Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens

[cooleddie74]

Any author or filmmaker's ideas are up for legitimate debate and criticism. Monday morning quarterbacking? No, it's called being the consumer of that artist's concepts and deciding if they entertain or make sense to you or not. Lucas has crafted one of the greatest fictional universes in the history of popular culture, but his creative choices - though his - are not above and beyond the reach of critique. Good is good and bad is bad, whether George Lucas invents it, Jake does, I do or anybody else on this planet with an idea for a story sits down and writes or types out the details.

 

[BigJake]

Good is good and bad is bad, whether George Lucas invents it, Jake does, I do or anybody else on this planet with an idea for a story sits down and writes or types out the details.

+1.

Speaking of which, have I mentioned my Mercury Ascendant series of African steamfunk airship adventure novels featuring voodoo gun kata martial artists, coal-powered giant elephant robots, cybernetic Mau-Maus and a buttload of sexy cat-people? Coming to a cineplex near you, eventually. RESPECT THE VISION.

 

[cooleddie74]

That sounds like the shiz-nite.

That said, my trilogy of films about robotic groundhogs with energy shielding and the power of flight is so good that I've attracted the interest of none other than the one and only Gerald McRaney. With Major Dad on board, this project will burrow straight under the competition and bring high-tech justice to the box office.

 

[BigJake]

We'll charge mofos an arm and a leg for the crossovers. An arm and a leg, I tell you. Literally.

 

[cooleddie74]

We must join forces for this. The merchandising potential is simply too colossal to ignore.

Also, preservation of artistic integrity. If, you know, you're into that sort of thing.

 

[BigJake]

Yes, we must "preserve" "artistic" "integrity" at all costs.

It will be foremost in my mind as I'm designing my massive civilization of coincidentally-toy-friendly anthropomorphic cheetah cubs.

 

[cooleddie74]

And with these well-crafted and literate posts, the thread is won.

 

[BigJake]

For now...

 

[cooleddie74]

THREAD WARS

Episode XXVII

THE REPETITIVE ARGUMENT


It is an exhausting time for the Trek BBS....
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[BigJake]

... BBS policy on emojis is in dispute!

A delegation of Jedi are en route to some random planet for some reason to resolve it. Even T'Bonz cannot be arsed...​

 

[fireproof78]

THREAD WARS

Episode XXVII

THE REPETITIVE ARGUMENT


It is an exhausting time for the Trek BBS....
​

Hey...what did I miss?

*reads thread*



What just happened?

I thought the discussion was about Lucas and his ability to create the films he wanted. Apparently now it means we cannot criticize him?

Does that mean that Empire was Kershner's vision and not Lucas'? Also, does this mean we cannot criticize Abrams when TFA comes out?

Seriously-someone help me out

 

[cooleddie74]

(*Slow pan down to a shadowy image of extreme nerdrage over something posted by another member*)

 

[BigJake]

What just happened?

Magic, my friend. Magic just happened.

The Force surrounds us, it suffuses us, it binds us all together. You, me, DWF, Ghouleddie74, the bottle of Alberta Premium whiskey in my fridge (probably mostly the latter)... it is all one.

Be mindful of the Living Force, my young padawan.

 

[cooleddie74]

Be mindful of it. Indulge in it. In reasonable amounts. So you don't take off your Jedi robes, go crazy and get arrested by Coruscant security for feeling the Force while dancing on top of a table in a diner.

 

[BigJake]

So you don't take off your Jedi robes, go crazy and get arrested by Coruscant security for feeling the Force while dancing on top of a table in a diner.

Now you tell me.

 

[fireproof78]

Where was that lesson when I was in Jedi School?

Would have saved me a lot of trouble down the road...

 

[cooleddie74]

No youngling or Padawan is ever truly ready to learn such things, no matter what Masters Yoda and Windu told you.

 

[DWF]

There's a reason I don't wrestle with pigs, either.

But I WILL add that anybody who starts a point with,

"Based on test audience reactions to [insert name of SW film] ....." and who DOES NOT know that Lucas has always LOATHED the idea of subjecting his movies to the whims of a test audience, is somebody whose next words have ZERO meaning to me.

SO Lucas played around in editing a bit (something he LOVES doing and, in fact, is on record as stating a film can be made in editing!) and changed the order of events in Anakin's turn. It's NOT a "different version".

No, it meant completely restructuring the second act of the movie, there were no visions of Padme's death and no mention of the midichrorians being able to recreate life. In the movie as is, it's Anakin's wish to save Padme's life that was the reason for his turning to the dark side in the original version it was a quest for power.

 

[DWF]

THREAD WARS​

Episode XXVII​

THE REPETITIVE ARGUMENT​

It is an exhausting time for the Trek BBS....​

Hey...what did I miss?

*reads thread*



What just happened?

I thought the discussion was about Lucas and his ability to create the films he wanted. Apparently now it means we cannot criticize him?

Does that mean that Empire was Kershner's vision and not Lucas'? Also, does this mean we cannot criticize Abrams when TFA comes out?

Seriously-someone help me out

Who will dare criticize Abrams, aparently with only a few pictures and a couple of short trailers he can do what Ponce de Loen couldn't, that is give people their second childhood. And I still say there's a difference between criticism and bashing and complaining, nobody's suggesting you can't criticize Lucas.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

Yeah, apparently the difference is if you agree, it's criticism. If you disagree, it's bashing.