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Re: Metru Nui Goes Political
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:54:28 GMT
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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Obviously, LEGO is too politically correct (and marketing savvy) to openly
criticize American political policies. In fact, pushing a Soviet-style
marketing campaign is probably cutting-edge daring for them.
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When the “story bible” was reportedly developed (2000, when Bush’s
administration was largely hobbled by the whole Florida vote stigma), the whole
Soviet era was considered a fairly safe topic. We’d beaten them in the Cold War
and seen them convert them from a socialist government to a (mostly) capitalist
economy. China and Cuba were basically the only two socialist strongholds that
really mattered anymore, and Cuba mostly mattered because of geographic location
and US politics. Even so, the Metru Nui storyline is looking like it’ll be a
pretty watered-down “child-safe” version of the real thing, starting with the
fact that the Vahki are merely mindless automaton enforcers, rather than the
self-aware state police that had to willingly serve the Soviet machine in order
for it to survive.
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But that doesn’t mean such correlations don’t exist, or that we can’t point
them out.
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Oh, I’m not saying it’s not possible to draw parellels, or that they wouldn’t be
accurate. I’m just saying it’s stretching a bit too far, in my opinion, to
think of this as an intentional political commentary on the current state of
world affairs. For three years they’ve been leading up to explaining the
history of Metru Nui, and in a completely urbanized environment a political
threat makes more sense than natural disasters or predation. It also goes a
long way to explain the present-day Turaga mindset of “now that this new
disaster is upon us, we’ll explain what it is and why we didn’t think you should
know about it until now”.
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