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Originally posted by: Klingon_Jedi
James, while some of your points are valid, your phrasing certainly didn't help. I haven't seen such a hostle thread in some time. Is it wrong for someone to like something you find inferior? I'm a huge anime fan and there's this one anime I really disliked called Hellsing. It and the company that made it, Gonzo, are very popular at the moment. While I disagree on the quality of the show and the work of the studio itself, I sure as hell don't belittle the people that like it. People have different tastes. What sells nowadays may not match up with what one thinks should. Heck, you guys like Zelda, where I have no desire to touch any of it, as I don't particularly enjoy it. I have no problem with story-heavy RPGs, it's why I play them. While I hate the SEs and don't own the DVD, I still enjoy the EU, and don't mind the prequels. I don't mind people like Darth Chaltab who prefer the SE as long as they don't mind that I don't. That's all I ask.I grew up with the OOT, hence I'll always enjoy them more than the PT. I will admit, it can be frustrating to see people rave about something you think doesn't deserve it (like me and Gonzo) but in the end, you're going to live a very misarable life if you let it get to you like this.
The thing is, I'm not talking about people liking stuff I hate. My original post was about how stuff I like keeps getting effed with, and then people take this altered version and try to make it seem like a definitive edition--or at the very least, they support it, which raises the chances that other things I like will be tarnished in a similar manner. It also raises the chance that the new version will become the "definitive" version, and will lower the chance of the original both being released and being accepted. There's already a case in point of this: The movie "Bedazzled." The original 1968 version has not been released on DVD. The reason? Supposedly, because the company that owns the rights does not want it to compete with the remake that stars Brendon Fraiser.
Let's not forget Star Wars. As someone else noticed, the point of this petition and this forum is that the original version needs to be released on DVD. But how do you expect to accomplish that while at the same time supporting the new version? That's completely counter-productive. You're saying you want the old one, but your words have no weight because you are also saying you're willing to live with the new version. So Lucas gets to release his version of Star Wars, one which nearly everyone agrees is an inferior film.
Now, about Hellsing and Gonzo, yes they're popular. But do you ever meet people who tell you that if you don't like Hellsing, that you shouldn't be watching anime because "all anime is like Hellsing?"
I have in fact had this happen. I don't like it when anime is over-dependant on having huge explosions or how a lot of anime fight scenes tend to boil down to showing off a Street Fighter-esque special move as opposed to any real battle rythm or strategy. These complaints tend to be focused specifically on one subset of anime (Shonen, in particular), yet people act like I'm attacking the medium as a whole and tell me that I simply should not watch anime if I don't like certain cliches. I have had a similar instance happen in RPGs--in that genre, I look for gameplay just as much (often more) than I do storylines. I have played and enjoyed more than seventy RPGs across five consoles and a PC, yet because of my "gameplay is just as important as storyline" attitude, people assume that I know nothing about the genre or that I'm relatively new to it, and tell me I should not be playing RPGs. It's not so much the shows and games themselves I'm attacking as it is how they change people's (and the industry's) perceptions of those things, which in my experience results in lower standards, less willingness to experiment, and closed-minded points of view.
Oh, and to Shimraa: You can't just make a declaration and expect everyone to automatically listen unless you're a leader of some sort. Declaring that the thread is dead won't make it so. The thread dies when people involved run out of stuff to say, and that INCLUDES people who wish to constantly declare that the thread is "dead" because every time you say that, you're paradoxilly keeping the thread alive in your own small way.