magic9mushroom
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magic9mushroom
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(Comparison: in the OT, the heroes never mock the villains. I think the closest it comes is Han referring to the Imperials as slugs. But Tarkin, Vader, or the Emperor are always treated with deathly seriousness.)
No. Leia sassed Tarkin in the original film:
LEIA: Governor Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash; I recognised your foul stench when I was brought on board.
TARKIN: Charming, to the last. You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life.
LEIA: I'm surprised you had the courage to take the responsibility yourself.
In ESB Luke sasses Vader at the beginning of their fight (though, of course, this is specifically him being a headstrong idiot):
VADER: You have learned much, young one.
LUKE: You'll find that I'm full of surprises.
And in RotJ Han sasses Jabba on a couple of occasions (though, of course, Jabba is not an Imperial):
THREEPIO: His High Exaltedness, the great Jabba the Hutt, has decreed that you are to be terminated immediately.
HAN: Good. I hate long waits.
[...]
THREEPIO: Victims of the almighty Sarlacc, His Excellency hopes that you will die honorably. But should any of you wish to beg for mercy, the great Jabba the Hutt will now listen to your pleas.
JABBA: Jedi!
HAN: Threepio! You tell that slimy piece of worm-ridden filth, he'll get no such pleasure from us!
There's not a lot of it, not remotely to the degree seen in your clip, and RotJ goes very hard on having Luke be courteous even to his foes. But there is a little.
I said "travelling", not "commuting". I was thinking of going to visit family or going on a holiday, which (unlike commuting) often involves driving through long stretches of nothing (my general feeling is that the speed limits in built-up areas are generally about right, but those on highways are frequently far too low; many of the high-end divided roads and outback highways in Australia, for instance, could support far more than their speed limit of 110 km/h).
Also, here in Australia, there are certain highways where you're not just saving days, but potentially saving the need for a bloody caravan because the towns are over a day's drive (at the speed limit) apart.
I mean, the Royal Flying Doctor Service here in Oz has 500 km/h and even 800 km/h ambulances, which are in fact very handy. That particular solution doesn't work so well for random people travelling, though, because lol piloting is hard.
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