[Rumori] Detritus Update: fan fiction, fan film, and star wars

[PeterALopez]

Yeah, it's always fun to get caught in your own trap.  sorry when it comes to SW recently i've been emersed in sound bites so running into someone taking the time to do some research threw me obviously, i jumped the gun and typed all willy nilly, i apologize to the participants of the list.  (now keep in mind my mind set hasn't shifted too much in the last few mintues so maybe this is all shit too.)

The 'premise' of the article seems to have been to draw attention to the book.  and well it's worked.

As for the gender issues, it's fun to generalize but you when you apply that generalization to a specific issue or person it's not going to work in every case.  and there are a ton of fan films.  the argument works just as well as that Harvard (math) professors or Vicente (black) Fox's.

As for Lucasarts, they act like a corporate entitiy.  Not too consistent.  When the press is high they get more restrictive and as attention wains, they get more lax.  they recently shut down the 1337 RotS trailer:
http://nuar.lunarpages.com/video/SW_mirrors.htm
While at the same time having the C3 fan film contest.

well this post sucks ass.

but to continue with the blog's last paragraph about how media organizations are attempting to learn to deal with fan culture.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/15/179251&tid=155&tid=129&tid=95
an /. post about how after the Sci-Fi channel gave away for free copies of their new show Battle Star Gallatica the ratings went up.  and how this contradicts the MPAA's targeting of BT sites.  but the later has to do with DVD sales and the first has to do with advertising ratings.

PeterAPostingWithoutReadingFucktardLopez



-----Original Message-----
From: stAllio! the original wanksta <stalliongsta at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Rumori] Detritus Update: fan fiction, fan film, and star wars

as far as reading before commenting goes, if you read the actual blog
entry, you'll see that i already discussed and linked to both those
articles.  but you can only fit so much into the "excerpt" field, so i
just included the first two paragraphs.  

what do you think was the "premise" of the article?  jenkins' comments
about gender issues? (that women write fanfic and men produce fanfilm?)
 i thought the stuff about how lucasarts etc interact with the fan
community, as in what content is okay and what isn't, was more
interesting, and is what i focused my post on.