CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar 2 - Electric Boogaloo-Fanboys gone WILD-too many hyphens

It is the story of an amazing sacrifice for Garth that everybody saw coming from page 1

 

Better than that, the entire crew are sacrificed so that one wounded general can spend the rest of the war in a hospital bed

 

So ultimately the sacrifice was for naught.

 

I had to miss this whole event due to an epic struggle for dominance of my front lawn between Crabgrass and dandelions.

 

The wrath of lawn.
Epic conclusion
Rototiller Genesis device

 

And, of course, Jonathan Lane can create an "in-universe" explanation as to why Tony Todd won't be appearing in Axanar Lite.

Can you imagine being so devoted that you will launch a $20,000 fan film campaign just so that casual fans won't discover that Alec's incompetence drove away one of the biggest Trek stars attached to the project?

 

But, but, I don't think that would work; that would require using common sense and such!

 

Well, I can't be the one to criticize that. My story TIMELINES (shameless self-plug ... see second link below) explains why we never see Kirk/Spock/McCoy/etc in the Star Fleet Battles universe.

 

But how will anyone sell excess AxaBadges THAT way?

 

"For The Lawn is Fallow and I Have Watered the Flowers"

 

So, from the reaction I'd guess i bailed on Lane's comic at the right time...

 

It ends as you might expect.... with a whimper and a "huh? Why? Is that all?"

 

Yeah. Pretty empty.

Executive Summary:
Some “pew! pew!”
Some yelling with arbitrary bolding
Some hollow sacrifice
Some more yelling with more arbitrary bolding
The end.

That about covers it. I miss anything?

 

<shakes head> IF that's the full story, that's literally the lamest fanfilm "script" I can remember. There's no story. It's a fragment of a scene at best. To paraphrase an oft-misquoted line from Capote, "they're not writers. They're typists. Sweaty typists, with formless, eyeless, earless messages."

 

Yeah, and it's wholly original too..oh, wait...:

(If you don't want to watch the whole thing- the relevant sequence in the scene is at about 1 minute, 50 seconds in.)

Oh, and I liked the actual Anime version from SBY:2199 better, but I couldn't find a Youtube clip of it with subtitles.

 

Wouldn't be the first time an American production took queues from Yamato. And yes, they definitely did it better.

 

Someone should post that on Lane's page

I'm still dubious that's the ending. There's no END balloon or anything.

 

I think there are probably thousands of stories about a conflict that had a scene that pretty much plays out like.
You'd think after all the bragging Johnathan could have come up with something that hadn't been done a thousand times before.
Hell, I'm playing The Witcher III and even it has a scene with one hero sacrificing himself so another character can get away from the bad guys.