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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfspider" data-source="post: 98499" data-attributes="member: 300">What is it with people keeping tabs on the number of posts I make?  It's starting to creep me out. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />Actually, I don't think I've really "railed" against it in this thread.  I don't think I've gotten very emotional about it here.  I can't remember clearly what else I might have said elsewhere, but I really don't think I've "railed" about it anywhere else either.  Despite what it may seem like, thinking about Episode II really doesn't occupy a great deal of my time.  I'm not stationed by my computer day and night hooked up to a catheter just waiting to post a rebuttal somewhere, after all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  I think that you're first descriptor is more accurate -- I'm "rather vocal." Well, I can't remember what the circumstances were surrounding what I said in your quote, but I was obviously reacting to something somebody had said:  "I'll just have to boycott the film entirely THEN."  (Emphasis mine.)  Somebody must have made some observation that completely crushed my desire to see the movie.  I dunno.  As I said, I can't remember what was said.  Perhaps you can provide some clarification.However, I can tell you that deciding not to see the film hasn't really liberated me at all.  After all, I'm still chained to this thread, aren't I? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Like I said earlier, I WAS extremely excited about the new trailer being released.  I was like a man possessed as I frantically flipped through the channels to find Fox.  I called my girlfriend in and we snuggled on the couch waiting for it.  I was in the PERFECT frame of mind to like the trailer.  And I still didn't like it.Make of that what you will.OK.  What do you think about this plan?  (Not that you really should care, but here it is anyway.)I won't go to see the film the opening weekend so I can find out exactly how people have reacted.  I'll read a lot of reviews and take a careful look through the dozen or so threads that pop up here at ENWorld.  I'll make up my mind based on what I find, and I will try to keep an open mind.Any suggestions on not bringing excess baggage with me to the movie, if I decide to go?  To be honest, I really don't think I have a lot of excess baggage when it comes to Star Wars anyway.  I'm a fan of Star Wars, but I actually like Star Trek a lot more.  I don't think George Lucas "raped my childhood" or anything, to use an expression someone coined concerning the failures of Episode I.  I get disgusted as some of the things I read about Mr. Lucus, and I do think that he has lost his creative edge, but I think that about a lot of artists and writers.  In other words, I don't have near the amount of baggage concerning Star Wars: Ep II that I did concerning the Lord of the Rings movie, since I think Tolkien shaped my life substantiatlly.Anyway, I'd better end this post before it really gets out of control.One last thing: The presence of this collection worries me.  What possibly could you hope to do with it other than rub people's noses in it and make them feel bad and/or angry?  Just for the record, what are YOUR thoughts concerning the movie.  I'd like to have my own stab at you when the time comes....</blockquote>

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