So it's not like the Millenium Falcon would end up on Earth. More that certain artifacts like the GFFA alphabet and the Force would be discovered by Earth astronauts. I don't know if there are any good let's plays of The Dig but if there are I recommend them for a glimpse
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I took it to mean like mythic levels of time. Like set in another universe before our own Big Bang. Then again, based on TRoS, SW spaceships are awfully hardy.
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Replying to @Elpico72 @BootlegGirl and
I took it even different. "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" is the equivalent of "Once upon a time". It's a retelling of a retelling of a retelling of what might have been history at one point, but it's unknown if it ever even really happened.
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Like all myths, there's probably some events it's based on, but everything we see might as well be the story of Richard Lionheart. Did he live? Sure. Did he have a backwards-aging wizard friend? Probably not.
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You mean King Arthur? Richard the Lionheart is real
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chton and
(Merlyn in TH White's The Sword in the Stone is a deliberately meta reference, him traveling backwards through time is a metaphor for White projecting himself and his own opinions and politics into the story from the future)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chton and
I think I’ve said before how weird it is to me that T H White is so influential in American ideas of King Arthur. It’s like … ok, Once and Future King is a decent enough reimagining of the stories, but it’s not exactly the iconic version of the character ….
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Replying to @bazzalisk @chton and
It's *massively* deconstructive I keep being confused that no one else gets that Merlyn literally is TH White who has discovered a magical means of "living backwards" from the 20th century to medieval times (a metaphor for writing the book) It's so obvious
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
In his fourth and final book (never published on its own), The Candle in the Wind, Merlyn puts almost all his cards on the table He explains his own political philosophy is anarcho-socialism and he knows Arthur's brand of monarchy is doomed etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
Wasn't that the fifth? OAFK was a tetralogy, IIRC, tho it's always been published as a single volume since the '60s.
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Oh, you're right, I meant The Book of Merlyn, not The Candle in the Wind
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