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I've not seen Star Wars. Well, I tried to but fell asleep 10 minutes in. Oddly, I'm not feeling like an odd one out here, even so :-)

lotharbot 14y ago
I refused to watch Star Wars as a kid, because people kept telling me that if I was a nerd I had to watch it. I considered it a protest against their definition of "nerd". I did finally watch the original trilogy after I was married. It's OK I guess...
- yew 14y ago
  I've decided to protest against protesting against definitions, on the grounds that they're words and protesting against them will redefine them to something that someone else will protest against, ad infinitum, and I don't want to die from a stack overflow ;)
  - lotharbot 14y ago
    I wasn't quite that clever when I was in elementary school.
    - yew 14y ago
      Better luck next time! (Just try to remember having this conversation . . .)
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- mogrim 14y ago
  Watching it as an adult was always going to be a recipe for failure, I think you really need to have grown up with swapping Star Wars cards, playing with the figures, etc.
ahoyhere 14y ago
Star Wars is really, really stupid. Also boring. People have an obsession with it because it hit them at the age when they were too young to realize how it's about as intellectually challenging as My Little Ponies in Space. They saw LASERS! and SPACE SHIPS! and EVIL PEOPLE! as 9-year-olds and it embedded in their minds as "cooler than cool." The same way that some adults have a huge nostalgia-on for He-Man or Gem and the Holograms. Or Dirty Dancing. Or JTT. Bleah!
- lotharbot 14y ago
  > "about as intellectually challenging as My Little Ponies in Space" The modern incarnation of My Little Ponies is substantially more intellectually challenging than you might expect.
  - ahoyhere 14y ago
    Haha! (Thanks for the real-life laugh :) I admit - I have only seen the late 80s/early 90s versions of MLP (when I was a little girl). Which were about as intellectual as Care Bears. Care Bears hasn't gotten more intellectual in a reissue, has it?
- ucee054 14y ago
  Star Wars is not really, really stupid - that end of the spectrum belongs to James Bond.
  - ahoyhere 14y ago
    One word: Ewoks. Not defending Bond movies. I agree, they're pretty damn stupid. (Although at least the earlier ones were done with a sense of fun. I like stupid fun.) But... ewoks.
    - krapp 14y ago
      I've been a fan of Star Wars since practically the beginning but... I can't defend the Ewoks. That was just dumb.
joshguthrie 14y ago
Star Wars is not especially a "good" per se (BSG > Star Wars...heh). But to (a lot of) us, it's always fun to watch and became akin to a beacon of sorts and somehow this beacon is shared by (some) techies, (some) Trekkies, (some) browncoats, (some) Tolkien readers,... to the point where it's hard to take it seriously sometimes =)

lotharbot 14y ago

I refused to watch Star Wars as a kid, because people kept telling me that if I was a nerd I had to watch it. I considered it a protest against their definition of "nerd". I did finally watch the original trilogy after I was married. It's OK I guess...

yew 14y ago
I've decided to protest against protesting against definitions, on the grounds that they're words and protesting against them will redefine them to something that someone else will protest against, ad infinitum, and I don't want to die from a stack overflow ;)
- lotharbot 14y ago
  I wasn't quite that clever when I was in elementary school.
  - yew 14y ago
    Better luck next time! (Just try to remember having this conversation . . .)
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mogrim 14y ago
Watching it as an adult was always going to be a recipe for failure, I think you really need to have grown up with swapping Star Wars cards, playing with the figures, etc.

ahoyhere 14y ago

Star Wars is really, really stupid. Also boring. People have an obsession with it because it hit them at the age when they were too young to realize how it's about as intellectually challenging as My Little Ponies in Space. They saw LASERS! and SPACE SHIPS! and EVIL PEOPLE! as 9-year-olds and it embedded in their minds as "cooler than cool." The same way that some adults have a huge nostalgia-on for He-Man or Gem and the Holograms. Or Dirty Dancing. Or JTT. Bleah!

lotharbot 14y ago
> "about as intellectually challenging as My Little Ponies in Space" The modern incarnation of My Little Ponies is substantially more intellectually challenging than you might expect.
- ahoyhere 14y ago
  Haha! (Thanks for the real-life laugh :) I admit - I have only seen the late 80s/early 90s versions of MLP (when I was a little girl). Which were about as intellectual as Care Bears. Care Bears hasn't gotten more intellectual in a reissue, has it?
ucee054 14y ago
Star Wars is not really, really stupid - that end of the spectrum belongs to James Bond.
- ahoyhere 14y ago
  One word: Ewoks. Not defending Bond movies. I agree, they're pretty damn stupid. (Although at least the earlier ones were done with a sense of fun. I like stupid fun.) But... ewoks.
  - krapp 14y ago
    I've been a fan of Star Wars since practically the beginning but... I can't defend the Ewoks. That was just dumb.

joshguthrie 14y ago

Star Wars is not especially a "good" per se (BSG > Star Wars...heh). But to (a lot of) us, it's always fun to watch and became akin to a beacon of sorts and somehow this beacon is shared by (some) techies, (some) Trekkies, (some) browncoats, (some) Tolkien readers,... to the point where it's hard to take it seriously sometimes =)