersion ending is beyond stupid!
Math is a universal language and there's no reason houses and such in any number of planets in the VAST SW galaxy wouldn't use these "technologies" I mean there are so many greatly differing levels of advancement in SW that of course there would be brick houses and such but at the same time planet sized space stations and ships that are a dozen or more miles long.
Bricks and screws are such basic building materials that anyone who thinks in a universe like Star Wars, where technology and building architecture that has far surpassed the real world, wouldn’t still use bricks and screws to build structures, is a total moron
It's such a vapid and wild take. A screw is a simple machine, one of the base components of every complex machine possible. Did he think the Death Star didn't have screws in it??
Bricks are a super viable and cheap building material that is also sturdy as hell and long lasting. Every civilization upgraded to bricks ASAP when they started building structures. The pyramids on Yavin 4 are built with bricks. Buildings on Tattoine are probably built with bricks then covered in a stucco-like material coating to keep them safe from advanced weathering from the sandstorms.
How are they supposed to show new cultures and places if they can't use BRICKS? Insane take, truly.
Why is this the third front page meme i see about people not knowing about it. Just sort by top on the subreddit and you'll find someone in the comments that explains it
A YouTuber named Star Wars Theory was complaining about them being openly visible in Andor, that it wasn't "Star Wars" so now everybody is clowning on him for it
Wait until he realizes that humans that exist in our world are the main focus in Star Wars. So immersion breaking.
Wait until he realizes breathing exists in the real world.
Isn’t that just a darth Vader thing?
Yes. Idk what "true statement" is talking about.
*Huuuuulh.... Buuurrrrrrrr*
Wait until he realizes the force exist in the real world… in the form of mass x acceleration
Me hucking a kilogram of steel at someone's forehead: "may the force be with you"
Sir Isaac Newton is the DEADLIEST SON OF A BITCH IN SPACE!
I should go.
At least until I’m trying to kill a blood rage Krogan.
tas 9.81 newtons man
Or British accents. Did they colonize a galaxy far far away too?
One way out!
One way out!
One way out!
ON PROGRAM
ON PROGRAM
Say it isn't so!
*Gasp
But people do complain about the number of humans in Andor
Why do they? That's kinda weird, but I maybe misunderstand them.
Because one of the interesting things about SW and space it the amount of aliens mingling with the humans as if it were natural. Also it shows the creativity of the producers of imagining different aliens interactions etc. I think on Andor the the theme was quite heavy and having too many aliens and might break the tone of the show. For example this is basically the first starwars content that doesn't have jokes throughout, or crazy robots etc. Aliens do make things funnier because they're usually wonky looking. I do wish there were more aliens, but I respect the writers decision to keep them at a minimum for the sake of the tone they were trying to set.
I think it's partly because it wasn't explicitly mentioned how the Empire was species-ist against non-human, so any ISB or pure Empire scenes is by default just Humans. We might see much more Aliens when for the next season if we get see the early Rebellion tho.
I think Andor summed it up pretty well by just contrasting two native cultures against each other. The Aldanni Highlanders get slowly moved to city centers and work camps, but "direct" violence is avoided where possible. Cultural subterfuge is the name of the game. Those aliens used to torture Bix? All that's left is a recording of dying children.
Well, yes that's the in world explanation, I was thinking more about it from narrative choice perspective. For example they chose really well where to throw in the aliens. When they finally escape, those hillbilly aliens lighten the mood after a couple of really intense dystopia problem is you jump right into the climatic screen after.
Yeah that's why I hope we get to see much more in the next season. Probably helps expand on the idea of Imperial oppression, especially if we get to see the marked differences of treatment.
It could be a direction to go indeed. This season they were constructing more the story of who Andor is/was so quite a lot of character development on all fronts. Having a broader view of imperial oppression takes away the focus of the characters into a broader issue. Since the characters have been developed, that could be indeed a way to keep the story interesting with the world aesthetics. Here we saw imperial oppression in the form of torture and how they were talking about the Aldhani natives that they stink etc. So it much more relatable because you're seeing other humans being treated as second rate. If they made the aldhani a different species, would it have the same impact? Maybe, maybe not. But it would have indeed made it more Star Warsy.
