You do realize a ton of Star Wars fans, easily the majority of the hardcore fanbase like the prequels, right? It's not like your view is any kind of majority one among fandom. Go check out the year Star Wars Celebration conventions. Will blow your mind.
And a majority of fans also like the Special Editions. And a lot of people like Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey. And I know a toddler that thinks Jar-Jar Binks is hilarious.
Unless you have a solid graph documenting the opinions of every last man, woman, and child on earth, that still doesn't mean there aren't a metric ton of fans who hate the Special Editions or millions that were disappointed by the Prequel Trilogy. Majority or not is irrelevant. A sizable portion feels that way and that sizable portion matters just as much as any other group...
... Though I have my doubts that a "majority" loved the prequels. Even I like bits and pieces of them (Darth Maul looks cool, it was nice seeing Obi-Wan cut up Anakin, and Natalie Portman would've looked great in a metal slave bikini...), but a lot of fans tend to cling to the good and side-step the bad.
But I look forward to your Dexter Jettster cosplay. Keep me posted on that.
Just a bit. Yeah. Why?
I'm addressing your bullshit directly, and pointing out why it's bullshit. Because it's bullshit. I know this because I was paying attention to what you had written, see.
Except for the parts where you said it was black and white, and the parts where I said it wasn't. Except for that part. Good show otherwise, old chap.
Also, "it varies from person to person" doesn't even work as a rebuttal to what I was saying anyway.
Sure it does. "It's black and white!" you claim I insist. I respond, "no, actually, people have varying degrees of tolerance." And then you go "that doesn't work as a rebuttal!" and I go, "sure it does" and then you go "nuh uh!" and I go "uh huh!" and then we stick out our tongues and go to our corners to play with TIE-fighter toys and Wookie figures.
The idea that you have to enter some sort of weird dream state in which the reality you currently live in ceases to exist in order to enjoy a thing is an unnecessary one.
Says you. My reality is awesome. It has dinosaurs. Does your reality have dinosaurs? Mine also doesn't have the prequel trilogy, "Who Let the Dogs Out", or the third season of HEROES. My reality trumps yours. I reject your reality and substitute my own.
It's not needed. It's ridiculous.
Of course it's ridiculous and unnecessary. That's what makes it so great. It's like those ice cream bars you get as a kid shaped like a Ninja Turtle. Why? Who cares! Eat Donatello's head, child!
And adhering to that fundamentally delusional mindset in order to "preserve" the sanctity of the thing you like while telling someone else they're being "too black and white" is all kinds of contradictory.
Well, you DO keep insisting that I'm the one who sees things in black and white, despite me saying it's more a sliding scale of tolerance. That sounds like an absolute to me, and only a Sith deals in absolutes.
"Breaking points" don't even have to enter into this.
And while you're not wrong that I have one, you are wrong in implying that it's in any way tied to something as trivial as what movies I watch. There is no "breaking point" at which I decide I'm going to imagine a completely new reality as a means to like a movie I've always liked. If I'm going to delve into self-delusion, it's going to be for something way more important than Star Wars.
But nothing is more important than Star Wars, Bobby. Star Wars is life. It is religion. It is the Force. It is printed pajama pants and Stormtrooper-themed weddings. It is breakfast cereals and global politics. The franchise's importance to you matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my fandom, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Fandom, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Fandom around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the NeoGAF forum.
