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

poor doggie...

 

So I was 22 years old when the movie came out, I watched it with my parents. They a roughly 33 years older than me.

My couldn't stop giggling every time someone said "He killed the younglings" because she thought it was a stupid way to say "murdered children" and didn't take anything in the movie seriously.

At the time, I took Star Wars very seriously and was very annoyed by her. Also, I kind of view talking in the theater as a major faux passe but years later I understand the sentiment.

I know not everyone likes Mister Plinkett, but he was right that the first 15 minutes of Revenge of the Sith was awful and kept changing the tone every 60 seconds. The tonal confusion carried over to the rest of the movie, so the audience wasn't sure what to feel during serious scenes.


I don't know if this is the same thing. But the Marvel Cinematic Universe had lots and lots of fake outs with a character dying and then "oh wait, he's not really dead!"

The later the first time they actually killed someone, I didn't take it seriously or feel the emotional impact.

Spoiler: SPOILER

Quicksilver in Age of Ultron

While everyone was mourning, I didn't take it seriously and just grinned knowingly during the sad scene. By the time I found out that I was wrong, my chance for empathetic catharsis was long gone.

Yet I got misty eyed when a talking plant died in an episode of Thundercats, so I have the capacity to be sad at the death of a fictional character.

 

The snow troopers never embarrassed themselves. That would be my choice.

 

The speeder bike trooper.
If i stay still, sooner or later someone could land a shot, but if i'm going to run away on a bike...
Plus, the ride will be fun.