Addendum Issue 050

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Issue# 50 : Say no to Star Wars - Part 2: General Star Wars Rants 
17th May 2002 
Author: Steak, i do not want to be a Fatuus 
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[The night of the gruesome] Attack of the [super duper killer] clones  
[of the incredible cyborgs] 

With the release of attack of the clones in theaters it seems all I  
can hear around here and see around here has something to do with  
these annoying movies, that aren’t really anything special. 

For gods sake, even that silly little green Muppet 'yoda' was on the 
front of Australian Time magazine, I never really did hold Australian  
time magazine in any high regard but now my feelings towards it have  
dropped a couple of notches. 

Star wars is aimed at children, the constant barrage of toys, lunch  
boxes, action figures, console games, and sixth birthday cards just 
proves it. And yet we have supposedly mature individuals trying 
to learn the force and find out how to become Jedi. Hello, it's not  
Real! Two people I know actually went along to the opening night  
ceremony at twelve o’clock the other night along with there toy light  
sabers. 

For god sake people haven’t you ever heard of sleep, no wonder you 
guys are always so tired.  

Star wars on it's own is an ok action movie, many people however 
try and delude themselves that these b-movies are actually science 
fiction, and blow the entire thing out of proportion. This is wrong,  
Star wars is not science fiction, it is boring mainstream action just  
like any other Hollywood action flick. Real science fiction is  
something that makes you think, has a scientific basis, or makes a 
radical political statement and does not rely on loud noises, flashes 
of lazar fire and huge explosions, star wars is simply there to  
entertain the children. Star Trek could do all of those things 
but it doesn't want to, it wants to make you think about things 
and it makes you want to go "wow" with the messages and the twists 
in the plot. (and no, Luke being Lea’s brother does NOT classify as 
a radical plot twist) 

A lot of star wars fans I know all call themselves a names from the 
franchise, I seem to know quite a lot of Anakins....  

A quick search on Bigfoot found this: 

156 Anakin Skywalker's 
250 Darth Vader's 
250 Luke Skywalker's 
28 Yoda Yoda's (Bigfoot won't let you search for one name only) 
53 Darth Maul 

You would never see me calling myself Picard, Data or Worf, it 
seems just silly, and I could never really justify it to myself 
I much prefer to make up my own names that mean something. 

But in the end I guess I just have to say fuck them, let them have 
there fun, they can like their prepackaged, franchised, action 
movie, they will never know the beauty of star trek because there 
mind is too closed to accept it. I just wish they would leave me  
alone and let me enjoy my program in peace with no interference. 

 
Addendum to the addendum: 
I had a rather unfortunate run in with a member of the species homo  
fatuus who was also a star wars fan today. We shall call him patsy,  
He was saying some shit and we proceeded to have this 'conversation' 

Patsy: So yeah, hu, hu, can I dis star trek?! 
Me: Of course you can but I will endeavor just to laugh at you for  
    the purpose of demonstrating how silly you are 
Patsy: So yeah, hu, hu Star Trek's shit 

I was totally knocked back by this total insight in to his wonderful 
world and I suddenly realized that I had been wrong all along. 
Not. 

Like I promised I laughed at him and he then tried to actually elbow 
me in the face to try and make his point. I managed to dodge it though 
so that was good What an idiot, you would never see any trekkie 
doing that. I am sorry to say this but we are quite far above this 
kind of thing. 

Second addendum to the addendum 
He showed me a Star Wars t-shirt today and told me that star trek could 
never afford that. [enough said] 

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(C) Steak May 2002 
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