Nerd have a fad, just like any other classified group. The fad for nerds is to hate George Lucas, people dont hate him or his movies, they just dont want to seem different becouse they are all a bunch of mind-numbing freaks who have no opinion of thier own and follow the horde.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course it couldn't possibly be down to the simple fact that the prequels are fucking terrible movies; no, anyone who dares question Lucas's undeniable genius is simply jealous or narrow-minded or 'following the horde' or too stupid to appreciate the incredible depth and subtlety of lines such as "Wheeeeee!" and "Are you an angel?" (take your pick). Bull
SHIT.
Let me tell me something: back at the time I saw my first Star Wars movie (Return of the Jedi) in my mid-teens, I barely knew who George Lucas was. I had exactly the same opinion of it then as I do now: a cheesy but generally entertaining fantasy story with a few very good moments and a few extremely bad ones. I saw TPM a year or two later and thought it was utter crap - not because I was even aware of the 'fad' for bashing it, but because I can
tell the difference between a good movie and a bad one. I can tell the difference between a well-written, coherent storyline and a dull, inconsistent mess with plot-holes the size of a Star Destroyer, between realistic and natural-sounding dialogue and lines that would shame a 1930s B-movie, between characters who are actually deep and sympathetic and those who make me want to carve them up with a rusty breadknife - and so on. And on and on and on and on and on. It has NOTHING to do with envy or nostalgia or bias or following the crowd, so stop trying to make out that it does.
If you don't like to see other people bashing the prequels, piss off. I'm serious: just get the fuck out of here and go to one of the seven trillion other Star Wars fansites where you can rave about Lucas and the PT to your heart's content. This forum is one of the few places on the Net where you can criticise the prequels without being drowned out by a horde of illiterate twelve-year-olds screaming abuse at you, and those of us who
do enjoy doing this intend to keep it that way. Learn to put up with it, and if you can't, get lost.
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The sandpeople had women and children. We know this because Anakin killed them how could he tell? The children might be smaller but I never saw a sandperson with breasts. Did they hike their skirts and show him some leg or something?
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Also, I can see the point of wanting to kidnap a human and use her as a slave, but they didn't. They tied her to a flimsy easel for a month. It's assumed they had to feed and give her water. What for? Was she purely ornamental? I can understand them wanting the droids, you can sell those for a lot of money, but a chick who's only skills are finding non-existand mushrooms and getting randomly pregnant, you're not going to get much.
- J m HofMarN on the Sand People