Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:40:55 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Salon.com on Star Wars
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2002/04/10/lucas/index.html
>
> Part two has this as the tagline:
> "Doesn't Tatooine look like Dune? And aren't the Jedi basically just E.E. =
> "Doc" Smith's Lensmen"

What's genuinely significant about the article -- which debunks Lucas's later
grand claims and lays credit for STAR WARS to EESmith, DUNE, et al -- is that
it wholly ignores the influences Lucas *originally* claimed:  the Republic
serials of his youth.

--Ted White