Comments on: Give or take 3000 years

By: Warren

Warren — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:03:20 +0000

I don’t think it is a stretch to assume that a technological society has progressed to the point where progress isn’t really possible anymore. That would stagnant any society, I think. Plus we keep looking at it from the vantage point of what we’ve know…this far away galaxy that existed in a time long past could be entirely different. The trends could be forced from the top down – look at Japan for example. They knew modern technology like guns in the 1600s, yet the people in charge made a choice to limit modern tech. Therefore you had a medieval society that existed well in to the 1800s. The Star Wars universe could be like that… Than add the wars that happen all the time, where billions of people get killed and you will find a totally different society than we have now. Don’t forget there are sentient beings that live hundreds of years as well…that could keep styles around long after they might be gone in our own culture.

By: Warren

Warren — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:55:05 +0000

It’s a blatant rip off of the EU writers than

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:03:32 +0000

OUR society constantly advances, the Star Wars universe does not, at least not at the pace that our’s does. Remember, they live in a post-scarcity society that has hundreds of species interacting, mingling and united under a single banner for 25,000 thousands of years. We have no idea how that would affect culture as we know it since we, as a species, have only had civilization for 14,000 years (during most of which we were nothing except subsistence farmers).

By: spazdoski

spazdoski — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:44:47 +0000

so you would rather run around with a rock and a stick in the star wars universe?

By: Tillzar

Tillzar — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:34:10 +0000

I think likening the re-emergence of 90′s sunglasses 20 years later to the fact that the Star Wars Universe is pretty stagnant over 3000 years is a bit of a stretch!

Also, claiming that garments worn by priests have changed little is again a stretch when the Catholic Church didn’t exist 3,000 years ago at all!

I think Scott has hit the nail on the head – if we went back 3,000 years we wouldn’t be able to comprehend what the world was like and would probably survive a few days in the ‘alien’ world.

It is a little lazy that so little changes in the Star Wars universe.

By: chuck

chuck — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:15:59 +0000

There are still large shifts in style of robes worn by Jedi. Some wear the traditional brown hoody but many others do not wear robes or modify them so they look differently.

Additionally, the Jedi are religion-esque and last time I checked the garments worn by the priests, bishops and cardinals has not been radically altered in hundreds of years.

Furthermore, we are given snap shots of the Star Wars Universe – 300 years here, a decade there, a few hundred more over there… For all we know, we keep seeing the Star Wars universe when old trends and styles re-emerge! Look at how regularly ripped jeans and those dumb sunglasses people wear now-a-days, both were popular in the 90′s! If we concede that Star Wars operates like the real world, then the re-emergence of trends must also be accounted for.

By: chuck

chuck — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:11:45 +0000

Putting a speed limit on the show only serves to weaken tense moments:

“We need to get to Planet X ASAP, Warp 9.2 Mr. Data!”

“But sir, the speed limit. We can only go Warp 5.”

“Oh right. Well, warp 5.”

How lame is that? The show would have been better if the problems were localized in that region of space because the basic premise of the episode was sound. But, since it wasn’t, the allegory between Warp Speed Limit and Global Warming (and thus raising awareness for the climate change) was made moot since people in the 24th century do exactly what we do – ignore it!

By: JaFO

JaFO — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:39:32 +0000

Kind of hard ?
These are some real world examples :
http://www.filibustercartoons.com/judges.htm
And that’s a relatively short period in history for a profession that’s pretty static when it comes to changing the type and style of robe.

It would be really weird if a 3000+ history didn’t change the style that much, especially when given the amount of races available.