Wednesday, September 5, 2018

My Life In Fandom: How Not To Make Nice With The Folks That Pay You

In case you needed yet another reason to walk away from The Mouse Empire forever, here you go:

His pre-Star Wars hype is gone, with it his future in this business. You have to be a colossal fuck up to make Jar Jar Abrams look good, and Abrams somehow managed to fuck up Star Trek enough to kill the film franchise and thus precipitate the present train-wreck of that franchise.

So, when you make such a colossal blunder as this, what do you do to fix it? You start with making nice with the folks who pay for the merch and the tickets so they show up for the next one. You don't go after the influencers in the fan scene who can make or break (and have) your career.

Rian Johnson didn't get that memo. He went after Mike Zeroh, who is bottom-tier of influencers (for good reason) in terms of Star Wars, instead of making nice with we who are increasingly looking at #StarWarsNotStarWars alternatives such as Galaxy's Edge, Galaxy Ascendant, and the #StarKnight Saga.

Enjoy that final season of Clone Wars, gang. After that, evacuate the system and say goodbye because it's time for the franchise to end.

1 comment:

  1. Bradford,

    Overfeeding arroganice and insufferable pride. Those hacks had the audacity to take much loved franchises and turn them into movie school b reels emoting Berman or something.
    If they wanted to make home movies deconstructing the fad is that's what you tube is for.
    xavier

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