There are no humans in Star Wars, so what are the creatures we are watching?

[boingboing]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/02/there-are-no-humans-in-star-wa.html

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[davide405]

This is a terrifying and clearly correct analysis.

[Brainspore]

@boingboing

The title card tells us that the story takes place long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. So the characters aren’t actually human or even necessarily from a human-like society, they’re just played by human actors.

That’s silly. It’s like saying that the characters in Game of Thrones aren’t human because our planet doesn’t have the continent of WesterOHMYGOD JOHN SNOW IS AN ALIEN THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING.

[Papasan]

There are very few human beings on Earth, as a matter of fact. We are all on borrowed time…

[Chaz]

[Mindysan33]

@Brainspore

WesterOHMYGOD JOHN SNOW IS AN ALIEN THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING.

I like to think of GoT being set in a different part of the multiverse, right on the other side of the Discworld’s universe.

[Brainspore]

@boingboing

No non-Force sensitive male ever describes his family, if I recall correctly. Han, Lando, Wedge, Biggs, Tarkin, Dodonna, and so forth, all might as well have sprung from the brows of their ships. In six+hours of film about war, I would expect to see someone to drop at least a single reference to parents of some sort.

There have been at least a few direct family references in movies and TV shows since this essay was written in 2013. Han specifically stated his father used to build Corellian freighters, Jyn Erso’s parents were integral to the plot of Rogue One, there were the krill farming families from The Mandalorian, plus a whole bunch of stuff from cartoons and other Expanded Universe content.

Even if we’re only counting Lucas-era live action content there’s Owen Lars’ dad from the prequels and Towani family from Caravan of Courage and Battle for Endor.

[Karl_Benedek]

Imagine thinking this is intentional rather than the byproduct of lazy writing

[Papasan]

@Mindysan33

right on the other side of the Disc0world’s universe.

I lost some real friends to Disc0world…

[agies]

Was it the inferno?

[Shuck]

@Karl_Benedek

Imagine thinking this is intentional rather than the byproduct of lazy writing

When one analyzes a work of fiction’s worldbuilding, implications are implications, regardless of how intentional - or hilarious - they are.

[stevev]

There’s another world on the flip side of the Disc where four upside-down elephants and Great A’Tuin’s shell dominate the sky and create uninhabitable strips where they touch the Disc.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

How many Bothans died to bring us this information?

Also, are Bothans a species, a social grouping, a space-sportsball team, a religious group…

[Brainspore]

@Tamsin_Bailey

Also, are Bothans a species, a social grouping, a space-sportsball team, a religious group…

They’re a high-stakes delivery service; think of them as suicidal bicycle couriers.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

So, city bike couriers?

[anon61833566]

this is why we can’t have nice things.

[nungesser]

For what it’s worth, human-like people are specifically referred to as humans in the books and roleplaying games.

@boingboing

‘humans’ are in fact sentient hive insects, organized around a single queen, a handful of fertile males,

That’s actually not far from the Star Wars species Selonian, a sort of otter-person.

[Brainspore]

Bothan Express®: When it absolutely, positively has to be there in under 12 parsecs and you don’t give a shit what happens to the person delivering it™

[p96]

@Basil Exposition

I suggest you don’t worry about this sort of thing and just enjoy yourself.

- YouTube

[_osivot]

Why do they speak English for the most part and why is there sound in space? I find Hardware Wars more believable then Star Wars.