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Post by vitugglan on May 13, 2020 4:08:49 GMT -6
...Says Lucasfilm Exec. 20:24 Yes, Kneon and Geeky Sparkles go a little overboard on this, but seriously, why not?
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2020 2:04:52 GMT -6
I could not listen to this for more than (probably literally) a couple of minutes. It was almost like they'd recorded in the Monkey House during a simian riot and their techs managed to get rid of all the screaming and screeching from the monkeys, but, naturally, couldn't do anything about the screaming and screeching done by Kneon and Geeky Sparkles.
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Post by vitugglan on May 14, 2020 10:51:21 GMT -6
Lol! TL;DR is, one of the Lucasfilm writer's group went on the record saying that you can adopt any canon you want because 'it's all fake anyway'.
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Post by Admin on May 19, 2020 22:13:10 GMT -6
Well, gee (sarcasm aimed at un-named Lucusfilm writer) I'd hope to ghod A Galaxy far,far away... is fiction. Horrifying to think there is an AWOL Death Star lurking in the depths of space full of bitter, sexually frustrated Imperials headed by an angry, power crazed Dark Force manipulator bent upon galactic conquest is drifting in our direction.
Said writer completely misses the point of "arguing inside the box", and having such a Mundane (I'm using the preB5 definition* here) as this writer does explain so very much of the mess that is Episodes VII-IX.
PreB5 definition of a Mundane: person who is not only not a part of the SF/F (or SciFi/Fantasy) fandom/community (meaning fan or professional writer/artist), but they haven't the imagination to even wrap their head/thought processes around the concept of being able to "get lost" in a book, movie, television show, comic book franchise to the extent that one is willing to suspend logic and disbelief enough to enjoy it and then communicate with others about it. Even if they did read such stuff, now that they are over the age of twelve they consider it "trash", "childish". Often this is also the definition of a grown up -- thereby inspiring the buttons, tee shirts and bumper stickers with variations of "Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional." "Call me a grown up again and I swear I will smack you til your plus is fully nonned!" Or my fave, "Reasonably responsible adult."
B5 definition of a Mundane: being with no psychic abilities.
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Post by vitugglan on May 21, 2020 4:24:19 GMT -6
Oh, no, doncha know, we think that Lucas was both a time-traveler and a space cadet (using this phrasing purposely) who had journeyed to the farthest reaches of space like an airborne archaeologist to bring us the historical documents of the Jedi. There is no Hamill, only Skywalker. Jedi is a real religion with millennia of lore behind it and we all, doncha know, list ourselves as belonging to that religion on various government forms. We're delusional. We put too much stock in fantasy and role-playing. We just don't get that this is a business and we need to look at it as how entertaining it is divorced from lore because, heck, it's just a stupid story after all. What Mr. Mundane doesn't get is that we who love this stuff enough to pretend to be adherents to a fictional religion are the people who pay his business expenses and if we turn our backs, boom - no more business. Time to pucker up, honey, because we're all bending over.
(Mundane: average, every-day, commonplace, boring even. So, fittingly adapted as you mention above. In fact, your first definition could be comfortably substituted by the euphemism, 'normie'.)
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