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Everyone who keeps saying “Strip away space and it could be a Western...” to prove Star Wars isn’t sci fi? Puh-leeze.

All you’re demonstrating is that Star Wars has a solid 3 act structure, with clearly defined heroes and villains. As good movies do in every genre.

Give Alan Ladd a light saber and make Jack Palance the gunslinger into a an alien. Now “Shane” isn’t a Western — it’s sci-fi! So what?

Technology we don’t have yet, including light speed engines and almost human robots? Check. Life on other planets? Check. Anything happen supernaturally or by magic? Nope.

“Star Wars” is sci-fi. Good, fun, unpretentious sci-fi, like “Aliens” and the opposite of a snoozer like “Interstellar.”

Everyone who keeps saying “Strip away space and it could be a Western...” to prove Star Wars isn’t sci fi? Puh-leeze.

Star Wars is science fiction the way "chocolate-flavored" (the term used when there just isn't enough chocolate present...) easter candy is...chocolate. A poor product, in gaudy wrapping.

It’s funny you should mention Alan Ladd. His son, Alan Jr. was the studio exec. at 20th Century Fox who approved production on”Star Wars”.