KKillian

Cable providers have certainly deserved to become obsolete for a long time now. Inevitably every package contains a multitude of channels you’d sooner go blind than watch, and they bait you with services only to “coincidentally” move them to a more expensive package later, “whoops.” I wouldn’t be opposed in the least if streaming TV took over entirely within the next 10-20 years.

I grew up with the prequels, so I’ve always been in the minority that always genuinely enjoyed them. As I got older, seeing the barrage of hatred for them was more than a little disquieting. People seem to attack these movies as a free-for-all without remembering that they’re only movies. They’re only supposed to provide a few hours of entertainment, that’s it. It’s possible the prequels were a victim of Lucas pulling a JK Rowling, continuing to pile on information that nobody asked for, but it’s even more likely, I think, that they’re just a victim of narrow, fanboy minds and overly heightened expectation. Were they priceless pieces of cinematic art? No. But they served their purpose, they provided us with backstory, and they represented huge strides in the CGI industry, too. For whatever they are, they’re not worthless.

I think the romanticization of writers is something that most, if not all writers end up doing at some point or other, whether in a work of their own or in their own heads. It goes along with the way people as a species are inherently narcissistic. We all want to think of ourselves as the narrator; as the person in charge of taking the everyday or the tragic and presenting it to the rest of the world in a way that will qualify as beautiful or special, something worth outlasting us.