Another Star Wars question
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You should read the book Shadows of the Empire.
It answers a lot of your questions.
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Cardinals.Ken
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Umm...Star Wars is "Space Opera". Most, if not all, of the science and technology of that genre is suspect at best. All aspects of the how & why in Space Opera goes toward plot, pacing, and story progression.
You want definitive science and technology in your Science Fiction with an adherence to precedence and "canon"? Watch Star Trek!
Well...all of the "new" Star Treks...the Original Series (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc.) contradicts itself, and later versions, in many cases...
You want definitive science and technology in your Science Fiction with an adherence to precedence and "canon"? Watch Star Trek!
Well...all of the "new" Star Treks...the Original Series (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc.) contradicts itself, and later versions, in many cases...
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It ripped off Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, guess I shouldn't have expected any science or originiality.
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And "borrowed" from a number of other sources, including Jack Kirby.
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Doesn't mean Star Wars isn't a pretty great piece of storytelling, though.
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My question is how come in the original trilogy The Force is considered to be an ancient religion when there were thousands of Jedi busy kicking intergalactic ass only about 20 years prior?
Cardinals.Ken
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It's no secret that Lucas consulted with Joseph Campbell to make a "timeless" tale. The archtypes in Kirby's story fits a common mold found through human history.
http://www.folkstory.com/articles/petersburg.html
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I agree...to a point.
There are some details--not general archetypes--that are amazingly "familiar."
Again, I'm not pointing this out to trash Lucas or Star Wars. I like Star Wars and think it's a helluva yarn. I'm just sayin'...
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Is that the one about the two guys sitting playing D&D, trying to pick up a chick in the park and the religious brother and sister in law?
No, I haven't seen it.
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