Re: Is Star Wars to blame?!?
If you think about it some more you could say that Hollywood is to blame.
I mean think of all the action movies with the hero beating incredible odds to become victorious. Most sports movies are shown from the side of the underdog who usually win the big game in the final seconds. In romance movies our hero is always the poor nice guy competing for the love of the women of his dreams against the rich “has it” all A-hole.
People like the underdog because they can identify with them so I would argue that it is not that they don’t know or care about the odds. I think they want to be the hero that regardless of how bad it looks they will win the big game by the turn or river. They want to be David with their 83s killing Goliath’s AA with a river rock.
So is Star Wars to blame? I would say just as much as Rocky, Die Hard, The Bad News Bears, The Princes Bride, Indiana Jones, etc. are.
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