Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Disney-era Star Wars movies
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medium
Space operas outside Star Wars
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These films go big on interplanetary politics, strange worlds, chosen heroes, or scrappy crews, but none of them lives in George Lucas's galaxy.
hard
Astronauts cut off from home
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Each film turns distance into the problem. A crew, a lone astronaut, or a worker on the Moon has to solve the next practical crisis before home becomes impossible.
tricky
Fourth franchise entries without a plain 4 in the title
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The fourth entry is hiding in the release order, not in the title. Each franchise got to number four and chose a full subtitle instead of a boring digit.