Thursday, January 17, 2008

A world without Star Wars

The people over at Irregular Webcomic posted a segment of a world without Star Wars (since they're doing a screen cap webcomic about it, where of course the movies never came out). How is this world much diferent from ours?



  • Spaceballs is a serious documentary about the practical applications of Buckminsterfullerene.

  • Mark Hamill is known (barely) for doing voiceovers for poorly selling computer games, but gains widespread fame after his appearance in the first
    Futurama movie.

  • Harrison Ford is known primarily for Indiana Jones.

  • Nerdy guys make YouTube videos of themselves wielding crossbows instead of lightsabres.

  • Without the success of Star Wars to spark interest in science fiction in the late 70s and early 80s, Star Trek was never revived
    with movies and new series, and remains an obscure short-running TV show.

  • Moonraker was never made. James Bond fans never had it so good.

  • The major science fiction background that pervades all of Western culture is Battlestar Galactica, despite it never being much good. It was remade
    recently as a new, updated television series with a bigger budget, high-tech computerised special effects, and edgy writing. And it sucked.

  • Throughout the 80s and 90s, all the greatest Hollywood blockbusters were big-budget family-oriented musicals.

  • The Comic Irregulars exist and are making a screencap comic based on Harry Potter.



Source: Darths & Droids

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