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I remember they used to show one of the OOT every Christmas on UK TV, usually on ITV I think. Then it stopped late eighties / early nineties. That used to be a big tradition for me, especially in those years before we got our first VCR.
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Wait. Why would they show the sequels and not Star Wars itself?


I don't know, but I'm pretty sure I'm remembering it correctly.

The possible reasons I can think up, given what I know now, are:

-tv rights issues ensuing from ANH being owned by fox and the sequels being owned by LFL

-the "incredible shrinking ratio" problem on ANH, although I find this unlikely because scifi channel's been around since not too long before when the DC laserdiscs were made.

-so that scifi could show the two movies back to back in prime time. All three movies would be a little much.

I also seem to recall years earlier, circa '93, seeing a commercial on scifi channel saying they were going to show both the pan n' scan and letterboxed versions of all three movies, but I might not be remembering that commercial correctly.

See why I finally decided to join after lurking for the better part of this year?
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Originally posted by: SKot
As far as the term "Star Wars geek" is concerned, I don't buy that being used back then either. That's something I never heard people say. There were "Trekkies" back then, but there was no term for people who just liked Star Wars, because that was nearly everybody. Sure, you had generic "nerds", and "geeks" a bit later on, but whether or not they liked Star Wars was irrelevant. It wasn't until the 90s Star Wars revival that tons of people started commonly collecting anything with the Star Wars name on it, dressing in Star Wars costumes, and waiting in big lines for the movies that there started to emerge a common perception of the "Star Wars geek".

I am willing to admit that it's possible things were a little different in your particular region, but I really think you're totally retconning here (to use a fanboy/geek term) and trying to change history, kind of like Uncle George likes to do.

--SKot

Good call, SKot.

Using the word geek as a suffix to describe someone wasn't common until the 90s. Prior to that, they would have just been called a geek, with no association to anything specific. More often, nerd was used. Even then, not as a suffix to a specific thing.

Gomer forgot which board he was trolling. This forum has people who were actually around in the 70s. Notice how he tried to amend the statement after you called him on it.

First he says maybe you never heard it, but he did. He then follows it with a statement that might generate a few more replys and take the focus off of his mistake - "I remember the old saying that the difference between...". He goes one step further and comments on his own statement (complete with smilies) to try and steer the conversation even further away from his original statement.

Again, good catch SKot.



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Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
I remember they used to show one of the OOT every Christmas on UK TV, usually on ITV I think. Then it stopped late eighties / early nineties. That used to be a big tradition for me, especially in those years before we got our first VCR.



Yeah I remember when the OOT was on UK TV around Christmas, I used to make sure I was watching it no matter what anyone else wanted to watch I was lucky my Mum liked Star Wars as well so my Dad was out of luck if he wanted something else on the TV

I remember going to see Star Wars for the first time in 77 at the cinema it was pouring with rain outside and we had to queue outside to get in but me and my mum were so excited that we didnt mind getting absolutely soaked.

I remember when I had to have all the Star Wars figures and the Klatuu figure was the only I needed at time and was impossible to find, we looked all over London and couldnt find him but my nan found him in her local toy shop in a small seaside town...

I remember going to see the Star Wars Triple Bill at the local cinema it was the first time I saw Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi back to back. The cinema was packed and was one of the best days out I had as a kid.
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Originally posted by: Anchorhead
Using the word geek as a suffix to describe someone wasn't common until the 90s. Prior to that, they would have just been called a geek, with no association to anything specific. More often, nerd was used. Even then, not as a suffix to a specific thing. Then I guess the people who taunted me were ahead of their time.
Originally posted by: AnchorheadGomer forgot which board he was trolling. This forum has people who were actually around in the 70s. Notice how he tried to amend the statement after you called him on it.
Did I really? Man I'm good. I didn't even realize that. Originally posted by: Anchorhead
First he says maybe you never heard it, but he did. He then follows it with a statement that might generate a few more replies and take the focus off of his mistake - "I remember the old saying that the difference between...". He goes one step further and comments on his own statement (complete with smilies) to try and steer the conversation even further away from his original statement. Again, good catch SKot.
The terminology may have been different but the sentiment is the same. This happened to me when I was a kid, but I'm talking about it now, at a time when Star Wars Geek or Star Wars Fan boy means pretty much the same thing as what I was called. But thanks for vehemently doubting anything that comes out of my mouth in your attempt to demonize me.
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Well, from my experience nobody teased anybody JUST over Star Wars and I went to 4 different schools from 1979-86. In fact, the teacher organized an OPTIONAL after-school trip to see Jedi and the ENTIRE class went. (it was my second time seeing it. school was a half-day, almost summer. Most of us even stayed after that to see WarGames.)
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Oh yeah, loving Star Wars wasn't the only reason I was teased.
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another reason I look back on those thanksgiving scifi channel airings of Empire and Jedi, in addition to USA's occassional "trilogy week," is because that was when there were just those movies, no special editions, no prequels, just the classic trilogy. I think that if GL actually brings out the O-OT remastered I can finally get back to feeling that way. I can have the prequels I saw in the theaters (not technically for AOTC but I don't really care because I know it's the DLP version on the dvd, but phantom menace needs to go back to the way it was!), each of them on opening day, and also have those O-OT movies I grew up watching on vhs and on tv.

The O-OT is still just as classic now as it was in the early nineties when I first saw it. The thing is, when it ends up as #15 on AFI's 100 greatest American Films list and they aren't even allowed to acknowledge what the movie made in 1977 actually looks like, it hurts.

I remember sometime in October of '04 asking my mom to pick up the silver boxset while she was at costco. I remember her coming home and telling me she got it. I opened it up out of its black wholesale cardboard packaging with vader on it, Episode III vader IIRC, and the silver IV V VI with a faint red glow behind them-I actually saved that section of the cardboard and might still have it somewhere. Popped the movies into my ps2 and was blown the fuck away. This was before the whole GOUT debacle, I had heard and read a lot about Lowry's restoration and Lucas said the originals were never hitting dvd. Therefore, at the time, I couldn't have cared less that this was the Special Edition.

Well, maybe a little bit.

I remember popping in the bonus material and being further blown away by Empire of Dreams. My jaw was on the floor for a good part of it, and that might have been the first time I had actually seen the widescreen original version shots from ANH. That's one thing I loved about the boxset. It actually acknowledged, on both the doc and the commentaries, the history of these films.

That's another reason I wish GL had never bothered with the GOUT release in the first place, unless he was going to do it right. It's been said a thousand times, I know, but it really stings.

He may be trying to do away with the O-OT, hopefully not. Come what may, those early 90's days will stay in my memory until I'm old and senile.