Today is Geek Day.

[merlinofchaos]

For a change, I'm not one of them. I'm not sure why this is, except I can't make myself want to.

In other news, the Jeep needed the alternator *and* the battery replaced. $500 later and a broken credit card machine later, I did get the Jeep back yesterday afternoon. Ahh, fun.

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[janne.livejournal.com]

Because Joss Whedon is your master now (http://www.pvponline.com/archive/2005/pvp20050510.gif)? Sums it up for me, anyhow...

[merlinofchaos]

Well, except that I'm not overly fond of Joss Whedon either. But that's an amusing strip!

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Today is Geek Day.
For a change, I'm not one of them. I'm not sure why this is, except I can't make myself want to.

That's okay. I think my geekiness quotient more than makes up for yours. :)

[skylion.livejournal.com]

Not sure why it is...well the other news you had, of your jeep. I think the term "got other things to worry about" might sum it up.

as for me with my free time, I only have the desire to see the film, not an event. That pretty much ruined The Two Towers for me, last time I ever did a midnight showing.

[merlinofchaos]

Yea, tho the other news is really kind of a bump, more than anything. I have car maintenance budgeted so that stuff like this doesn't completely blindside me. Yay having the freedom to budget like that.

I think it's more that Star Wars is dying in my heart. Even the original stuff is losing its lustre for me. I've always held that Star Wars was an especially cheesy movie that had exceptional special effects that was only successful because it pushed a few of the right buttons, and Empire pushed a few more, but Jedi missed those buttons for the most part.

And even while Empire was a superior film, it didn't have anyone like Grand Moff Tarkin in it; the Empire became completely faceless, except for Vader (and the barely seen, in that movie, Emperor). And in Jedi, Grand Moff Jerjerrod was a useless nit, which pretty much suggests that everyone of any real value to the Empire was aboard the Death Star when it asploded. Which is nice and logical but Tarkin is really what made Star Wars work for me.

[skylion.livejournal.com]

Interesting view re: Tarkin. He did have that villanous leer down, didn't he. Often overshadowed by the presense of Sir Alec.

It all boils down to story. Thou they be cheesy, the original trilogy was really good cheese, and Empire especially had a great story, the best so far. The prequels lack that. Neither I nor II had a good story in it. Menace was downsized to a children's story, and a choppy one at that. Clones was just more set dressing that couldn't exist without either of the two stories bookending it, and that is poor storytelling. Sith promises to put paid to the entire storyline. I doubt that it will do so to everyone's pleasure. You can couple that with the general malaise effecting our youth culture to put down everything that doesn't quite measure up thier thier very ephemal quality control.

As for the event surrounding the midnight showing. You get that many high reved geeks in one place and not a single one of them will shut the heck up for a minute at a time and let you enjoy the film. The thing you supposedly came to pay attention too. Geek fever ruined Menace for me at midnight, and did the same for my aforementioned TTT exprience.

A saying I have: "I like Lynard Skynard, I just don't like thier fans". It applies to alot of stuff.

[merlinofchaos]

Geek fever ruined Menace for me at midnight, and did the same for my aforementioned TTT exprience.

Oh yea. I have an issue with rampant fanboyism. Generally hearing about a topic over and over again is a sure way to make me hate it. This goes about 10x for esmerel too, so I generally get trapped between fanboys, my own growing ambivalence, and her hatred of the fanboyism!