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Discussion in 'Star Wars Celebrations' started by Sithman, Apr 25, 2005.

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  1. SkoXylo

    SkoXylo Jedi Youngling star 1

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    Could we have a convention that lasts, oh I don't know, forever so we don't have to go through all this reality stuff? Sure we may have complained about the lines, the store, and the weather, but wasn't it sooo much better than where we all are now?
     
  2. JHX1129

    JHX1129 Jedi Youngling

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    I couldn't agree more Sithman. For four whole days I was surrounded by thousands of people who got it. Now I'm back home with my friends and family who are really supportive of my obsession but they can only take so much of my Star Wars talk before they start glazing over.
    I'm so glad I had the forethought to take the rest of this week off. (I remember how hard it was to come back to life after C2 and knew I would need the transition time.) Still, I had a great time at C3 and met some amazing people in line. Thank you everyone for making it such a fabulous experience! :)
     
  3. Darth_Shaun

    Darth_Shaun Jedi Youngling star 2

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    Here I thought I was the only one feeling like this but it looks like I am not alone! Again, the 4 days at C3 were amazing. Surrounded by Star Wars fans who would talk to you about Star Wars or anything else in 2 seconds.
    Then you get home where nobody cares to talk Star Wars and doesn't seem to have 2 mins to spare to talk about anything.
    I even got the line last night from my best freind "there is more to life than Star Wars!"
    Now that just hurts.
     
  4. lovelucas

    lovelucas Jedi Master star 4

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    "there is more to life than star wars


    THERE IS??
     
  5. Go-Mer-Tonic

    Go-Mer-Tonic Jedi Youngling star 6

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    Sure there is. There is this amazing sense of community we have with each other as hard core fans.

    Just coming to this Celebration III board is extending that feeling I had all weekend for me.

    If we can keep this sort of thing up, what's to stop us?

    The people who don't get it?

    If anything, I feel more sorry for them than I do for myself being back amongst them. They didn't even get to experience the love fest that was Celebration III.

    Some of them will never "get it".
     
  6. DarthBreezy

    DarthBreezy Chosen One star 6

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    Does anyone else feel more 'at home' on this board then elsewhere on the JC? I find that I spend more time on this board then anywhere else since I've come back...
     
  7. Jedi_Samantha

    Jedi_Samantha Jedi Padawan star 4

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    Im re entering the world of college and work today...

    Sick...

    ...shoot me now please.


    What are the chances i'll pass a stormtrooper going to class? lol
     
  8. Go-Mer-Tonic

    Go-Mer-Tonic Jedi Youngling star 6

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    Yeah, I checked in here early on to get in on the 501st party and to figure out what else was going on after hours.

    Most of my time I have spent up until now at TFN has been on the movie boards, defending Lucas from all sides.

    Here it seems like everyone is on the same page, so it's more about socializing than getting into overblown arguments like on the movie boards.
     
  9. Sithman

    Sithman Jedi Grand Master star 7

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    DarthBreezy. . . Definitely. Even the other Star Wars fans on the JC who didn't attend C3 don't understand how we feel. I feel at home here in the C3 forum, where we all understand the awesome experience we just went through and how tough it is getting back to real life.


    Yesterday I went to school to sign up for next semester's classes. Normally going to school has a certain amount of excitement to it. Even if I have to attend classes, I still enjoy looking at the good looking girls and looking forward to the prospect of meeting new people.

    However, yesterday as I walked through my school's hallways, I couldn't help but notice the emptiness in everyone's expressions. Even if people laughed, it seemed a hollow, fake laugh. So many young students were merely putting on a front --putting on a personality-- that would make them look cool. They laughed because laughing was socially appropriate at that moment.

    After five days at C3 where I saw unrestrained, unbridled excitement in every person's eyes, and heard many a true, hearty laugh, everything about the people in real life just seems so wrong.

    I suppose most of all I miss how real and "true" people were at C3. Nobody at C3 put up any pretense of being cool, or of being better than anyone else. Nobody laughed because it was the socially acceptable thing to do at the moment; people laughed because they were actually happy. Nobody tried to be anything they were not. We were just Star Wars fans. That attitude is why I think it is so easy to make friends so quickly in line at C3.

    I'm sorry; I'm rambling now. I'll just end this here.




