I am truly sorry I didn’t respond to your PM. As a forum mod I am often neck deep in private messages, and things do slip through the cracks. I will say I was pretty burned out for quite some time afterward about the 40th and not wanting to think about it too much.

Contrary to popular belief, I’m not on here 24/7 and I don’t see every post on every thread. Perhaps I only see one side of you because of that, but it’s not your best side. There is persistence and there’s hammering an already made point into the ground. I may have insecurities, but none of them are even remotely related to this site.

Passion for the OOT is good, that’s why we’re here in the first place. But constantly ragging on the new stuff won’t magically bring back the OOT. If you don’t care for the new films, they are easily ignored by staying out of those threads. I’m probably not in prequel threads as much but I do say something if I see someone going too far. Prequel criticism around here is much milder than it was a decade ago, believe it or not.

I happen to like some things about the preqeuls. I even own The Phantom Menace on Laserdisc, and it’s stored right next to my OT LD’s. So far, they haven’t burst into flames as a result.