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   Alfie [UK] wrote:   
   > If Ridley had not created such a believeable setting behind BR, his   
   > focus that everything must look real and work, then it could be   
   > either, (although I'd still feel more SF than SO) but I think that   
   > because of what he did with it it is not Space Opera, even though the   
   > focus of the story is the characters and the meta question of what is   
   > it to be human?.   
      
   I think the genre classification tends to detract from whether these are   
   just good SF films, which I think it's fair to say they are, in terms of   
   general opinion. Getting back to the previous point, that there's more to   
   SW - perhaps more so with the original trilogy - than little susbstance.   
      
   And getting back to the original point, clearly there's more care and   
   attention in SW than some folks might think, or want to think ;-)   
      
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