I'm going to watch Star Wars... Oh, you ask, will that be the OT or the PT? How about the OOT, or is it the UOT? Do you have it on VHS or DVD? Are you watching on TV, PC or PSP? If I were a man, I could watch it in my BVDs... all this is too much for my ADD...
Originally posted on the OS on May 28, 2006.
The other day I was lying on my pillow top mattress, resting my cranky back, and I turned on the TV and watched the end of A New Hope... I watched it from the point I stopped it the day before, and at the end I click stop and then started it over, and suddenly a great thought came over me...
If someone had told me, or any Star Wars fanatic, back in 1977, that I could see Star Wars as many times as I wanted, over and over instantly, just by clicking a couple of buttons on a little stick-like box pointed at my TV set, I would have said, in the words of the 70s, "FAR OUT!"
And if someone had said we would see it with improved color and special effects, better explosions, more realistic vehicles, more aliens, and better sound we all would have said, in the words of the 70s,"FAR OUT!"
So I find the latest controversy a little amusing. Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. It can make things seem better in your memory then they really were. With the exception of Coke made with real sugar and mom's cooking, they rarely are.
There's certainly nothing else from the 70s that I miss... polyester clothes, permed hair, cheesy television shows, disco music... and no pillow-top mattresses...
Sure, it might be neat to see "Star Wars" again as I did in 1977, but it might be disappointing, too. Visiting the past doesn't take you to the past... seeing the 1977 version of Star Wars wouldn't make me 21 again, standing in line outside the Cinema 150 with a baby on my hip.
So, watch it for fun if you want, but you can't go back... as much as I'd like to find the tree-hugging hippie that spawned the "Han can't shoot first" garbage ... unless you have a DeLorean... but that's a different movie!
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