    EDIT: "Now I'm back home with my friends and family who are really supportive of my obsession but they can only take so much of my Star Wars talk before they start glazing over."

    You worded it perfectly. Everyone here is "excited" to know what happened at C3, and they ask nice questions, but if you talk for more than a few minutes you can tell that they just don't care that much.

    --"OMG! I saw George Lucas on Saturday by sheer luck! I didn't even line up all night and I got to see him in 7th row middle section!"

    --"Oh nice. Pretty cool."

    Gaaaaah. They just don't get it. :(
     
  10. DarthBreezy

    DarthBreezy Chosen One star 6

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    I'm glad I'm not the only one... I was so hesitant to post that thought because I thought people might think I'm crazy. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to be home and am already planning my next set of trips.. maybe to the cosutme exhibit in cali, or even the SW disney cali get together but still...
     
  11. Darth_Shaun

    Darth_Shaun Jedi Youngling star 2

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    I agree with you Sithman. Now that I am back to work in an office, going to a gym in the evenings and just travelling on the subway - I see what you are talking about with regards to faceless expressions and emptiness. People just getting by day to day and not enjoying things. C3 was great because everyone was there to have fun and not judge everyone else. It was cool to wear a Star Wars shirt. Even cooler to wear a costume. You do that in the every day world and you are mocked or laughed at. People can be pretty close minded but not at C3.

    I do spend alot of time on these boards now. Before and after C3. Just can't let go!
     
  12. darthspino

    darthspino Tucson FF Founding Member star 4

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    Since I went to CIII with my 2 best Star Wars friends, and I came back with them, things haven't changed that much.I sort of have that atmosphere at school, like I did at CIII, with all my friends since most of them are into Star Wars.Now my friends and I are concerned about getting tix for ROTS.I still miss CIII and everyone there.That was the greatest time of my life.

    *sigh* it was a week ago today that my frends and I were flying in a plane to CIII :(

    Good times.....good times indeed :) Thank you all for that wonderful experience that I will cherish with me for the rest of my life.
     
  13. JarJarJedi

    JarJarJedi Force Ghost star 6

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    "Now I'm back home with my friends and family who are really supportive of my obsession but they can only take so much of my Star Wars talk before they start glazing over."

    You worded it perfectly. Everyone here is "excited" to know what happened at C3, and they ask nice questions, but if you talk for more than a few minutes you can tell that they just don't care that much.


    Aye. I hang out in my college's radio station (I'm in the TV station, they are one program), and everyone knows how big of a fan I am, and even though they want to know how good of a time that I had this past weekend, they don't understand that it was the best weekend of my life. There are two bigger Star Wars fans here at the station, but even they don't know everything about the movies, and it's not the same talking to them as it was talking to people at the convention. I miss everyone. I miss dressing up in costume. I miss the lines everywhere!

    I showed people my metal from the stormtrooper olympics and my passes. The two Star Wars fans up here were interested, but they still didn't understand how fun it was. And when they saw the Droid Hunt badge, they didn't know what it was, and I had to explain... *sigh* just isn't the same.
     
  14. Connemara

    Connemara Jedi Knight star 6

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    Yeah. My friend called me last night and before C3 I woulda been like "Yay it's Candace! She's a 'cool' person and she's talking to me!" Now I'm like "aww man I wish it had been a JCer."

    It's not that I don't like my local friends, it's not that some of them aren't really nice people. But they're never really going to understand me, and I'm never really going to belong with them, just like I never have. :p

     
  15. Lieutenant Piett

    Lieutenant Piett Jedi Padawan star 4

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    Yep, Sithman et al., it's been a real bringdown. I second pacerpimp on the suggestion of a couple of days "comedown period" to ease the entry back to RL! I feel like I shifted back without a clutch . . . and this cold/cough thing isn't helping either.

    What I miss most, I find, is that despite the crowds, lines, and semi-chaos, there were no a**h***** to contend with. There was a genuine, authentic and original spirit of goodwill at Cel. III. Even while navigating the hordes of people in the Exhibitors' Hall (Halls D&E), at no time did I have to contend with schnooks and morons (or worse)!

