Subj : Re: What's Everyone Watch
To   : Andeddu
From : Moondog
Date : Sat Feb 05 2022 20:35:00

  Re: Re: What's Everyone Watch
  By: Andeddu to Moondog on Sat Feb 05 2022 03:08 pm

 >   Re: Re: What's Everyone Watch
 >   By: Moondog to Andeddu on Fri Feb 04 2022 09:04 am
 > 
 >  > It's part of the play on words that they're called Mods.  They are not on
 >  > cybernetically augmented, they also resemble the Mod subculture from the 
 >  > in the 1960's.  Their intent is to look like a bunch of pretty dandies, b
 >  > they're not afraid to get their hands dirty.
 > 
 > They're appear to be a totally new sub-culture in the Star Wars universe. I
 > have never read anything about these Mods anywhere else and have not seen
 > anything resembling them in previous movies, even in the places where you'd
 > expect to see them, such as Coruscant. Everything appears to be a shade of
 > beige in Tatooine so I found it bizarre to see such a colourful group of peo
 > in the Outer Rim. I haven't warmed to them at all and would have preferred t
 > see Fett deal with the mayor's assistant himself by using his own methods,
 > namely his jetback and rocket launcher.
 > 
The Mods are new to the universe as far as I can tell, too.  I agree they fit
in better in somewhere such as Coruscant or Nar Shaddah, however the spice
trade appears to be doing well enough to draw scum and villiany from all over
the galaxy.

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