Welcome to Naberrie Fields! Introductions & banter

Indeed. So happy to cross paths with you again, Del. If you remember us being banned, you must have been quite perceptive at the time. The mods tried to cover it up. But as the saying goes: "You can fool some of the people some of the time..." 

I posted on the SWPAS from time to time. I don't recall making that many posts, but one or two prequel fans seem to have noticed me there. And yeah, unfortunately, Lazy Padawan stopped updating her blog in 2018. 

In the 2017 to 2022 period (i.e., from when I disappeared on TFN until your rediscovering me here), I initially sustained myself with hidden group discussions with some people on TFN from the PT section (many of whom have accounts here), then later started posting in the comments section of Naboo News (where I had met and had many exchanges with ArchdukeOfNaboo ), until finally taking the plunge and using my account here on Naberrie Fields (which I registered all the way back in February 2017, as soon as our webmaster Subtext Mining set the site up, and actually before being banned on TFN). This site, you might say, is something of a protest site against TFN. Not even against the moderation, per se (although that, too), but for the way anti-prequel trolling was still commonplace in 2017. All the gloating over TFA had begun and there was a strong sense of Disney finally correcting all the wrongs of the PT. Look how that turned out...

Anyway:

Arch Duke, in fact, is largely responsible for Naberrie Fields jolting to life. I told him about this website on Naboo News back in 2019, then he encouraged me to pick up my account here, and before long, the two of us were racking up posts on NF and it started to get a little busier. I've joked that there's a certain sick irony in the fact that this website, in acronym form, is one letter less than TFN! Fate is a cruel jester. In the words of Obi-Wan: "Not to worry -- we are still flying half a ship." While it would be nice to see this place get a little livelier, it has a certain chilled-out mood that is very "Naboo", and it's quite the pleasant place to inhabit after the despicable Orwellian cesspit of TFN. Nobody has to watch their words here. If Rey is a Mary Sue to you, she's Mary Sue -- period. If the prequels are the greatest Star Wars thing ever, well, you can keep asserting it without interference from OT fanatics and Disney mouthpieces (or so-called third-wave feminists). We're an alliance of Lucas lovers and we're not shy about our love for all things Lucas here.


I lurk, but not as much as I did, say, a year ago? I wouldn't like to attempt to quantify my lurking, but I'm pretty sure it has diminished in recent months. And lurking in the past few years has been just as much in the Sequel Trilogy section as the PT board. For a time, I had a new fixation (oddly: I still really like TROS), and I was keen to do what I did during the prequels: read as many perspectives and gather as many insights as possible. In part, I pushed the prequels to one side. But mainly in terms of not being so driven to read fresh insights on them (fresh insights, these days, are a little thin on the ground). Still, I did notice some of your posts, and I was reminded that TFN still has some smart and genuinely passionate prequel fans still posting in their defence.

And yes, the tide is turning. The prequels are no longer a lousy excuse for a bunch of toy commercials or the epitome of everything wrong with modern cinema. I believe some other Star Wars movies may have recently moved in to claim those accolades. It's not a time for boasting or complacency, however. Lots of people still look down at the PT and its fanbase, and the media still encourages the usual trash perspectives (by and large). But at least some people can finally admit there was a lofty vision to the prequels and actually a story being told. 

You know, it's like George Lucas planned it to be this way, or something... 


It's really quite fascinating you say you weren't invited, but found us via a random Google search!!! I can only imagine some of the cogs turning in Arch Duke's head right now. We've discussed how to increase visibility and interest. This might be our worst fear: Many fans still have no idea this website exists, and it's pot luck whether they may one day stumble on it or not. I wish fans were sneakily sharing this website's URL around like contraband on TFN. I see it has been mentioned in one of those inane "social threads" in the PT forum. But that's like a monkey accidentally typing out a page from "Hamlet" and then dropping it in the garbage masher. Thank you for the compliment(s). If we have anything in our favour, it's a small number of TFN veterans choosing to still stick up for and wax lyrical about the PT. Although Disney projects draw the eye, prequel devotees spewing mad passion for the PT is this site's bread and butter, its raison d'être.

Nice. I tend to look at replies, not views. The Kenobi thread has 443 replies (and 13,252 views), the TROS thread has 427 replies (and 13,522 views).

There is one thread in front of the both of them. Seeker of the Whills Mirroring and Symbolism thread, with 455 replies (and 16,283 views). 

Looks like the Obi-Wan thread is going to surge ahead of the competition very soon!

Maybe. Or just change the title of the existing one to:

Obi-Wan Kenobi series: speculation and reaction