• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Right, and even when sci-fi hand hand waves its technology it’s about its impact on society.

    For example, Star Wars never directly addressed that droids are a slave race, in a society with apparently unlimited energy, and yet poverty is just absolutely everywhere.

    That is outright insane. Lucas never addressed it because the story is about good space wizard samurai fighting bad space wizard samurai, and even when he dips his toes into political allegory it’s a commentary on modern society and not “how would it be different?”

    I’d say Doctor Who occasionally verges into sci fi for this reason though. There are at least some episodes that go “how does life work when space whales?”