Oscar, shmoscar! Star Wars still showing strong influence on the Force faithful.

We must be more naive than we thought. Sure, Star Wars is an international phenomenon that spans generations and has influenced blah blah blah…but really. This kind of thing is still going on? Star Wars fan blogs are being regularly updated this late in the game? Apparently Lucas was right to thank the fans instead of the critics.

For the original SW – a long time ago in a pop culture far, far away – it wouldn’t have been surprising to see this level of dorkdom – because the movie was still in theaters more than a year after its release! These days it wouldn’t be surprising to pick up Episode III for a reasonable price out of the “used” bin at Hollywood Video.

A sample post, just because we’re so tickled by the sincerity of it all:

“…To stay in orbit, a vessel has to maintain enough velocity parallel to the planet to overcome the gravity vector that is perpendicular to the planet and maintain a constant distance above the planet…My theory is that the ships in SW are powerful enough to stay up without maintaining an orbit. It would require powerful thrusters but hey, this is SW we’re talking about…According to my physics teacher…”

Don’t get us wrong; we’re avowed movie geeks ourselves. But at some point you need to hang up the lightsaber, right?