It took the dreadful Star Trek Enterprise to kill, at least for the time being, the zombie that is Star Trek. Fans of the Original Star Trek Series and TNG are already lining up to hate JJ Abrams new Star Trek movie. Sci Fi fans are an odd lot.
The new Star Wars movie, set between II and III and destine to be pretty pointless-just like I, II, and III. The real money has not been in the Star Wars Movies for sometime-like back with The Empire Strikes Back. It’s all about Lego Star Wars, Star Wars Action Figures, Star Wars Posters, Star Wars Toys, and maybe a bit of talk about the Star Wars Saga, as if it a story of biblical proportions.
I was one of those people that drug my feet about seeing Star Wars-that is Star Wars, not a new hope-and I didn’t see it until it had been theaters for a year or so. Star Wars was a long and dull movie which didn’t make much sense to me. The Empire Strikes Back was ten times better, and still has my vote as the Best Star Wars Movie. Of course, it was with The Empire Strikes Back that Lucas started all this nonsense about Star Wars V, which made most of us wonder if we had missed a couple of star wars movies somehow.
Star Wars Clone Wars is George Lucas’s dream come true, a movie made completely with computers. Star Wars Battlefront is the latest game from Lucas Arts, which had a small run of pretty cool games when they started out all those years ago. A dream come true, a video game that looks like a movie. Just one more place were the Star Wars Universe is flexing its muscle. Star Wars games where you can choose sides and weapons are pretty cool. I’m just not as much into games as I used to be.
I’m one of those Star Wars fans that hated the new movies, but fully expected Lucas to make three more. I still think it’s possible that Lucas with whip out another Star Wars Trilogy one of these days. You have to keep hitting the new generations with new movies to sell more Star Wars Toys, Star Wars Lightsabers, and all the other Star Wars Jedi stuff. I believe all those rumors I have heard for twenty years about there being nine movies, or even eleven in George Lucas’s Master Plan.
I was one of those people who had a million of the tiny Star Wars Figures and the Star Wars spaceships scaled to fit them. Star Wars Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker zipping around the Star Wars Galaxies. It was always a shock getting up in the morning and stepping on one of these little star wars monsters.
George Lucas now maintains that he never planned on making more than six Star Wars movies. Then he goes and cranks out Star Wars Clone Wars-which is not a real movie and like the books, will be ignored by most real Star Wars fans. But then, just as I watched Star Trek Enterprise and hated it, it was the only new Star Trek to be had. So until George gets around to that next star wars trilogy-I’ll have to settle for the cartoons.
Enterprise wasn’t dreadful, in my opinion, it was the best and most innovative series of the Star Trek offering. But your right about the fans being an odd lot, they are lining up to trash this new film by Abrams just like they destroyed the franchise my trashing Enterprise. As a group of fans, they are too narrow minded to allow the franchise to flourish.
The Wife is of the opinion that whichever Star Trek you first watch is your favorite-so I tend to favor the Original Series and I was very fond of Next Gen as it was mostly a clone.
I am always surprised that people loved Voyager and Enterprise-but then, I never liked Friends or Sex in the City, wo what do I know?
I am hoping that JJ Abram’s Star Trek will be good.
great blog. keep up the good work!