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 twenty-five years ago. 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.
