rcb said:i know its hated, but you'd be surprised at how much the star wars fan base has grown.
I am not surprised how much the fan base has grown. And are they even fans of the same things? The only thing that connects the old films from the new is the title. I admit there is room for both kinds of fans, but the problem is the distinguishing lines get blurred, especially with the banishment into obscurity and unwatchable quality that the OOT has suffered.
What do fans of the originals when they were still really the originals, and the fans who started out with the PT have in common? From where I am standing, they pretty much hate each others movies. Sentiments on one side is, "Wow, the PT blows, the SE blows, I sure wish I could enjoy the originals on DVD" and the sentiments on the other is "I wish this old geezer would shut up about his dumb movies, the SEs are the same things anyway, only better. I like the changes, I wish they'd change them more, then maybe A New Hope wouldn't be such a bore to sit through." How are these two camps fans of the same thing?
When one side will not hesitate to say TPM is the worse SW movie ever made, with AOTC and ROTS following closely behind, and the other side says ANH was the worse SW movie ever made with ESB and ROTJ following closely behind, could they be much different? fanbase has grown? What base? Is there even a base anymore? If there is a base, it is the one that is being catered to, and not the other.