ChainsawAsh said:Octorox said:TMBTM said:If its the enemy I guess I can understand it, like a mystical powers arm race.
Maybe, we can find a plot AROUND cloning without ANY stormtroopers clones at all.
You know, the bad guy finds a way to clone people and he begin to clone some high members of the Republic to take control, step by step. The Jedi begin to suspect something. Everyone's getting paranoid. And that is the Clone War, a kind of cold war...
You guys need to remember that Star Wars is NOT SCI-FI. It's a fantasy/western/adventure story set in space. Cloning should NOT play a large part in the plot or your heading into sci-fi territory. Using cloning to amass an army steers clear of sci-fi because it doesn't really affect the plot that their clones. However, replacing important characters with clones seems like a no no to me because it's a very sci-fi concept. Futuristic space tech is just an element of setting in Star Wars, not of plot.
I really don't understand this mentality at all. Star Wars is CLEARLY sci-fi. Not necessarily "Star Trek" sci-fi where every minute detail has to be explained in a scientific way - THAT'S the difference.
Carbon freezing? That's not sci-fi? That's not an element of plot? Hyperspace? Huge space stations that can destroy planets?
I agree that Star Wars is a fantasy/adventure story in space, but to say that it's not sci-fi is kind of narrow-minded. I'd describe it as a sci-fi fantasy, where certain things are explained away by the "fantasy" aspect and others the "sci-fi" aspect, as opposed to other sci-fi stories were everything is explained by it being "sci-fi" (Blade Runner, Alien, Dune, Star Trek ... )
Science Fiction is an unfortunate genre label.
What the term really refers to is Speculative Fiction, writers and readers are given a set of items which have yet to have been proven to exist and from that selection of ideas a story is created set in a world with those plausible but as currently realised items.
Bladerunner, 2001, Dune fit that criteria.
Star Trek sits in the middle (sound in space doesn't work but space warping might).
Star Wars doesn't fit at all, it uses space as the far and distant land of ancient myth so it's Space Fantasy.
That doesn't make it less a story telling realm and the story still has to obey the rules of that fantasy landscape but the audience doesn't expect or need for it to make scientific sense.
It's Sinbad with laser swords.