Poll: Are you as sick of Star Wars as I am?

[Vicarious Reality]

No, i play TOR and strangely enough i like it
Expecting good, new concepts from the new films

Sick I expect more mediocrity from disney, and I expect the usual garbage from EA. (TBH I don't even know how SWTOR turned out, but I can guess... and it starts with the letter M, which is also what I expect from any MMO)

What do you mean? MMMMANY things start with the letter M

 

[Riff Moonraker]

I didnt vote because your poll is heavily skewed towards the negative.

Well, that's fair, but it doesn't seem to be keeping people from representing the majority in the polls(currently 47.5% answered 'No', more than any other category). I don't feel that it's skewed towards a negative, per say; negative is taken by the view of the observer. E.G. people who like Star Wars may see criticism of it as "negative", and people who hate Star Wars may see praise of it as "negative", as least in theory. Not a hard and fast rule to be sure.

And besides, this thread IS designed to be attractive to those who feel the same way as I do, tired of it, because I wanted to know how many out there feel the same, not how many out there disagree with me. Hmmm... Let me rephrase that.

Seeing both sides of the issue is important to me, but if people who are tired of Star Wars see a thread about Star Wars, they are likely to avoid it because it wouldn't appeal to them(for obvious reasons). So I felt that it was more important to make the point of the thread clear in the title and polls; this is a thread about how people feel about Star Wars, not Star Wars itself.

Make sense?

What I mean is that you have the options yes, depends, and George can jump in the sarlacc pit, but only the option no, to disagree. So, three choices that either lean or completely head in the direction of not liking Star Wars, versus one very sad "no". Now if you had a rousing "Star Wars is my lifeblood, so I completely and vehemently disagree!" option, see... THAT would be what I would have selected, and would have given a much better idea of my feelings toward the greatest movies ever made.

So, in short, no just wasnt giving me enough UUUMPH options, there. No biggie, just saying.

 

[The_Amazing_G]

When it comes to being ubiquitous and popular, nothing comes close to Star Wars. I once studied it and noted at least one Star Wars reference per day while I browsed the web.

It's just fans... you're everywhere. And anytime there's a cosplay, parody, image macro or a witty reference, you're all over it. Someone in a Stormtrooper costume could be walking their dog in their neighborhood and it can hit the front page of Reddit. It's just...why? The trigger is, well, *anything* Star Wars.

Websites know this, too. Heck, last time I was a regular at Cracked, you could find a Star Wars joke in nearly every article, and it was a frequent source used in their Photoshop contests, scoring prize-winning entries on a regular basis.

Thing is, Star Wars is just fine; I don't get the obsession. The hype for Episode One turned me off for good.

^^^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^^

This post is so representative of my feelings that I'm not sure what I could even add to it.

In my particular case it's not really about Reddit, but more about serious, funded media outlets, again citing this website as the example.

This is not meant as a complaint, merely a clarification of my position on the matter... But even in my regular day-to-day nerdy hobbies (I am quite the nerd) it can be hard NOT to see a reference or hear talk of Star Wars. It's not uncommon that when I play Magic: The Gathering, something COMPLETELY unrelated to SW, I see Princess Leia card sleeves [https://www.google.com/search?q=princess+leia+card+sleeves&tbm=shop&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=1i3QU_GKHMHKigKhnIAw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1366&bih=643&dpr=1] or Star Wars T-Shirts [https://www.google.com/search?q=star+wars+t-shirt&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&ei=tC7QU5T-DOnDigL0hYHABQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=643]. It's not like I'm trying to avoid it, because I don't hate it, but constant casual mention does not make me feel better. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, as they say. But really, AgedGrunt explained it better.

Mostly I'm just burned out, I suppose. It's not like I'm completely sure that I will never like SW again in the future. However, I am beginning to notice that things that are crazy popular are much more tolerable if they have a satisfying ending. Take Harry Potter for example. Not that HP isn't popular anymore or that it didn't have its own faults, because hell if that's true; but it came and went, and once the momentum was lost it left mostly happy memories in it's wake. I consider that a positive thing.

I severely doubt that SW will have an ending most people would be satisfied with... While that statement and the rest of this post are mostly just idle pondering, one thing I am damn sure of is that the satisfying ending, if it comes, will not come any time soon.

AgedGrunt, do you mind if I edit a quote of your post into my original post? (Obviously with a disclaimer that it was edited in and a short explanation for why it's relevant...)