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

[pedanther]

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?

I got the feeling that Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn was designed on a platform of "come for Harley, stay for the Birds of Prey", and in the hope that if it did well they'd be able to follow it up with a movie that was just about the Birds of Prey without Harley upstaging them. I would actually like to see that movie: I think the Birds were all well cast and did interesting things with their characters, and bounced off each other well, and I'd like to see them work together for an entire movie instead of just the climactic action sequence. I'd also like to see Oracle show up in the sequel. (And as long as I'm dreaming, I'd like a pony.)

Speaking of team-up movies where the team spends the entire movie coming together and only actually works as a team for the climactic action sequence: I've seen it pointed out that despite all the movies Marvel has made with the Avengers in, they've never yet actually made a movie that's about the Avengers working as a team. The first one is all about putting the team together and they're a team for one action sequence and then the movie ends, and then the second one they're a team for one action sequence and then the team starts falling apart, and from there it's all been "putting the band back together" or "whoops, falling apart again". We've never had a movie that's just: here are the Avengers, they're a team, watch them solve the problem as a team, the end.

[melannen]

I strongly agree on both of these!

[eleanorjane]

I heard it said of the first ensemble Avengers movie (or it might have been Avengers AOU, I don't remmeber) "oh look, Joss Whedon's hatred of adults getting along is showing again" and that was so true.

[ruuger]

That is such a good description of what I dislike about Joss.

[beatrice_otter]

AMEN!

[silveradept]

I would enjoy both of those ideas, Birds of Prey with Oracle especially. I think they had to use Harley because of The Suicide Squad fans, and because they'd tried Birds of Prey and it lasted a whole season.

A movie where the Avengers actually worked as a team would be very nice.