For too long, those of us who appreciate the Prequel trilogy (or at least open about it) have been on the defensive, feeling like we’re marginalized because we love something others don’t seem to understand. People who believe they’re the arbiters of geek culture have tried to give us an inferiority complex by bashing the films and its stars at every opportunity. When they’re not busy bashing “Twilight” or something anyway.
On my LiveJournal, I’ve noted that some stores have retro SW t-shirts as part of their fall offerings (I guess retro/nostalgia is in). The shirts are cool enough…I bought two at Old Navy…but I thought there’s one way we, as Prequel fans can fool good about themselves. Anybody can pose being a SW fan, at least in regard to the first three flicks. But wearing a clonetrooper or Darth Maul t-shirt, heck even a Jar Jar one, tells the world you’re the real deal. You know the Saga inside and out and have a deeper appreciation for it than just the surface stuff anybody can fake. You’re like the person who has all of the iTunes Deep Cuts tracks on your iPod already.
It also shows you can make up your own mind and you don’t need the poseurs at i09 or whatever to tell you what to think. The people who post comments on these sites are such sheep and tools it’s not even funny. There’s rarely an original thought among them. They just go along with what everyone else thinks.
Well, not us. Back in the late ’80s, a few of us diehards still stuck with SW even though it seemed as though at times the world had moved on from it. Within 10 years, the world caught up with us. So we’re on the real cutting edge now. See when the world catches up again.
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