    Now, back in my home City, it's harsh, dealing with all the usual schnooks and morons. Don't get me wrong-o; there's plenty of good element here. But still. They're not in Jedi robes or handmaiden costumes, and definitely not in that understanding mode of eye-contact, letting you know that indeed, they too were feeling the Force. :cool:

    {*sigh*} . . . at least there is this Forum; that I actually ventured out of the one or two usual boards I visit here, seeking this, is a sign of how much I miss the aura of Cel.III. I went to a certain huge T'r'Us store in Midtown to visit their SW ROTS display to see if I could replicate some of the sensation but . . . nah, it just wasn't the same.

    Ah well. You just have to press on and do your duty . . . bring on the Complete Saga, and Cel. IV!!
     
  16. Sithman

    Sithman Jedi Grand Master star 7

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    Well, I woke up today feeling a bit better. While I still feel quite disconnected from many of my "real life" friends, the overwhelming meloncholy that has characterized the last few days is slowly fading.

    I try to keep the wise counsel of Shmi in mind: "Learn to let go." Yet the only answer I have is that of young Anakin's: "I don't want things to change."

    *sigh*

    Thank god for my fanforce. If it wasn't for them, I would probably go nuts from the withdrawal. In fact, the only thing I am holding on to is that our huge annual fanforce BBQ is in a week. I need to interact with Star Wars fans who truly understand what it was like at C3. Nobody here in my everyday life understands.

    Here's to one more day of C3 meloncholy. Let's hope it slowly gets better.
     
  17. Arsinoe

    Arsinoe Jedi Youngling star 3

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    How did I overcome the feelings of leaving C3?

    I attended 3 concerts in two days for my favourite musician, including his CD release party. I got front row nearly centre for all three. woo hoo! :D

    In other words...I moved along. ;)
     
  18. -E-

    -E- Jedi Master star 3

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    :(

    That about sums it up.
    I miss all the people. Why do all my new friends live in other states or countries?
     
  19. KOB

    KOB Jedi Youngling star 4

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    I miss all the people. Why do all my new friends live in other states or countries?

    At least we're on msn messenger together! ;)
     
  20. Hawk-Bat

    Hawk-Bat Jedi Padawan star 4

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    ever since leaving I am always expecting to see stormtroopers marching down my school hallways and then they arn't there its getting depressing lol.
     
  21. echo-3

    echo-3 Former RSA star 4 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    I really think I am to far gone to come back. I went back to work on Tuesday and I have been really depress ever since. I had so much fun with our FF chapter there and just being around all things SW .Its just makes me said that I have to come back to a personal world where EVERYONE I work with 9 hrs a day thinks I'm such a looser for liking SW so much.And the real jerks always knows how to "Push my button's".
    Glad Friday is tomorrow so I can "escape" from my dismal existence.
    :(
    E-
     
  22. Schoolgirl_Bounty

    Schoolgirl_Bounty Jedi Youngling star 2

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    "ever since leaving I am always expecting to see stormtroopers marching down my school hallways and then they arn't there its getting depressing lol. "


    So, you mean I've just been imagening those stormtroopers at work?


    Dang, I must be sicker than I thought.

    Please, let me go LARPing... I might feel better then. I just need to feel like a nerd again...
     
  23. sithlard

    sithlard Jedi Youngling star 2

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    My re-entry into real life was bitter sweet as well. So bitter in fact, that I got a speeding ticket about a half hour's drive away from Indy! That was my induction into real life after the con.

    I too miss being able to have that immediate connection with others about Star Wars. I miss being able to just see a famous Star Wars actor whenever I felt like it. I miss meeting them. I miss seeing their sessions. I miss the Exhibit Hall. The Sagamore Ballroom. The 500 ballroom. The Saga Stage. I miss Indy - period.
     
  24. OldjediMasterYoda

    OldjediMasterYoda Jedi Youngling star 1

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    Being inundated with Star Wars marketing is certainly helping, and I am getting much more involved with local Fanforce groups now as well. I do still miss the whole our own little universe feel to it all but at least Star Wars is everywhere right now, so we can take some solace in that. Someone mentioned Star Wars trivia in an earlier post, how sad is it I had a pic taken with Zack Jansen and had to show people in quote real life, which character he is ??

    That just sucks, all of you would know what I meant dammit

    :(
     
  25. OldjediMasterYoda

    OldjediMasterYoda Jedi Youngling star 1

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    -E-

    Made a great point, it sucks that all the awesome people we met all seem to be all over the whole damn country, hopefully a lot of us will al get to meet at another big event

    [-o|

     
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