My Life In Fandom: Jump Away From Coruscant

The official fan con, Star Wars Celebration, has begun and will on this weekend. The real info is now coming out.

Multi-billion dollar property.

The greatest minds of Hollywood.

This... is the title they came up with.

Our culture is dead. #EpisodeIX pic.twitter.com/GFWwSMe4vz

— JDA, Social Warlock (@jondelarroz) April 12, 2019

Jon del Arroz is correct. Star Wars is dead. It took less than a decade for Disney to kill a formerly world-famous Space Opera franchise, a franchise that facilitated the founding of two major effects houses--Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light & Magic--who've got resumes going on for decades and includes far more major hits than Uncle George's own films. The novels are now expensive toilet paper, as are the comics (unless it's Darth Vader), and the games to date have been mediocre at best and often trash. Yes, including the tabletop games. (D6 or GTFO)

If you're thinking of handing over a single cent to the Mouse, despite complaining or whining about Mouse Wars, you're a paypig and beneath contempt, something Mouse Wars and The Mouse will not hide. Buy the pre-Mouse stuff used if you must have it and you either can't or won't see if your local Straw Hats can hook you up. You have alternatives to Mouse Wars for scratching that itch, starting with the Galaxy's Edge and the Galaxy Ascendant series; stop being a bitch and buy that instead, putting your money where your mouths are. If those aren't enough, keep looking; you'll find something in print.

And that's just Western science fiction. Go east and you've got Japan's massive mound of material to pour through, staring with Space Battleship Yamato and including Legend of the Galactic Heroes as well as Space Pirate Harlock. Want to include giant robots? Yamato's 2202 follow-up introduces them into the mix, and the classics include Super-Dimensional Fortress Macross and its sequels.

You don't need to let Mouse Wars shit all over the corpse of something you loved, but is now dead. Jump away. There's nothing left to save. Let it go and come find something alive to enjoy instead, which will include my own Star Knight Saga soon. To make this clear, I'll let Frank here put it plainly about giving the Mouse your money.