{"id":1857,"date":"2009-12-22T11:58:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T11:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2009-12-22T11:58:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T11:58:45","slug":"to_my_wellintentioned_friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/22\/to_my_wellintentioned_friends\/","title":{"rendered":"To My Well-Intentioned Friends Who Keep Sending Me the Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I am aware of that 70-minute video review of The Phantom Menace<\/i> that’s currently making the rounds of the InterWebs. (io9<\/a> has helpfully aggregated the various YouTube chapters into a single, convenient location<\/a>, if you didn’t know.)<\/p>\n

No, I don’t have much to say about it.<\/p>\n

The truth is — and I hope I don’t sound like too much of a dick here, because I know you guys are just trying to do me a friendly favor, and I really do appreciate the thought — I’m not interested in yet another snarky takedown of the Star Wars<\/i> prequels, especially one that requires over an hour of my busy life to watch. Honestly, it’s been ten years<\/i> since The Phantom Menace<\/i> came out, and five years<\/i> since I realized I was tired of talking<\/a> about the prequels. I simply can’t imagine there’s anything left to be said about them in general, or The Phantom Menace<\/i> in particular.<\/p>\n

Look, I get it; the movie failed on any number of levels and that made a lot of people feel foolish for getting so excited about it in the first place. And a not-inconsiderable subset of fanboys have allowed their frustrated expectations to fester into white-hot anger and a deep conviction that George Lucas is and always was a no-talent hack who somehow hypnotized us all into loving his creations for decades and buying all the tie-in products we could get our hands on, but now the scales have fallen from some people’s eyes and they want their childhoods — not to mention all the money they’ve spent on collectibles — back. Fine. Whatever you say. Bored now.<\/p>\n

Personally, I’m far more offended by Lucas’ stubborn disdain for the original trilogy than anything he did in the prequels. Or in Indy IV<\/i>, for that matter. (I’m equally sick of hearing about CG monkeys and how Shia LaBeouf isn’t manly enough to satisfy the fanboys.) I guess I just have better things to bitch about these days…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I am aware of that 70-minute video review of The Phantom Menace that’s currently making the rounds of the InterWebs. (io9 has helpfully aggregated the various YouTube chapters into a single, convenient location, if you didn’t know.) No, I don’t have much to say about it. The truth is — and I hope I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}