Originally posted by queeq
It's not sci-fi... it never was, never will be. Sci-fi has to do with prediction of the future based on technological development or projections. Star Wars takes place in the past, in another world. It's a fairy tale in space, not sci-fi.
NOT true at all. It is clearly sci-fi.
Even if you take your narrowed defenition of sci-fi, Star Wars still makes predicitons about our future py presenting a parallel past.