From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Kirk and Spock in the news, again (link)   
      
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   > In article <539bf9f5$0$2866$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Wouter   
   > Valentijn  wrote:   
   >> Your Name schreef op 14-6-2014 00:05:   
   >> > In article <539af9f9$0$2964$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, 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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