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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Star Wars certainly has that fairytale feel to it, which is possibly why it's so popular, and the science fiction elements are secondary in plot importance to the spiritual stuff. The space ships and alien races are just facilitators of the action, where as it's about Luke's discovery of the Force and the battle between good and evil that results. But at the same time, all the awesome ships and weapons and stuff is almost certainly what sold all the toys that made Lucas so much money. They're a big part of the Star Wars universe. |
Indeed.
By the way, Jack, I do know I hold a very deflationary view of art (It's just art!) and I'm often knocking big names (with few exceptions: I still haven't found a flaw in Dostoevsky), but that's precisely because I love it and I do that because I hold the opinion that taking anything too seriously stifles creativity (if you read my other posts, I do just the same in science and philosophy - and I'm a PhD candidate in a topic that involves both fields; and, hell, why do you think I never finished that novel? If I really didn't care about literature either, I'd have finished it ages ago  ). I don't know if you refrained from writing that earlier based on this iconoclasm of mine, but I do want to let you know that I do care about your opinions, and that you've never wasted a minute of yours writing something for me 
Even when I knew what the argument would be (such as Star Wars being fantasy rather than science fiction), it's always nice to see a different way to structure the same ideas.
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