To: Star Wars producers and fandom
Re: The Acolyte and social media insanity
I can't even anymore. I feel like I've officially become an old man who can't keep up with the youngsters. I went through enough of this crap when I was one of the editors of TheForce.net during the prequel era. God only knows what it would have been like if there had been Twitter and YouTube back in the day. To paraphrase the final line of a famous movie: "Forget it Jake, it's Star Wars." This entire drama along with The Acolyte itself has taken the wind out of my fanhood's sails, and my fanhood goes all the way back to the late Seventies. I shall always treasure the good memories along with the various trophies I've accumulated along the way (signed copy of Heir to the Empire, my self-designed and constructed lightsaber, the Yoda puppet autographed by "Weird Al" Yankovic...) and I can watch the classic trilogy in their original form anytime on my VCR. But this is it. I've already been on the bad side of a few breakups. Now I'm finally finding out what it is to be the one who picks up and leaves behind something that won't get better.
5 comments:
Done even THINK about asking me my thoughts on what's happened to Doctor Who.
Feeling the same way. Star Wars is dead and Disney killed it. Acolyte is lesbian slash fiction, not the mythology that Lucas created.
You might know already that last week was the 50th anniversary of Chinatown.
Chris Knight abandoning Star Wars is this week's sign that Armageddon is near.
I seriously never thought it would come to this man.
"Forget it Jake, it's Star Wars."
That said it all (your appreciation of good movies is duly noted)
Now I'm depressed :(
You weren't just a great fan Chris. You were the best.
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