Star Wars Virgin Takes the Plunge

Entertainment Weekly is running a short account of one Star Wars virgin who recently sat down to watch all six Star Wars movies in their originally intended order while recording his thoughts. From the article: "So after watching the sun set on all six of the Star Wars (or sun rise, in my case), what do these movies mean to me? I have to be careful where I tread here, because people's love of these movies is passionate to say the least. (Personal note: My friends had a Star Wars-themed wedding.) The cynical and tired side of me wants to say that George wanted Episode I to be shown first because after watching 14 straight hours of Star Wars, my memories of young Anakin and Jar Jar are almost long forgotten. I've tossed them aside along with my package of caffeine pills and bottle of Coke."

Comments

Re:So tiring

[PopeRatzo]

I think we're referring to sex with other people here. That's the difference, geekoid.

Re:we all know

[phatcabbage]

Of course, the real reason you need to watch them IV-VI then I-III is so that you like Star Wars enough to make it through the prequels.

Agreed.

Re:Correct order?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

And Luke Skywalker and the rest of the New Jedi Order have absolutely no idea how midichlorians operate, so they couldn't possibly use the Force? Sh'yeahRIGHT...

No. One can use a car without understanding how the engine works- one can use the force without understanding how the force became a part of humanity.

Midichlorians are the main reason I detest the Prequels. II has the big Jedi Battle Royale and III has the battle between Anakin/Vader and Obi-Wan and the confrontation between Darth Sidious and Mace Windu and his posse. So there are some redeeming qualities to those two movies. Episode I...well...that's pure crap. As much as I thought that Qui-Gon Jinn had potential as a character, and as much as I like Mace Windu and wished they had more of him in the prequels, there is NOTHING in Episode I worth watching.

Depends on whether you understand the story or not. Is it fantasy, or science fiction?

Re:Correct order?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

So you're telling me that George Lucas had decided back in the 1970s that the Force was regulated by midichlorians, and he decided to wait two decades before mentioning it?

No, I'm saying that the two descriptions of the force are not exclusive. For any given phenomenon, you have the scientific explaination (Qui Gon and the midiclorians) and the spiritual explaination (Kenobi and Yoda's "encompassing all life"). Knowledge of one does not make the other any less miraculous. Miracles can survive with their scientific explaination intact. It doesn't matter what George Lucas decided when- the two explainations are not exclusive of each other.

Of course not. He made it up later and then insisted that midichlorians was always the way it was, even though it was also dumb.

It isn't also dumb- it's just a scientific explaination for a religious phenomenon. No different than evolution and the Book of Genesis- only idiots claim that they are incompatible with one another.