[ SECRET POST #3310 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3310 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Burn Notice]


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03.
[Devil’s Rejects]


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04.
(Jennifer Lawrence)


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05.
[David Bowie]


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06.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher]


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07.
[Mushishi - Shrine in the sea]


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08.
[William Daniels and Alan Rickman]


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09.
[Doctor Who]


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10.
[Rocky Horror Picture Show]


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11.
[Psych]


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12.
[Star Wars prequels, Twilight saga]
















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Comments

[dethtoll]

Welcome to geek culture.

It's funny because when the PT was relatively newish there were very few haters; it wasn't until roughly around when the third one was released that there seemed to be some sort of consensus that all three were terrible.

Most of the SW fans I know pretty much flip-flopped in their opinion around 2005 or so. It was really, really blatant.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who didn't really get into Star Wars fandom until 2009, would you happen to know why?

I love Episodes I through VI and, although I respect that people don't like I-III, sometimes it is a little tiring to see the hatred be so...incessant.

[dethtoll]

Bandwagonism and the internet's amplification effect, plain and simple. The sheer rage at the PT's very existence simply wasn't there 10-15 years ago. It ballooned out of a few people making complaints about the PT films' flaws into an almost universal and vitriolic hatedom.

[elaminator]

Most of the SW fans I know pretty much flip-flopped in their opinion

Some of it could be age and initial excitement and 'wow factor'. The prequels still look pretty damn great in places, and the lightsaber fights in the prequels are far and away better than the ones in the original trilogy. As far as action goes they mostly did a good job, but imo there were sections where it went on too long. I found them very entertaining when I was younger, though.

My own opinion on the PT flopped, but I went many years between rewatching them, so I was a lot older. Tastes change! (Though TPM is the only prequal film I still enjoy, so I disagree on that one.)

[dethtoll]

Yeah, you've got a point, but I dunno if that can account for just how vitriolic the hate can get.

[elaminator]

but I dunno if that can account for just how vitriolic the hate can get

Ah, see, if we're talking about the level of hatred the SW prequels get, I'll never comprehend it. I totally understand opinions changing (and of course it's perfectly normal to dislike stuff), but the strength of some SW fans hate for the prequels shocks me.

Even though I'm not a big fan of them anymore, I wouldn't want to hold a conversation with anyone who was going to burst a blood-vessel over them. That's just not my idea of a fun time.

[dethtoll]

Mine either, and I don't even like Star Wars.

[meredith44]

That's odd, because that really isn't my experience. Granted, I hated episode one enough that I never went online to check out the fandom at all, but everyone I talked to in RL (including the people who waited in line for hours with me so we could see it right when it opened) hated the prequel. I really didn't see any flip flopping among fans about the prequels. I guess I can just chalk it up to me only knowing a small portion of Star Wars fans vs the internet Star Wars fandom.

[iggy]

Yeah I remember prequel hate being intense LONG before Revenge of the Sith came out. Jar Jar Binks was a punchline especially, for example.

Of course that didn't stop all of those people from going to see two or three, but the reaction to them was pretty negative in a lot of circles from the beginning.

[meredith44]

It stopped me. I still haven't seen episodes two or three. I decided I didn't want to risk ending up disliking the original movies if I had disliked all of the prequels so much that it carried over. But yes, I do agree with your post. I could have sworn in my casual circles (so not Star Wars fandom) and in RL I had mostly seen people disliking the movie well before the next ones came out.

I wasn't that excited for the prequels, but I kind of wanted to get back into the universe.

[(Anonymous)]

Then I saw that poster with little Anakin with the Darth Vader shadow and thought that maybe I could really like it. I thought the first movie was very uneven - I liked a few scenes, but didn't care for Jar-Jar and was pretty disappointed by the Jedi council. Anyway, I thought that the next one might be better - I liked some of the things they set up, but I had a hard time really relating to either Anakin and Amidala. Though I didn't hate them, I had been disappointed by the first two. Even so, I felt like I had to watch the last one, see Anakin turn into Vader. And I was hoping that the third would fix things (like how the last five minutes of The Usual Suspects turns everything you thought you knew on it's head). And the last movie not only didn't deliver, but retroactively made the other two worse in my mind. I just felt like I had wasted my time. So, yeah, that's what happened for me. I wouldn't say I hate them, but I don't much like them.

Re: I wasn't that excited for the prequels, but I kind of wanted to get back into the universe.

[iggy]

That first poster with the shadow of Vader was FANTASTIC. One of the better movie posters of all time. It's a shame it didn't live up to that.

Re: I wasn't that excited for the prequels, but I kind of wanted to get back into the universe.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Yes, yes it was.