Humans in Star Wars?
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Because that's the simplest explanation?
Not from my point of view (no pun intended). Every explanation involving a terrestrial origin is needlessly convoluted. Even just saying "it's in the future and the story isn't being told to us" is more complicated than it needs to be. The origin of humanity in the GFFA doesn't need to be explained because it's not important. It's fantasy, not science fiction. Nobody cares where the humans in George R. R. Martin's Westeros came from because it's a fantasy setting.
I almost used humans in Middle-earth as an example before I remembered that Middle-earth was intended to be our own world in prehistoric times.
I almost used humans in Middle-earth as an example before I remembered that Middle-earth was intended to be our own world in prehistoric times.
Who said the characters were human? Sure, they look like us, but that doesn't mean they ARE human.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcZ2MmPA-VI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL[/yt]
Skip to about 2:22 in that video.
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away"? From whose point of view? Doesn't have to be ours. It's just a text crawl that means very little. Every moment of time is, from SOMEBODY's pov, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
I've always been of the opinion that it just doesn't matter - we don't need an explanation of where Humans came from.
However, if we're going to have one, I like this one the best. Humans came from Earth, the Galaxy Far, Far Away is really the Milky Way, it's set in the far, far, far distance future and the opening text refers someone in the even more distant future telling a story about something in his past.
If you think that's too convoluted, so be it.
Yevetha
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They are obviously sebacean.
Indeed, just because they look like Humans and are even called Humans don't mean they have to be Humans. It's a lot easier and more satisfying from a storytelling point-of-view to say "Luke Skywalker took his lightsaber in his hand and cut off the Sith's arm" than "Xyxgyllx Pakawllux took his lightsaber in his gendrigal and cut off the Sith's partaschandra".
Asimov used to do this a lot, making the aliens sound just like they were human, because it makes for better drama.
It's for similar reasons (albeit a different execution) that so many main and secondary characters in Star Trek are forehead aliens.
They're just more darned relatable!
I don't trust droids.
Eh?
What possible reason could there be NOT to call them humans, if both of those things apply? If they look human, and are called human, then by definition, they ARE human. Ever hear of Occam's Razor?
As to how Earth might be involved - yes, that's open for debate.
Must be the case. If the story takes place, as the movies state (canon), a long time ago in a galaxy far far away... they can't be the same humans as us. We have only made it to the moon.
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away"? From whose point of view? Doesn't have to be ours. It's just a text crawl that means very little. Every moment of time is, from SOMEBODY's pov, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
I think I mentioned this before on the forum a long time ago, but I've always taken the opening line to be more literal. I look at it as one of the few bits of actual science in Star Wars; I like to believe that the opening line is referencing starlight.
When the movie first screened in theaters in 1977, I like to think the opening line meant that these events were happening in real time to our eye. The events we were watching were so far away that the light has taken a very long time to reach our eyes.
I also like the starlight explanation as a reason why we started Star Wars on Episode IV. The twinkling lights in the night sky did not begin when we happened to look up and notice them; their stories were already in progress.
Of course, then we got Episode I...
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