Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers
Thorry84@feddit.nl 6 days agoI think space opera can be sci-fi or fantasy? Star Wars is definitely fantasy tho.
Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers
Thorry84@feddit.nl 6 days agoI think space opera can be sci-fi or fantasy? Star Wars is definitely fantasy tho.
wjrii@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You’re right, though the melodrama and swashbuckling of Space Opera definitely lend themselves more towards the soft sci-fi/sci-fantasy end of the spectrum. Sort of, “if the characters and plots don’t need to bear much relation to the real world, why should the setting?”