re: Another Thread About Star Wars NOT A Science Fiction Movie

Never like any of the Star Wars franchise largely because I never considered it to be science fiction.

Comic book stuff. That's what it is.

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It was an old fashioned fairy tail.

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Meh - George has always pushed that "Western" theme for Star Wars, but that is another example where he was working the product as a derivative of Star Trek - Roddenberry, in his turn, of course, always said that Star Trek was "Wagon Train" to the stars, concealing the fact he was really just ripping off Forbidden Planet.

There is a Western vibe in Star Wars with Han's getup and attitude, the open desert scenes on Tatooine, the siege while they're trying to rescue Leia from the first Deathstar and, even, Hoth, etc., but I think the Western feel kind of falls apart with the antagonist being this super powerful galactic empire - that is a hallmark of science fiction, as well as the importance of the space combat scenes, machines, over the close range mano a mano confrontations more typical with Westerns.

On the other hand, I've always felt that Firefly was somewhat derivative of Star Wars (more of a realistic story around Han, fairly obviously) and it is definitely a Western - I'd argue more Western than Sci Fi, with a little bit of X-Files mixed in.

Star Trek has always made an effort to offer at least semi-plausible explanations for how the technology works. That makes it Sci-Fi. Star Wars fits better in the Space Opera sub genre of Fantasy.