In Your Face Jam - Oct 31, 2012

[CBR News]

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York resident Brett White finds it difficult to get worked up over yesterday's announcement of Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm.


Full article here.

[Tekra]

Guuuurl, you tell 'em!
Btw i am the only one around here, who actually love the pre trilogy?....

[President Kang]

I'm a big fan of the prequels, and this article is deliberately missing a very important point: in the wake of such disaster and horrible things that happened because of Hurricane Sandy, sometimes you need entertainment, and all of the sniping that goes along with it, to help people get through the often dark, cold, wet, and miserable thing that is The Real World.

So, yeah, let people yammer on about Star Wars and don't try to offhandedly dismiss it as being trival. We're all gonna die some day. Maybe instead of huddling in a corner afraid of what is or is not waiting for us in the great beyond, I'm gonna daydream about what new Star Wars film is going to await me in 2015. That sounds like fun.

[collex]

What is this? Trying to guilt people into your point of view? If we are angry about Star Wars instead of thinking about this particular disaster in this particular area, we are bad people? Do you stop giving your opinion on something everytime a snow storm paralyzes my town for three days? I don't think so.

You have the rights to your opinion, other people have the rights to there. Trying to shame other people for their opinion by bringing in completly unrelated event is stupid. And frankly, a bit ethno centrist - why should the world stop turning when a storm hit the US, but not parts of Asia?

[kwsilk]

Of coarse there are things more important than Star Wars, comic books, movies and TV etc, and more deserving of our attention, and that has ALWAYS been the case, long before Hurricane Sandy, and will be long after the storm is forgotten. These things are an ESCAPE from the problems of the real world, and indulging in conversations of fandom are a part of that escape. I find it deplorable that we should be made to feel guilty about getting worked up about trivial news on a website dedicated to THAT EXACT TRIVIAL NEWS! And I agree with the above poster that drawing special attention to this particular disaster in the face of the many events of equal or greater impact that happen on a regular basis worldwide incredibly ethno-centrist.

If it took the hurricane for the writer of this article to realise that his pop-culture fixations didn't have the same real-world weight or importance as, say, a natural disaster, then he is clearly a very dense individual.

[walkinspanish]

I'm just not upset about Disney owning Lucasfilm and all its properties because it's really not a big deal. If anything, I'm just slightly concerned about the sheer amount of our most recognizable fiction/entertainment intellectual properties all being under the same penumbra. Hopefully all the different segments/factions/whatever of the Disney Empire are not made to tow any particular line.

As an avid comic reader, I've currently got more Marvel books (5, count 'em, 5) on my pull list than I have had in at least 3 or 4 years. So, for my tastes, the Mouse has done no wrong in their Marvel ownership. Hopefully I feel the same about Star Wars when all is said and done. To be fair, I'm one of the grumpy types who thinks that episodes 1-3 suck, so I guess I don't anticipate much of a decline in quality. Beside all that, I think the last time it seemed that a Star Wars movie was not particularly Disney'd was in 1983. Maybe even 1980.

Whatevs.

[J. Robb]

If it sounds like I'm downplaying the ramifications of Disney buying Lucasfilm, it's because I am. I so am. I haven't left my apartment since Sunday afternoon for fear of accidentally stepping into a deadly power line and puddle cocktail or being crushed by a tree. Disney buying Lucasfilm does nothing to affect my well being, and nerds across the country would do well to realize this. I feel like I'm slowly becoming a broken record, constantly making the point that unless human rights and lives are at stake, there's no need to have a fit about it.

Congrats, now you know how 80% of the planet feels about the rest of us every day.

[dswynne]

Sounds to me like the writer has a stick up his a**, for being burned by the prequels, and has become jaded because of it. Yes, "Star Wars" is fiction, but it's also an American mythology that has grown beyond the vision of just one man: George Lucas. The reason why so many fans of the franchise felt betrayed by Lucas was that he turned the mythology into just a cash cow for his media empire, forgetting how endearing the themes that can be found in many cultures around the world, especially in the West (i.e. the hero's journey). Personally, I will be curious as to how Disney will treat this franchise from this point forward, since there ARE many stories left to tell about the Skywalker clan, ergo, I will take the writer's words with a grain of salt.