Okay. I thought I just agreed with you about sexism in ST, but okay… it was still miles ahead for racial inclusion.
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mumble mumble failure mode of clever mumble mumble
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(you know I’m just having some fun posting ridiculous ST outfits, right?)
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Meesa wondrin if’n you should besa careful whatsa you wisha for.
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Okay. Great.
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They don’t really look like that. It’s just an artistic convention, same way they’re not really speaking English.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=Leia+bikini
SW had an answer.
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let’s not confuse this movie with proper SF. I love SW but as a representative of the genre up until that time, it falls short. SW is just a simple fairytale set in a space environment. True SF written by these ladies and men in the early and mid twentieth century explores the human condition by placing it in unusual situations and settings.
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Majority dominant culture be dominatin’.
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I always heard that the definition of SF was the rigorous exploration of one or both general hypotheses:
- What if…
- If this goes on…
Damon Knight’s “A for Anything” is a good example of the first.
Heinlein’s future history series is a good example of the second, with a little of the first thrown in.
FWIW
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The wookie was taken from an Analog cover.
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On the contrary I find it quite relevant. This isn’t the forward thinking futurist minded sci-fi people think it is, it’s nostalgia. It’s an anachronistic view to a time when these white males dominated the intellectual landscape and is an absolute metaphore for looking back to the 50s. He just did American Graffiti and that tells you so much about Georges headspace.
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Yeah, and that’s why Thor: Ragnarok is just a movie about vampires, and that’s it really.
/s
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What I love/don’t love about the endless Star Wars debates are people who spend time on the theory that “George Lucas meant the whole movie to say one thing,”
As if it wasn’t a collaborative effort. Even if you just look Lucas, he obviously meant to make five different kinds of movies at the same time. (With varying success of course)
Delany’s review is great because it doesn’t try to boil the first movie down into one mono-meaning. He recognises Lucas’s influences and cinematic aims, and values what’s there, and points out how it could have achieved more aims.
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That’s not where the residual checks are sent for the people that had control over the casting choices.
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Um… I have to ask.
Why do you appear to be fansplaining… to yourself?
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That’s contrarianism, for ya.
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