It has a blog up on the academy.
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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I can't wait until all the infighting is over and done with (not holding breath). Sure everybody loves a train wreak and the 1st fan film producer with a license to do so is News worthy .... to a point.
Still I think it's also worthy to remember that throughout it all Fan Film Factor has continued to report on "the lessor events of the day" and has always been fair with any projects I've been involved in.
Still I think it's also worthy to remember that throughout it all Fan Film Factor has continued to report on "the lessor events of the day" and has always been fair with any projects I've been involved in.
The FanFilmFactor blog post:
https://fanfilmfactor.com/2017/08/0...ew-star-trek-film-academy-news-and-editorial/
https://fanfilmfactor.com/2017/08/0...ew-star-trek-film-academy-news-and-editorial/
My previous comment didn't survive moderation, as predicted.
Here's my follow-up:
Here's my follow-up:
FFF has been fair? They have been anything but fair though Slow Lane does readily admit his bias. When it comes to certain projects he can't help but get a dig in here and there. Case in point - the article on the fan film academy had to take a shot at Carlos in the process.
I realise I'm a bit behind the times but I just got through reading the leaked script and the Axanar Sporkings. Firstly, a great commentary. Very balanced, and picks out the problems with the script (primarily, Garth Sue) while making it clear what bits were good and what bits could have been good if they hadn't insisted on doing a 'glory of war' show with a flawless lead.
I'm imagining an alternative Axanar, where Garth shows the seeds of his megalomania as he risks everything for personal glory against the D7s and we see him almost become Khan in his obsessiveness, seen through the eyes of his crew. That could potentially be an awesome story, it's a shame that the ego of the writer playing the lead couldn't bring himself to write that.
What we have instead is poor fan fiction.
I'm imagining an alternative Axanar, where Garth shows the seeds of his megalomania as he risks everything for personal glory against the D7s and we see him almost become Khan in his obsessiveness, seen through the eyes of his crew. That could potentially be an awesome story, it's a shame that the ego of the writer playing the lead couldn't bring himself to write that.
What we have instead is poor fan fiction.
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If Axamonitor can talk about something that's only tangentially related to the new film academy news in their article, I don't see why FFF can't do the same.
I agree, as long as the "facts" are as stated, I have no problem FFF's biases. They are clear enough that anyone can see them and judge for themselves whether that bias invalidates anything that's being said. I would also say the same thing about Axamonitor. Carlos has been almost pathologically careful to source his material and it's clear that when he's expressing an opinion that it IS an opinion. That doesn't make me a fan of FFF, since I don't bother reading it except when it's linked from a story here on the board. I personally am not going to play sock puppet for anyone and don't like reading such material, but that's my choice, not a dismissal of FFF's right to exist.
Isn't that "Axanar Productions, the Real Story, as Imagined by Its Producer"? Except the megalomania part
What are you referring to in the Axamonitor article?
I assume it's the end paragraphs in which Axamonitor - a site primarily based around collating on, and reporting on, Axanar - actually mentioned the core subject of the site as a whole.
It seems an Axanar-based site tying an unrelated post back to Axanar has caused outrage among some.
Right - because Johnathan Lane left Alec Peters completely out of his blog:
From the FFF Blog:
https://fanfilmfactor.com/2017/08/0...ew-star-trek-film-academy-news-and-editorial/
OH...WAIT...HE DIDN'T:
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Yep - Johnathan Lane feels "so bad" about james Cawley "sharing the spotlight" - he spent a bunch of paragraphs on what was supposedly Alec's "idea of specializing in Sci-Fi" films - (yes, professionals mentoring students in a genre of film-making in Hollywood is so unique.)
To be fair, the FFF article makes a nod to this:
A bit snarky for my taste, but "editorial" is in the title of the article.Fan Film Factor article said:
I wasn't outraged. I just seemed to me that FFF was being specifically singled out for doing the same thing Axamonitor had already done. I just don't see why FFF should be judged by a different standard. Then again...
