(Pardon me for just, y'know, jumping in here - please delete this comment if you feel it is out of place. I found your journal via write_away.)
Interesting that you say it is "dystopia turned on its head" rather than (the perhaps more straightforward answer) that it's what was so common before dystopian stories became more prevalent: a fairy tale, or an epic saga.
Heroes in those stories are almost always super-human, and so - at least, I think, to modern perception - inhuman. (This is, for example, while I despise Superman.) Take Odysseus, the ever-so-clever, or any of the larger-than-life men in the Iliad; or any hero, really.
So I think that Star Wars is less an upside-down dystopia than a right-side-up traditional story, but with laser-swords. And laser swords make everything better. :D
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Interesting that you say it is "dystopia turned on its head" rather than (the perhaps more straightforward answer) that it's what was so common before dystopian stories became more prevalent: a fairy tale, or an epic saga.
Heroes in those stories are almost always super-human, and so - at least, I think, to modern perception - inhuman. (This is, for example, while I despise Superman.) Take Odysseus, the ever-so-clever, or any of the larger-than-life men in the Iliad; or any hero, really.
So I think that Star Wars is less an upside-down dystopia than a right-side-up traditional story, but with laser-swords. And laser swords make everything better. :D
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