Old Farts Social Club

A place where those with pre-2002 accounts can sit on the porch and reminisce about the old days.

Others are welcome too!

 

My favorite JC memory was when we started a forum campaign in the run up to AOTC to see a braveheart like scene featuring Jedi. There were rumors that AOTC would be the first time we would see large numbers of Jedi in combat, including members of the Jedi Council.

I remember creating a thread on whether we would get a Braveheart like battle charge.

Anyway, some time later the site got a scoop from a Lucasfilm insider that there would indeed be a Braveheart like scene. The Lucasfilm person said ‘Braveheart’ suggesting that he/she read the boards. Sure enough in AOTC for about two seconds you see Jedi charging Braveheart style on Geonosis.

I’d like to think that that scene was inserted because of us but it could have been storyboarded all along. Still, it was great to see that someone on the production read our comments.

 

I see your Gunsmoke and Bonanza reruns are over.

~sets out a few checker boards and crochet supplies~

 

Lol. Your old farts status has nothing to do with your real age. Just your original registration date. Haha.

@Ava G. and @anakinfansince1983 - I have prune juice for when you are thirsty.

This is for anybody - What would you say has changed or not changed in terms of the thread discussions and overall fraternity in the threads?

 

I've recently gotten into RPGs -- still hang out in Fanfiction

 

~suppresses a grimace at the mention of prune juice~

That is an interesting question. What things have changed and not changed across the years, anakinfansince1983?

 

~Somewhat distracted, Ava mishears and soon sets a sandwich down in front of anakinfansince1983~

Oh yeah. Looked into that a long time ago. Unless I'm misremembering, there was a time when gay characters weren't even allowed in fan fiction.

 

The movie leak/spy universe was smaller so we became mini-Sherlock’s trying to dissect every little tease from StarWars.com or leak to Harry Knowles at AICN. Exciting times.

 

There's a zillion Supershadow's these days instead of the one brave soul who had the courage to stand up to Lucasfilm and tell us all the true story of Star Wars! And I think he had a supermodel girlfriend too!

 

I still have my old fart dinosaur account complete with the stupid user name I chose a lifetime ago!!

 

What were your old usernames? You can't just drop that and not share!

 

The excitement over the addition of new avatars was a hallmark of the old JC... one I don't miss. The freedom of choice/expression since '12 has been a one of the better developments. What is missed? The old forum banners!

 

I wish I could go back in time and registered years earlier when I was a lurker.

I'll always feel like I'm part of the post-Disney invasion.

 

Birkendoc is the stupid username that was clever when I was 29 and kind of sucks now.

 

Oh. Well I think Birkendoc sounds cool enough. Is it an anagram?

Dr. C. Kenobi

lol

 

Not pre 2002 but I saw the thread title and thought it was for age and figured I'd fit right in! LOL

 

My account is from 2013, BUT.. before I opened this one I had the idea that I might have an older account from the times of the prequels. However, when I tried looking for my old account using my email address that I've had for a long time and password recovery, there was no record of my email address soo.. I guess I never had an older account.. though I visited here several times in those times....

 

I'll reminisce:

I first heard that Episode 1 was happening in 1993. The six years waiting to finally see it were some of the longest of my life. Before seeing any of the prequels I knew the events of Episode III were what I most looked forward to. In order to see what would be best for the eagerly anticipated Episode III I was virtually spoiler-free for TPM, then spoiler-filled for AOTC. I learned that it really didn't matter, but I've kept the spoilers to a minimum ever since. Today ROTS and AOTC are my least favorite Star Wars films.

 

*wanders in*

Am I welcome here? Or am I overqualified?

 

just curious--why pre-2002 rather than, say, pre-2005 (the release of what most ppl probably expected would be the last SW film)?

obviously, as a 2013 registrant, i don't have a dog in this fight...just wondered why

^that's why I'm here as well, lol.

 

I think I originally joined back sometime in the 1990's...when I was in my 20's. I was mostly on the Lit. boards looking for spoilers on the latest EU book. TF.N was my number 1 source for SW news. Sometime in 2000 they upgraded the boards and I failed to due what I need to in order to keep my original account, so I had to re-register in Dec. 2000. My most memorable moment was, unfortunately, not a good one. I was almost perma-banned for something that was apparently "implied", not for what I actually said. Fortunately, I was able to work things out with the Admins and I'm still around. Not as much because I'm not a fan of most of the new post-RotJ material. I prefer the EU post-RotJ even though there were things there I was crazy about. *shrug* But, there's still things to be a fan of here.

 

I've been around for so long I can't ever remember what the original board looked like