I don't want those kinds of fans up in the front lines with no opposition.

I didn't know there was a war going on, and that movie fans were fighting in it. What's the goal of this war? What beachhead are we trying to secure with these front lines? What's the 4-F test these "kinds of fans" need to pass before they can have a helmet and a rifle?

Yeah, it'll be supported 35 to 40 years from now. it's Star Wars. Granted, this site isn't exactly the most fair and balanced when it comes to an overarching view of all six movies (nor should it be, there are other boards for that, I guess) but this sorta smacks of messageboard tunnelvision. I don't think CO is belitting any PT fans, though, but he's pretty well understimating the impact the PT has had on kids that were just like us when we first saw the Originals.

There's really no difference between "Fans Like Us" and "Fans Like Them." They're just younger. And I'm pretty sure if you could go back in time and ask our younger selves what we liked so much about Star Wars, we're not going to answer "Oh, the Cambellian riffs and the mythological aspects and the glorious cinematography." We'd probably say "the lightsabers and the ships and the "pchooo pchooooo rrrrrnnnnnn" as we run around the room in circles with our arms as S-foils.