[ SECRET POST #3076 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3076 ⌋

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Comments

[elaminator]

I loved Phantom Menace as a teen too. (I think largely because Natalie was really pretty, Obi-Wan was cute and extremely likable, Qui-Gon was awesome/hot, and I shipped the hell out of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. I didn't need much more than that at the time. And frankly, sometimes still don't.)

Back then I thought they weren't on the same level as the original trilogy, but I was still capable of enjoying them as popcorn flicks.

(Oh, and the sea monsters were cool.)

[fishnchips]

Oh damn, yes, I shipped them too! ;_; (Episode I was the reason I started reading almost all the Jedi Apprentice books - I was so in love with the concept of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.)
I... eh. I kind of knew the original trilogy but I never loved them as much as other people did. I was also, admittedly, drawn in by the (for the time) super sleek-and-shiny graphics of Episode I. It was all so cool and the original trilogy looked pretty dated in comparison. I didn't like the second and third all that much, though.

[(Anonymous)]

I was also, admittedly, drawn in by the (for the time) super sleek-and-shiny graphics of Episode I. It was all so cool and the original trilogy looked pretty dated in comparison.

It's funny, because that was one of the things I didn't like about the prequels. Everything was too sleek and shiny, and what had made the original Trilogy stick out was Lucas' "used universe" idea, where a lot of the tech looks old and beat up - Luke's landspeeder, the Millennium Falcon is grungy on the inside, etc - with the exception of the Empire, of course, which was shiny new and squeaky clean.

Anyway, it felt more like a real world to me. The new CGI effects are beautiful, of course, and fantastically detailed, and yet they're often too perfect and dont' seem as real to me.

[fishnchips]

I always thought it made sense that everything was more shiny before, because the "used" look came with the Empire fucking shit up for everyone but them.
I have to admit that I was never a fan of the type of puppets and creature costumes the original trilogy used. They always looked kind of goofy to me and I couldn't take them seriously for the most part - they stilled used some of the same models in the prequels, but they looked better there, imo.

[elaminator]

Just thinking about them is making me miss all the fanfic... I was addicted to it back then. I never did get into the Star Wars books, but I wanted to. There were just SO many of them that I got overwhelmed thinking about it and never tried. Now I feel like I've missed out.

Well, I imagine nostalgia helps (with people's love of the original trilogy). I don't think that accounts for everything, but I know at least in my case that I grew up with them so that definitely had an impact. Star Wars was maybe the first major Sci-Fi fandom I was introduced to.

[fishnchips]

I never read lots of fanfic because back then, my English was still pretty terrible and we only had one PC in the house with a terribly slow dial up connection. I never read any other books other than the apprentice ones - and I stopped reading them after a certain point. I liked them a lot, but I'm not sure if I would still like them today - I'd have to get my hands on the original English language versions before reading them again.

Yeah, I guess the reason I'm not that much in love with the original trilogy is because I never watched them a lot. My father is a major Sci-Fi fan and he did like the movies, though apparently no enough to watch them very often, so I wasn't "exposed" to them a lot.