Heart of the City by Steenz for September 22, 2011

OK, Dean, now you’re moving into “obsessive” mode. . .

…and yet, unfortunately on the “money. . ..”

Funny thing is, all these nutballs foaming at the mouth about what George Lucas did to Star Wars either had to buy the revamped trilogy to see the changes, in which case they fell into George Lucas’ trap – or they haven’t seen it in protest and therefore don’t know what they are talking about. Interesting to note that a few years back, when Paramount replaced all the graphics in the original Star Trek series with modern special effects, there wasn’t such a huge hue and cry from the fanboys. Could that mean that Trekkies are maybe just a little bit more mature than Star Wars fanatics? Interesting how Mark, in just a few short strips, has gone from soliciting protests over Star Wars to poking fun at the fanboys.

That’s right… there’s a difference between changing graphics and changing what happens.

You can still see STAR TREK in its Original form.

Is this part of Heart’s ‘dream sequence’ from last week? (It’s getting weird enough!)

@fritzoid (from yesterday)Re: ascribing fictional character’s opinions to his author:While I agree with you in general, the opinion expressed in the first of these strips, to boycott GL’s BD, is the author’s, hence my there-expressed opinion of the author, which was only reinforced yesterday.Star Wars came out in 1977, 34 years ago. Anyone who saw it in a movie theater is a bit older than Dean. I was long past my childhood already back then; so maybe I value it less than the generation after me. I hope that generation had a childhood that was richer than some movie. Even if I had a BD player, I won’t be buying the BD. But that has nothing to do with anything being altered; I already saw them. IMHO, anyone Dean’s age seeing the original now, having already seen movies like Avatar, wouldn’t be all that impressed by the 1970’s special effects technology contained in the original, and couldn’t care less about altering it.Using the Star Wars profits, GL spent millions creating the post-Star-Wars technology, and changing the way films are made. Then he virtually gave it away, which flies in the face of those who say it’s all about the money. But he needed those profits to do it

Dean is how old? Surely the only versions he would have seen were the re-edited ones.

I remember seeing the original in a theater with my daughter. We were both modelers and knew that ship that filled the screen was six feet long. We both immediately went into model contest judging mode, looking for flaws. Not even so much as a paint bubble.

If George Lucas was Alfred Hitchcock, he would have gone back to the shower scene in “Psycho” and relit the scene to clearly show the face of “Mrs. Bates”. THAT"S the kind of spoiler Lucas is.

Hmm – Blu-Ray. Must be they changed the color of the Death Star cannon.

Smack him upside the head with that sign.

Stole your childhood? Your childhood is still going on!