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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 247286" data-attributes="member: 8">Well, we did discuss it and when you put it in writing it all made sense to me. And sometimes I do change my opinion when someone offers an angle I hadn&#039;t considered before.But it&#039;s not easy to copy someone else&#039;s personal feelings and interpretations - that certain &quot;je ne sais quoi&quot; often based on external circumstances - and then &quot;paste&quot; them on the actual viewing experience itself.As with music, we can hear the same notes and process them in a different way.My biggest movie disappointment was The Haunting 1963, an iconic movie beloved by forum members with interests very similar to mine.I just didn&#039;t see it and I thought I was doing something wrong.I believe that the intimidating complexity of these fantasy/sci-fi universes isn&#039;t something that you can kind-of-like. You love it or you don&#039;t.Hence why the hardcore sci-fi geeks can&#039;t stop discussing the possibilities of that complex structure, in the same way I can&#039;t stop discussing the minutiae of the soap operas to see if there&#039;s something meaningful about it.The difference is that soap opera is about life and people, I don&#039;t think I could ever apply the same fanaticism to fictional universes with ficitional logic and fictional rules.A prequel is a prequel for a reason, it&#039;s not meant to be Part I. I&#039;m sure that the impact of the prequels and sequels is based on the angle of the very first production.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 247286, member: 8"] Well, we did discuss it and when you put it in writing it all made sense to me. And sometimes I do change my opinion when someone offers an angle I hadn't considered before. But it's not easy to copy someone else's personal feelings and interpretations - that certain "je ne sais quoi" often based on external circumstances - and then "paste" them on the actual viewing experience itself. As with music, we can hear the same notes and process them in a different way. My biggest movie disappointment was The Haunting 1963, an iconic movie beloved by forum members with interests very similar to mine. I just didn't see it and I thought I was doing something wrong. I believe that the intimidating complexity of these fantasy/sci-fi universes isn't something that you can kind-of-like. You love it or you don't. Hence why the hardcore sci-fi geeks can't stop discussing the possibilities of that complex structure, in the same way[I] I[/I] can't stop discussing the minutiae of the soap operas to see if there's something meaningful about it. The difference is that soap opera is about life and people, I don't think I could ever apply the same fanaticism to fictional universes with ficitional logic and fictional rules. A prequel is a prequel for a reason, it's not meant to be Part I. I'm sure that the impact of the prequels and sequels is based on the angle of the very first production. [/QUOTE]

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