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?

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

One time, I was telling a friend how The Umbrella Academy is filmed in my city. He hurriedly asked me who my favourite character was and I had to explain I've never seen it, I just like to keep the fun trivia of precisely how many creative projects are filmed where I live in my back pocket like a party trick.

That was a non-answer. I guess, not really? Either I'm into something enough to get excited about it or I'm not going to bother. Passive consumption isn't really for me.

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

Quite a few times, but my absurdly good recall abilities are sometimes to blame. Or, how I learned that people don't like being corrected when they misquote a line of TV by one word, or, complicated lines of dialogue of the TV show Angel aren't fantastic for playing Hangman in the cafeteria at lunch.

3. What is your stance on the Star Wars sequels? Do you consider them canon?

The Last Jedi is my favourite. Bam, controversial opinion, ig--

Despite loving SW, I don't consider myself active in the fandom. I have no interest in debating the minutiae or writing fanfic or essays about whether or not Han was adept in the force without knowing it. But the themes and setting helped shape my preferences to this day (see my love of sci-fi, see my 14+ year loyalty to Ashe/Balthier).

Solo had a lot of interesting concepts but I went to see it in cinema when I was dead tired due to work, gave myself a legitimate migraine, and never really watched it again because I now associate it with my head trying to kill me.

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?

Oh, where to begin?

Mass Effect deserved a better sequel than what Andromeda ended up being.

Sunshine by Robin McKinley and Starless by Jacqueline Carey are two books that set themselves up excellently for sequels; I don't know if I'll ever get them but I definitely pine to return to their expertly crafted worlds.

Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series started off reasonably strong but frustrated me more and more by the way it protected its heroine from all struggles. I still plan to continue it, but not without grumbles.

King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword is another one! I think I might be the only person alive who genuinely loved this film and while I understand why it wasn't greenlit into a franchise, I'm still sad about it.

And last, for now, but not least - I walked out of the cinema when Pacific Rim: Uprising [redacted for spoilers!!!] and I'm still so disappointed.



MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU ALL.

[libbi]

I'm curious-what in particular made you walk out on Uprising? I love love love Pacific Rim, but god, the sequel was some bullshit.

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The fridging of Mako Mori. I was willing to forgive a lot, considering how much I loved OG Pacrim, but that crossed a line for me. Not even the bi energy of Jake and Nate could pull me back in after that.

[eleanorjane]

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

May Stacker Pentecost judge them from the grave.

So glad I didn't see that.

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It wasn't even an awesome, heroic death. She went down when a Kaiju swatted her helicopter.

[eleanorjane]

Oh for god's sake.

[melannen]

....you know, I so firmly declared that "not canon" immediately upon watching it that I had 100% forgotten it happened.

(In my defense, I have not read a single post-canon fanfic where she was actually dead. No body!)

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It's all I can remember because it was the tipping point of the film for me. Before that, it had only been "not as good as its predecessor"; her death moved it firmly into "a complete waste of money" territory.

That's an excellent point, though. I almost forgot about the restorative power of fix fic!

[libbi]

Wow I must've completely blacked that part of it out in my memory. I didn't remember it happened until you said so! Yeah, that was a shitty thing to do to such an awesome character and I'll probably never forgive whomever signed off on that.

[silveradept]

Ashe/Balthier, you say? I can see that when you place it close enough to Han/Leia that I can spot similarities.

(I personally think Balthier needs Fran to keep him in line, and they've settled into not actually admitting it to each other, but they jump just a slight bit faster to help each other out than they do the other members of their party.)