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

[doranwen]

1. Is there anything you like only casually, only to mislead people into excitement when you mention it?
Not really? Everything I like casually I never mention, everything else I generally either love or dislike greatly. (And I rarely mention the latter either.) And the things I like casually are often rather obscure, anyway.

2. Have you ever confused a casual fan with ALL the love and knowledge?
With LOTR in the past, I think so. But I don't talk to all that many people, that's the sad thing. (Mostly either just the Yuletide tagmods and a few people from the Yahoo Group Fandom Rescue Project.) And those I do talk to usually don't know *anything* about the thing I'm in love with, because I tend to fall in love with super obscure things hardly anyone's heard of. (C-16: FBI, Alphas, Cybergeddon, Rookie Blue, Gold Diggers, Worldweavers…) Also, none of those things tend to be recent; I always discover stuff years after it's done and over with. It's a perennial problem.

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.)
I don't like Star Wars. Period. I had a friend in college who made me sit and watch ALL SIX films and I thought it was the biggest waste of time ever. (I know this is heresy in some circles, but I really really did not like it.) So I couldn't care less about what's considered canon or not.

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?
Mmmm… I'd say Earth Girl (I want to see Tellon Blaze's story) but the author's got some prequels to it (just way before the events I want to see) and they've talked about writing a book of that someday, maybe, but they're writing current Jarra stories which is just zan for me, to use the slang from that world. I'd wish I could see a sequel to The Pretender that would wrap things up correctly, except they'd probably ruin it, and there's two fanfic series I know of (one set after the show proper, one set after the TV movies) that do that very thing and get to a happy ending, so really no need there. Maybe I'll vote for Cybergeddon. Short little webseries no one's seen (it's amazing, there's a Vimeo link to the whole thing turned into a movie that I can give you if you want to watch), and it finished with the bad guy still at large (just foiled his current plan). But they'd probably ruin the ship that I go for, lol.
So I know what my vote would be: Alphas. Syfy ended the two seasons on the worst cliffhanger and that was it. I'd love to see a sequel to the show, a TV movie that would wrap it all up well. And that wouldn't try to get Nina and Cameron back together, because I think they're too messed up to work with each other. Cameron and Kat, maybe. Leave Nina single. Might be good for her. (I'd suggest Nina and Rachel but they were pushing Rachel/John so hard - though maybe they break up in the aftermath of the final ep. I really should write something to deal with it all… someday…)

[pedanther]

I'd wish I could see a sequel to The Pretender that would wrap things up correctly, except they'd probably ruin it

+1

and there's two fanfic series I know of (one set after the show proper, one set after the TV movies) that do that very thing and get to a happy ending

Ooh! Tell me more?

[doranwen]

:D One of them is a series by MMB - I think you can find her stuff on Ff.n though sometime after she uploaded them there the site totally ruined the scene dividers and I doubt she's ever gotten around to fixing that. *I* did - I created epubs of all of them that actually have proper scene divisions and can email those if you want (just PM your email address to me and I'll toss 'em your way). :D I believe I linked all of them here - go to the A-plots/Casefic section to see. That one assumes the TV movies are canon.

The other is The Pretender Virtual Season which ignored the two movies and added their own two seasons, movies, and an epilogue, all which are downloadable as pdbs if I remember correctly (Calibre can then convert to epub or whatever else you prefer). They actually have cast pictures for all the characters too, which is interesting!

The latter is far more complicated and in the spirit of the Pretender insanity as far as plot and twisted revelations goes, but the MMB series I like best, I think. It just suits me better. But both are good.

[pedanther]

Thanks!