'The Phantom Menace' at 20:
May 19, 2019 9:05:44 GMT -6
Post by Admin on May 19, 2019 9:05:44 GMT -6
How the first episode of the 'Star Wars' saga created toxic fandom
I'm seeing the headline as blaming Episode I for toxic fandom. Which is wrong, there was toxic fandom (and not just in Star Wars) long before this. 1979 and Star Trek The Motion Picture hit the big screen. It was quickly dubbed Star Trek the Motionless Picture by parts of the fandom. In 1987, when Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted on TV, there were Star Trek fans who Were Not Pleased. In 1988, when Dragonsdawn, part of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern book series, came out and there was a line boldly stating that that queen dragons can't chew firestone (implication of all previous books was that they simply didn't because it would make them sterile, like it does the green dragons, and the golds were the reproductive engines of the species)because they don't have that all important second stomach to process the stone. Of the sixty members in one of the fan groups I ran, fifteen of them sent me very irate letters with the words "Not For Publication" across the top at the beginning. My main dislike with the book was that I felt the Dragonlady had rushed things a bit. This would have (to mygreedy mind) been better served to be spread over three books rather than three parts in one book.
And, some of them really lost their shit when the first Pern books she wrote with her son Todd McCaffrey came out taking place right before Second Pass. And they were so different in style from how she writes.
I'm seeing the headline as blaming Episode I for toxic fandom. Which is wrong, there was toxic fandom (and not just in Star Wars) long before this. 1979 and Star Trek The Motion Picture hit the big screen. It was quickly dubbed Star Trek the Motionless Picture by parts of the fandom. In 1987, when Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted on TV, there were Star Trek fans who Were Not Pleased. In 1988, when Dragonsdawn, part of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern book series, came out and there was a line boldly stating that that queen dragons can't chew firestone (implication of all previous books was that they simply didn't because it would make them sterile, like it does the green dragons, and the golds were the reproductive engines of the species)because they don't have that all important second stomach to process the stone. Of the sixty members in one of the fan groups I ran, fifteen of them sent me very irate letters with the words "Not For Publication" across the top at the beginning. My main dislike with the book was that I felt the Dragonlady had rushed things a bit. This would have (to my
And, some of them really lost their shit when the first Pern books she wrote with her son Todd McCaffrey came out taking place right before Second Pass. And they were so different in style from how she writes.
