TFN really exasperated the whole basher/gusher thing, and it is sad because there are alot of people who are in the middle, and got caught taking one side or another. What happened at TFN to me and most people I knew, was that we loved the OT, kinda liked the PT, but felt it could have been better and we aired our grievences there. Those people did not want to hear it, as if you ever spoke ill about ANYTHING towards the PT, you were considered a basher.

I remember defending the PT before ROTS, cause I always said to people, "Lets see the story out, then evaluate if it works as a trilogy." But I would still post that Jar Jar was annoying, and the romance was pretty bad, and always said my 2 favorite SW movies were SW & ESB. I got loads of PM's telling me to leave the site and they wondered why I would post here. People like Shelley who would chastise me for criticising the PT, would then turn around and say, "Well, the OT always had bad dialogue, bad acting, and cater to kids, etc." I used to laugh at the irony that they were trying to bring the OT down, by criticising that trilogy to make their points defending the PT! Isn't that an oxymoron?

I got permabanned 2 years ago after I said Lucas was a being really disrespectful to the fans for the '06 OOT release, and man they shouted me down there, "You are getting what you deserve!!!" I used to respond, "Before 1997, those were the versions you fell in love with, and now you are laughing cause Lucas is putting them out in shitty quality?" Finally Darth Sapient permabanned me and sent me a PM, "Nobody cares about the OOT anymore, the saga is 6 movies, as you will never post here again."

Thank god those people weren't our founding fathers in America, as we would have had a dictatorship instead of a democracy. Strange bunch there......