Fandom never changes…

[Set Harth]

Or grocery store staff could just you know leave people the fuck alone but I guess we don't get to live in that world anymore

 

[137th Gebirg]

Or grocery store staff could just be allowed to protect their stock and property from moonbats stalking the aisles and obfuscating their faces from the security cameras, which is an instant red flag for anyone in the commercial retail industry with half a brain.

 

[Set Harth]

oddly enough they don't seem to give a shit about "obfuscating faces" or "protecting their stock" when they're hopping up and down screaming hysterically in apoplectic rage because someone's nose is poking out of the top of a mask

 

[137th Gebirg]

They used to.

 

[fireproof78]

They used to.

Yup. Keeping your face covered and avoiding staff are two of the biggest red flags I can recall keeping an eye out for working retail.

 

[Samurai8472]

Well. That article has definitely put me off from seeing "Empire Strikes Back". I'll save my $2.69 for "The Gong Show" thank you very much!

 

[Mudd]

I sometimes wonder if it’s because for most of us, fandom first hit us when we were something like 13 and thought this stuff really mattered. (Yes, at some level science fiction does matter, but you know what I mean.). And though we grow older after that, to a certain degree we’ve imprinted.

I think that's true for some of us to a great extent. I know that I attribute some of my detachment toward movies like Superman 1978 and big franchises like Star Wars and the revived Star Trek to having been an adult in my twenties when they were first released.

 

[Ithekro]

There is also the theory that you can "mark the baby". My parents went to see Star Wars in a drive in theater about two days before I was born. I was born about two weeks early. There are parts in the film that I can "feel" when they play (music mostly near the second half of the film). Star Wars has always been a part of my life.

 

[Samurai8472]

There is also the theory that you can "mark the baby". My parents went to see Star Wars in a drive in theater about two days before I was born. I was born about two weeks early. There are parts in the film that I can "feel" when they play (music mostly near the second half of the film). Star Wars has always been a part of my life.

So you're saying "The Force is strong with you" basically?

 

[Turtletrekker]

I like Tracy's comments from 2019.

"Clearly, I was far too hard on the movie."

Ya think?

Tracy Duncan (Star Wars fan active in the 1980s) - Fanlore

fanlore.org

Sounds to me like a case of of her being upset because the sequel didn't line up with her fanfictions.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Well. That article has definitely put me off from seeing "Empire Strikes Back". I'll save my $2.69 for "The Gong Show" thank you very much!

The irony of all of that is I personally found ESB to be the best of the three in the OT. Best written, best acted, and really some amazing cutting-edge VFX for the time. In may ways I still find it the best overall, including being compared to the PT and ST, and I know many others out there have felt the same way over the years.

I guess some folks either don't like or understand the A/B/A model of storytelling, as the darker "B" part usually shows our heroes down and out, necessitating the third installment to allow them to bounce back and win. I mean, shit, it's even in the title, "The Empire Strikes Back", (spoiler alert right? ) It's one of the oldest writing styles out there, but many felt taken aback and by surprise by that, thinking the protagonists should always win no matter what.

I dunno.... YMMV, I guess.

 

[Samurai8472]

I heard the ending is very controversial too. NO SPOILERS!