There’s a Church of Spock. Like you’re surprised. (via SF Signal)
Anakin Solo Day? Seriously?
Well, it’s official: the nuts have taken over the asylum.
When fanboys attack (each other)
I waffled back and forth on this one – while certainly relevant to fandom, these interviews with Star Wars spoilerfolks get pretty obscure if you weren’t a part of the spoiler scene. (Let’s put it this way: Once the discussion gets past TFN, Jedinet, Starwarz, etc, even I fail to recognize half of the sites being discussed. And I was by no means spoiler-free.)
Joshua Griffin, surprisingly, makes the best impression; T’bone, for all he denies it, comes off like someone hauling around a very bad case of sour grapes; Fatboy Roberts has the most interesting historical perspective; there’s one more yet to go, but although I remember Episode X I have no clue who this Tai person is, so I’ll just let it go.
But whatever your position, the interviews form an intriguing look at one of fandom’s more cutthroat periods.
TFN thread of the indeterminate time period
“The biggest problem with Star Wars books today.” The real meat of the matter comes from Carnage04 a little more than halfway down, and it boils down to a simple fact: you can’t please everyone. (And that goes double for TFN.)
We’ve heard it all before
Mark Beall at Cinematical talks about the prequel trilogy, at length. Nothing new, really – the entertaining part is the commentary over at Big Dumb Object:
I’m so sick of this. No one seems to understand. Let me spell it out (hopefully for the last time).
When you saw the original Star Wars films you were a child. Children love the new Star Wars films. Your expectations of the prequel films are not that of a child.
A bit harsh, maybe – Beall isn’t all that obnoxious, on the grand scale of fanboy obnoxiousness. (It goes to eleven.) But true enough. And as a ‘hardcore’ fan, I really don’t see why it’s so hard to just shrug off the prequel films if you don’t adore them. I certainly didn’t enjoy them as much as the OT, but I don’t feel the need splooge over fandom because of it. They’re just… there. They were a good excuse to gather and do fun fannish stuff. And snark. Very, very good for snark. But why continue to dwell on the bitterness?
And can we please drop the ‘true fan’ crap already? You don’t have to adore everything about Star Wars to be a ‘real’ fan, otherwise most of CJ would have been disqualified the moment the notion of a burgerpult entered our heads. (Looong before TPM.) There is NO SUCH THING as a ‘true fan’ or ‘true fanboy.’ You like the movies? ANY of the movies? You’re a fan. It’s not an all or nothing situation. Star Wars is much too large, both as a franchise and a fandom, for such a mindset to be practical. So, yes: deal.
This one time, at Jadecon…
‘The Cure Of Keon’ asks The Onion’s A.V. Club: How geeky is too geeky? What is the drawing line between geek and Comic Book Guy? Their answer is quite reasonable, but this part cannot be repeated enough:
“The Sarlacc Pit? Duh! Star Wars? A little movie called Return Of The Jedi? Maybe you saw it? Hell-ooo!” is too geeky for any crowd, and by any standard.
Yes. Yes it is.
Does this look like TheForce.net?
I really kinda sorta want this shirt for C4. But I fear it may be too geeky (and rude) even for me
Oh, they excel at that, sir
Spotted on Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars page: “Death Star: Is it 120km or 160km in diameter? Who cares?” Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Bonus lameness: A big chunk on Revenge of the Sith and (teehee) Shadows of the Empire. Requires scrolling.
Weird things on the Wookieepedia
The Endor Holocaust, the theory (theory!) that Ewoks Go Boom. Fanboys, I swear…Well, at least it makes for a funny Metafilter thread.
Here we go again…
George Lucas talks to Empire Magazine about Indy 4. Key quote:
“We’re basically going to do The Phantom Menace”, says Lucas (stay with him here, he’s making a point). “People’s expectations are way higher than you can deliver. You could just get killed for the whole thing…We would do it for fun and just take the hit with the critics and the fans…But nobody wants to get into it unless they are really happy with it”.
Well, yes. But don’t encourage them, George. Bringing up TPM in this context – no matter how good a point you attach to it – is just going to make the fanboys start pre-frothing.
Although, a LFL crossover I’d like to see? A golden Jar-Jar.