When Bradford said “Big Men With Screwdrivers” I initially assumed he was discussing the first 12 Doctors from Doctor Who in sarcastic (While many were tall, I wouldn’t call them big) fashion.
I assumed this was going to be about “Less ‘intellectual’ heroes (quirky time-traveling Space-Brits), more ‘Old two-fisted Buck Rogers Serials’” but it turned out to be…just that…but in a different way (‘Less Science-Fiction, more Science-Fantasy Space Opera’) and added woman-bashing.
I will now post a pic of Doctor Ten…
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…for no reason other than SQUEES!
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Look; We all have our tastes. Both Sci-Fi and Space Operas have their place and equally good in their own way. I tend to enjoy “Space Opera” like Star Wars and find “Hard Sci-Fi” rather dry but I still respect the latter.
The other “Star-Something” franchise Star Trek pretty much blends both…There’s weird alien races, adventure and even the occasional space battle but it still tries to ground itself in some sort of plausible science and theoretical physics (with plenty of technobabble).
Technobabble in Star Wars is pretty much limited to “Blaster bolts and lightsaber blades are a semi-solid hot plasma”, “Hyperdrive involves entering some alternate dimension”, “The Force (an otherwise spiritual supernatural energy) is channeled through microorganisms called ‘Midichlorians’” and “Starkiller base runs on some sort of ‘Dark Energy’” which could either refer to Dark Matter, Anti-Matter or “The Dark Side of the Force”.
That said; Star Wars can still tackle big themes like Star Trek can. There much taken from theology, philosophy, old myths, political theory, etc. The Prequels show how Despotism can rise and subvert Democracy while the Sequel Trilogy shows what happens when people get too complacent and not make the effort to protect Progressive gains. Non-Humans are the equivalent of Earth’s Non-Whites in Star Wars.
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I also have a funny headcanon (also a Star Wars/Star Trek crossover) accounting for why Humans exist in a “Galaxy Far Far Away”; A few centuries from now in our Solar System, Starfleet was testing new artificial wormhole tech with one of their ships (which was manned heavily by Earth humans). The ship gets sucked in but…rather than a gross-out Event Horizon situation, they get transported to a far away galaxy centuries ago. The ship crashed on Coruscant and the Starfleeters settled that planet and Corellia.
We can scientifically trace were humans came from on Earth but human origins in Star Wars are a mystery…also; “Aurebesh” (‘Aurek’, ‘Besh’, etc,) is simply a mutated version of “Alphabet” (‘Alpha’, ‘Beta’, etc.) with the letters and numbers being the Roman Alphabet after thousands of years of change.
Maybe my headcanon can reconcile the rivalry between two Fandoms (both also have movies made by J.J. Abrams, who declared one time that all his films are roughly in the same universe).
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BACK TO THE ORIGINAL SUBJECT…
The OP is a sexist wet blanket.
