Any other Star Wars fans???

[wavy]

Just bought ROTS yesterday (about dang time) and volume 1 of the Clone Wars. All I gotta do is get volume 2 and I'm complete. :-D

 

[SputnikBoy]

Star Wars is great but I'm a sucker for the original Star Trek series. This doesn't mean that I enjoyed every episode - on the contrary, some were pretty bad - but every once in a while there was an exceptional one. If anything, I think it was the main characters of Star Trek themselves (the actors who portrayed the roles) who did it for me. Each had their individual personality and each were necessary to compliment the other ...Kirk, Spock, 'Bones' McCoy, Scotty, etc. I guess the same could be said for the original Star Wars characters ...not so sure about the 'newcomers' in the more recent movies, however.

 

[wavy]

An answer? Finally? I was beginning to think you guys were more lame than I am. :-D

As far as Star Trek, I watch The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine when it comes on Spike TV. I was never interested in the original Star Trek movies, episodes etc...

But yeah, I tend to like the original Star Wars more than the prequals.

 

[Muad'Dib]

I am a Star Wars nut! I have the Episode I and II, but I don't have the III one yet. Star Trek is cool too, I am partial to the Next Generation and I have all the movies from both.

 

[SputnikBoy]

We have a tendency to acquire a familiarity with the regular characters of a series. This is so important in regard to a show's popularity. A TV/movie show's popularity is also age/culture related and dependent. A popular show of yesteryear becomes old-hat and disinteresting very rapidly to its 'throw away and replace' audience these days. Few of the generation of today, for instance, will have any appreciation for any of the TV/movie fare of the past whether they were seen to have been 'classics' or not. Anything 'old' is seen to be just that in the eyes of today's 'spoiled rotten' generation.

As for the original Star Trek, it's main failing (looking back on it now) was its extremely low budget. Some of the story themes and ideas were great but were consequently stunted and often unrealized for this reason. One of the best episodes was entitled "The City On The Edge Of Forever". It was not only insightful from a science fiction perspective but was also very touching ...a classic that won several awards. If only we could go back in time - same cast - with the kinds of budgets that are spent on such series these days. Both it and Star Wars also remains relatively wholesome by today's standards ...a definite PLUS in my opinion.

 

[DivineNames]

I remember when they made the "Next Generation" Star Trek. What did I think? "It will never be as good as the original". In fact, I think it shows just how terrible the original was!

 

[Richard]

i love star wars. I havn't seen many Star Trek episodes

 

[SputnikBoy]

I remember when they made the "Next Generation" Star Trek. What did I think? "It will never be as good as the original". In fact, I think it shows just how terrible the original was!

Star Trek has been recognized - and rightly so - as the forerunner of all of the 'space' series that followed. Compared to TV shows/movies of today, the original series had to make do with a shoe-string budget per episode. If Star Trek was 'terrible' at all it was NOT due to the fact that the actors were not competent, or that many of the scripts were no less than brilliant, but because there were necessary (for the time) budget limitations. Comparing a 1960's TV show with present-day high-tech and big budget presentations is silly. Star Trek has already left its mark on posterity and nothing can change that fact. Names such as Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Scott, etc. (as with the well-known characters from Star Wars) will live on.