There are few things on this Earth that I love as much as Star Wars. I love Star Wars more than Ashland students love to complain.

My love for Star Wars began in my childhood. When I first saw the movie, I must have been six or seven. I was amazed by the special effects and awesome space battles. I even loved the Ewoks; I was a child, after all.

When I saw “The Phantom Menace” as a kid with my dad in 1999, I loved it; again, I was a kid.

When I was in middle school, I read my first Star Wars novel, “Heir to the Empire,” which blew my mind with its great Star Wars atmosphere and excellent characters.

So after that I began to gobble up every Star Wars fiction I could get my hands on, with my last count being around 150 works of Star Wars fiction.

But now, as “The Clone Wars” TV series drags on (longer than the actual Clone War took place in Star Wars), the show continues to alter the background of the story I love so much.

On that note, there are few things I hate more than Star Wars. I hate Star Wars almost as much as I hate Megan Fox.

My hate for Star Wars began after the films ended. While I wasn’t opposed to a TV show about the Clone Wars, I really hate that it has become the ONLY Star Wars that kids see nowadays.

When kids tell me that Ahsoka Tano is their favorite character, I want to punch them in their snotty little faces. Characters like this are so useless and are there just to pad the story with a female character and bad humor.

Then there were “The Force Unleashed” games, and while the concept was very cool, the finished product was an unpolished, grueling and unsatisfying story that was very short and unfocused.

This is the Star Wars I hate. I hate that everyone thinks that stormtroopers are clones, when they are enlisted men. I hate that there are now so many Jedis that they are no longer mysterious. Even worse, I hate that the Sith have simply become angsty characters with bad names.

The Star Wars I love is the smart and epic story of rebellion against evil, not the story about an whiny teenager who acts out to impress a girl.

Star Wars needs to disappear from films, television and games for a long time.

The books have consistently been some of the best-written science fiction stories in the past twenty years.

The problem is that the best Star Wars fiction takes place long before the films, or right after. The worst Star Wars fiction tries to bridge the gaps between prequels and the original trilogy.

Maybe when this “Clone Wars” thing is over I might be able to look at Star Wars again, but until Star Wars gets back to its adult audience, I’m not interested in filling in the gaps between the prequels.