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Post #1048548

Author
Frank your Majesty
Parent topic
Ranking the Star Wars films
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Date created
21-Feb-2017, 6:03 AM

imperialscum said:

Lord Haseo said:

Wrong. The only person who acts that way around here is Impscum. Please provide evidence of me, Frink, Dominic etc. saying our opinions are factual or anything like that.

Exhibit A: Equating personal opinion with objectivity (i.e. fact)

TV’s Frink said:

Anyone is allowed to like the prequels, doing so is just expressing one’s personal opinion. However, I firmly believe that anyone who doesn’t think they’re objectively poorly executed is either not paying attention or lying to themselves. That makes them bad.

Exhibit B: Equating a group of opinions with objectivity (i.e. fact)

DominicCobb said:

putting aside the fact that the large majority of people (in general, not just this site) say the prequels aren’t great, which isn’t evidence but is as good an objective indicator as you can get

It’s a fact that most people don’t like the prequels. It’s also pretty obvious that Lucas’ goal was to make movies that are enjoyed by many people (hence the inconsistencies in tone, ranging from slapstick humor to murdering children). Objectively, Lucas failed his goal.