Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?

• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The whole design aesthetic of the Star Wars universe is a state of technological stagnation. They all have advanced technology, but it could be more advanced, however, for whatever reason, they haven’t bothered to make any but minor advancements in a very long time.

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  • cattywampas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The whole “used future” aesthetic is a big part of what gives Star Wars its vibe.

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• Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Any universe where they have super advanced tech they’ll treat it like we treat cars, because cars are also super advanced tech, it’s just a tech you see daily and are familiar. How do you expect characters in a super technologically advanced world to react? They see that every day, it’s not news to them.

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  • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think the point is that the tech doesn’t materially change most starwars characters interactions from present day. It’s not really scifi because the science / tech doesn’t shape how the characters interact dramatically.

    If you give the characters some real scifi-tech like put them inside computers, or have backup throwaway clone bodies, or jack them in to a hive mind, or give them time travel or alternate universes then the whole dramatic context of the character interactions has to change and the story has to be shaped by the technology to some degree. It’d likely be a bit more alien as our innate sense of constraints and jeopardy doesn’t apply.

    Only really the deathstar is anything different tech wise - it is only used once, and becomes more like a part of the maguffin.

    The other fantastic dramatic features that starwars does use that are alien to us - precognition, mind control, reincarnation(sortof) - are magic rather than tech.

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I never said Star Wars was sci-fi, it’s not. But it does have super advanced tech which is the issue being discussed.

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• markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People in 2025 don’t really do ‘super advanced technology’. Like they’ve got super powerful handheld computers on them at all times and all of human knowledge accessible at all times and planes and shit, but they don’t treat it like high-tech stuff, they treat it like we treat carriages and books.

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How do you treat cars and swords.

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s still high tech if it’s vastly beyond our current technological ability.

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