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- From: lucas@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Derek Crowngaard, Knight of Solamnia)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
- Subject: Re: Lucas the literary genius?
- Message-ID: <32533@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:36:05 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.072010.5134@sei.cmu.edu> <7o#@byu.edu> <1h5daoINNno@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
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- >julie@alaska.et.byu.edu (Julie Gritton) said:
- JG> Shakespeare has a timeless genius that speaks to every
- JG> generation. I have yet to see SW do that. I know the kids in my
- JG> classes (third grade and up) have no concept of Star Wars and
- JG> would much rather see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So far, I
- JG> don't see Star Wars spanning the generations.
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- Well, it hasn't been around that long yet has it? Anyway,
- I'm a 9th grader who first saw Star Wars when I was three years
- old..... I loved it then, I still love it... Anyway.... how many
- 3rd graders do you know who are going to like Shakespeare? Let me
- see a six year old quoting MacBeth. Besides, kids tend to like
- certain sorts of toys, when I was in 3rd grade, I wouldn't play
- with anything but Star Wars action figures (albeit, my SMALL Star
- Wars action figures collection), A few years later, it was He-man,
- G.I. Joe.... Barbie, whatever. My point is, 3rd graders (usually up
- to about sixth?) aren't going to go out of their way to read
- Shakespeare, or, to watch Star Wars, when they can turn on the T.V.
- and watch Mutant Gerbils or whatever the current fad is... (anyone
- remember Adolescent Radioactive Black-belt Hamsters? :) )
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- JG> And don't tell me they have to be older to appreciate SW. I think most
- JG> of us here discovered it when we were their age.
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- As above, when did you appreciate Shakespeare? Maybe you
- were a well read child by the age of two, but Joe Six-pack America
- isn't usually until at least (if at all) around seven or eight...
- and we're not talking Heinlein or even Niven either. Heck... I'm
- rambling.... Oh well... you get my point....
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