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[Poll] Revisiting Star Wars Geek Credentialling

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Thursday August 21, @12:14AM
Star Wars Prequels
So, does NOT watching Star Wars: Clone Wars make you more of a Star Wars geek or less? Does having an opinion at all render the question moot? Can you believe this poll was rejected? (Yeah, me too;-)

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  • I always was more of a Star Trek guy. Never really got into Star Wars. (Yeah, yeah, I'll hand out my geek badge on the way out)
    • Borg Cube versus Death Star would be an interesting thought exercise, no? Would the Force Choke(TM) work on a Borg Drone? I know Red SHirt Bob would be hating life, but I'd assume the Borg would overwhelm most of the Imperial Forces eventually. UNless the Ewoks got involved of coure;-)
      • Yeah, I'd pretty much side with the Borg too. Not sure about the Ewoks. Imagine those cuddly monsters assimilated! Material for horror scenarios....

  • Only a true Star Wars geek could watch the entire Christmas special (below is the 5 minute version, which is hard enough to watch):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnVcbWQ2cg [youtube.com]

    I am soooooo glad I didn't see this as a kid.

    • I saw the Christmas special when it aired. My big concern at the time was, "Wait, if this is happening a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it would be before the birth of Christ. How can they possibly have anything to do with Christmas?" At the time, I was too young to really understand the depths of money-grubbing, whorish exploitation that Lucas was capable of.

      • I never got to see it. My family was of a religion that did not celebrate holidays and it was not permitted to engage in holiday related activities, and my pleas that it was Star Wars (and that was a large percentage of my interest at the time) fell upon deaf ears.

        • JW? Should you ever get a chance to see you will find that it really has little to do with SW or Christmas. But it does have Bea Arthur, Jefferson Starship, and Chewbacca's family. Would that I were making any of those up.

          • Yes. Jehovah's Witness. No longer religious, or spiritual really. I lost faith at about twelve, but went through the minimum of motions to avoid disfellowshipment until eighteen.

            In retrospect, I'm not now terribly upset at not having seen it. But I was pretty distraught about it when it happened.

          • You forgot the worst of it, which can be summed up in two words: Wookiee Porn [youtube.com].

            And I guess one good measure of a Star Wars nerd is if you can spell "Wookiee" correct without looking it up.

            • And I guess one good measure of a Star Wars nerd is if you can spell "Wookiee" correct without looking it up.

              I always thought it was "Wookie." Either way, the important thing is that he wins!
      • "Wait, if this is happening a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it would be before the birth of Christ. How can they possibly have anything to do with Christmas?"

        You are such a scientist;-) That plus I thought everyone knew that Yoda == Moses. They both have walking sticks, and a little known Biblical fact is that Moses hacked off the head of the Golden Calf with a lightsaber. He had been using it to inscribe the tablets with the Commandments...
    • I have watched it. In its entirety. As an adult. I actually found a place selling VHS copies of it from someone who taped it lo those many years ago, and bought it for a friend of mine;-) We watched, er, endured it together;-) I'm sure he still has it if you are ever interested in borrowing it;-)

      • I couldn't make it past the first ten minutes of the youtube version, but thanks :-)

  • Can one be a SW geek without having consumed every piece of Lucas-approved tripe (including Foster's "Splinter of the Mind's Eye")? I enjoyed IV-VI, endured I-III, read some of the first novels when they came out, and gave up otherwise. Haven't watched the Christmas special, haven't and probably won't watch the cartoon... I'm not a geek at all, I'm a semi-nerd: We don't get to carry cards, you potentially less-than-sensitive clods. ;-b,,,

    • I'm a semi-nerd: We don't get to carry cards, you potentially less-than-sensitive clods. ;-b,,,

      UNfortuantely only Full Geek positions are being kept at this time. All part-time nerd positions are being outsourced to Tatooine under the auspices of Jawa Resources Ltd;-)

      • Okay, my secret's out: I've been working with the Jawas on 'Flying Silver Balls of Death' - they're Phantasmic!! You've played a good game, boy....

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