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Originally posted by K T Ong: SW being made for kids? I don't know that kids can understand things like 'Senate', 'Trade Federations' and the like. I think SW is more for people who don't want to grow up. As for being comical, my impression is that the SW saga is about as dead serious as you can get, Jar Jar Binks aside. After all, it's supposed to be about war, about the horrors of war with people getting butchered and worlds getting blown apart and what not.

KT, Azure is actually right here, Lucas HAS said this himself.

Originally posted by K T Ong: And here's my biggest gripe with SW: I honestly find it a bit difficult to feel serious about, to feel concerned for, totally imaginary people with corny names like Qui-Gon Jinn or Padme or whatever. What's wrong with names like John, Mary or K T Ong?

What's wrong with names like John and Mary in the SW universe? The fact that it's a galaxy, far, far away. A galaxy which doesn't really have much in common with our own, just because some of them are humans doesn't mean that they'll have the same boring and unimaginative names as us.

Originally posted by K T Ong: People who look like humans ARE humans? Well, dunno, maybe in the SW universe, but certainly not elsewhere. Superman looks human, but he isn't human. No human can fly or lift a Concorde. Klingons look like humans, but they're not. Elves, dwarves and hobbits look human, but they're not. External appearances establish nothing. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Well, for one thing dwarves and hobbits are quite a lot smaller than the average human, that makes them look somewhat less human. Elves have the pointed ears and no hair beyond that on their heads to make them less human. Klingons have funny stuff on their foreheads. And perhaps Superman DOES have some physical difference, maybe people have just yet to notice it.

Originally posted by K T Ong: As I've said in another earlier post in this thread, I have nothing against all this SW crap so long as I don't have to be bombarded by it well nigh every moment of my waking life -- which unfortunately is becoming very difficult.

Then stay out of threads such as these and don't watch the SW movies, what little exposure you have to SW should be somewhat reduced by that, it's not possible to avoid exposure to something completely, I'd like to avoid ever being exposed to Harry Potter or idiocy ever in my life and I reduce my exposure to them by avoiding the places where they usually are.