humming that familiar tune

[rose_griffes]

I've backed WAAAAAY far away from Star Wars stuff recently but took a peek yesterday. Apparently, the novelization for The Rise of Skywalker comes out tomorrow, so there are--naturally--leaks. Which means that angry fans are busy doing the angry fan thing. I'm not even sure what any of those leaks are, just that there's a FUROR. Or whatever.

(I have no intention of buying the novelization. I'm just a wee bit amused / horrified that an as-yet unreleased novel based on a film that has been in theaters for months is capable of creating yet another firestorm.)

But! I'm not here just to say, "Hey, there's a mess, dunno the exact contents, though." In this mini-spree of looking at Star Wars stuff, I found one of the best analyses of the sequel trilogy that I've seen / read.

WARNING: the video editor uses shots from various media sources, including The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, so there are a couple of gruesome moments.

Watch on YouTube

Um. I'll admit, I'm now a wee bit curious about what the novelization contains. Still not gonna read it! But if you know a link with a reasonably short summary about the main elements that are making people mad, I would read that.

edited to add: found a photo of a page from the novelization. Hm. I still don't get the big reaction. Especially since there's not a lot the author could do with the material given. *shrugs shoulders* So... never mind. Fans really are just doing the fan thing.

Comments

[elperian]

Having logged out of Tumblr and being blissfully unaware of new fandom wank...wow can I say my timing was right! Looked at the screenshot; it looks like more of the same stuff I didn't like but I'm hardly surprised, ya?

[rose_griffes]

That's my reaction as well: there's reylo stuff--not as blatant as it could have been, but it's still pretty blatantly pro-reylo. Not surprising, since the film was pro-reylo in this scene.

Time for me to back away again; I've honestly felt pretty upbeat these last few days, not knowing what was going on with SW fandom, or with a lot of other stuff. (I think my brain was in major "GIVE ME A BREAK" mode after grading a ton of audio files submitted by students. Hence the "peek at the wanky side of things" backsliding that I did. I've been avoiding a lot of it these last few days. Getting back on the wagon now!)

[fleurviolette]

I’m so glad I don’t keep up with sw fandom. I did see a post on ontd about the kiss being “platonic”. I figured it was but at the same time I’m like “they could have not pandered to a small subset of fans in the first place” or something.

[rose_griffes]

Apparently one of those click-bait websites deliberately took one sentence of the novelization out of context to say the kiss was platonic. And hey, it worked: a lot of people visited the site. Mostly angry reylo fans, but still: they got the clicks they wanted.

So it's not "official" commentary of any kind that the kiss was platonic, just some money-grubbing media-associated site doing their usual worst.

(I felt like the Rey/Kylo relationship in TRoS was way less romantic than I feared, but I still hate it that they went there. Bleurgh.)

[fleurviolette]

Yikes about everything. They shouldn’t have baited and pandered to a subset of fans in the first place.

[nic]

Thanks for posting that video, and for including the warning which the creator failed to do!

[rose_griffes]

Yeah, I liked the video, but could have done without some of the graphic visuals. You're welcome!