Chat corner 56: Science and technology
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dreamwarsWelcome to this week’s chat corner!
Optional prompt
The prompt for this week is “science and technology” - whatever you would like to include under it. Intrigued that GFFA seems to have both anti-gravity technology and combustion engines? What the heck is a “comm frequency” and how come it exists alongside a “holonet”? And how exactly does bacta immersion heal internal injuries?
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Date: 2022-05-16 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-17 06:07 am (UTC)Science in SW is so tricky! It pretends to be sci-fi, but in fact it's a science-fantasy and it very aggressively leaves science and technology as vague as possible.
I've read writing advice once that said that magic systems don't have to be logical, they have to be consistent, and I've found that it works for Star Wars science and technology perfectly. As long as we can extrapolate how it will behave, we're good.
And, what's great on that concept, it means that we as an audience still can think about it and try to figure things out (as opposed to the general advice of "don't take it seriously it's just Star Wars"). We're not trying to figure out how it could work in real world, we're trying to reconstruct the rules. They might be built on real-world examples, but they also might not.
Anyway, it's fun to think about.
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Date: 2022-05-17 01:51 pm (UTC)until the dark times, until the mouse took over. It’s what kind of sets it apart from other big sci fi movies.