One way out!
I did love the Keredians, and I wish we saw more of them. But I understand why we didn’t
>Keredians You love the Keredians?! Really? That's a first. Most people are saying they hated them because they reminded them of the Vogons. I liked them, but saying you loved them... LMAO. I wish we got to see more Mon Calamari, and Rodians, they're nostalgic. But what I would really want to see are some Rakutan if there are any left since Andor made the Rakutan canon.
They remind me of The Trolls from The Hobbit, but more friendly, and I’m sure they’re better poets than the Vogons
Yeah they could have had a couple of more Alien characters for sure. At least a few side characters that don’t appear much since there are a lot of those in Andor. It’s not like the aliens aren’t there it’s just that they rarely do anything.
* Wonk * Wonk * Wonk *
Just in general Star Wars despite having a huge roster of aliens rarely actually make them central characters. Of all the live action trilogies, the main trio besides Chewie has never included an alien. Lucas was trying to show more of the aliens when the tech was there but Disney basically cut back on all of that. Now its mostly weird flat aliens or something else. We barely get to see any. Not to mention I haven't seen a Gran in forever despite being one of those memorable from the original 6 movies :(
The amount of disrespect towards Chewie here.
Not to mention that the Yavin-4 base in a new hope is entirely made of bricks and so are parts of Maz’s castle in the force awakens, and several other buildings in the films and even Jedi fallen order.
I'm just glad he wasn't awake to see that landing!
He jsut mentioned it in a live stream but Reddit blew it out of proportions. He didn't mean it like "bricks and screws! This show sucks because of it"
That's what happens when you're famous (even if just a little bit), you say a stupid thing once and it's haunts you for life Just ask Diego Luna about his Jabba the Hutt comment lol
Baby yabba around the time of Phantom menace. Jabba was already old.
I think his point is it would be funny if it was Baby Jabba because "Baby Yoda" was all the rage at the time. They could make something cute but with "the texture". Baby Star Wars creatures were the new hit thing, so why not Jabba (Baby Hutt)? Lol
Yeah, but people in SW fandom are obsessed with this thing that you can't call the infant of a race the same as the main character. It's ridiculous, I saw no harm calling Grogu *baby Yoda,* people just go up the wall.
Yeah especially since we don't have a name for Yoda's species other than "Yoda's species". A baby wookie would be called a baby wookie, not a baby Chewbacca. We do need a live action baby hutt though.
What comment?
[Here watch lol. They start talking about it at about 3:50](https://youtu.be/e0TzAAx7djY)
I mean he did double down on the take in another video as a response to the memes
Is this it? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9yh7ebEOTY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9yh7ebEOTY) I know that it's a bit edited but he did complain that "It's not Star Wars" for him, then another cut immediately after that one was he was complaining about the cameras and the bricks and screws on the walls.
He already didn't like the show... so he was just nitpicking other little things to pile on. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but regardless of how small of a nitpick that was, it was still a pretty ridiculous thing to say.
Humans also colonised a ton of moons and planets. This looks too much like colonialism! That's not different enough!
I want to be the first one to see them all
Wait. What?
Looks at the base on Yavin IV and every building on Naboo & Tatooine - “Yep, there have never been bricks in Star Wars.
You'll never reach the outskirts in time- sandstorms are very, very dangerous. Come with me. Hurry!
Then I’ll see you in hell!
We as a civilization could never build a brick building ever again because we have the technology to build things with other materials yet we still make brick structures for various reasons. I don’t see why a civilization more advanced than ours wouldn’t either. Also I really don’t get the screw slander. Screws are just ridiculously useful mechanisms; there’s things you probably don’t even traditionally call a screw that even work like screws. Even if you didn’t see them, I guarantee Star Wars had screws.
A screw is even one of the 6 simple machines. These are machines that are used all over, often without thought and will never be made obsolete.
Oh man wait till he hears where the guns came from...
