CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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Actually, the comments section has people bringing up what was mis-represented in the blog article and the blogger and a couple of Axanar marines trying to spin it. But overall, the comments section for this one isn't that scary.
I'm only three paragraphs in ....
Because that billion-dollar company can back dozens of other projects that would never otherwise see the light of day. A small "independent" studio like Axanar has to go with a known money-making project (i.e., ripping off Star Trek) or risk total collapse with one failed project. CBS/Paramount can use profits from a Star Trek-type megahit to fund a dozen bombs like "Glitter" in hopes of stumbling on the next "Fast & Furious".
Let's see Alec Peters suffer a defeat like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and stay in business. Oh, wait, yeah ... when's the trial scheduled?
What good is a billion dollar franchise, if the fans can do it better for millions less?
Because that billion-dollar company can back dozens of other projects that would never otherwise see the light of day. A small "independent" studio like Axanar has to go with a known money-making project (i.e., ripping off Star Trek) or risk total collapse with one failed project. CBS/Paramount can use profits from a Star Trek-type megahit to fund a dozen bombs like "Glitter" in hopes of stumbling on the next "Fast & Furious".
Let's see Alec Peters suffer a defeat like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and stay in business. Oh, wait, yeah ... when's the trial scheduled?
Alec Peters' song is sung... and he knows it.
Delusion is contagious.
http://nerdbastards.com/2016/10/08/...made-axanar-one-big-nightmare-for-themselves/
..... and then I stopped reading.
Anyone who uses 'all' or 'fans' or 'Star Trek fans', speaking for or about ST fandom as a whole, (as if we are Ever of one mind on Anything) is clearly uninterested in facts and therefore speaking for effect, self-aggrandizement, click bait, or from hubris, self-importance, & pomposity.
= no credibility
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The thing is: the fans HAVEN'T done it better for millions less.
Peters hasn't made his movie.
As for the rest... they have appealed to a small segment of the Star Trek community. That wouldn't exactly set the box office on fire.
Personally, it seems like the fan films are extremely inward looking and feeling: for the fans alone. And that's not what a studio wants to make. That's not how you make lots of money.
That was elegant. Welcome to my sig, GeneR.
Nevermind...
What good is a blogging website when fans can email each other? What good is an internet when fans can fly to conventions and talk to each other? What good are jets when fans can gather locally? What good are cars when fans can meet at schoohouses? What good are schoolhouses when fans can meet at their homes? What good are homes when fans can camp out? What good are sports stores when fans can sit on their lawn chairs? What good are lumberjacks when fans can sit on the grass? What good are agricultural companies when fans can sit in the dirt? What good is language when fans can roll their eyes about the the JJverse? What good is that monolith, anyway, when fans can throw sticks at it?
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I didn't make it past the introduction.
Good god. He's STILL talking abiout the lawsuit in public? (Honestly didn't listen, but I'm sure the story is the same.)
The post is dated September 28, 2015.
Left behind?
Indeed. News has been slow as of late. Whoops
TampAxanar is still good for some chuckles (and eyerolls) though.........
if I were Axanar management, and I had just come to my senses, I might be looking for ways to disentangle myself from fans who make such arguments for me. just a thought.
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