The NZA Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 Can the Best of Star Wars Survive the Worst of Its Fans? Before Star Wars can have another successful show, some vocal parts of fandom have to reckon with what they really want out of the franchise. www.rollingstone.com But like most popular culture, the Star Wars fandom, especially online, has become inundated with loud, conservative, and in some cases, incredibly racist voices. While Disney has never said these voices are directly impacting what shows get made, the vocal minority of Star Wars devotees keep limiting what they'll accept as true Star Wars. These fans say they're fighting for Star Wars' future. But if their endless fantasy world can't accept any stories that they don't recognize — some of the self-professed biggest fans in all the worlds could be closing themselves off to any future at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Yeah that's a fair take. Star Wars as a franchise is being gate kept by these sweaty shitheads who conflate nostalgia with preserving a creative space. It's probably a tired analogy but it's the comic book store where the proprietor chases off new readers because they don't conform to some vague notion of an acceptable fan. The books won't sell so the stories will die on the vine. That being said the Acolyte got a lot of shit but I thought it was the coolest expanded universe story I've seen to date that didn't rely on being tethered to the OG 3. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted September 3 Author Share Posted September 3 i slept on that the same as i did the latter clone wars series, so as a filthy casual that loved KOTOR 1 & 2 and what we've had of mandolorian (last season was weaker, but still) i'd long since accepted i loved the fringe stories of the universe better than the main ones but fuck if i can't deny rogue one is a great example of something the prequels & latter sequels couldn't touch. i'd been rewatching the OG trilogy recently with teri & realized lucas' adoration for kourosawa was key, sure, but his love for pulp was what specifically i'd missed in the later movies. i'm gonna get back to andor one day soon because it spoke to me, and i'd heard acolyte was worthwhile on its own too....so of course it got shitcanned. but to cross forums here: on a roadtrip earlier this summer, i finally took newtype's advice & read much of the jason aaron/cassady star wars book, and - there it was! some of the bits i'd loved from the OG series, in something not named shadow of the empire! it's like, i'd better either look for stuff in that vein or let it go if i'm gonna enjoy more of what's being offered from the bigger budget side of this franchise, i guess 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 5 hours ago, The NZA said: i slept on that the same as i did the latter clone wars series, so as a filthy casual that loved KOTOR 1 & 2 and what we've had of mandolorian (last season was weaker, but still) i'd long since accepted i loved the fringe stories of the universe better than the main ones but fuck if i can't deny rogue one is a great example of something the prequels & latter sequels couldn't touch. i'd been rewatching the OG trilogy recently with teri & realized lucas' adoration for kourosawa was key, sure, but his love for pulp was what specifically i'd missed in the later movies. i'm gonna get back to andor one day soon because it spoke to me, and i'd heard acolyte was worthwhile on its own too....so of course it got shitcanned. but to cross forums here: on a roadtrip earlier this summer, i finally took newtype's advice & read much of the jason aaron/cassady star wars book, and - there it was! some of the bits i'd loved from the OG series, in something not named shadow of the empire! it's like, i'd better either look for stuff in that vein or let it go if i'm gonna enjoy more of what's being offered from the bigger budget side of this franchise, i guess Historically I've read some dull shit, just for John Cassady's art, but this might be worth checking out! How did you feel about Solo? Cause that was wall-to-wall 90's expanded-Universe nostalgia for me. Poorly executed, but references to Teras Kasi, sabbacc, and Lando's odd couple relationship with his social justice Mech were enough to make it fun for me. Without spoiling, The Acolyte explores something that's always bugged me about Star Wars since a new hope- the radicalisation of it all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted September 3 Author Share Posted September 3 ah, id slept on solo, but folks i know who watched it made it sound....servicable? so it'd not piqued my interest, but yeah, that doesn't sound like a bad time there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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