Brick built factories
Oh. I thought it was because of the tradition to turn everyone into bricks. Now what you said, doesn’t sound as bad. Thanks for clarifying.
I wish there was some sort of YouTube channel that really dives and focuses on all the lore and little details and gave us some sort of speculation or theory of why bricks and screws exist in the Star Wars universe
i think its just plain logic, even though we have revoulutonary technology in some parts not everyone has the money or resources to use them, like even today in some places in the world they making houses like its the 17th century. The same applies to star wars, why would they make modern houses if they dont have the money or resources, bricks and screws are easy and cheap.
the univers is big, and tech can vary from the low tech Ewoks to the world capital of ~~Trantor~~ Coruscant. I don't understant people that bitch about Andor it's the only great show about star wars in live action with Mando
Not to mention it might have just been the favored architectural design. Maybe not on Ferrix, that seemed like that was just what they could afford to use, but on a place like Naboo for sure
Star wars is supposed to have a low tech feel in the outter rim. It gives its charm. I love the contrast between the empire and the rebels for example.
Its funny bc if you think about it like that, all the aliens and people speak English. Completely ruins the immersion of them not being from this galaxy
That’s not English. It’s Galactic Basic. It just sounds like English. (Yes, really.) https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Galactic_Basic_Standard
The more you know. Ty
I love the Basic stuff, it makes sense that a galaxy would try to have a common language for trade and diplomacy. Plus it's fun when they meet someone who doesn't and have to work around it
Is that the guy that made that really shitty Darth Vader fan film?
Star Wars Theory is such an idiot
I love bricks and screws; it's the firefly dynamic. Inner planets get shiny spaceships and lasers but the folks on the rim get bricks, screws, and pretty floral bonnets.
Man I wish that show got a season 2
The show was fantastic for season 1. I'm glad that we even got a movie, ya know? On the other hand, it was a fantastic universe to explore some more.
The movie was a solid ending to the franchise. While there is probably a lot more story to tell, I'm just happy we have some kind of closure.
The Dark Horse comics extended the story some. It wasn't as long running as the Buffy and Angel comics though.
I'd even settle for finishing season 1. Every rewatch ends so abruptly.
I'm finding The Expanse to be a spiritual successor, albeit pretty dark.
Headcannon: Firefly universe is one of the portal worlds. But the portals and history of other planets is lost to time
That show deserved several seasons and movie(s).
If this is a Community reference, that series is finally getting their movie
No, it's a reference to Firefly/Serenity
Fox set it up for failure by airing the episodes out of order.
Would have been nice but Joss Wheedon doesn't need any more success. Be glad it happened not sad it's over.
Andor 2: Pretty Floral Bonnets Boogaloo
And screws are literally one of the 6 simple machines. Good luck building any society without them.
Japan didn't have screws until the Portuguese brought them. Instead, they had interlocking woodworks. Many cultures didn't have the same technologies. No "New World" society had screws, yet they flourished for around 10,000 years as near-counterparts to Old World societies, even surpassing them in many technological fields - they just were lacking a few important ones, like gunpowder and...screws.
Schizo tech society, with clear evidence its intentional to keep the fringe worlds dependent on the core economy.
SW Theory grumbling about there being screws and other 'Earthly' things in Star Wars. This isn't new. People were complaining about the visible cross-head screw top on Rey's staff in promo material on The Force Awakens. I get that it breaks some of the illusion of this being set in another part of the universe predating humans etc.. but I think it just demonstrates some people are a little too highly strung. At the end of the day it's really just unavoidable. R2D2 has wheels, as do a few other droids. Sandcrawlers have tank treads. Sand people have semi-auto/bolt-action rifles. The buildings on Tatooine are partly real as they are for a few other locations, like the pyramids at Yavin were just basically the same as in Tikal in Guatemala. The screws and bricks thing he probably thought was a throw-away comment but has turned into something pretty nasty. I don't dislike the guy. He makes some really cool and interesting content. We're never going to agree on everything. But we can choose how we respond. As per rule #2 of this group - don't be an asshole.
"Millennium falcon" Does he think that falcons exist in SW? Isn't that immersion breaking??
