You two seem to think that I don’t love SW. I do. It’s enjoyable as hell. It really works as a movie. But it’s not really original. I knew, when I first saw it, that I’d seen and read the story many times before. Yes, the whole package. I’d been reading science fiction and fantasy for about a dozen years when I first saw SW, and I could predict that Luke was, in fact, going to go off and be a Jedi even as he was explaining to Ben why he couldn’t. The story was quite predictable, for me. It’s like reading a story about a man and a woman in a space ship, they are the last two people of their kind, they are looking to find a planet where they can start over, and they find one that has a large moon, it’s the third planet from the local sun…and oh yes, their names are Adam and Eve. Now, the first story of this sort that one reads, it seems very original. However, when you’ve read a dozen or so, it no longer seems original, or even clever. And because I was a voracious SF reader, and had been for years, and had access to my grandfather’s library (he was also a voracious SF reader), I didn’t see anything original in the story. There was nothing that surprised me in the first three movies, other than “I am your father”, and I should have been able to predict THAT, too.
Well, no. It had never been done in film before because the technology wasn’t there before. People had WANTED to do it before, but there were technological limits that couldn’t be overcome.
Lucas made some very successful, very enjoyable movies. However, they were not particularly original, story-wise. I’ve watched the original three movies many times over, but that’s because they are fun to watch, not because I think that they are original or groundbreaking.
And I find it somewhat irritating that you seem to think that I was referring to only FEMALE redheads. Smith had both male and female redheads in his stories, in fact red hair was a genetic marker for a couple of lines. I’m a heterosexual female, and I find redheaded men to be THE most attractive. Now, I’m married to a man who has black hair (what little he has left) with a little white in it. But an attractive or even average looking redheaded man will always catch my eye. And as a female gamer (I was playing Dungeons&Dragons before it was popular), I know very well that there are no interests that are limited to sex-starved nerdy men and teen boys.
And yes, I find it irritating and demeaning that someone would assume that I, as a female, would find attractive females to be a draw…but that isn’t the case. And I’m astounded that you would think that of me. I have certainly made this stance clear. I don’t get off on the titty bar scenes in movies, nor do I find other gratuitous female nudity to be interesting.