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

Your Name  wrote in
news:150620141001083494%YourName{at}YourISP.com: 

> In article , Wouter
> Valentijn  wrote:
>> 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- wars-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. :-)
> 
> Improvements to the film-making technology ... not necessarily the
> movies themselves.
> 
> 
> 
>> 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....
> 
> They were always aimed at kids - roughly 13 year old boys.

You mean like almost every comedy movie made in America?
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