Cultural Icons: We Haz Them

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barbed_whispers has never seen Star Wars. marilla82 has never seen Buffy. They each think missing the other is stranger. I'm here to prove one of them right.

Please feel free to pimp this.

[Poll #1461481]

Comments

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I think never having seen Star Wars is stranger, purely because it's been around much longer.

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Despite loving Buffy insane amounts, I have to agree.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

This.

[count-to-seven.livejournal.com]

I'm amused by the trend in your poll.

Seriously though - even I've seen Star Wars, and I am the least scifi-ish geek ever to geek across the interwebs.

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I'm amused by the trend thus far as well. ;)

[jedimara77.livejournal.com]

Strap her down and make her watch Star Wars. FOR SHAME.

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I kind of never want her to watch it now. Because now it's just funny.

[roadrunner1896.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I like the poll results. :D

But yes, while I like Buffy more, I think it is stranger to never have seen any of the Star Wars movies. Not only are they out much longer, but for me it is also easier to get caught by a movie rerun on tv than a tv show re-run. Might be the times they air them here, though. But also renting/buying a random DVD is more likely to be a movie than a random tv show for me.

Also, I think all the cultural references everywhere would probably have made me curious at some point.

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Star Wars has been around more than twice the length of Buffy and airs with more frequency and variety. Plus, as you mentioned, the cultural pervasiveness of Star Wars is astounding.

[roniabirk.livejournal.com]

I think it's a generational thing, too. If you weren't old enough to go to the first Star Wars movie in the theaters or are now a child of someone who did, you most likely aren't going to have as strong of an urge to see it.

However, the Buffy viewer (IMO) is the person who is in between those two generations - not quite old enough to see SW in the theater and yet not the child of someone who did.

So while I may be biased toward Buffy, if you are between the ages of 25 and 35, I think it is stranger to have not seen any Buffy than Star Wars.

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I can see that, but I'm not just talking about the original trilogy. I mean any Star Wars at all. The original trilogy and the prequel trilogy were released while Buffy was on the air, so I don't think generations have much to do with exposure to Star Wars.

[sopdetly.livejournal.com]

I'm in that age group and I've never seen Buffy. And I didn't grow up with SW. But SW was re-released in theaters, don't forget, and that's when I saw them. (Of course, I lose nerd cred for therefore not minding the re-releases' changes....)

So I don't think it's an age thing. I think Buffy is a little more specific-genre than SW. I don't like vampire stuff, so it's simply never interested me. SW is more casual and it's easier for people to get into. Plus, being movies vs. TV eps makes SW more accessible to people giving it a watch.

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

My dad almost named me Leia. THAT Leia. I, however, did not see Star Wars in its entirety, in full, to where I could tell you what happened, till I was 24. This was last year. Yeah, I wasn't even born when ROTJ came out, but they were re-released when I was 12, for the 20th anniversary. It was a Big Cultural Thing to go and see the prequels at my school. The popular kids were all saying, "Yeah, I'm gonna go see Attack of the Clones at the 10:20 showing." I was 17, and it was a Big Deal in my high school!

My niece, however, is 6, and has seen the entire trilogy, the prequels, Clone Wars, AND the Clone Wars tv show. Of course, she did dress up as a Jedi for Halloween when she was 4... Her brother was waving a lightsaber before he could walk. (Quite LITERALLY.) I got her Darth Tater and her brother Spud Trooper for Christmas.

I haven't seen Buffy in its entirety. I just couldn't get into it. I love Firefly and Doctor Horrible, so I do like Joss-stuff, just not Buffy. I was definitely within the teenage age group it focused on, one of my best friends liked it, but I just didn't.

[kickingrad.livejournal.com]

Iiiiiii have never seen Star Wars.

(Or, well, I saw 4 minutes of the most recent Star Wars with the hilarious terrible korean subtitles, but I'm fairly sure that doesn't actually count.)

I didn't particularly watch that much Buffy either, just the occasional episode. I used to have prefect duty the day after new episodes aired so when my best friend would come and keep me company she'd tell me all about what happened, propped up against the lockers. She was always getting interrupted by me kicking first years out of the building and barking at people to tuck their shirts in.

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CHAZ, WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS ANY MORE. OMG. HOW COULD YOU HAVE BEEN HIDING THIS FROM ME FOR SO LONG? NEXT YOU'RE GOING TO SAY THAT YOU HATE RAINBOWS AND KICK KITTENS FOR SPORT. D: D: D:

[momebie.livejournal.com]

Last night, while watching the SPN episode 'Simon Said', Dean told Sam that Andy had "full-on Obi-waned me! It's mind control, man!" and I might have fallen over and laughed for five whole minutes.

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I bet you want to Obi-wan me all the time.

[idktbh.livejournal.com]

ive never seen star wars, only ever caught like, two episodes of buffy. DUN DUN DUN DUN.

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You and kickingrad. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH YOU?!

[tejas.livejournal.com]

I goofed and misread the question. ;-) It is stranger to have no exposure to Star Wars rather than Buffy. :-)

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You can always change your answer.

[barbed-whispers.livejournal.com]

I still think I'm right. I wasn't walking into school and hearing kids talk about Star Wars every week, and Chewie was never on the cover of my terrible-but-omnipresent teen magazines, and I've never seen a Star Wars debate that could come anywhere near the level of Buffy debates I've seen. Star Wars has been around a lot longer, but I would argue that Buffy is more present in our culture right now (although it is definitely fading out) and at the right time for Jess and KL to have both seen it.

(I considered voting for liking Star Wars more. Just because.)

[marilla82.livejournal.com]

Ass.

Look at the numbers!

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

I refuse to vote in this. I can't. I just can't. *covers head and rocks self*

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*pets* It's okay. It's okay....

[marilla82.livejournal.com]

Fuck yeah! Look at those numbers! barbed_whispers IS stranger! Moo ha ha!