Show promo gives him "energy weapons."
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George Lucas
Premiere: Wednesday, February 22 at 10PM e/p
From Luke Skywalker's light sabre to Darth Vader's Death Star, the Star Wars franchise is one of the defining science fiction works of the later 20th century. George Lucas' prolific imagination has already inspired two generations of scientists and engineers to push the envelope of technology. By introducing computers into the filmmaking process, he changed the way movies are made, and the way we all see the future. Surprisingly, many fictional technologies from "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" are now becoming reality.
"Surprisingly," the only energy weapon in his work that wasn't already overused by the time he wrote Star Wars is the one that doesn't actually work at all as he describes it. Ray guns and planet-smashing death rays were done before he was out of his teens.
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