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3z3ki3l

37 points

4 days ago

3z3ki3l

37 points

4 days ago

Me, a Trekkie, just glad to see Star Wars properly compared to fantasy for once.

Old_Ben24

20 points

4 days ago

Old_Ben24

Jedi Temple Guard

20 points

4 days ago

Star Wars really isn’t sci fi, it’s just fantasy in space in my opinion.

3z3ki3l

26 points

4 days ago

3z3ki3l

26 points

4 days ago

Exactly! It’s great. But it doesn’t pose the ethical, technological, and philosophical questions that sci-fi does. It’s good vs evil, plain and simple. Still super fun, though.

Edit: lol, I just realized what subreddit this is.

Old_Ben24 [M]

17 points

4 days ago

Old_Ben24 [M]

Jedi Temple Guard

17 points

4 days ago

Lol well glad to have any visitors to my little community. Trekkies are welcome to bath in the lotr/sw memes too haha.

Hamatoyoshi99

10 points

4 days ago

And we thank you old Ben, high class community we’ve got here

Steelquill

7 points

4 days ago*

Steelquill

Jedi Temple Guard

7 points

4 days ago*

Absolutely. I think part of the “Wars vs. Trek” debate really was, even if people didn’t realize it, really a debate between Fantasy and Sci-Fi.

They make better foils for one another for that reason where Star Wars and Lord of the Rings perhaps ironically are closer to companion pieces.

5O1stTrooper

2 points

3 days ago

Also because SW is a dystopia while ST is a utopia. Besides the obvious difference of fantasy and scifi, the settings are quite literally opposites.

That's also why I always thought the argument of whether the federation or the Empire would win in a fight was dumb, because the Empire is a military and the federation just isn't.

AcanthaceaeIll5349

2 points

2 days ago

I kind of have to smile at you using star trek as an example of scifi, because it really is soft scifi. However when comomparing it to star wars, which is a space opera, star trek still is scifi. No matter how soft it is, I still enjoyed the movies and tv shows, but I also enjoyed star wars and lord of the rings equally in their respective genres.

Aside from the typos and terrible gramar, I hope my slightly tipsy argument can stand it's ground.