From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: liam{at}valentijn.nu
Subject: Re: Kirk and Spock in the news, again (link)

Your Name schreef op 14-6-2014 00:05:
> In article , Wouter
> Valentijn  wrote:
>> Your Name schreef op 13-6-2014 08:12:
>>> In article , ToolPackinMama
>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.cnet.com/news/americans-think-star-trek-is-the-future-not-star-w
>>>> ars-study-says/
>>>
>>> Well, DUH!
>>> Star Wars is set "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away".
>>> Star Trek is set in Earth's near-ish future.
>>>
>>
>> ROFL
>>
>> I'd take Star Trek over Star Wars any day.
>>
>> Not that I'm totally anti Star Wars. I liked Star Wars (IV) and TESB
>> very much. ROTJ was a lesser movie and the prequels... Never mind them.
>
> The only real issue with Star Wars is that there was such a long time
> between the trilogies, meaning they look quite different due to
> technology improvements, differeing style, over-the-top fight scenes,
> etc. Many of the later additions to the Original Trilogy look out of
> place with the older film quality / style. If all six (and soon a
> ridiculously tacked-on third Trilogy) had been made continuously like
> "Harry Potter", for example, then those differences would have been
> much less noticeable.
>

"Improvements"... Not a word I'd use. :-)
Nah, I think the stories themselves took a nose dive. They became more 
'kiddiefied'.
I'd keep 'Star Wars' and "The Empire Stikes Back', but the rest....

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