I wouldn’t call it “defeatist”. We’re just at the “Acceptance” stage of grief. There are ways to accept something without being defeatist, described below.
captainsolo said:
From 2005-2008 I gave up Star Wars entirely. For someone who as a child had been an incessant fan, (My childhood was comprised entirely of Film, Literature, James Bond, Star Wars and Batman) this was really hard to do but I just found I didn’t care anymore.
It occurred to me that since I went through this stage too, our whole collective experience may fit the Kübler-Ross “stages of grief” model. So here we go:
Denial: “No way will Lucasfilm pass up a chance to cash in on re-releasing the unaltered trilogy. They’d never let that goldmine go to waste!” Uh-huh, sure.
Anger: We may not all say George Lucas did something nasty with our childhood, but everyone has a little generalfrevious buried deep down somewhere.
Bargaining: cough Petition cough
Depression: The phase described by captainsolo above.
Acceptance: “Don’t want to preserve Star Wars, Mr. Lucas? Fine, I accept that. Now we’ll just have to save the damn thing ourselves!” A little more defiant in tone than you’d expect from something called “Acceptance”, but I think it works.