I'm pretty sure I have a good guess where we'll all identify, though.
I had interesting visceral reactions to some of the subsets listed here.
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type 9: pre-1999 exclusives
Original Trilogy Purist, of course. lol
Honestly don't care for much outside of the Original Trilogy. I've always wanted to read some of those Zahn books, but besides that, I'm good. Prequels don't exist to me, except as a subject for Red Letter Media videos.
I'm obviously interested in the new trilogy coming up, but I'm not about to go through another prequel-trilogy hype cycle.
darklordoftech said:
type 9: pre-1999 exclusives
I'm a 9.5 -- largely pre-1999 with a teensy, weensy bit of post-1999 as garnish.
I take issue with that comic. They depict the OT purist to someone who cannot accept change. We should all know why that is extremely reductive, and not even necessarily true. I don't mind change, I'm the type of guy who could care less if a film adaptation ignores the source material entirely. It's just that the original versions should be available, if for nothing else than historical purposes. Also the changes are dumb (note how we're the type of fans who most enjoy fan edits).
Original Trilogy all the way. Nothing else holds a candle to it. I will watch the prequels and enjoy them and the clone wars and enjoy them. I am in the camp when George Lucas said the prequels were never meant to be movies and there was no sequel trilogy and if there ever was it would be something just made up and it was never really part of the story.
So in my mind there is only OT. I have spent alot of my life thinking about SW. Its all been OT.
Troy
looking for HDTV of the Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Also HDTV of The Lord of the Rings trilogy
What about Star Wars 77 only fans? Many of my older brothers friends didn't like the Sequels and still love the Original.
If the ST is good (which I am not holding my breath), then I could be a 4,5,6,7,8,9 fan when it is all said and done. I remember wanting the ST instead of the PT going back to the mid 80's, simply because you can take the story wherever you want and still have the characters we all love in the movies.
I used to be an extended canon-ite, then an everything-er. Now I'm not anything on that list. I love the OT (Adywan's versions above the originals), enjoy watching the PT sometimes, but think it isn't that great, love much of the EU, hate a lot of the rest, but still enjoy it all to some degree. I like reading Star Wars books for their own sake, regardless of how well they fit into continuity, or how much they contradict other books/comics/video games. I love all the different aliens, planets, space ships, and weapons, to varying degrees of course, but I still love them. That's my favourite part of the EU and the prequels. The story and the universe is the best part of the OT, and that is what my interest in Star Wars is founded on. The rest is icing on the cake. Sometimes it's nice to scrape the icing off and enjoy the cake by itself, but sometimes I like to eat the whole cake, icing and all. Other times, when the icing is good, I eat it by itself and save the cake for later.
Suffice it to say, this list doesn't even come close to being comprehensive.
I am a common-sense type of fan. I don't limit my self to some area of SW (i.e. OT, PT, EU). If I find something enjoyable then it is part of my personal canon. If something sucks I ignore it.
真実
That's a shorter way of writing what I wrote.
Pre-97 OT for me, then any canon that existed before the publication of the new Star Wars guides ca. 2002.
I can get into essentially anything. And I enjoy it.
I’m just here because I’m driving tonight.
imperialscum said:
I am a common-sense type of fan. I don't limit my self to some area of SW (i.e. OT, PT, EU). If I find something enjoyable then it is part of my personal canon. If something sucks I ignore it.
Yup, me too. For me, though, that's a 100% overlap with OT purist, not a new category.
Although I do derive a morbid fascination that definitely isn't enjoyment from the Holiday Special.
Original Trilogy purist here.
That purist depicted on the left isn't entirely pure. Han shooting first implies Greedo shot second. Han shot. Period.
I still don't understand the hate leveled at the Holiday Special. Do you people honestly claim it's worse than something like the Donnie and Marie Star Wars Special?
Oh, it's not bad for a holiday variety show special of the era--in fact, it's pretty good by those standards. It's just not so great on an absolute scale, but it's hardly the bottom of the barrel there either. Think of the prequels, for example.
I watched the Holiday Special no too long ago, and I don't understand the hatred, either. It's mediocre at worst, and unlike with the PT, the OT was never altered to acknowledge/mirror it.
1977/Daley/Zahn.
The irony of this list is that TFN is far more close-minded than we are. They HATE anything that's not a rehash of the PT.
darklordoftech said:
The irony of this list is that TFN is far more close-minded than we are. They HATE anything that's not a rehash of the PT.
OT.com is by far from a cliquish community, but it's nice to see that we have a pretty broad variety of fans of different films, EU, people with personal canons, people who like the OT, people who like the PT, people who like the SEs, et cetera... and we're generally pretty accepting of each other because we're generally all here for the same reason.
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pablumatic said:
Original Trilogy purist here.
That purist depicted on the left isn't entirely pure. Han shooting first implies Greedo shot second. Han shot. Period.
Not true. A whole bunch of Rebels, Stormtroopers, Princess Leia, a Jawa, and an unruly bar patron all shot before Han did, and don't get me started on all the characters involved in the shootouts on the Death Star. To say "Han shot. Period." implies an almost complete absence of gunplay in the movie.
pablumatic said:
Original Trilogy purist here.
That purist depicted on the left isn't entirely pure. Han shooting first implies Greedo shot second. Han shot. Period.
The logic of that statement works for me. The implication is that Han shot Greedo before Greedo was able to shoot Han, therefore of the two Han was the one to shoot first. That doesn't rule out the fact that he was also the only one of the two to fire a shot.