Fair enough, @Noname Given. It is somewhat hypocritical of him.Yep - Johnathan Lane feels "so bad" about james Cawley "sharing the spotlight" - he spent a bunch of paragraphs on what was supposedly Alec's "idea of specializing in Sci-Fi" films - (yes, professionals mentoring students in a genre of film-making in Hollywood is so unique.)
Its the pool of leeches. If you step in it, they will try to attach, no matter how much you have pried them off before.
Its all part of the campaign to somehow insert Axanar and its people into the history of legit Trek, somehow bootstrap themselves into legitimacy, instead of admitting disqualification due to their repellent self serving profit motive and actions.
Gee, we followed fraudulent methods to steal IP value from an existing story line and keep it for our profit and were stopped, at least give us credit for the story we intended to make and got so far as to write a Gary Stu for!
Gee, we described and raised funds for (but never made any investment in or labored over) creating an arts training nonprofit (no different from umpty billion other nonprofit arts operations working in film, except Axanar didn't actually execute on it AT ALL, it was all a ponzi pitch).. at least give us credit for having described the idea of doing such a thing for SF fans!
We are First!!! Hooray for us!!! We have a *legacy* which others stole from us!!! We are so gracious we wish them well while claiming credit!!! If only the 100% originators/owners off all of it had not made their outrageous objections to being stolen from!!! What a ripoff of us!!! If only we had actually put any of the money at all into actually delivering on our ideas instead of just building ourselves a business!!! No, wait a minute! Whoever still speaks of that evidence must be banned!!!
Its all part of the campaign to somehow insert Axanar and its people into the history of legit Trek, somehow bootstrap themselves into legitimacy, instead of admitting disqualification due to their repellent self serving profit motive and actions.
Gee, we followed fraudulent methods to steal IP value from an existing story line and keep it for our profit and were stopped, at least give us credit for the story we intended to make and got so far as to write a Gary Stu for!
Gee, we described and raised funds for (but never made any investment in or labored over) creating an arts training nonprofit (no different from umpty billion other nonprofit arts operations working in film, except Axanar didn't actually execute on it AT ALL, it was all a ponzi pitch).. at least give us credit for having described the idea of doing such a thing for SF fans!
We are First!!! Hooray for us!!! We have a *legacy* which others stole from us!!! We are so gracious we wish them well while claiming credit!!! If only the 100% originators/owners off all of it had not made their outrageous objections to being stolen from!!! What a ripoff of us!!! If only we had actually put any of the money at all into actually delivering on our ideas instead of just building ourselves a business!!! No, wait a minute! Whoever still speaks of that evidence must be banned!!!
As far as I'm concerned Alec collected well over a million and a half dollars and paid professionals to make a 22 minute film for him. Any claims of his association to Fan Films has been greatly exaggerated. If you think about it, he's a very small, a very minor player that's received far too much face time in blogs and Vblogs. While others are giving up their free time cutting wood, painting sets and perfecting scripts he buying his way onto nearly every convention panel and pitting his professionally made production up against fans who got together to express their version of Star Trek. So what was it? 27 times some pretty good fan made productions had to walk away because no matter how hard they turned out their pockets, perfected their craft, feed their babies before going on set just couldn't compete.
Imagine my shock face as one by one people bought into this Axanar bandwagon and I mean people that claimed to be all about fan films, including Johnathan. The home grown fan productions are really the backbone of Star Trek Fan audio's and Films, FFF hasn't totally disregarded them and for that I feel compelled to give him his point for doing so.
Maybe now that the lawsuit has been over for a while we should rename the thread to Stupid Shit Alec Peters Is Doing.Nah it will live on........You really think Peters is gonna stop doing stupid shit?
How about the thread be renamed to "Axanar Dumbassery" ? 
Yes Dumbassery is a accepted term these days (link)
Yes Dumbassery is a accepted term these days (link)
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