Art and Star Wars

Art is marketing; it was the first form or marketing. Art was originally used to sell symbols like fertility, luck and religion. It is still used for those things today as well as selling actual stuff. All artists are trying to sell you on a viewpoint, be it religious or secular. Star Wars is art; not fine art, but decent art. Surely it is better than black-velvet Jesus. Maybe medium-end Hotel art (which can be decent as well as really bad).

As for the PG-13 rating, I just don’t share your point of view. I am trying to tamp down growing excitement for the release. I have been so disappointed in the first two that I had really low expectations for the third. Then I saw the trailer…man does it look really good. Then I stop myself…the trailer for Ep2 was really good too. Throw in the whole Titanic in Space kerfuffle, and I’ve been riding a roller coaster of emotions. The PG-13 rating is trying my resolve to not be excited. I fear that I have only days until I succumb to the Lucas marketing onslaught. Talking about a "bloodbath against old allies" didn’t help me at all.