TheBoost said:
For people who are so opposed to a "PT Free" environment, let me ask: Why does a kid need to see the PT? Why, of the thousands of entertainments that xhonzi's, mine, or any kid, might enjoy and yet will never see, does the PT hold some important rank?
If someone said "I will never show my kid the animated 3 Stooges cartoons!" would there be this outcry?
Stop being disingenuous. No one on here ever said anything about having to actively push one's kids towards the PT - we're only laughing and shaking our heads at any ACTIVE EFFORT TO LIMIT THEIR EXPOSURE TO THE NEW FILMS IN ORDER TO INFLUENCE THEIR EXPERIENCE.
Like refusing to buy them a Phantom Menace DVD despite the kid asking for it. Wow... really? Talk about giant mantweens better considering not having any kids... "I don't like playing with toy cars, I think it's silly, so you're not getting this cool remote control car you've seen in the commercial - I'm only buying you the toys I like myself!"
On a broader level, we laugh at any instance of a parent taking a series of space adventure fun so seriously that they consider making any conscious effort at all to "raise their kids in a certain controlled environment" to ensure they get a specific impression from those movies, no matter in what direction it goes.
Whether it's painstakingly avoiding exposure to any piece of popculture that might reveal who Vader is so one day their kid watches it and is hopefully totally blown away by "the epic reveal", or, indeed, removing the lightsaber from a Yoda action figure, NOT because they kid's all on your sleeves and like "oh please please, i want a yoda figure without a lightsaber, please make it away!", but because you want to make sure that your kid's "image" of Yoda isn't "tainted" by the "PT's bastardization of the character from a wise mentor who was above video game stuff into a toy-wielding cartoon frog" by seeing a Yoda action figure with a lightsaber.
And no, no one's supposed to turn into giant ham and make an impression of Tommy Wiseau - the talk was about TAKING A STEP BACK, and realizing how nonsensical and ludicrous such a degree of obsession and "serious treatment" of what is basically a bunch of cool space adventure films, really is.
I honestly don't even remember if that example was hypothetical, or had actually been seriously brought up earlier in the thread, but come on, how intellectually dishonest does one have to be to purposefully misunderstand the angle of the example above?