A Disturbance In The Force

A wise alien being once said, “…anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering…”. Recent talk of Star Wars is leading me down the path of the dark side.

Let’s start by first saying “STAR WARS IS ONE DAMN STORY PEOPLE!!!” Whew, glad I got that out of my system. I just read an article that really, really pissed me off; worse than if I found out that my father was an evil Sith Lord. The article was comparing the original movies with the new prequels. Apparently this is a pretty heated debate between Star Wars true-ests and new generation Star Wars fans that started out with the Prequels. Why can’t we all get along people? If we would just pull our heads out and realize that Star Wars is ONE COMPLETE STORY, we would not be having these conversations. There is no Star Wars: The Beginning and Star Wars: The Next Generation, it is all the same story!!! Man, is there an echo in here.

Back to the article; this genius columnist is trying to compare characters in the first three movies to characters in the last three movies, to see which movie comes out on top. Stay calm, control your feelings…don’t give into anger. Does this sound wrong to anyone else? Let me give you an example: In the heroes column they list Luke Skywalker versus Anakin Skywalker. Let’s think about this for a second. Can we really call Anakin the hero of the prequel movies? An evil Sith Lord’s apprentice that ultimately ends up hunting down and killing Jedi, leading up to his own horrible self destruction and turn to the dark side? PLEASE, someone give me a galactic sedative. I can no longer stand reading this crap. Why are we comparing these things when they are all part of the same story people.

If this does not tell you the craptasticfullness of this article, take exhibit number two into consideration. Grand Moff Tarken versus Emperor Palpatine. I’m speechless…anyone else? To use an old cliché, “comparing apples to oranges”. I always thought that Palpatine was the villain in ALL the movies. Grand Moff is considered the villain for the original movies? Somebody help these poor people. Did someone force this guy, no pun intended, to write this article?

One Star Wars fan, if you can call him that, from this article said, “There is no personality in the new movies. The new movies, it seems that they are trying to win you over with fantastic special effects.” Did he even see the first three movies or learn anything about their making? Were they not about spectacular special effects, most would say “ground breaking” special effects? The intention of the original movies is the same as the movies today when it comes to this department. This guy’s age is listed as 39, so he was only 11 when the first movie even came out. The majority of the population thought Star Wars was a flop when it first came out and probably said the special effects were to overwhelming.

I could go on and on about how crappy this stupid debate over which set of three movies is better, but I won’t. I will bring balance to the force. I love these movies, yep that is plural meaning more than THREE, and will not taint the whole of the parts, because of a few things I didn’t like in one or two of the movies. Star Wars is an EPIC and should be taken as a whole; PERIOD, end of story.

- Dr. Worm