Welcome to Naberrie Fields! Introductions & banter

Did you get lucky? 

Damn. Any woman that loves Audrey and even looks a bit like her is a keeper in my books. I totally get your nostalgia. 

A German in our midst? 


Nice to have you here, Samnz!  

I've been looking forward to this.

Yes, the forum is picking up speed -- hope it lasts (it has done this before and then petered out). 

But more importantly, it's also picking up some mighty fine new members, like your good self. Please make yourself at home! 

Of course! I was just teasing. I'm aware that the German language isn't confined to Germany. I holidayed in Austria when I was 19. I felt like Anakin on Naboo! Same year as AOTC, too -- I'd seen the movie only a month or two before I went. My God, did I want to stay there. Beautiful country. I almost started learning German. For a time, I was convinced I should leave the UK and try and make it in Austria or another European country. I must travel more once the COVID crisis clears up (if it ever does).

Thank you for the recommendations, Samnz.  I've seen far too little of the world -- except digitally. 


Loved her posts -- and her Qui-Gon avatar! Man, I'd love to see her here. There are many great posters I'm hoping will make the transition in time. I've mentioned this site a bit on Naboo News (in the comments section), and to a few prequel fans on Facebook. It has produced fruit, even if people vary in their enthusiasm and motivation. Would love to see 100+ members a year from now.

Exactly. 

Although I'd love to see 100+ threads in The George Lucas Era forum, too. 

Nevertheless, you're right in what you imply: many existing threads could still be fattened up.

'Sup, everyone. I've been rediscovering Star Wars over the last couple of years after a childhood spent obsessing over the thing and teen years spent somewhere between indifference and embarrassment. I now know that kid me had the right idea; I think there's some sort of reverse bell curve that applies to these things. As far as I can tell, I was exposed to the OT on VHS (can't remember if they were the SEs or not) and TPM in theaters at about the same time. The period between AOTC and ROTS being my personal heyday.


These are the versions of the movies I spent the most time with. (Not my pic)

Somewhere around the first season of TCW my interest faded, and when TFA came out I went to the theaters almost purely out of curiosity, I was long over it by then (the film itself doing nothing to amend that).

Everything from the last few years- the widespread re-evaluation of Lucas/the prequels, Disney's handling of the saga, and the high-concept discussions those events sparked- on franchising, storytelling vs. corporate fanwank, cinematic technique, and much more, really got me going on this whole Star Wars thing again. So after what, 10 years?- I sat down and re-watched the Lucas saga 1-6 "for the very first time". And these movies are so fucking cool man. Really special. Look, I'm fond of plenty of Star Wars media, but when you remove the IDEA of Star Wars and view these films completely as their own thing- that's when the magic happens. Now I'm at a point where I'll throw one of the movies on my second monitor for a few scenes like I'm listening to the radio. Total comfort food.

I can't remember how I even found this remote sanctuary, but I recognize a lot of TFN names here, a site I also lurk. Read many of your posts, learned much. Good to be here.

I too experienced the reverse bell curve thing. In the early-80s I was an obsessed kid, then in the mid-80s when I was about Ani's age SW became uncool and stayed that way for awhile. I think the direction marketing took with the Ewoks played a big part in that. When in comparison to G.I. Joe and Transformers, it just couldn't compete with the cool kids. Also the fact that it was "over" and there was "no more story to tell" kind of made it feel like old news to the culture at large.

Though I did have a brief resurgence of SW fandom of my own in 1987, it wasn't until the early-90s that I got back into it in earnest. And I could see the rest of society slowly starting to rekindle the flame as well. Only to be solidified in 1997 with the theatrical re-release and news & rumors of prequels in the works. The rest is history.

Maybe that's how it works with timeless things. There's some unexplainable drop-off after the initial celebrated introduction.

I also think society has become more inclusive to nerd culture over the last 20-25 years. Or, less closeted. I remember growing up, it would be suicide to wear a shirt emblazoned with anything geek culture related. Now those same people who made fun of Sci-fi, fantasy, comic book nerds are dads walking around with Marvel t-shirts and baby Yoda hats.
(Even my brother who used to tease me for liking SW now has a TIE-Fighter tattoo on his arm).
Or maybe the capitalist, reboot machine just convinced society via over-saturation

Interesting. I actually only really got into Star Wars -- or even knew what it was -- in the early 90s. I was ten years-of-age in 1993. Born the year of ROTJ. Sort of my destiny, I guess, to discover it and become hooked eventually. My mom and my siblings like the films, but my dad's like, "Bwlweerrgh". Anyway, I did experience a "recession", of sorts, or a dwindling of the light, in my fandom, around the time of AOTC. I saw it digitally and it was like okay, perhaps even exciting, but all the negativity did chip away at my interest for a year or two. I think it started after seeing TPM (which I loved and have clearer memories of than AOTC for some reason). It actually took me a few years, post-ROTS, to really embrace the prequels on their own terms.

My way back into them was:

i) Seeing and really enjoying ROTS and buying the DVD and talking about the movie on TFN (even when I should have been studying).

ii) Getting hooked on all the symbolism of the PT, especially AOTC. It was the symbolism that almost made me adore the movies too much conceptually.

iii) Watching I and II again, and realising, and then later accepting (realising and accepting being two different things), "Heck, yes, these movies are different and do do* their own thing. Maybe they should even be watched differently."

*"Yousa in big doodoo dis time."

The prequels are a big doodoo. The sequels are a big redo.


LOL! Interesting! My brother was always fine with Star Wars. We watched the movies on VHS and owned several video games. Technically, my brother even made a Star Wars game himself using a nifty game-making piece of software called "Klik N Play" (I helped with some of the graphics and sound).

You're right that it's far more acceptable to be into "nerdy" stuff now -- it's not only communally advantageous, in fact, but can be financially very lucrative, too. We have truly entered the Era Of Geek.

The ironic thing is, though, that fellow geeks/nerds (I've never quite understood the difference) like to gatekeep amongst themselves, and the prequels are still being shit upon (though perhaps not quite as much as they used to be). Prequel fans are thus, well, still a bit of a "special" minority.