> Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back is one of the best science fiction films ever made. I do think that Empire Strikes Back is an enormously enjoyable film, b

> Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back is one of the best science fiction films ever made. I do think that Empire Strikes Back is an enormously enjoyable film, but I take at them calling it science fiction. I feel this might be a bit of an unpopular sentiment, but Star Wars was never really science fiction at all. It had all the things Ars said it did: Good story, good character development, good settings, good effects, but at the end of the day it was literally a Fantasty/Romance with a large FX budget (for the time). There was no science that was actually integral to the series itself, or at least none that could not have been replaced with Knights-and-dragons style elements just as easily. Compare to the story elements to (just for instance) Ghost in the Shell, which was a science fiction that asked a lot of questions: In the future, how will people deal with cyborgs? How will they deal with longer lifespans? How will they deal with 21st century governments breaking down? How will society deal with a new and more pervasive "net?" The show tries to deal with many of the pains of emerging technologies and an evolving world. Compared to such sci-fi, Star Wars was just a romance novel plus lasers. Empire Strikes Back was good, definitely, but not precisely because of sci-fi elements.