negative1 said:thought exercise :
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[premise]
star wars trilogy ends in 1983...
no movies/books/comics/tv shows/games : NOTHING COMES OUT that
is related to any kind of star wars media , when 'return of the jedi' ends..
NO NEW VIDEO TAPES/ NO LASERDISCS / NO DVD'S/NO BLURAY
no plans to EVER show it again/RELEASE IT AGAIN/re-release it IN ANY FORMAT EVER.. (and no, no one can release anything
related to it either)..
yeah fine, you can keep everything released up until that point..books,
comics etc..
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would this board exist?
(maybe)
would you even care about star wars anymore?
(possibly)
would you even bother complaining about the original trilogy?
[yes, you would, because at the point, all you would have to
complain about is all the mistakes/errors/problems in the original trilogies]..
basically re-read the threads about ANH:R and ESB:R ,
because that's all there would be to talk about, and you
eliminate half of that because the SE and PT wouldn't exist..
yeah, there's 'star wars' boards out there THAT ONLY TALK ABOUT
the ORIGINAL TRILOGY, and dont' care about the SE/PT/Clone wars,(like my preservation one)... but guess what?
not a whole heck of a lot goes on there? (mine's on hiatus until next year)..
pretty exciting , right? yeah, i thought so.....
face it, without any new star wars material... you'd be
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1) bored out of your minds
2) watching your same videos over again for the 100th time
3) fantasizing about new some new stars that would NEVER come out...
yeah, that's why i like living in the past so much, because i don't have to
face reality, and the present.......... and be stuck there with the bunch of
you that wish it were true..
later
-1
Even if the SE and the PT were never released and there was no new Star Wars spinoff merchandise since 83 the films would still likely be on dvd now, because so many films are, films most people have never heard of. They'd probably have a better dvd release than they do now. And I'd still be a Star Wars fan, because I love the old movies and that's all I need. No I wouldn't be complaining about the original trilogy. I'm not one of these people who has a problem with ROTJ or whatever. The old films worked perfectly, I never had anything I seriously needed to criticise in them. And what's wrong with watching the same videos or dvds again and again? Nothing that I can see. I don't see how it would be boring. It's not like we'd have to watch them non-stop. We do have other things in our lives. A board like this might exist. The OT meant a lot to a lot of people and probably would even if there wasn't stuff after 83, and there's boards for all sorts of things. There's plenty to talk about in the OT and it doesn't have to be complaining. We complain about the present state of Star Wars because there's bloody good reason to complain.
And I'm sick of people saying people are "living in the past" just because they don't like something new that's crap. New isn't always good. Change isn't always good. If the new stuff is crap then that's plenty good reason to reject it and stick with the old stuff. That isn't "living in the past", that's being reasonable. It's nothing to do with not facing reality. We face the reality that Star Wars has been screwed over. That's why we're "complaining" about it. Facing reality doesn't mean you have to be happy with the state of things. Facing reality doesn't mean you have to accept crap just because it's the in thing now. Facing reality doesn't mean you can't criticise what deserves to be criticised.