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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[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!