cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/twitterblueskymastodon/p/1054594/barely-disguised-fetish
what if instead of “the author’s barely disguised fetish” it was blatantly obvious but done in the most mundane way possible, like you got a 100-foot tall woman in the story but the focus is a complex legal battle about her struggle to get planning permission for a house her size and not much else
get the findom guy in the writer’s room but just before the main character can send hundreds of dollars to a hot babe he realises he needs the money for groceries, so then the show just follows him doing that and taking 10 minutes to decide if spending a lil extra for the organic peppers is worth it Bluesky.
Ugh. I mean, 20% of them already are boring practical stuff.
Phantom Menace: Coruscant wires credits to Tattooine. The whole movie is waiting around for the shop to do some work. Sitting in a miserable waiting room.
Attack of the Clones: Bugs??? Bugs in my Senator Condo? Padme’s going to find the contract and see if the landlord should spray for bugs or if she has to pay for that.
Rise of the Sith: Crashing most of a ship on a landing strip earns Anakin several tickets and he has to go to traffic court to get them dismissed.
Watto doesn’t accept republic credits. That was the whole issue.
ok but here on earth, where we only have one species to transact with, we still have currency exchanges everywhere so that you could exchange the republican credits for something usable - and while, maybe, tatooine doesn’t have one ON THE WHOLE FUCKING PLANET, which seems dubious if there’s a whole galaxy out there using republican credits, somewhere else in the star system might or in a nearby star system would surely have the ability to exchange currencies, right?
Sure, we have those, but most random small shop owners don’t want to deal with that. Try and go into a mom & pop in the US and pay in Euros
@mojofrododojo@lemmy.world is right. Go to any moderate-sized market in Africa and if you just show up wit USD or GBP or EUR, someone will gladly exchange it for local currency. Not at the bank rate, just whatever they feel like. It’s a 20 minute conversation.
“OK, Mister Watto - who does currency exchange in this truck stop town?”
“Eeehh, talk to Martin down at the cantina.”
yup, and roll the credits.
sure it’d be a short movie but it’d make so much more sense!
The movie could have been 90 minutes more of Trade Federation stuff! Oh YEAH!
but the whole fuckin planet? no one on an entire planet with multiple cities?
eh…