negative1 said:
i thought people around here actually liked 'star wars'.......i could be wrong though..
obviously it seems like i am outnumbered by the super hardcore fans here that have
watched the movies hundreds of times, and have been collecting, reading, writing,
editting, and everything else star wars related..................................i've seen the original
trilogy less than 10 times in the last 2 decades............i'm hungry for more.. i'm probably
one of the most casual fans on this board...................
star wars influenced a 10 year old child, over 3 decades ago,
and now i find myself at a point in my life, where i want some way to find that feeling again...
why shouldn't i be excited???????????
later
-1
Whoa, I wasn't trying to pick on you. I guess I just found it hard to believe that you were really so eager to dish out the cash for the stills books. Probably should have realized that 4 grand is not all that much money for people who have better jobs than myself. Didn't mean to offend, I was just curious if you were really serious or not.
As for being one of the most casual fans on the board, you seem quite a bit more hardcore than myself. I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore fan at all. When I was a kid I had my walls plastered with SW posters, three pairs of SW sheets that cycled on my bed, and SW toys often litered my floor. I went through a period where I read some of the books, but got tired of them quickly. Through my teenage years I'd play just about every SW game I could find, back then they were awesome. When the prequels came out I was hyped up, but then after seeing TPM then later AOTC, I gave it up as a lost cause. Nowadays I have very little to do with SW other than these boards. I have a set of LD transfers on my DVD shelf, Star Wars novelization and Splinter of the Minds Eye on my bookshelf, and an unbeaten copy of Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy burried somewhere in my desk drawer.
I'd still consider myself an SW fan, but nothing like I was when I was a kid. Since I spend most of my time in Off topic, half of the time I forget this place is a SW board.
So, don't get me wrong. I am not saying you should not be excited. Probably why you find yourself seeming to like Star Wars more than the rest of us, while still considering yourself a casual fan, is because many of us never took a break from being fans and have been... not sure what word to use, "burntout" is probably too strong of a word, but something along those lines. You on the other hand seem to have spent most of your life not being an SW fan, despite being fond of it as a kid, and have just recently rediscovered your love for the series. It makes sense you would be more excited about it than the rest of us.
Okay, back to the topic.