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my scifi vietnam war allegory went woke
It was never a Vietnam allegory. There are no story beats that match any moment of the Vietnam War. Lucas just wanted to sound intellectual, like he didn't just write pew pew space lasers.
The bit where a load of civilians take up arms to fight with a group of practiced guerrilla fighters that George Lucas compared to the Viet Cong to fight off an occupying genocidal force that massively outgins them through the use of improvised weapons, ambushes and booby traps on a jungle planet in a film released just a few years after the end of the Vietnam War seems pretty familiar