danaan said:
KazolOrajia said:
I'll just chime in quickly with my two cents.
I'm a fan of The Clone Wars, and I'm very, very excited for Season 5, which looks to be the best yet.
I completely understand the anti-Clone Wars arguments here, but they don't bother me too much, because the way at look at The Clone Wars, and most of Star Wars, is this: It's a fun space fantasy franchise. It's full of action and cool-looking shit, and while it's not always plausible, or particularly serious, that's fine, because it's pure escapist entertainment, and it's supposed to be. The OT was the same thing. Sure, there were deeper messages, and they were very well-made films that certainly deserve the praise and recognition they get....
This segment pretty much sums up my grievance with the PT and everything that has come afterwards. The point of SW was not the "pure escapist entertainment" - you can go to any blockbuster to get your fill of that, even Transformers and GI Joe. The point was indeed those deeper messages. But all those wisdoms offered by Yoda, Obi-Wan, Luke, Vader and even Palpatine in the OT have been rendered utterly pointless and devoid of meaning because of the PT and now, too, the CW.
When Lucas, in the "Making of AOTC"-footage, says that all fans have been waiting for Yoda to "whip out that little laserswords of his and go to town" he *completely* misses the point of his own mythology. Everytime i hear that statement I want to shout a Big No at the screen, it's so stoopid! But that's all we're likely to get from LucasArts now - kewl weaponcombos and shiny things that look like things did back in the OT, but that have actually been robbed of any of that deeper meaning that made SW so great.
For this old fan, that just hurts.
Dude, you take Star Wars way too seriously.
This goes beyond the argument of Star Wars being a part of our cultural heritage and film preservation. A point that I am in full agreement on with basically everyone on this site.
What you're talking about though is contradictions in the "mythology" of a work of fiction which was based on actual mythology causing you physical and/or emotional pain. No longer is this about the REAL issue of Lucas destroying our cultural heritage. This is a whole new level of problems you seem to be experiencing.
You don't just hate them. Lots of people hate them, and I respect that fully. I hate Alien 3, but I wouldn't be offended by someone showing up to a convention dressed as Ripley with their head shaved. But for you, it seems, their very existence actually pains you. That's not healthy dude.
George Lucas made some Star Wars movies, and you liked them. Then he made more Star Wars movies, and you don't like them. Simple as that. Other people liking them shouldn't upset you so much.