Originally Posted by mjbethancourt
If you paid for an admission ticket, you were entitled to watch a cinematic exhibition of the movie, nothing more. If you shelled out money for toys and collectibles, you were entitled to a quality product, not a piece of George Lucas. If you bought a home video, you were entitled to the video as advertised, not as fancied.
Your emotional investment was unsolicited and isn't worth a thing.
None of your investments, no matter how far overboard, make you a part-owner of 'Star Wars' -- not literally, and not even figuratively, not in any way whatsoever. Lucasfilm is a privately held company, 'Star Wars' belongs to George Lucas, and no one else. George Lucas sells movies and merchandise, not stock in Lucasfilm. Everything you ever paid for has long since been delivered, he doesn't owe any of you anything. You do not "pay his salary", he does not work for you, he is a free man, an independant proprietor. His product is offered as a "take it or leave it" proposition, if you don't want it, then move along, he has never "forced" anybody to buy anything. He is under no obligation to sell anybody anything, much less serve individualized demands. If he decides today that he doesn't want to sell any more 'Star Wars', in any form, that is his privilege. If he only wants to sell his latest update to the product, that also is his privilege, and thereby implying malice against his "older" customers is paranoid at best. There is nothing sinister about how he chooses to do business, a businessman is entitled to expand his customer base by offering new products (the prequel trilogy, SE), offering new products is not an "attack" on the existing clientele, to perceive it as such is insane. It's not as if he is depriving you of something you depend on to survive. If you don't want his updates, you don't have to buy them, just as he doesn't have to sell you versions that he is no longer interested in producing; he is not your slave, and you are not his. It's nothing to get bent-out-of-shape about.
Anybody who can't accept all of this, is acting like a spoiled little child.
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