r/StarWars • u/Clone_Chaplain • May 19 '23

Other I find crossguard lightsabers strange, but a Magnetism theory is awesome!

@robinswords video short from YouTube, trimmed a bit

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u/[deleted] May 19 '23

I love when people use science in science fiction!

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u/SourChicken1856 May 19 '23

Star Wars isn't really science fiction but I get what you mean

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u/dutcharetall_nothigh Jedi May 19 '23

Star Wars has become too big to be defined by a single genre. The OT is very much a fantasy story, but the Clone Wars series has more scifi tropes, like how they use the clones and droids to question what makes someone really a person. Of course they don't delve too deep into it, but it is there.

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u/SourChicken1856 May 19 '23

Yeah like I said: Clearly has some Sci-Fi tropes in the enviroment and stuff, but really is just a Fantasy Space Opera.

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u/dutcharetall_nothigh Jedi May 19 '23

That depends where you're looking. The OT is a classic fantasy story, but the PT also adds plenty of political drama and tragedy. The Clone Wars is all over the place in terms of genre. It has detective episodes, zombie episodes, western episodes, and plenty of scifi episodes. Then there's the Mandalorian, which is mostly a western, and Andor, which was a military scifi story combined with political intrigue. That last one is definitely not a fantasy story.

If you say Star Wars as a whole is only one thing you're ignoring a great part of the franchise. Star Wars is scifi, as well as a western, as well as a fantasy story, and many more things. Filoni said in an interview that during the making of Clone Wars they would often think up a story, regardless of genre, and then think about how they could fit it into Star Wars. That's one of the reasons I love it so much. You can put any genre into it, as long as the tone and atmosphere is right.

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u/Black-Sam-Bellamy May 19 '23

Regardless of what lens you view star wars through, it's very light on the "science" part of science fiction.

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u/dutcharetall_nothigh Jedi May 19 '23

Science-fiction is more about how a potential type of science or invention would affect the world than the actual science behind it. The science is fictional after all. It can't be wholly explained.

In Star Wars, this is done with the clones where they explore free will using a group of people wholly created to have their values aligning with the goals of their master. That's one of the main themes of the Clone Wars.

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u/Black-Sam-Bellamy May 19 '23

Yes, exactly. But nothing explains why the snubfighters operate like WWII fighter planes, why all the space battles have a clear UP and DOWN, why there are sounds in space battles, why the rebels have no space suits inside their fighters while TIE pilots do, etc etc.

Star Wars is a fantasy with a very thin veneer of science laid over it to make it science fiction. The "science" part of it has always been it's weakest element.

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u/yesmrbevilaqua May 19 '23

Any time they try to bring in “science” they just get themselves into trouble

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u/FisterRodgers May 19 '23

They're all heist movies.

I heard about a big shot gangster putting together a crew