Jaitea said:
I've been biting my lip because I know how seriously some people take the whole Star Wars EU.......but,.........If you go back to when I was a kid of 8 years old, there's the excitement of this new movie coming in the summer that the newspapers have been printing pictures of........pictures of robots and worn spacecraft that look so........used and real. Well you all know that that movie came out and here we all are now still talking about it.....but back then the cool spaceship was the Millennium Falcon, but only in the past ten years its got this back history created like what factory and planet it was manufactured on, a model name etc. Back then it was the Falcon.
I'm not saying loving Star Wars isn't cool, but in the 70's you were cool if you were in to SW, thats why so many celebrities appeared on TV and proclaimed their love for it (Sam Jackson, etc), Star Wars was hip cause it was excepted as what it was, you filled in the blanks with your imagination. On the other hand back then if you said you were into Star Trek, or Space 1999 (not so much Doctor Who), you were considered a nerd, (star trek had so much techno-babble, too much technical detail.........nerdy)
I just feel disheartened that people are passionate about the parts of Star Wars that I feel were created just to earn more money from the fans.........yes we all felt sad when we walked out of the cinemas back in 83 with 'yub, nub' still echoing in our ears. I went back to see the film over 20 time that summer, bought every thing I could by scrounging money off my parents for memorabilia, everyone didn't want Star Wars to end........and on that hunger, the EU went into overdrive........Star Wars to me is the three movies from my childhood, from 1977 to 1983......that even the hard-nuts in my school were in to...........things have changed nowadays.
J
All arguing aside and debates galore...I have to say this is the most thought out and heartfelt comment about how some of us feel about the Star Wars that we grew up with and the Star Wars that is today.
I do enjoy the EU, but not at the expense of the love and imagination that developed from being around when Star Wars first hit the screen. There's just something about "filling in the blanks" that has a bit of magic to it, even if it is only a movie.
@Jaitea...you have hit the nail on the head.