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'''''[[Starstruck''']]'' originated as an early 1980s stage production and spawned [[Comic Book|Comic Books]] and later [[Radio Drama|audio dramas]]. It [[Pastiche|pastiches]] [[Space Opera]] with a healthy admixture of [[Soap Opera]] set in "Anachera", a time period where no particular power bloc holds sway. At no point does the narrative [[Viewers Are Geniuses|spoonfeed its audience]], expecting it to keep track of the various allusions, plot twists and multiple layers of meaning. Apart from that, it has a dense visual style, as well. It rivals (if not exceeds) ''[[Watchmen]]'' in terms of complexity and intricate [[World Building]].
 
For the [[Disney Channel]] [[Made for TV Movie|Original Movie]], see ''[[Starstruck (film)|Starstruck]]''.▼
 
▲For the [[Disney Channel]] [[Made for TV Movie|Original Movie]], see [[Starstruck (film)|Starstruck]].
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It provides examples of:
* [[Action Girl]]: Brucilla the Muscle, Galatia-9.
* [[Alternative Calendar]]: The series takes place in (or shortly after) the first hundred years of "Anachera", so-named because of the lack of any one authority.
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* [[Eagle Land]]: From what little we see of it, the surviving half of Earth resembles the stereotypical "Eagleland".
* [[Earth All Along]]: A particular planet gets mentioned a number of times without any reference to its former name of Earth. (But then, half of its landmass went ka-boom long ago.)
* [[Future Slang]]: "Boot" for fuck. (Incidentally, "art" has turned into a literal dirty word.)
* [[Holographic Terminal]]: Pretty much ubiquitous to [[The Verse]]. Quite prescient, too, seeing as the first comics came out in the early '80s. (But ''[[Blake's 7|Blakes Seven]]'' had them, too.)
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: Averted in the case of the Erotica Anne dolls (they look human, but don't have independent thought).
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