 Alright, I'm back again for another installment of Shut Up About Star Wars, as if this is a series, which it isn't. I wanted to reiterate what I said at the beginning of my video yesterday. The reason I haven't been on Twitter and Facebook and Tumblr every day for the last few months just screaming Shut Up About Star Wars, Shut Up About Star Wars is because I don't want to come across as bullying people who are interested in Star Wars and I don't want to be associated with one of these boycott Star Wars people because I'm not. In fact, again, as we're getting closer to the movie coming up, I'm actually enjoying watching my online friends who are enjoying the movie and who are enjoying dressing up as characters. You know, I don't have any problem with them having their fun. Their personal thing is they love Star Wars, and my personal thing in the face of the Star Wars overglut, my personal thing is I'm sick of it. And unfortunately, the way I chose to word it, Shut Up About Star Wars, sounds like an order, sounds like I'm telling people to shut up about Star Wars when I just thought it sounded funny. And again, it was inspired by Kate Beaton's t-shirt that says Shut Up About Babies. There's a cosplayer on Facebook who I've known online for a couple of years now. Her name is Christina Telleson, and she has a thing going where she's wearing a different Star Wars t-shirt every day until the movie comes out. And I'm actually enjoying seeing what she's wearing every day, but she's actually facing some bullying on Facebook for what she's doing. And that's exactly what I don't want to do. You see the position I'm in here? I think one thing that every rational person can agree on is that the really rabid fans are a mystery, kind of a mystery to all of us. There's a guy I know here in town, he's a friend of a friend. I don't know him well personally. But he's one of these guys who bought his cinema tickets months ago as soon as they became available online and he's going to dress up and he's going to get a tent and he's going to live in line for a couple of days on the sidewalk. And he doesn't understand why the rest of us aren't doing that. He's saying, but this is history. This is history. And it doesn't matter to him whether the movie is going to be good or not. In fact, his diatribe is, well, it's not going to be worse than the prequels, which is another problem I'll get to in a minute. He says it's history. We should be excited about it. And we say it's just a movie. And he says, well, I don't understand you. And I bring that up because I want to talk about this video that was posted online this month by a YouTuber called Funny Local News. It's a supercut of local news broadcasts of people standing in line to see the fan of Menace. They're in their costumes. There's a guy dressed up as Darth Maul. He's dressed up as a character that he's seen in the posters when he hasn't seen the movie yet, which is another thing that I don't get. You're a fan of things that you haven't seen yet. All these people were interviewed before seeing the movie and then after seeing the movie. And you can see the difference in their eyes before the movie. They're all very excited. They're genuinely happy there. And then after the movie, they're all saying that it was great, that it's another great Star Wars movie that's going to go down in history is the greatest thing ever. But they're not jumping up and down. You can see that they're in denial. And I saw this video because someone wrote about it on the Mary Sue and the woman who wrote it said that she remembers that experience, that it took her some time. It took weeks for the denial to ebb away and for her to realize that that was a really bad movie. And I hate to say it, but the prequel set the bar so low that I don't see how this new J.J. Abrams movie can be that bad. But that doesn't excuse the fact that the movie is not going to be good. I can't see that the movie is going to be good. As a matter of fact, one of my YouTube commenters made a point in yesterday's video. He made the point that I had intended to say in yesterday's video. And I'll get to it now is that I think that this new movie is going to be a rehash of the first movie. Not only is it going to be the same story told with a few different characters. I'm betting money, not really because I don't have any money. I'm betting that it's going to be a scene for scene recreation of the first movie. It's going to start with the same visuals. Each scene is going to be a recreation of the next scene from the first movie all the way down the line. There will be a new Death Star, but it'll be a hundred times bigger. When the rebellion had one or two hundred fighters, the resistance will have a thousand. That's how JJ Abrams does things. He's only capable of taking somebody else's work and retelling it and just making everything bigger. Louder screams, brighter lights, bigger explosions, and I think that's what this will be. I mean, we see in the trailers that there's the desert planet, even though it's not Tatooine, they're telling me it's not Tatooine. Why is it not Tatooine? Tatooine is so central to Star Wars. Why have a desert planet and it not be Tatooine unless you just can't think of anything else to do? Another one of my commenters yesterday referred to him as Jar Jar Abrams. I'm ashamed of the fact that I didn't think of that. Other people must be doing that. It's too obvious. It wasn't to me. I didn't think of it until, yeah, and see, here I am. I'm not all that interested in Star Wars, and I'm getting less and less interested in Star Wars, and I'm more interested in staying away from it, but I can't because it's everywhere. In fact, here I am talking about it and spending hours making videos about it and answering my viewers' questions about what I said and what my views are and spending all this time on Star Wars, well, I didn't want to in the first place because you can't get away from it. I showed you those pop chips that I had yesterday that have Star Wars on them. There's a guy online named Nick Pierce who wrote an editorial, I think almost two years ago called Why I'm Sick of Star Wars, and one of the most salient quotes from that is, my problem isn't that there's a new series of movies coming out, it's that Star Wars never seems to go away. I mean, all the years, all the decades between the first movies, and then it was 15 years before the prequels, and it's been almost that long since these new movies, and in those intervening years, Star Wars never went away. There was never even a dip in its presence in our lives, and then you add to that fact that every movie after Empire wasn't very good, and most of them were terrible, then yeah, I'm just sick of it, but here I am talking about it. And now, let me mention spoilers here to wrap things up for tonight, and again, the fact that I'm not interested in seeing this movie, and I'm not interested in following what's going on with it, and yet I know everything there is to know about it, because I see it constantly, I spend my career, I pay my rent by working online, so I see it everywhere all the time, so I know everything, so people like myself, if I cared about spoilers, I would have a real problem. There are people who are saying that the new action figure of the girl named Rey, that her action figure is itself a spoiler, because of the costumes she's wearing, and people are upset about it, come on. One of the guys I watch online, Jim plays games, he and one of my viewers named Pac Billy have been working their way through Eye of the Beholder 2, an old Amiga game, they've been doing this for two years, but in one of their recent episodes, Pac Billy started to mention the first Star Wars trailer, and Jim was like, no, no, stop, stop. He is apparently one of those that is so strident about spoilers, and so interested in being surprised by the movie, which he can't be, it's impossible, that he hasn't even seen the trailers. How has he managed that? I don't know. And he's so concerned about it that he doesn't even want someone in the same room with him to talk about the trailers. You got a tough week ahead of you, Jim, and I'm not going to help you. Okay, see you tomorrow. You can support 30 Seconds Sci-Fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below. And visit the 30 Seconds Sci-Fi Tumblr, that's my headquarters. 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