Star Trek vs. Star Wars (and a collection of memes)

Umm... nope.

 

Well, someone other than myself disagrees, and at least some of the points are true (OT plot armour, Rogue One introduces to clear up a major plot hole, Holiday Special, e.t.c)

 

Anyone who prefers the crap prequels needs to have their head checked.

 

Ha ha. I know. Mostly, I was just trying to be funny. I still disagree with several of the comparisons though.

 

I think it's fair to say there are differing opinions on this matter and that people don't always like the same thing.

Probably best to leave it like that I think.

 

That’s one thing we can all agree on - that the Sequels suck big time!

Yeah, perhaps I shouldn’t have put that meme up, I was just interested to see someone else agree with my viewpoint and wanted to see what everyone thought of it.

My fault, I apologise everyone

 

In fairness, I'm not angered by it, even if I disagree with parts of. I find it fun to talk about (and sometimes even debate) SW. @Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl, I'm sorry if I upset you, or offended you. I know each of us is just trying to share our love for our preferred version of the movies; and in some ways hopefully attract other people by our passion for it.

 

No, no, you didn’t upset or offend me at all. I merely saw your post as a disagreement, which is fine given I already know the OT are your favourites.

I agree with that much - while Rogue One was intended primarily to fill that plot-hole, it was nevertheless a brilliant film that helped return some of the grimdark that Episodes I-III first introduced. I was honestly surprised by how great it was when I first went to see it.

Funnily enough I prefer the Midichlorian idea in Episodes I-III because it helped ground Star Wars as sci-fi proper, whereas the idea of the Force being a mystical energy field was too wishy-washy and lazy for my liking.

 

I... um... actually liked Rogue One better than either the Prequels OR the Sequels...

 

Nothing wrong with that at all, Rogue One was an excellent film, and certainly more grimdark than Episodes I and III, and tied with III as the most grimdark Star Wars film. It beats the Sequels by a country mile.

 

I enjoyed Rogue One.

Not sure it's one of my favourites, but it was entertaining.

Especially the Darth Vader fight at the end. Even though he kills good guys...

 

Yes. Yes he does. Because he's one of the quintessential movie villains and needed some image-enhancement to reinforce how much of a bad-ass he's supposed to be.

 

Yes. Yes it did.

 

That’s the whole point. A villain isn’t very threatening if he doesn’t display the powers he claims he is capable of, because he’d be all mouth and no trousers. Indeed that was another of my problems with the OT originally - that Vader could talk the talk, but never really got the opportunity to walk the walk (in his fight with Obi-Wan Obi-Wan was old and had spent twenty odd years as an out-of-practice hermit, in his first fight with Luke he purposefully let him live and in his second one Luke beat him).

That Rogue One scene, however, redeemed him for me because it showed that Anakin/Vader had lost little of his power since his internment in his suit and really showed what he could do against the right enemy. As @Tk’ya’pyk says, it was a much needed piece of image-enhancement.

 

Are you inferring that Kylo is proof or disproof of my point?