Meaning of Star Wars-y | Babel Free

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Adjective. [B2]

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““I wanted a hospital room that was octagonal,” Lawrence Paull says, “one with drawers containing patients that could be slid out of the walls like⟳ coffins. Syd originally did a sketch⟳ of this, but Ridley and I decided that what he had done was too slick and Star Wars'''-y.””

“When you’ve got a bet⟳ secured, clear your throat and loudly ask⟳ to no one in particular, “So uh, what makes something look⟳ Star Wars'''-y?” Pencils will drop. Pencils will drop. Opinions will be expressed about pill lights and coffin-shaped doors, gack lines and kitbashing, World War II and Flash⟳ Gordon, and then someone who worked on the prequels might say⟳ something about domes, and a chorus will rise⟳ in response and the game will be on. […] The only real answer⟳ (besides “Ralph McQuarrie”) is that something feels Star Wars'''-y because it feels Star Wars'''-y. It’s something elusive that everyone has their own⟳ instinct for, and when you find⟳ designers whose instinct lines up with yours, you latch on and don’t let⟳ go.”

“The joke has worn thin in the intervening 14 years, and this incomprehensible odyssey to find⟳ Poseidon’s mythical trident and break⟳ “all the curses of the sea” is little more than a hodgepodge of poorly penned quippery attached to a pair of hoary Star Wars'''-y subplots involving pirates and their long-separated offspring.”

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