(March 20, 2019 at 5:01 am)fredd bear Wrote: "The films are secretly about the futility of fighting evil. Even if you wipe it out, something even worse will suddenly appear, and take over the galaxy while you watch gormlessly."
Horse pucky.
Star Wars is a blatant rip of the space operas of the 1950's, especially the writings of EE 'Doc' Smith.
More like the 1920s. Doc Smith wrote The Skylark of Space around 1920, and that story is pretty much the parent of all space operas. Star Wars wasn't a blatant rip, since all space opera is derivative. Star Wars revived space opera.
Doc Smith shaped modern science fiction. Personally, I have long suspected that Mr. Spock was modeled on the personality of Marc Duquesne, Richard Seaton's nemesis in Skylark.
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