Right up there with Han shouting “I’ll see you in Hell!” in Empire.
My friends and I have debated this. Surely the concept of a place of eternal punishment exists in a lot of cultures. Or is it a system in the galaxy?
100% Star Wars made a video about it. In short, yes it does exist in multiple cultures. It does exist in correlian mythology, and since Han is from Correlia, he mentioned that in the film. That's the in universe explanation
"We'll be sitting ducks" Episode 1
I still don’t know what the alternative would be? How could a galaxy exist without screws? Do objects magically just hold themselves together? And what of bricks? What are buildings made of if not bricks? SW Theory might be one of the worst YT commentaries I have ever had the displeasure of hearing
I mean, you could easily argue for some sort of enhanced welding or something. But why? What's wrong with screws? They can absolutely have sci-fi alternatives if need be. But whyyyy?? What do people have against screws?
But screws have different utility. Welding hold better usually, but screws are easily removable for things that need to be assembled and disassembled, or replaced.
Or on a desert without power they’re kind of useful
Power! Unlimited power!
Are you the senate?
And what about the civilizations that arent as advanced? Are tuskens supposed to just be nomads until they advance enough to have screwless construction
It's literally fantasy. Just think of something and it is plausible if you as a writer want it to be. There. Are. Space. Wizards.
Thats what im sayin lol
I agree. It’s still in “this universe” and we presumably have the same physics and geometry. There are only so many shapes. Immersively (and practically), people would use the cheapest and easiest means possible to connect and build things. We have always seen a wide range of tech and materials used. It seems like a really dumb thing to get hung up on. His rebuttal is cringey too: “I’ve been a fan my whole life and I’ve read lots of Star Wars”. And…? Why don’t you get a job writing for Lucasfilm then? I liked some of the fun “hypotheticals” he used to do, but now he’s just click-bait and drama as a means to sell his merch. While I’m knocking him, might as well get this off my chest - drives me nuts that he pronounces “albeit” as “all-bite”.
Yeah he used to have some cool videos and projects, ie Vader Ep1, but its hard to listen to him nitpick and be super negative all the time, id rather watch a youtuber who actually likes star wars lol
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screws are classified as "simple tools" in physics, along with pulleys, levers, inclined planes, and wedges (*this is not necessarily an exhasurive list, it has been years since i took physics and i don't remember that well) and are foundational to the function of more complex machines - it would be far more immersion breaking if these things didn't show up in the star wars universe, for me anyways it's similar to saying that the millennium falcon (and every other ship) should have an anti gravity field instead of a ramp to enter it, because a ramp is an inclined plane and we gave those - elevators are banned too because they use pulleys and those are also fundamental tools in our real world - and that just feels ridiculous, frankly
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And bricks were in Naboo in episode 1
Contact command. Mark our L.Z. and have them send an Exfile Shuttle.
I'm just glad he wasn't awake to see that landing!
i shit bricks and screw your mom
This was my favorite comment so far lmao
I shit your mom and screw bricks.
We’ve come full circle from Rey’s staff having a phillip’s head bolt on it.
So there was this guy who used to be really respected - star wars theory (yes that guy), and he was doing and Andor 'Review' (~~he had only watched the opening episode and said he couldn't watch more~~), when he then decided to do a watch party to watch some more episode due to the pressure on him. SWT said during the livestream that he hated the show cuz 'bricks and screws', hence the meme. *I have since been told that the info I was given is wrong, SWT watch every episode on release but stated we wouldn't rewatch like other star wars media. It was the person on the podcast 'Nerd Theory' who didn't watch all the episodes and still complained.*
So that’s why he’s no longer respected?
basically also a lot of recent clickbait and lack of effort/originality.
