Nerds.
You're all a bunch of nerds.
You're all a bunch of nerds.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Discussion (HERE THERE BE SPOILERS)
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From what I've seen of the franchise, the Star Wars humans are supposed to be the same species as we are. It's probably works the same way that some fantasy works that have no connection with our world that feature de facto humans. (For all we know, our reality doesn't exist in the Star Wars "universe.")
The term "nerd" is obsolete, Ogre. You're a relic.
I watched it a few days ago and really liked it! Now I want to go back and watch all the others 
OMG those were shitty movies.
The 80s was a funny time.
Another crass one was the movie Joysticks
That is funny. I know it's meant as a joke, but I actually kind of like it. Maybe the Yoda thing is just a pure coincidence, or perhaps the Force actually stretches all the way to our universe and the Star Wars stories all come from Force visions given to the creators.
The first Revenge of the Nerds was great. The second....eh, it had its moments but was a huge decline in quality from the original and was at best sporadically amusing. And the others?
The less said the better.
The less said the better.
And thank goodness for that.
It would have been like trying to connect "Lord of the Rings" or "Conan the Barbarian" directly to contemporary humanity.
Kor
One of the planets represented in the Republic Senate scenes had ET beings. They were put in there as an Easter Egg...
Probably not the best examples since both of those are indeed specifically placed in a sort of mytho-historic pre-history of Earth. A lost chapter of human history.And thank goodness for that.
It would have been like trying to connect "Lord of the Rings" or "Conan the Barbarian" directly to contemporary humanity.
Kor
eg: "Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of"
Granted they're still a mythological reference points, but ones inextricably linked to our very real cultural history.
Middle Earth's links are a little more nebulous, but nevertheless the intended conceit was still that these fictional people and events happened on this world, long ago.
Star Wars is much more in the realm of fairytale and doesn't even attempt to place it in any useful context.
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To me, Star Wars is as much fantasy as those... sword and sorcery in some hoary setting (that just happens to have spaceships).
Kor
Oh sure, no question. Star Wars is absolutely a fantasy/fairy tale type setting. It's just that those two examples you cited, while also firmly of the fantasy persuasion, came bundled with the conceit that they actually took place in "our" world's deep pre-history.
Perhaps a more apt example might have been the likes of 'Game of Thrones' which (so far as I'm aware) is very firmly in it's very own alternate universe, despite being a mytho-historical hybrid akin to Conan & LotR. You could probably count 'Willow' too as I don't think the movie's opening even bothers with a "once upon a time..." and just go straight into prophecies about the downfall of an evil queen.
Nothing has been revealed as far as I know, but I believe George RR Martin has said that he does have some kind of relationship in mind for the books' setting and our modern world.
Wouldn't be the first fantasy story to take that tack. Another one I've seen a few times is the regressed/abandoned off-world colony trope.
Still, point being even if he'll eventually explore that route, for the time being there's no direct existent link like there was in LotR and Conan.
