Reek set out to prove a Prequel film could receive a fair viewing in the Hype, that Star Wars films are all equal in the eyes of the fandom. That's not the truth 'cause the eyes of the fandom are humanized, yours and mine, and until we can see each Episode as equals, fandom is never going to be even-handed. It will remain nothing more than a reflection of our own prejudices. So until that day, we have a duty under Lucasfilm to seek the truth - not with our eyes, and not with our minds where fear and hate turn commonality into prejudice, but with our hearts - but we don't know better.
I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. I want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to yourselves. Go ahead. Close your eyes, please. This is a story about a Star Wars film walking home from an opening weekend one sunny May. I want you to picture this Star Wars film. Suddenly a truck races up. Two million fans jump out and grab it. They drag the film into a nearby thread on the Hype and they tie it up and they rip the themes from the story. Now they climb on. First one, then the other, raping the storyline, shattering everything innocent and pure with a vicious thrust in a fog of self-entitled breath and sweat. And when they're done, after they've killed it's rotten tomatoes rating, murdered any chance for it's director to create any sequels, to have life beyond it's own, they decided to use it for target practice. They start throwin' full posts of pretentious garbage at it. They throw them so hard that it tears the celluloid all the way to the film's frames. Then they urinate on the film. Now comes the hanging. They have a sense of self-importance. They tie a noose. Imagine the noose going tight around this film's neck and with a sudden blinding jerk, it's pulled into the air and its cast and crew go kicking. They don't find the support. The hanging thread isn't strong enough. The other fanboys get distracted with news about Boba Fett and the film falls to obscurity. So they bring it back up, throw it into the centre of conversation. Pitch the film over the edge of relevance so they can mock it some more. And it drops some thirty feet down to the closed threads below. Can you see the film? It's raped, beaten, broken 2 hour runtime soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in George Lucas' blood, left to die. Can you see it? I want you to picture that Star Wars film.
Imagine it was Empire Strikes Back.