How the mighty have fallen!

From the first moments that the words "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." first flashed on the screen , the Star Wars universe sucked you in. In fact, especially as a pre-teen, you couldn't help it. As campy, operatic and un-scientific as it was, you couldn't help but get sucked into this world. And when the rumors began in the early 80's about Lucas' vision for three separate trilogies across a mammoth time-line, well you really cared!

And then Episode I hit the screen 16 years later and suddenly it was a lot harder to care. At all. This kind of sums it all up; it's more important to wait in line for the movie than to actually see the movie:

"The telling thing is -- for me, at least -- if the film is not playing at the Chinese ... I have zero desire to see it at all," a fan who calls himself Obi Geewhyen posted on the message board at Liningup.net. "I'm in it for the lineup only and don't give a darn about the conclusion of this lackluster, so-called 'Star Wars' series."