Not to be confused with skyjedi's thoughts, which soon became a thread about how to ignore yourself: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/My-thoughts-on-the-State-of-O-T-dot-com/topic/11895/
I have to say that this site (or you, the people of this site) are disappointing me as of late. This place used to have more positive energy, and now it seems more complainy/whiney than anything else. I know it's a site whose main feature is/was a petition, so maybe that's where the whineyness comes from... but it seems it wasn't so bad a couple years ago.
It might be that the memory cheats, but I think people were more positive here while the prequels were coming out and we hated them. People discussed more how they could be better and discussed positive aspects of the OT and even parts of the EU without just taking a dump on the whole franchise. Or an "I love it, but the thing I love is gone, so I hate all of it" kinda thing.
The other trend, I think, is that the older members are starting to disappear and the members replacing them are of a younger age (I'd be looking at you, bkev, if you weren't ignoring me!) and with that younger age seems to come a lot less identifying with my "Star Wars Generation". Kids that say the prequels are great because they loved them as kids- therefore they're just as good as the OT which those of my generation loved as kids. It's the sad sign that as time goes on, there WILL be LESS separation of OT and PT, just as we long feared there would be until one day soon there will cease to be any separation. If that is happening at originaltrilogy.com, then that just depresses me even more so.
I'm glad Adywan is here sharing his revisited work with us, because it seems sometimes it's the only positive thing really happening here anymore. Apologies to others with their own restoration or related projects, since I'm sure those are positive too... even if they don't receive the same amount of hype.
I used to like coming here to discuss Star Wars. Now it seems people just come here to mourn Star Wars.
At least Off Topic is silly. But while that is a nice diversion- it's far from the reason I've been coming to OT.com for all of these years.