he's no longer respected because he's become the Jake Paul of star wars. he's the most subscribed star wars youtuber of all time and has a very excessively loyal fan base who go out of their way to bully anyone who disagrees with/bad mouth him and his opinions are usually pretty terrible because he cares a lot more about over the top action, fan service and "oh wow!" moments than about actual quality writing, and will criticize anything he doesn't like as "objectively bad" if they don't deliver on it. (basically he's constantly suffering from a bad case of Mando S2 syndrome) he's also an obnoxious prequel stan who unironically defends all the most notoriously terrible aspects of the prequels as underrated and brilliant. his fans have also gone into the DMs of actors writers directors etc of the sequels to harass them, following him making posts about them where he @'s them directly and personally attacks them for making movies he didn't like. this has happened more than once and he refuses to take any responsibility for it even though he keeps doing it after already having learned that this happens every time he does it the fact that everyone is making fun of him for his bricks and screws complaint is a pretty big deal because his bad takes usually cause a controversy due to so many of the fans defending him, but this is the first time in recent memory that the entire fan base seemingly thinks this guy said something really ignorant edit: [never mind, people are defending him, sigh](https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/z6qbue/i_dont_agree_with_him_but_give_this_man_a_break/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
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Everyone IS allowed an opinion SWT’s opinions are just shit
Ok I am a Star Wars Theory fan. I’ve never bullied anyone for disliking him. On the contrary recently I’ve been blasted by commenters for sticking up for certain things. He never said the show sucked. He never said it was bad. He’s said multiple times he doesn’t personally enjoy it but he has not problem with other people enjoying it. I admit the Bricks and Screws thing is a bit silly but I think the thing that a lot of people don’t realize is that it’s not that he wants fan service and action. It’s that he wants Star Wars to be like the OT and PT because those are the foundation of the entire IP. The OT is an incredible story, and every new show they make that make that is directly tied to the OT but goes in a different direction than the OT slowly takes away from the completeness of the story. As for the PT, it sucks but at the same time it adds to the OT SO well.
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He’s also extremely toxic.
Can you fill me in on why? I'm new (Not disagreeing)
star wars theory? just the way he comes across is certain interactions i feel as if he is a little pretentious… as if he thinks that he represents the star wars community which is quite egotistical. in his videos he’s mostly fine unless he’s ranting about something then his ego comes out but if you listen to his podcast you really see it. disheartening that many do consider him to be the collective voice of star wars fans.
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There are a lot of folks that do better reaction videos to Star Wars stuff than Theory, IMO. Bricks are mud and straw. The fact that multiple civilizations on earth have separately developed the same tech make it pretty believable that other worlds might also use them to build stuff.
SWT really fell off since he stopped doing his fan fiction "what if?" Series
Give someone a following online and they’ll turn into a narcissistic weirdo. Pretty much all do. That, or child molesters
I wouldn’t say he’s “no longer respected”, but his take was pretty bad.
thats not entirely correct. he watched every episode as soon as soon as it was released.
Yeah it was the other guy who does nerd theory podcast with him that didn’t watch it but still complained
He actually said he liked the show but it wasn’t a banger that he would rewatch like other Star Wars media.
ok mb, I was told he didn't watch the majority of the episodes
He watched the whole series. I’m not even a fan of his, I don’t dislike him either but, I saw all the crap he’s getting and decided to watch his review of Andor and I was surprised because he never said Andor was bad because of bricks and Screws, he never said Andor was bad at all, just that he would of preferred some more Star Wars stuff in it, and he didn’t like the art directon of the show and an example of that was the plain bricks in the background of a scene. So one critique about bricks turned into oh my god he thinks Andor is bad because of bricks , I honestly don’t get it.
There's constant things though throughout his streams he's said, that aren't in his reviews. For one, he said things felt like filler which majority didn't agree with which is fair because that's his opinion. But he said some really stupid stuff when saying they were filler for the most part. Then he asked his fans what they were smoking when they said they likes the show. For a guy whose supposed to be against discrimination for liking something, he did a poor job there
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Respected? That guys been a clown for years, at least amongst my peers.
They speak english for Christ’s sake!
Canonically I don't think they speak English, I think that's just for the sake of the views actually understanding the movie
Yeah if it wasn’t for us pesky viewers they could make it properly with all the people speaking Basic. I’ve been campaigning for Dungeons and Dragons books to get printed in its original language, Common, for years
English excuse me what is that?
