Star Wars isn’t science fiction. It’s romantic fantasy set in space.
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No doubt. It has more in common with Lord of the Rings than 2001.
Star Wars isn’t science fiction. It’s romantic fantasy set in space.
Absolutely agree.
Correct. Buck Rogers stuff updated.
Well, “science fiction” is something of an oxymoron at any rate. ( please note that “oxymoron”, which means “sharp dullness”, refers to the conjoining of contrasting or opposite qualities, rather than logical contradiction. )
There is certainly a fantasy element even in the hardest of “hard” science fiction. OTOH, it could be suggested that Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, could be excused as SF in their day ( 1930’s ) when the focus was on the Rocket as an engine of future developments, whereas STAR WARS was merely a reminiscence of this frame of mind. I’d buy that.
Star Wars isn’t science fiction. It’s romantic fantasy set in space.
It is not really science fiction, but without it we would not have Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and, most importantly, the Star Trek movies may never have been made, nor the Star Trek series’ spawned from the original.
It is ‘space opera’. Which is more closely related to fantasy than most ‘SF’.
Star Wars is Cowboys and Ninjas fighting Nazis in space.