The Tragedy of Droids in Star Wars

It’s not a Star Wars story unless there’s a lovable droid stealing the spotlight but, when you really stop and think about it, there’s also something profoundly tragic about the role artificial lifeforms play in the Star Wars universe. PATREON Support this project on Patreon: PAYPAL Make a one-time donation via PayPal: WISHLIST Send research materials for video essays: REFERENCES • Race in American Science Fiction by Isiah Lavender III • Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Pop Culture by Gregory Jerome Hampton • The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature (Chapter 15) Beyond the Borders of the Neo-Slave Narrative by Jeffrey Allen Tucker • Asimov on Science Fiction in Science Fiction Digest, October-November 1981 • Janelle Monae’s “Many Moons“ music video NOVELS REFERENCED • Kindred by Octavia E. Butler • The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson • Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany • vN: The Machine Dynasty by Madeline Ashby • A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers • Autonomous by Annalee Newitz SUBTITLES • You can help make with subtitles and captions for this video on Amara: TEXT TRANSCRIPT #more-10320 COMMENTS All YouTube comments are held for approval. If you’d like to participate in constructive online conversations about this video, please share it on your social media networks. FAIR USE All multimedia clips included in this video constitute a ’fair use’ of any copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of U.S. Copyright law, which allows for criticism, comment and scholarship. Learn more about fair use with this awesome app by New Media Rights! CREDITS Writer/Editing: Jonathan McIntosh Motion Graphics: Jonathan McIntosh Outro music: Rick Lopez