May the 4th

[author_by_night]

I was inspired by a Facebook post I wrote a few years ago, expressing confusion over all the May the 4th jokes. I then realized that I'd been doing the same thing to people as a huge Harry Potter fan - they would mention they'd read the books, and I'd start going on about something that wasn't immediately clear to more casual fans, leaving them confused.

I still haven't seen past the first Star Wars sequel. I really need to amend that.

Questions for YOU guys:

1. Is there anything you like only casually, only to mislead people into excitement when you mention it?

2. Have you ever confused a casual fan with ALL the love and knowledge?

3. What is your stance on the Star Wars sequels? Do you consider them canon? (If your comment contains spoilers, please mark it. I originally asked that this be spoiler free, but that's not fair to anyone who really wants to get into it! It IS Star Wars Day, after all.)

4. What is a book, movie, or series you WOULD like to see a sequel or prequel to? Or, if it's already had one of those, do you think it could be done better?

Comments

[mythochromos]

1. I like Star Wars inasmuch as I'll watch it if it's presented to me without much effort, but when I say I like Star Wars people ask things like what's your favorite episode and...uh...I didn't have one until very recently. (It's 7, but even so, I'm kind of mad at the sequel trilogy because I'm a Babylon 5 fan more than any other SF series and predictably I expect things to be planned out in advance. They didn't when it comes to the SW sequels and you can tell.)

2. I confused some casual Babylon 5 fans with a green vs. purple reference while painting. Guess it's been a while since they watched that episode.

3. I guess? But I completely understand passionately disagreeing with the decision to make something canon; I have Strong Feelings like that when it comes to something that happened in Final Fantasy XIV toward the end of Stormblood and I can imagine what a serious Star Wars fan would feel over the huge differences between Eps 8 and 9.

4. I would sacrifice a baby to read an official Laundry Files prequel series about Angleton. Fanfic to that effect would be cool too, but I really want to see what Charles Stross would do with it.

[beatrice_otter]

I love that episode of Babylon 5! The older I get, the less cracky it seems.

[ruuger]

Every time I rewatch B5, there are new elements that I used to think were cracky and exaggerated which now seem eerily realistic (see, for example: The 'fake news' in "Illusion of Truth" and the terrorist in "Convictions").

[silveradept]

B5 is one of those media you thought was far enough out on the exaggeration scale, only for real life to rapidly catch up to and surpass it, such that it doesn't seem to be going far enough any more.