Aw geez, not this @#$@ again

[lazypadawan]

With New!Trek upon us, the ugliest rivalry since the Yankees and the Red Sox could flare up again. First to light a fire and throw in some kerosene is our old buddy Simon Pegg, who plays Scotty in the flick. Pegg is famously a PT basher but now he thinks SW has no integrity!! From an interview with New York Timeout's website:

Star Trek, in the end, seems to have won the war, because it maintained its integrity, and now the effects are catching up as well. So you sort of get your Star Trek cake and eat it, too. I'm sure Star Wars fans around the world will want to kill me for saying that, and see me as a traitor, because I've always been a very outspoken fan of Star Wars, but I've never been publicly keen on the new ones.

It makes you want to look up at the ceiling and yell, "KHAAAAAAN!!!" Integrity? WTF is he talking about? Lucas made the movies he wanted to make, not kowtowing to fanboy nation or movie critics or internet dweebs. That's integrity.

Please tell me again why do people at Lucasfilm suck up to this guy?

Comments

[equustel.livejournal.com]

Oh please. I will never understand this urge, apparently inbred exclusively in fanboys (never in my life have I seen the fangirl nation involved in a franchise war).

I'm gonna watch and probably really enjoy the new Trek, but every time I hear someone call it "what the prequels should have been" I am just gonna continue laughing my arse off, cos J.J. Abrams expressly stated that he was trying to inject the Trek franchise with SW's energy and more universal appeal. Why? Because Star Wars has what other space operas are missing.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Fangirls would rather fight over who's going to marry Robert Pattinson and whether Harry should have ended up with Ginny or Cho.