Originally posted by: Anchorhead

Originally posted by: zombie84
Fans of the first version aren't around because there is no such place to discuss only the 1977 film and its universe.

I beg to differ. There's a few of us scattered around.

Yeah, i know you are literally one of the only people left on the star wars internet community of this group. "You my friend are all thats left of their religion..."

More and more i find myself being drawn to this camp though.

CO, i don't think that a release of the OOT, or the non-existence of the SE would do a whole lot to calming the "civil war", as it were--it would silence those who only hang around because they have a battle to fight (ie get the OOT released), and because they really just want to watch the movies and leave the PT guys to discusss whatever they want...but for those that do want to discuss the films, this solves nothing. The problem is, like i said, that the film i discuss is not necessarily the film a PT fan will discuss, as i provided by example earlier. If the OOT is remastered and the SE destroyed--so what? I still want to discuss the films sometimes, even if i have discussed most the obvious points to death already, and the fact is that it the prequels not the SE that creates the schism--the prequels introduce a new re-interpretation. We can ignore the PT and simply not discuss it--but the PT fans can't just ignore the OT because it is the continuation of the PT, its part of their story, and so there will be overlap. This is what inevitably results in hostility--"thats stupid, thats just some PT bullshit added to the film," "no, it just wasn't revealed initially, it makes the film better", etc. The SE was just superficial changes that were fun and/or annoying but the PT is where the story actually began to be reconfigured in substantial and incompatible ways. The only way for the hostility to be qwelled between the two groups of interpreters is if one of the groups dies--either the PT fails to catch on in the end and the second 1977-1983 group of OT fans slowly takes back the series, or the PT continues to gain ground as more younger fans are introduced to this version of the series and us OT fans are slowly replaced by the latest group. Personally i think it could go either way at this point, which is also what drives me to stick around and remind PT fans that they are not the sole inheriters of the series yet.