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Stages Of Accepting the Prequel Trilogy

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Stage One: Shock and Denial

"No, how could they ever have allowed *that* to happen?? Jar-Jar? Grievous? Hayden's acting???? I can't be seeing this!! I... don't... understand...."

Stage Two: Anger

"Damn that Lucas!! He's stolen my childhood! Lousy bastard!! Grrrrrrr!!!! And why no un-altered original trilogy on DVD!?!?!?!?"

Stage Three: Bargaining

"OK, maybe if we sign petitions... and do fan edits... and go to conventions... and write letters... or drink a LOT.... MAYBE they'll get better."

Stage Four: Depression

"If I can't have it like I always wanted it, life isn't worth living living... maybe I'll jump off a bridge... or worse... become a Star Trek fan!!!"

Stage Five: Acceptance

"OK. I guess they *are* just movies. Despite how much money I've spent supporting them. Despite how many lines I've waited in or how many toys I've bought... Despite having a tattoo of Jabba on my ass (you know- Jabba the Butt)... I suppose George Lucas can do whatever he wants... even if it makes us miss 'Howard the Duck"

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The first time I saw Episode 1, I liked it. Of course, I was 8 at the time... But yeah, I actually thought it was good. So it was more like the reverse order of what you said.

Episode 2 I thought was dumb the first time I saw it, and I still haven't changed my mind about it... For me, Stage five never happened for Episode 2.

Episode 3 I've seen 3 times now, and I have really liked it each time. The bad things weren't as bad this time around, and they were mostly over shadowed by all the cool things going on.
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Stage Six:Chop Lucas' head off!
"Drink the Kool-Aid. Wear blinders. Cover your ears. Because that's the only way you can totally enjoy Revenge of the Sith -- the final and most futile attempt from skilled producer, clumsy director and tin-eared writer George Lucas to create a prequel trilogy to match the myth-making spirit of the original Star Wars saga he unleashed twenty-eight years ago. Fan boys, of course, have convinced themselves otherwise. So have several critics, if you go by early reviews."
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Originally posted by: fans own the trilogy
Stage Six:Chop Lucas' head off!


If Lucas dies, who gets the rights to Star Wars?
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Originally posted by: fans own the trilogy
Stage Six:Chop Lucas' head off!


If Lucas dies, who gets the rights to Star Wars?




Wow. That is something I've never thought about before in my life . . . who does? Lucasfilm? And who runs Lucasfilm when the Flannelled One bites it? And will they be willing to release the OOT? Hmm . . . if I'm not here anymore in a month or so . . . you know what happened . . .
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I need to somehow work my way into Lucasfilm and become a close friend to GL, so that when he dies, he'll pass it all on to me. Man... that would be so awesome.
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I've always feared that George would die before the age of 90 and thus the Star Wars universe would cease to exist.

He's made it pretty clear that it is his vision and his alone. Video games and other merchandise will continue, but films, cartoons, television shows will not. The door is always open for 7, 8 and 9 as long as he is alive. The television show will continue without him, but only when he approves the scripts. If he isn't there to give creative decisions Star Wars won't exist, as it should be.
The Jedi are all but extinct.......
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Notice it's only Star Wars biggest fans that act as though the Prequels are a Holocaust caliber disaster.

Perhaps I should run away so as to not be identified as such.

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So passing fans automatically like them a lot? I consider myself a huge fan, and I like them. Lets not generalize here Chaltab.


Made for IE Forum's Episode III theme month - May 2005.

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Jett Lucas will be our only hope.
"A Jedi can feel the force flow through him".
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Except the clones have already killed him.


Made for IE Forum's Episode III theme month - May 2005.

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Then Katie.
"A Jedi can feel the force flow through him".
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Mark my words, the Lucas kids WILL make 7-9. It'll happen in 15-20 years, when most of us are crotchety old farts ourselves. I am more curious if they'll re-make the prequels, but I doubt it. I do think they will craft 7-9, and I have this inkling of hope that they'll be pretty decent movies, better than the prequels, but not as good as the OT.

If Lucas doesn't do it, they'll also release the unaltered OT onto the format of the day. Why am I so certain of this? Because they, too, will have a lifestyle to which they've become accustomed, and that lifestyle must be buoyed by income.
I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.
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...if only Michael Eisner was in charge of Lucasfilm...

You may think I'm joking or off my rocker, but think about it. Eisner authorized sequels of so many of Disney's classics and he angered us all in doing it, but he did it for money.

The man desires money and power.

You put him in charge of Lucasfilm and he might look at the original trilogy and say "Someone must want those, and I can charge plenty to sell them."
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OK these are my 5 stages of Greedo shooting first:

Stage One: Shock and Denial

WHAAT? Greedo shoots first?! How can that be!

Stage Two: Anger

God damn that GL! He ruined the series! Damn it, motherf***er! Greedo can't shoot first! How can that...

Stage Three: Bargaining

...Motherf***er c**s***er son of a bitch I'll kill that GL that asshole...

Stage Four: Depression

... prick bastard son of a bitch screw him! Screw him! God, please God, kill GL while he sleeps! How can Greedo shoot first, you F**k?! You son of a...

Stage Five: Acceptance

... bitch asshole motherf****r c***s****er asshole s***thead son of a F***ING BITCH how can he do that! F***K, that bastard f***ing asshole...


“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to loathing, loathing leads to break in and entering, break ing and entering leads to violence, violence leads to murder, murder leads to prison.........and we STILL don't have the OOT.


Made for IE Forum's Episode III theme month - May 2005.

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Originally posted by: Klingon_Jedi
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to loathing, loathing leads to break in and entering, break ing and entering leads to violence, violence leads to murder, murder leads to prison.........and we STILL don't have the OOT.


And in prison, you'll be WISHING the only one firing first was Greedo!
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Mark my words, the Lucas kids WILL make 7-9. It'll happen in 15-20 years, when most of us are crotchety old farts ourselves. I am more curious if they'll re-make the prequels, but I doubt it. I do think they will craft 7-9, and I have this inkling of hope that they'll be pretty decent movies, better than the prequels, but not as good as the OT.

If Lucas doesn't do it, they'll also release the unaltered OT onto the format of the day. Why am I so certain of this? Because they, too, will have a lifestyle to which they've become accustomed, and that lifestyle must be buoyed by income.



It might happen.
"A Jedi can feel the force flow through him".