by Fogdude » Sep Thu 07, 2017 7:13 pm
I watched Star Trek from its early B&W days of the '60s. Never missed an episode. Loved the series... the movies, not so much. They always put me to sleep shortly after they start. Star Wars has the advantage, I suppose, of not having started out as a TV series. Star Wars has a history, a timeline. Star Trek just dumps us into a future time with aliens of all sorts & little background about the entire thing. Star Wars is just more fleshed out, for me. It reminds me of Asimov's Foundation Trilogy & books based on it, not in the specifics, but in the sweeping vision of a future that evolved from our own times, though so far removed, it's another world.
So, yes, I prefer Star Wars. I seldom fall asleep in their films, except when Ewoks or Jar Jar Banks appear. (No offense, Banks...)
P.S. Yes, yes, yes... I know it's Binks, not Banks. I just couldn't help myself.