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Post #530408

Author
Tyrphanax
Parent topic
When did Star Wars stop being fun? (aka, the Anti-Correct Viewing Order thread)
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Date created
2-Sep-2011, 6:02 AM

I still love being a Star Wars fan. This whole Blu-Ray deal sucks, yes, and it's really annoyed me and gotten me more active in raising awareness of the issue, but at the same time, I still love Star Wars.

Hell, I was just watching DJs V3 ANH as I was doing some math homework tonight, and I can look over at my dresser and see all my Boba and Jango Fett figures chillin' there with Mandalore, a Phase I Clone Trooper, and Tor Vizsla and Mandalorian Galactic Heroes. My ASUS Transformer has a photo of the giclee Boba Fett (the one with the Solo-on-the-rocks reflection in the visor) as its background, probably half of the pictures in my desktop backgrounds folder (Windows 7 cycles through them all) are Star Wars-related, there's a RMQ tribute Star Wars poster two feet to my left, all my Star Wars shirts and my Boba Fett hoodie are in my closet and get weekly wear (except the hoodie in the summer, ugh).

I've never not had fun as a Star wars fan, except when I was reading a bad piece of material, or watching the PT or the non-OUT versions of the OT. And in those cases, I just finish the book or movie (I hate leaving loose ends generally) and then never pick it up again and eventually it fades away. I've read all those "Tails of..." books, and aside from one or two of the better ones, I don't remember any of them. In fact, I don't remember most of the content of the bad Star Wars things I've experienced, save for a few cool ideas that I take and add to my canon.

That's why Jango Fett is right there on my dresser with Boba. Not as cool a character, but pretty badass nonetheless. He did headbutt Obi-Wan Kenobi after all.

 

Maybe it's just me and I'm just weird, but I've always loved being a Star Wars fan. When times are tough and there's a wave of shitty content (and with a media behemoth as massive as Star Wars, there's a lot of it, believe me, I edit Wookieepedia) you have to wade through, just go back to the stuff you enjoy about it. Binary Sunset still gives me chills whenever I hear it. The magic is still there, you just have to unlearn what you have learned and you can see it again. Don't dwell on the bad, but focus on the good.