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To: Kaslin

I don’t mind anyone’s love for Star Wars. We all have our things. I don’t mind people trying to make a buck on them either.

But I apparently miss the Star Wars gene. I have trouble staying focused actually on ANY fantasy shows, books, etc. it just doesn’t interest me at all. I wish it did; I’m probably missing something. But that’s just how I am.


110 posted on 12/19/2015 12:45:36 PM PST by Yaelle (Since PC is not actually "correct," it should be renamed Political Pandering.)
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To: Yaelle; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; Perdogg
>> I have trouble staying focused actually on ANY fantasy shows, books, etc. it just doesn’t interest me at all. <<

I love many fantasy films -- Lord of the Rings, Pan's Labyrinth, The Neverending Story, Chronicles of Narnia, etc., are all very engaging and rewatchable in my eyes.

What I don't like is putting an outer-space, futuristic looking setting in a fantasy film. It works occasionally for quirky films like Heavy Metal, but I always found the laser sword fights in Star Wars to be silly.

And I REALLY don't like ridiculous fantasy films being marketed as "sci-fi", which Star Wars has always been falsely sold as. The science in Star Wars is ridiculous. C3PO is not a "cyborg", he is an android. R2D2 is not a "droid", he is a robot:

Cyborg - Part organic lifeform and part machine (Robocop, Terminator, Cybermen, etc.)

Android - Robot built/designed to look like a human being (Data from Star Trek, Vicki from Small Wonder, Gunslinger from Westworld, etc.)

Lucas throws sci-fi terminology into his fantasy film but can't grasp the basic concepts.

124 posted on 12/19/2015 5:34:34 PM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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