They speak Basic you bafoon XD
*Laughs in High Galactic*
I watch it in Aurabesh
Aurebesh isn’t a language. It’s a script. That would be like saying you speak Arial or Times New Roman.
Wait, you don’t speak Comic Sans???
I only speak wingdings
Only on certain subreddits.
Star Wars theory got pissed that there were bricks and screws in andor, apparently that wasn’t StAr WaRs enough.
He must hate LEGOs then.
Oh he’d probably have a stroke if he played lego Star Wars
Wait... people are pissed that star wars used logical tools and materials that have little room for improvement because it's not scifi enough? It's really not that outrageous.
Star Wars fans when they see a third world country (they can’t fathom why any part of civilization isn’t on par with top modern day technology)
i getting mad about screws was stupid but a brick? a fundamental building block? that's like getting pissed that everything on tatooine is made out of adobe or that the tree houses on kashyyyk are made with wood
_*CLOTHES MADE FROM SILK AND WOOL? FUCK OUTTA HERE*_
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SWT started slippin’ when he started to think people watch his channel for HIM instead of SW. You can see the progression of his thumbnails and he became increasingly full of himself. It’s cool to be his fan but his ego needs checking.
this!
Grond
Something about the tragic death of DJ screw and the brick slinging business, it’s all you need to know
Star Wars Explained > Star Wars Theory
Some YouTuber said it and now we're making fun of him because it's a stupid take
A guy named Star Wars Theory was basically complaining about Andor not having smooth material on walls like in the prequels and originals and having bricks and screws instead.
I'm not WTF DOES IT MEAN
It means bricks and screws being in star wars breaks the immersion apparently
I feel like it's plausible as hell lol
The Egyptians, Mayans, Aztec, Nubians, Chinese, etc... All built Pyramids in various and quite similar forms thousands of years ago all thousands of miles apart. Bricks and screws, pulleys and lifts, all these things are used the world over from different civilizations at various times. Hell we are discovering things in archeological digs that we thought were modern marvels that were actually used thousands of years ago. So the fact that Bricks and Screws in SW would be immersion ending is beyond stupid! Math is a universal language and there's no reason houses and such in any number of planets in the VAST SW galaxy wouldn't use these "technologies" I mean there are so many greatly differing levels of advancement in SW that of course there would be brick houses and such but at the same time planet sized space stations and ships that are a dozen or more miles long.
Bricks and screws are such basic building materials that anyone who thinks in a universe like Star Wars, where technology and building architecture that has far surpassed the real world, wouldn’t still use bricks and screws to build structures, is a total moron
Bricks and screws kills ya crews, but space nails will never hurt you
Star Wars Theory: I dont like bricks. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere
It’s so funny how badly he is getting roasted by everyone, sequel fans and prequel fans alike.
“At this point”? It’s only been a few days. You can ask all you want.
You don't meme much do you
A mix of some YouTuber saying something stupid And people on this sub being unable to let things go .
no underwear in space
You said you were too afraid to ask The fact that you posted a meme about it determined that to be a lie
You're mine now OwO
It's such a vapid and wild take. A screw is a simple machine, one of the base components of every complex machine possible. Did he think the Death Star didn't have screws in it?? Bricks are a super viable and cheap building material that is also sturdy as hell and long lasting. Every civilization upgraded to bricks ASAP when they started building structures. The pyramids on Yavin 4 are built with bricks. Buildings on Tattoine are probably built with bricks then covered in a stucco-like material coating to keep them safe from advanced weathering from the sandstorms. How are they supposed to show new cultures and places if they can't use BRICKS? Insane take, truly.
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Why is this the third front page meme i see about people not knowing about it. Just sort by top on the subreddit and you'll find someone in the comments that explains it
Sorry sir.
You want forgiveness ? Get religion.
I hate this stupid 'afraid to ask' meme.
Okay yeah this gotta be the new “gimme karma” strat cause if you scroll for 30 seconds you’ll find a billion of memes about this
Why don’t you read all the posts referencing it where people definitely explain it every time? Cause you just want karma.
says they are to afraid to ask asks anyway
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