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What is the explanation for high technology in Star Wars?

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

It would never occur to me that Star Wars technology would need an explanation besides people inventing things over time. According to Lucas the story was originally going to be told by R2D2 when he was 2000 years old. It was going to be in our far future and our galaxy. "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away," was going to mean in R2D2's past, told at a time when he was far away from here. They decided to drop the narration, and all that remained was that opening line - which has led people to think the whole story happened in the distant past in a galaxy other than ours. But this clears up a few little things like saying womp rats are a couple meters long.

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Was R2D2's narration intended to be subtitled...?

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