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Sorry, I forgot you guys use the wrong name for that sport.
that's just the sound a-dev makes when he thinks about any sport.
I know cause I'm the same.
Sorry, I forgot you guys use the wrong name for that sport.
"Clinging to nostalgia?" Not necessarily. But does nostalgia play a key role? Absolutely.
The stuff we are exposed to as kids has a critical influence on what we are into as adults. If you are an American, who grew up playing football and baseball, and move to a country where the primary sport is soccer, you're still going to prefer football and baseball. This will continue to be the case even if you are enmeshed into that country for years and become pretty well integrated into that society. The same phenomenon drives most of our collecting habits on this forum.
I'm also not trying to use nostalgia as a bad word,
that's just the sound a-dev makes when he thinks about any sport.
The reasons other franchises you mention have not always succeeded could have multiple explanations:
LOL!Sorry, I forgot you guys use the wrong name for that sport.
I'm team Kara, get off my boards Jye.
Kara is definately one of the most intelligent people that hangs out in the movie section no doubt about that, just below me actually, but Khev is right, nostalgia crutch doesn't matter if the actual movie isn't good and if the plot and character arcs don't simultaneously tread new ground while it's busy busting out the nostalgia.
Khev wrote a great post last year that highlighted all the new ground TFA broke while it was copying ANH.
Don't speak to soon my friend. There is still plenty of time left to ruin Luke . . .
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