No, MY thoughts on the state of OT.com — Page 2

never mind.    Anchorhead and me are just very different from each other.

Akwat Kbrana said:

It's been the longest bloody station break in the history of ever.

Exactly.  I've been to the loo dozens of times and it it still isn't back on.

Gaffer Tape said:

Hehe, true.  But my point is that's what always worried me.  I was the first guest on that show, and I can tell you he put a lot of work into it.  We probably exchanged at least a dozen PMs in the day and hours leading up to it.  It was going to start at a certain time, include certain things (including a lot of pictures).  He took it seriously.  I assume it was similar with bkev as the guest.  So for vfp to disappear in the middle of that with no explanation has always struck me as disconcerting.  It wasn't like he just randomly stopped posting one day.

I had no idea he was taking seriously.  I thought it was all a big joke.   I hope he didn't get offended by me posting those pics of Edward R. Murrow and posting of the Casablanca scene.  It was meant to be in good fun.

oh, here are my thoughts on the state of ot.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxZzOIG1g3Q

whatever.

And this would be my issue with ot.com - people being too serious.  Yes, I know this forum has the loosest moderation on the web, and yes, I get too serious from time to time, and yes, I go too far the other way sometimes, but still...

Anchorhead said:

Alright, so there's no score in the first.  Damn - where's your sense of humor, man?  First you make a post and then edit it away, then you put up the Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World trailer - which I thought was very clever, by the way - then you just start in with the whatever shit??

 

 

sorry about that.    

Anchorhead said:

Here are my thoughts on the franchise itself;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3U79aw2JUI

 

 

 I shouldn't have responded to this post at all,  if you wish to dislike the OOT, that's ok.

Anchorhead said:

Warbler said:

 if you wish to dislike the OOT, that's ok.

I don't dislike it, I dislike what it has become.  It's just not magical for me anymore.  George should have quit  when he was ahead and left the fans wanting more, but he's not like that. He's the opposite.  He's spent decades milking that same story. Not the universe it took place in - but that same fucking story.  It's no wonder the fanbase is so fragmented these days. He has absolutely no concept of the phrase less is more.

It seems to me you are contradicting yourself.  First you say George should have quit while he was ahead.   Then you complain that he spent decades miking that same story.    If he had quit while he was ahead, that same story is all you'd have.    I also wondering if you don't understand what I mean when I say OOT.   I mean the original Star Wars trilogy as it was originally seen, not what Lucas did to it years later.     I don't understand not liking the OOT for what it has become.   The OOT itself, hasn't become anything.   By definition, it is what it was when the movies were originally made.     I also don't understand why you like the NPR when it contains the things you claim to not like anymore(the force,  the darkside, a Jedi Master(Yoda), The Empire).

Anchorhead said:

I have no more interest in The Force, The Dark Side, Clones, The Jedi Masters, The Empire,  etc, etc.

Moth3r said:

xhonzi said:

Is it possible that Moth3r or Jay can abuse the powers of knowing his e-mail address and attempt to find out if he's okay?

Email sent.

Thanks for doing that Moth3r.

Anchorhead said:

Warbler said:

It seems to me you are contradicting yourself.  First you say George should have quit while he was ahead.   Then you complain that he spent decades miking that same story.    If he had quit while he was ahead, that same story is all you'd have.    I also wondering if you don't understand what I mean when I say OOT.   I mean the original Star Wars trilogy as it was originally seen, not what Lucas did to it years later.    .....I also don't understand why you like the NPR when it contains the things you claim to not like anymore(the force,  the darkside, a Jedi Master(Yoda), The Empire).

I should have been more clear, my apologies.  What I meant by quitting when he was ahead was in reference to the 1977 story and his own writing.  The endless backstory\shrinking that followed for decades afterward all centered around the 1977 story, made worse by the fact that Lucas is a mediocre writer at best.

so you don't think ESB and ROTJ should have been made?

Anchorhead said:

Personally, I would have been much more interested in other people's stories within that universe, not the thinning and weakening of the 1977 story.  Brackett, Daley, and Foster all had better (to me) stories.  Lucas commissioned Brackett and Foster to write sequels, but then he decided against using them and instead stayed married to that 1977 story. 

I suppose it would have been interesting to see movie based on those different stories.

Anchorhead said:

Those other books and scripts could have been made into very interesting films.  The franchise could have had a much broader scope.  The dark, mysterious vastness of 1977could have lived on - instead it was shrunk into a children's bed time story.

a children's bed time story?  is that what you regard ESB and ROTJ?

Anchorhead said:

Regarding The Force, Jedi Knights, The Dark Side, Clones, Sith, et al ;  Those were fine in the context of a story (Star Wars 77 & NPR - which I like very much).  They are also fine as parts of other stories - which is exactly what they are in the first trilogy. 

but you claim to no longer like the first trilogy.   If you can ask me, those things are no more or less a part of the OOT than they of the NPR.   

Anchorhead said:

However, they haven't been used that way since.  They've become the entire focus of the films, books, and cartoons.  Enough already!  There are other people and organizations in the universe.  It's ok to tell their stories too, and some authors have done a very good job of it.  Those are the stories that interest me now.

sounds like to me, you might prefer the Star Trek universe over that of Star Wars.

Anchorhead said:

I still dig the NPR version immensely, just listened to it for the third time this year a couple of weeks ago.  However, I need some time away and Daley is providing just that.  Plus, I find his original stories more interesting anyway, just as I find his version of Star Wars more interesting than George's.

but the NPR is basically the same story, just more detailed.   When you say the NPR,  do you just mean the NPR of the first movie or all three?