Are E.T. and Star Wars in the same universe?

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/6558

by ruuki • 13 years ago

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seg• 13 years ago

Nice find.

Eh if there's no reference in the original 3 movies (The only ones I acknowledge as star wars) it's not a good enough link for me!

cperciva• 13 years ago

ET has a kid in a Yoda costume, and the Yoda/Force leitmotif is quoted in the ET score at that point. There's your SW:OT connection -- the extra references written into the new episodes are just overkill.

precisioncoder2• 13 years ago

I don't actually have a comment regarding E.T. ... to be honest I just wanted to complain about the new star wars

hrkristian• 13 years ago

I've always been intrigued with how many people treat IPs as "real".

For my part, I'm always in the mindset of "Whatever. If something in fiction isn't conclusive, then the existence of an answer is simply not there and completely irrelevant."

Meanwhile, I see a lot of people whose wording implies they think questions about fictional details are entirely consequential (to their lives.)

Merely some musing as a result of some of the answers the question got.

fooqux• 13 years ago

I wonder if it's a sort of defense mechanism people develop. The Real World is quite crazy, and is typically governed by social rules that are fluid at the best of times, and totally incomprehensible at the worst (or for those that may lack certain social skills). Meanwhile, the fictional worlds in which we create are almost always governed by clearly defined, logical rules. If something strange happens, you just have to keep reading and it will (usually) be explained to you. Retcons notwithstanding.

I presume this is also why people are always so up in arms when something happens that contradicts the previously-established rule set.

TillE• 13 years ago

It is sort of funny that people get worked up about fictional "canon". It's all just made up by some guy, there's nothing special about it.

Vaskivo2• 13 years ago

Well, people love what they love. And love thinking, talking and discussing what they love. Is this any different from the sports fan who talk about old team lineups, why such and such tactic was wrong in a game, why they lost a game because of bad luck/refereeing.

Think also about common programming discussions: dynamic vs static typing, goto is the root of all evil, etc.

We love this IP. Having nothing more to explore about it, we start dissecting it to find more stuff. And finding easter egg and little details like this show us that the creator really had a lot of love for it's creation. This helps us acknowledge that our love is well deserved.

And, in the end, it's fun! Why would we do this if it weren't fun?

logicallee2• 13 years ago

No, this is like a literary critic finding a baseball score, let's say 3-0, mentioned casually in dialog in a Hemmingway short story that does not have a date or mention of teams, and, then talking about what the team must have been (okay, let's say we can guess). And the season. Let's say they can guess. Okay, and then talking about the lineup, tactics, what the innings must have looked like, and whetehr there was any bad luck or refereeing or questionable ump calls involved. You know, based on the fact that score was 3-0, and, you know, it seemed important enough for the character to mention. Maybe due to some bad ump calls. Probably. I mean, it's pure rank speculation but why else would the character mention it??

You see the difference? The only true answer is because, f--, hemmingway liked baseball and he needed some dialogue. there's no play by play action behind it, absolutely nothing for us to guess about because it just didn't happen. :)

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