Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Summer is over soon, right? Because there simply aren’t enough folks staying inside and writing meta lately. That or I’m still nursing PCD.
Nandamai brings us Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned from Badfic. It’s true.
Qui-Tom Servo loves Padme explores Palpatine’s lies.
Kesseljunkie defends Jar-Jar. I suppose someone has to.
In EU corner, more Courtship of Princess Leia analysis from Sunnyskywalker.
Welcome to the first of a hopefully regular weekly installment of Filk Friday!
To kick things off, I’d like to feature one of my recent favorites, written a few months ago, but recently performed at GenCon: Classic Four to Six by Grand Admiral Sean. A well-crafted parody of 1985 by Bowling for Soup, this song captures how many fans (including this one) seem to feel about the prequel trilogy and special editions. Han Shot First, dammit!
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Here’s some of what’s been going on in the outside world.
Revenge of the Sith won two DVD awards. Also on the official site, November 2006 Comics.
Speaking of comics, don’t bother looking for Legacy #3 in stores. It was supposed to come out today (the schedule even said so until this morning) but it’s… not. Word on the boards is that last week’s books didn’t ship either. (I don’t know: I only buy Legacy.) Dark Horse isn’t the only one: Something is rotten in the comics industry.
“May the force be with you” tops online quote poll. And I don’t think TFN linked the poll, which means it might actually have won fair and square. Cool.
Some new Star Wars miniatures debuted at GenCon. The set includes a “Mystral” Shadow Guard, but unless they came with booze and/or naked men, I don’t think any of us noticed. Also, it seems they’re restarting the RPG.
Colleen Doran witnesses The Fan From Hell. I think we’ve found one that beats the Woodtick, folks.
Those damn Harry Potter plagiarists made it all the way up the fannish blog chain to John Scalzi. Twice.
Other stuff I would have blogged:
– NASA has misplaced the original moon landing tapes. Our tax dollars at work!
– Daniel Radcliffe is down with Harry Potter dying.
– Crazy mofo has “temporary” Wolverine piercing. My hand hurts just looking at it.
– Hayden Christensen making some movie.
– Things writers have no control over. (Add to the list: Killing Chewbacca.)
– The Top 8 Shows For SF Myth Busters.
– 11 Things in Fantasy/That I Don’t Promise Not to Use (or Keep Using) in My Writing and 6 More Things I Could do Without in Fantastic Literature & I don’t plan to use except to make fun of.
Yet another article about fandom that is shocked – shocked I tell you! – by slash. Though at least this time the writer does talk about more than the porn. Though methinks there have been women-dominated fandoms for much, much longer than Harry Potter.
ETA: As expected, fandom reaction is less than positive.
Okay, I lied. Here are a few interesting Star Wars items on the net today:
The Lucas Effect, a great piece from Popular Mechanics on George Lucas and his effects on moviemaking.
Lucasfilm Consolidates IT for Animation, Movies, Video Games, an article from TechWeb about Lucasfilm’s IT.
And finally, from the starwars.com boards, a survey for Star Wars fans from John Tenuto, a sociology instructor at College of Lake County. I took the survey, but I must admit I found the questions asked rather limiting. I’d like to see him asking more asked about fan attitudes and perceptions of the different aspects of the fandom…
Page 11 of Star Wars Insider #89:
They like us! They really like us! Or at least, our video selection. ;)
Despite the Lucasfilm crackdown, lookie what I found…Quirky lil Vader Edit
There can be no Kirk but Shatner! (via Bonnie.)
Speaking of, doesn’t the narrator for the original Star Wars trailer sound just like a very restrained Shatner? And were all movie trailers that bad in the 70’s?
A group of Firefly/Serenity fans have made Done the Impossible, a film documenting their passion and fandom. It can be purchased from their website, or downloaded for free with a torrent client.
Straight from the horse’s mouth – the mass removal of fan and parody vids at Youtube was a mistake. Lucasfilm did ask Youtube to remove video containing ‘material taken from starwars.com’ (probably the Force-powers game concept vid, which was only released to Hyperspace members) and Youtube misunderstood. LFL has asked the site to restore the deleted videos.