Posted on 04/06/2014 11:27:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Couldn’t agree with you more. I have NO-O-interest in further SW films. Why? The public no longer wants what SW was: a good/evil myth with good winning. Today’s audiences want evil to win. They don’t even believe evil IS evil, everyone is equally good and bad and value judgments are out. We saw that with Ep1-the only one I saw in the theater. Anakin was BAD, he was dangerous, he was flawed-yet he was given access to even more power. If Lucas had wanted to show how good can fall, he would have made Anakin like Luke-not a greedy,whiny,easily duped punk. I only saw the end of the third one on tv by mistake and almost wet myself laughing when the new Darth Vader started stomping around like Frankenstein singing ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’ in the Mel Brooks movie!Some good guy turned bad! Some bad guy to fear!
Now the anti-hero is revered. All the talk I hear is for the darksiders to prevail. Add to this the absolute necessity for Disney to make back the money they paid for the franchise and you have a custom-designed-to-appeal-to -every demographic disaster in the making. I expect vampires, teen angst cutters,transvestites,gays and Teletubbies( the damp diaper set has to be cultivated) to be represented. If EpIV were made now it would bomb. The Empire would have to slaughter all of the foolish Rebels and PC would be in every line of the script.
I wish they would leave SW alone. You don’t keep dumping excrement on perfection. Lucas did that. He pimped out his original idea, changed his own attitude re. heroism & morals, then sold it to a bigger brothel-Disney. Disney never has, never will, and cannot produce Epics. It is a mouse house that has to fill Disney stores with juvenile merchandise. All we will get from a mouse house is mouse crap. It won’t be MY Star Wars-any more than cat crap offered on a buffet would be my dinner. I pass...and pity those who will swallow-and buy-anything.
Absolutely Agree!
A lot of folks are done with SW, after having been devoted fans. Some thought it was because of CGI, bad writing, of Jar Jar, But I really believe it is MUCH deeper than that.
I still love what Star Wars was supposed to be ,what the heart of it is...not the pandering swill it has become in trash novels and toy_centered franchising. My SW is personal,ever fascinating and inspiring and completely beyond anything Disney/Lucasfilm can defecate. You can`t recreate a phenomenon. Maybe one day our culture will again want what the original SW represented and what I will always enjoy.
Yes...I still love the original, too.
Best Star Wars movie ever,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ymFxkFfIhU
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When I was a kid, I thought Paladin’s first name was ‘Wire’
You know, like on his business card
‘Wire Paladin’
Hahaha. That's a good one.
Just to refresh your memory the card said: Wire Paladin, San Francisco.
I had one of his cards for YEARS and YEARS. I finally put it somewhere and lost it.
We never did get to know Paladin's name at all. Paladin was a title.
From Google:
The Paladin is a class of Warrior that is fully devoted to kindness and ridding the Universe of Evil. They are very religious, and have an extremely strict honor code, as well as a soft spot for children and animals. In combat, a Paladin with a cause is almost impossible to defeat.
Paladins fear nothing, for Evil fears them.
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