All your butts are belong to me!

[reyler]

Make it go away!

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

keep typing, it will.

[reyler]

The irony is that that was probably better than all three prequels combined.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

just about anything is better.

[reyler]

I never actually saw them - by the time they came out, I already didn't care about Star Wars, and I haven't seen the originals since several years prior to that. To me Mark Hamill's only significance is as the Joker. And maybe as Master Eraqus and Firelord Ozai.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i made it halfway through the first sequel/prequel. the jar jar thing... just couldn't deal with it.

 

the originals were a huge part of my childhood. we stood on line for hours, and saw them over and over. nothing like them before. or since, tbh. certainly not from lucas.

[reyler]

I think the only thing that was a big deal for me from childhood was Transformers. Thanks for the effort, Michael Bay *rolls eyes*

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

the deals were bigger when TV and movies were limited. now you can see anything youw ant whenever youw ant to pretty much. nothing to get excited about.

[reyler]

But then, I was never wowed much by special effects anyway; the part of my mind that normally might be would usually just say "Well duh, that's what it's supposed to look like"

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i never thought of them as special effects. even when they were quite bad, i just accepted them.

 

big movies were like events. a social phenomenon. na? non? no clue.

 

it wasn't like you could just get the DVD and see them again. it could take years for them to ever be on TV, and if they ever were.... really crappy little screens, edited all to hell, cut to shreds with commercials. and once a year at best.

 

plus these were movies kids would be set loose in - the parents would just leave. it was an unaccustomed freedom. took as much advantage of it as possible.

Edited November 6, 2011 by cindy

[reyler]

Hm, free-range children. You don't see those that often anymore. Now the news media has everyone too terrified of the same kidnappers, child molestors, and serial killers that have always existed.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

kidnappers, child molestors, and serial killers would have feared o enter those theaters...

 

children are in the most danger from their immediate family and friends, anyway. but fear is good for the economy.

[reyler]

Or from the slow stripping away thereof, or whatever.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

trying to parse that.... you're too smart for me.

[reyler]

Imagine how much fun my assistant had at the sign shop I worked at in Phoenix, who when I got there spoke very little English.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you corrected that, i presume.

[reyler]

She didn't really have much choice; as you pointed out, I'm hard enough to keep up with for native English speakers.

[GrandpaG]

Probably taught the assistant how to say "moving forward" like a real American.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i'm from brooklyn, so i'm not sure i qualify as a native speaker. but yes, barring sign language, she would have had no choice.

[GrandpaG]

Told wifey I was coming up here to RP...better get at it, huh?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you're toast if she checks your history anyway.

[GrandpaG]

She only uses the computer for pictures. Anyway. After 38 years she knows me pretty good.

 

But, she still says that I shouldn't be sitting on my butt on "that stupid internet" for so long of a time. Don't I just hate it when she's right? Not really.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

and you don't use the computer for pictures?

[reyler]

I dunno, Gwampy, depending on which columnist/commentator you ask, I probably don't qualify as a real Amerikan.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you were born in america you real.