(this is quidawn, here's hoping LJ will let me post this, it seems like all the recent changes LJ has made have just bollocksed things up, as likely as not) Well, I'd wonder if maybe insofar as Papa GL's comments to this effect are concerned, maybe he's just speaking most of all from his own direct, firsthand personal experience with fans....like that little kids, let's say, may be the ones bouncing up to him and forevermore going on about how awesome CW is, and how they think it's the best thing ever and totally love it (justifiably so, natch) - just as it may well be something he's personally experiencd that it's the "younger" or "newer" generation of fans who are far more appreciative of the PT, and who have maybe even become SW fans outright because of it.... (me being a case in point :D ) ....very likely this is the kind of feedback he's gotten from them, so it'd be quite understandable in that instance for him to comment as much.
Especially, I suppose, like when it must seem that nigh-well everywhere else he turns, like with the media and such - they're always harping and haranguing ad nauseam about the OT, and trying to vaunt it so far above and beyond the PT and even CW, at that....very likely this is the kind of response or feedback he's getting from the more self-styled "old-school" fans, as opposed to the newer, younger generation who may just be way the heck more about the PT and CW than anything else....and if these are the very fans he's met and talked to, if this is the kind of feedback he's gotten, then 'twould be no wonder at all that he'd have something to say about the difference in dynamic between the PT/CW and OT fans....because maybe he's the one who's experienced it directly, firsthand, above really anyone else. And, yeah, of course it'd be a mighty nice thing, and vastly preferable in any case, for it to just be considered by one and all to be a Saga as a whole....I-VI, and CW included in the mix, natch....
....for it just to be looked upon as one whole, blessed, beautiful Saga unto itself, absolutely that is far and away the preferable thing - and Papa George has said as much, too, that far as he's concerned it's all one story told over the span of six films (and now over TV too) comprising the whole of the Saga from start to finish....that is how he himself looks at it, he has said as much. And o' course, yeah, if only all fans everywhere would see it the very same, but alas - we know from painful personal experience that when it comes to some fan-types in particular, that's just not likely to happen....not yet, not with them. Though maybe there's still more positive hope to be had yet, in that regard, what with all the new fans who are coming into it by way of CW, the PT and what have you....just seems like they - by which I mean we all ;) :D - do have that far better sense of it, and intrinsically understand it - the Saga as a whole, the true arc and scope of the story - that much more.
Aaaahhhh, I don't know....food for thought, anyway, I suppose. :) But maybe so long as the Saga, and Papa GL, and the SW fandom as a whole has all of *us*, at least....there may, indeed, yet be hope. :D
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Especially, I suppose, like when it must seem that nigh-well everywhere else he turns, like with the media and such - they're always harping and haranguing ad nauseam about the OT, and trying to vaunt it so far above and beyond the PT and even CW, at that....very likely this is the kind of response or feedback he's getting from the more self-styled "old-school" fans, as opposed to the newer, younger generation who may just be way the heck more about the PT and CW than anything else....and if these are the very fans he's met and talked to, if this is the kind of feedback he's gotten, then 'twould be no wonder at all that he'd have something to say about the difference in dynamic between the PT/CW and OT fans....because maybe he's the one who's experienced it directly, firsthand, above really anyone else. And, yeah, of course it'd be a mighty nice thing, and vastly preferable in any case, for it to just be considered by one and all to be a Saga as a whole....I-VI, and CW included in the mix, natch....
....for it just to be looked upon as one whole, blessed, beautiful Saga unto itself, absolutely that is far and away the preferable thing - and Papa George has said as much, too, that far as he's concerned it's all one story told over the span of six films (and now over TV too) comprising the whole of the Saga from start to finish....that is how he himself looks at it, he has said as much. And o' course, yeah, if only all fans everywhere would see it the very same, but alas - we know from painful personal experience that when it comes to some fan-types in particular, that's just not likely to happen....not yet, not with them. Though maybe there's still more positive hope to be had yet, in that regard, what with all the new fans who are coming into it by way of CW, the PT and what have you....just seems like they - by which I mean we all ;) :D - do have that far better sense of it, and intrinsically understand it - the Saga as a whole, the true arc and scope of the story - that much more.
Aaaahhhh, I don't know....food for thought, anyway, I suppose. :) But maybe so long as the Saga, and Papa GL, and the SW fandom as a whole has all of *us*, at least....there may, indeed, yet be hope. :D