[KarmaInferno]

I was blessed/cursed that Star Wars was the second movie I had ever seen. The first was The Cat from Outer Space.

Star Wars was my first. And I have some FUNKY memories of it.

Star Wars Funk?



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[The_Gun_Nut]

Oddly enough, you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.

[Red Canti]

I was blessed/cursed that Star Wars was the second movie I had ever seen. The first was The Cat from Outer Space.

Star Wars was my first. And I have some FUNKY memories of it.

Same here, To this day it still drives me to fury that people say it's "Space Opera" and therefore not Sci-Fi.

Don't think I've ever seen the Black Hole myself.

[Onion Man]

I was blessed/cursed that Star Wars was the second movie I had ever seen. The first was The Cat from Outer Space.

Star Wars was my first. And I have some FUNKY memories of it.

Same here, To this day it still drives me to fury that people say it's "Space Opera" and therefore not Sci-Fi.

Don't think I've ever seen the Black Hole myself.

Neither Star Wars nor Star Trek is truly Science Fiction.  Both are Science Fantasy.

Neither one takes the science of today (or another historic period) and extrapolates upon it to create a fiction rooted in the sciences (generally as a commentary regarding the sciences).

Both create a fantasy setting (one in the future, one in the distant past), where "science" replaces "Wizardry".

[CanRay]

Neither fish nor fowl nor good red meat...

[Onion Man]

Definitely not an Opera though.  Space opera is the biggest misnomer in all of film taxonomy.

If there is spoken word, it is NOT an opera.

This from a fan of opera... well, rock opera at least.

[CanRay]

Goth Opera?

Sorry, saw Repo recently. 

[Onion Man]

Repo is awesome.

I think I'll watch it again tonight and stopryboard up another miniplot surrounding bioware repossession...

[Mystic]

Hey, call it "Space Opera", or science fiction, eh. I have learned to have a bit of suspension of disbeleif when it comes to the non-educated. As long as the story is good, and in the case of SW, has some kick ass space battles, I'm all good.

And speaking of Black Hole, this psychic connection between Ms Kate (can't remember her last name) and VINCENT; kind of smacks of technomancy if you put it in an SR context.

[CanRay]

Even worse are the non-educated who try to come off as authorities in the field.

"It was a Bolt-Action Fully-Automatic Machine Gun."   

[Mystic]

Even worse are the non-educated who try to come off as authorities in the field.

"It was a Bolt-Action Fully-Automatic Machine Gun."   

Must be a pretty quick bolt.

[Gibbersan]

From Merriam-Webster

space opera: a futuristic melodramatic fantasy involving space travelers and extraterrestrial beings

[Onion Man]

mis·no·mer
   [mis-noh-mer] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation.

op·er·a
1    [op-er-uh, op-ruh] Show IPA
–noun
1.
an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet. Compare comic opera, grand opera.
2.
the form or branch of musical and dramatic art represented by such compositions.
3.
the score or the words of such a composition.

Space opera isn't opera, that's why it's a misnomer.

[FastJack]

mis·no·mer
   [mis-noh-mer] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation.

op·er·a
1    [op-er-uh, op-ruh] Show IPA
–noun
1.
an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet. Compare comic opera, grand opera.
2.
the form or branch of musical and dramatic art represented by such compositions.
3.
the score or the words of such a composition.

Space opera isn't opera, that's why it's a misnomer.

And many words have many different uses. Space Opera may not be a technical opera, but it is a standard and accepted method of describing a sub-genre of science fiction.

[PeterSmith]

And many words have many different uses. Space Opera may not be a technical opera, but it is a standard and accepted method of describing a sub-genre of science fiction.

My pedant meter pegged over the minute I saw the definition for misnomer in there.