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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
star wars is great, but the last three movies showed what it really was about, which is meaningless posturing disguised as myth.
it is shit. star wars has died and rotted and you all know it. nothing will erase the wonder of the first three movies, but those movies were not sci-fi, nor were they ever meant to be. they are serials, cliiffhangers, old school hollywood adventure movies re-set for the future. in that they are homage.
star trek has always been about ideas, which is what all true science fiction is about. it is morality plays. it involves human decisions, human morality, human essence, not just shooting ships and some BULLSHIT fucking "force" mystical nonsense.
star trek is fantastic.
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exactly. let me get one thing clear: if you like star wars but not star trek, YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED STAR TREK. people tend to just blow it off as the quintessential geek series -- and i suppose with the dilithium crystals and beaming up and communicators and such it is, but no more than star wars with its lightsabers and death stars -- but they judge it while totally missing the POINT of the show, which is to explore basic human issues of identity, morality, and place in the cosmos. it is philosophy in the guise of sci-fi, something to which star wars could never lay claim. star wars, while definitely fun, is a mere action thriller series.