Keela said:If there is a place for everyone, which I totally agree there is, then why is it that there are so many who just don't get that they need to STFU and leave others to their joy in peace?
It's called "freedom of speech" and it is something i will defend the right to have with my last breath. Why the hell should we have to, as you say, STFU about things we don't like just to make the Lucasfanboys life better? Well we shouldn't have to. Maybe we should be saying the same to all those, like you, that blindly defend what George has done to the saga since 1997 and tell you to STFU. You are entitled to your opinion about Star Wars and so are we but that doesn't give you the right to tell us that we shouldn't be able to rant about the things that annoy us about what star wars has now become. I still love Star Wars and have done ever since i sat in that theatre in 1977 at 10 years old. I always had the utmost admiration for George Lucas , but lately he has totally lost the plot. Gone is the film-maker that pushed the boundaries of visuals in a cinematic experience but never let those visuals overtake the story. All we have now is someone using the Star Wars name to make warehouses full of money.
i have spent enough money on Star Wars merchandising over the past 31 years (which is all now pretty much worthless thanks to what George has done to the saga) that it really pisses me off everything Star Wars related now seems to be created just to sell more toys. Before it used to be the film came first then the toys were sold as a tie-in. But now it's "all about the merchandising".
It always seems strange to me that someone comes here, to a site that was set up because Lucas refuses to give us the original versions of the OT, and tries to tell us that we should be happy with what he does and that we should all get along. You are preaching to the un-convertible, but there would be a lot, and i would personally say HELL of a lot less hatred toward George if he just gave us such a classic series of films the treatment he has given his revisionist versions. He brought this all upon himself. Even when the SE's came out there wasn't all this Lucas bashing. The day it started was the day he told us that the only versions of the OT that will ever exist from then on would be the SE's, which should always have been just a fun alternative to the original and NEVER a replacement.
Ok, rant over. lol :)