fairy tales begin "once upon a time" to introduce that the story never happened and usualy the content indicates an era with kings in Europe which is not "now". Disney inserted a date into one of the cinderella stories indicating that story is "fourteenth century" when the fathers say it is already 14 century so we should let the girl choose who to marry.
this matches a trend in other fiction of our generation to reveal a year
1 star trek at a time a couple hundred years in our future is when the fictional story occurs.
2 buck rogers at a time 500 years in our future and similarly "orville" 400 years after us.
3 contemporary! such as "fairly odd parents" Timmy was born in year "1992"
https://fairlyoddparents.fandom.com/wiki/Timmy_Turner
and since they indicate the last day of school many times in many episodes it is "now".
4 similarly harry potter "born in 1980" if so his first year at Hogwarts was around "year 1991" yet he has broom named 2000. clearly not the year number until he gets broom 2001... one year later.
the books were published in years 1997 and 1998 etc. telling the story of what happened a few years ago and could have occurred bkuz we muggles "do not know" bkuz they carefully keep the secret… haha.
regarding hp I suggest that the magical world which did have a krismas tree knew the precise date of jesus birth better than "us muggles" who count from 1 ad which is now known to be false based on king herod so at latest the year 4 bc is when jesus was born not later in 1 ad... and perhaps earlier so the number 2001 could indicate which year of king herod, was jesus born !! since the year 1992 is truly year 2001 as the broom-makers knew then jesus must have been born in the year we call nine 9 bc so 2001 years from then is 1992.
so when star wars series said the story is "long ago" I interpret based on "far far away" as millions of years in the past. most star wars fans interpret as "undetermined" same as "once upon a time" is at some undetermined past time so simply undetermined.
I have seen 2 other possibilities which I reject. I claim not billions of years ago nor hundreds of years ago. and reject those interpretations which people published in imdb and maybe in a book.
I do claim millions of years ago based on the galaxy far far away.
we need enough time for the message to get here and know about it so the time is an undetermined time around 5,000,000 years "ago" in a place far far away from... from what from us !! so must be after humans exist on earth. less than million years we would not get the message from the galaxy of "Coruscant" it would still be transmitted and moving towards our galaxy. one could argue that a traveler flew here faster than light speed using the "hyperdrive" and told us the story yet still that is not based on the ctory and in fact the context of "far far away" should influence the idea of "long time ago" hence defining the time.
another cool interpretation which I LOVE is the one that the robot r2 is "saying long ago" while reporting to people in our distant future the story which occurred "relative to them" long ago at the same time we lived and around the year that the video was published here. not 1977 because phantom episode occurred first but around this generation.
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