True. A real-life analogue is Moore's law. Technology is able to keep up with it for now but it's not going to apply for more than 25 years (and even that's incredibly optimistic)

That was never, ever implied by the OT.

Who are you?!

Goodbye Parks and thanks for the hearts, smarts and laughs.

"This magic day when the super-science
mingles with the bright stuff of dreams"

At face-value, I think it's so popular because it takes the best of so many genres. All the stuff I found cool as a kid is stuffed into Star Wars. Monsters, fighter-jets, lasers, magic, westerns in SPACE?

But Star Wars has always done that. We thought Luke's dad was some noble Jedi knight who was struck down by Vader, that Leia was completely unrelated to Luke.

That's not what I mean. They're complaining about a certain plot point which they only have the right to do if they do a little research first.

The Macguffins in GOTG and Thor are essentially magic rocks. If these movies were more like, say Star Trek, there would be a little more scientific background given on their nature.

When somebody claims to be a fan of something, they are basically necessitated to find the time to understand it. Otherwise they aren't fans.

Set phasers to miss!

John Carter is incredibly simple.

So? Not everybody can be a scientist or a model or whatever. Almost everything relies on a genetic lottery. I don't think the originals ever claimed that anybody other than Luke or Leia had the potential.

Man, photons kinda kill the mystique and wonder of rainbows. I wish we never discovered them.

What? Nope.

The Force was magic, at least until George Lucas waved away much of its mystique in The Phantom Menace by introducing the idea of midi-chlorians

I'd argue that many, many blockbusters today are "Science fantasy"

When I'm famous, I'll send for you my good man.

By the legal tender of upvotes:comments ratio, obviously.

I read somewhere Rush Limbaugh said that net neutrality was when every point of view for any topic would be equally represented so people wouldn't know which one to believe.