Time has stopped. Can't finish thi.........

Earth stopped turning. Everybody flew away.

Kinja seems to be screwing up more than somewhat - I hit the publish button and the thing just sat there for 20 minutes. That's my excuse anyway.

Jeff Goldblum in any film where he plays a scientist - he's always the smug "Look at me - I'm right, I'm right and you're wrong" bastard that you just want to punch him.

No that's not it. I'm saying Star Wars is miscatalogued, that's all.

That's hilarious. Excellent.

Maybe I'm batting on sticky wicket here, but the operative word in that definition is "Melodrama".

Science fiction is a "What If..." genre where the what if is an essential part of the story. You could replace the spaceships in Star Wars with wagon trains going to the next town, replace the robots with servants, replace the light sabers with swords, and the story would be essentially the same. Nothing scientific is…

Very true.

I read a certain amount of space opera in my youth - even L. Ron Hubbard (why! why!) and Star Wars gave me the same sense of dissatisfaction that I got from them. Sorry but there it is.

Star Wars was not and never has been science fiction. It's space opera and always has been. The hero and heroine turn out to be brother and sister - the villain turns out to be their father - it's pure Brazilian soap opera with a space setting. I realised this when seeing it when it was first released and nothing has…

Didn't we just have this question a couple of weeks ago?

Here's the cast link - as editing doesn't seem to work anymore....

Didn't he actually do the voice for Darth Maul?

If I have to read another book before I can read the book I can't read then I'm afraid it's a no-no. And that's despite liking Anthony Burgess enormously.

The best writing advice I ever heard was from Elmore Leonard -
"Leave out the stuff that people tend to skip."

I know - it's one of those books that you think you should read, but I've never met anybody who's actually finished it.

I haven't read those. And now I never will. Thanks.

To tell the truth I actually tried it twice and got nowhere either time.

You only read one sitting to read it.
Trust me - you'll pick it up, read maybe 30 pages and put it down never to pick it up again. Just think how much of your life you've just saved.