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

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

The media and fanboys love to play up this sort of thing, unfortunately. Once I went to a birthday party for a guy I knew from volunteering at the Magic of Myth exhibit. He was a big Trekkie as were all of his buddies. I think they were more afraid of me giving them a hard time than the other way around but everything went fine. I also watched the old Trek reruns in the '70s, seen all of the Trek flicks, watched Next Gen with my fellow dorm rats in college, and for a couple of years there stuck it out with DS9 and Voyager. My older fan friends were all Trek fans, so I went with them to a lot of the cons during the '90s. I don't consider myself a huuuuge fan but I like Trek overall. The franchise has had tough times over the past few years and it's nice to see it poised for a bit of a comeback. But I just cringe at how everything needs to be at SW's expense.