Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for May 02, 2015

What did I say yesterday?

“I do not think of Star Wars (IV) as science fiction. It’s straight up fantasy, a fairy tale. It is detailed, epic, classic storytelling. All the elements of classical Greek myth are there.”

Verne you should of given RJ a twinkie half way through !

star wars or star trek?

I read yesterday’s strip while on a conference call. I had to hit the mute button real quick after I read the third panel. It was a while before I could stop laughing enough to rejoin the conversation.

Had a friend, when the show first came out, who compared it to Wizard of Oz – little girl (Leia), tin man (CP3O), cowardly lion (Chewbacca). Don’t remember whom she assigned as strawman or wizard.

RJ has it right. There’s no science in that fiction.

star wars is ALL about emotions of ‘humans’ – triumphs, defeats, love, hate, restoring of relationships, etc. etc. a truly ‘chick flick’ for ALL time.rj has NO emotions except suppression of his self loathing thus he continues to eat and eat and eat unhealthy snacks in a subliminal effort to punish himself. and since no snacks were offered during the movies the movies were a waste of time for rj.-pretty good huh? and i only got through psych 301 before i quit trying to figure out psyche of racoons er uh people

I find his lack of faith disturbing!

That was Campbell’s point, most good stories harken back to a few epic themes, which seem to have spread worldwide prior to the written word.

Arthur C. Clarke wrote (in the introduction to the book-length version of Songs of Distant Earth) that neither Star Wars nor Star Trek was science fiction. Rather, they were fantasy, and he wrote that he liked both of them.