Timstuff said:
It's one thing to say "I ignore them because I only care about the original 3 movies," but it's another thing entirely to dogmatically assert that the prequels are not real Star Wars movies and that the characters in them are not part of the Star Wars canon, even though according to the series creator they are.
The series creator has totally fucked the franchise and demonstrated that he no longer understands it (see the SE changes for evidence). It doesn't count for shit what he says. Rejecting the prequels from the Star Wars canon is the only reasonable thing to do, based on their nature. Canon is about what's the real thing. The original original trilogy (OOT) is what made the legend. It's clearly the real thing. It's the core of Star Wars canon. And Lucas broke with the OOT when he made the special edition (se) to replace it. And then he continued his break with the canon when he put cartoon characters into his prequel trilogy and turned the character of Anakin into someone clearly very different from what he'd originally been envisioned as. Those are only some of the ways in which the prequels don't fit with the OOT. They have a wildly different mentality and a different sort of imagined reality. They clearly do not fit with the OOT which is the canon. And Lucas made them to fit with the se, the very creation of which was a rejection of the real canon. Like skyjedi has said, Lucas rebooted the canon in 1997. The SE/prequel canon is a different canon from the OOT canon. And if you accept originals as the canon (which is only reasonable) then you have to reject the se and prequels from the canon.
As Gaffer Tape once said on these boards, a lot of people here feel the OOT is the only true Star Wars canon. If you insist on putting down that view as being just "fanboyism", then you may expect some opposition.
Really, by your view we're not allowed to think counter to the official view or we're just being fanboyish. So much for freedom of thought. Personally I favor independent thinking and I recognize that the official people are not infallible and can get things wrong.
Now if you're finished venting your fan rage I'd prefer you either get back on topic or quit hijacking my thread.
Every time you want to put something down you link it to fannishness, don't you? Ironic considering how fannish your own attitudes are.
My posts follow from what you posted. They're a perfectly reasonable reaction. If you don't want me to post my views don't debate with me. As long as you debate with me I will continue to debate with you.
Also, I disagree with the whole viewpoint about threads getting off topic and being hijacked. One of the good things about this place is that posting is often relaxed enough that threads can freely wander "off-topic". If they do it's not "hijacking". It's free open discussion. Threads should be allowed to go wherever they naturally go.