Gaffer Tape said:
This might only be tangentially-related to your question, but I was in a coffee shop the other night meeting up with a friend, when I overheard someone talking Star Wars with one of the baristas. And I almost threw up. Because he was "educating" this person with the official Lucas line: "You know it was originally just one script. And then he decided to cut it in half. But then even that was too long, so he had to cut each half into thirds. Then he realized that the first half was basically all exposition and the second half was where the action was, so he decided to film it first." I mastered the impulse to get up and set him straight because, honestly, I didn't feel like getting into a very nerdy argument. The most I did was mutter, "Bullshit," after every sentence he spoke. After being forced to listen for another minute or two, I realized these weren't even TF.n gushers. They certainly didn't seem to be fans of the prequels at all. But they were still towing the sickening company line, and probably didn't even realize it.
Heh, funny story ;)
But hey, take it a bit easier, will ya? If it's really the way you suggest at the end, that those people aren't really fanboys or mad-obsessed about Star Wars, it's quite plausible that they just shared some passing interest in that and exchanged stuff they overheard elsewhere without really bothering to research.
Lucas said something in a DVD interview, the dude just repeats.
I mean, when I meet up with the one or other buddy in the cafeteria and we have a chat about this and that, exchange dubious "knowledge" and opinions on various things, then boy can I imagine someone else hearing some of that stuff and just rolling their eyes at it because they know so much more about a given topic and we just come off as a bunch of know-it-all teen boppers trying to sound smart.
I mean sure, criticize and roll eyes at will, that's great, but let's keep it in perspective - people exchange overheard bullshit all the time when they're sitting in a bar. I'd much rather they believed in misinformation about Star Wars than something else. Gee, whenever we switch to lighter topics in a conversation, it's like a relief from having the constant responsibility of being reliable and right all the time.
When talking about health stuff or whatever, one's like "interesting, but I'm still not sure about that, we gotta read a lot about that before really knowing", and then it's about some irrelevant geek stuff and you just start firing away dubious random stuff that'sin your head at the moment without any pressure, and ti feels great.
Dunno, doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
