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In lugnet.general, Erik Olson writes:
> Trains and Star Wars need to go off in separate directions!
>
> Why? Because in Star Wars, everybody is either a hotshot pilot, or • employs one.
> It's like everybody drives a car, and the ones who can't, hang out at • spaceports
> (Mos Eisley) trying to hire a taxi.
Obi Wan and Luke were trying to hire a *fast* ship that would be likely to
stay away from official channels, as a spaceliner would likely have gotten
them picked up by Imperial Customs.
> In the movies, there aren't any passenger
> ships.
That's a sweeping generalization. Just because the movies focus on
more exciting means of travel doesn't mean they don't exist. Again, pay
attention to the stuff in the background.
> Blockade runners apparently carry one passenger,
And all her security guards. Come on, she was royalty. They always travel
around in large ships with lots of space.
> and freighters are just
> the 18-wheelers of space.
It's an obvious statement, but true nonetheless.
> Most everything else is a one-man hotrod or a flying
> city. Anybody on board a capital ship, stays there. (exception: Darth • Vader, who
> has many smaller vehicles.) Jabba's barge is the 38-foot yacht people • only dream
> of having for themselves. The two-seater ships (Snowspeeder, Cloud • Car) are
> versatile enough to allow one intimate friend to come along. Clearly, • Star Wars
> is about personal mobility, not mass transportation.
Star Wars focuses on the Heroes. You can see the regular joes
schlepping around in other types of vehicles in the background scenes of
Cloud City and Coruscant.
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> Rockets in science fiction generally symbolize a rite of • passage--freedom to go
> anywhere without your parents. Discuss!
I think they have rockets/spaceships in SciFi movies because they're
cool, and because it's more exciting than watching the heroes sit around
in a space-liner terminal
You forgot to mention The Fifth Element (a movie sadly ignored by many)
wherein the hero drives a taxi, and travels both by a mass transit shuttle
and by a starfighter when things get more exciting.
Just because the movies focus on the heroes with their starfighters and
hotrod freighters doesn't mean there's no mass transit in Sci Fi.
> References: Thomas M. Disch, Science Fiction: The Dreams Our Stuff
Is Made Of.
References: paying attention to the backgrounds in Sci-Fi movies
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