On STAR WARS Fatigue, ANDOR, And How Modern Consumption Is The Enemy Of Art
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I can’t miss you if you never go away. And for me, that was never more true than my relationship with STAR WARS. This last weekend, I was on a panel with other writers at Comicpalooza about STAR WARS. We all came at it from different places; I was the oldest on the panel, and the only one who saw the original film in a theater in 1977 - the others weren’t born yet, or were too little. I was geared up for some hostility. That’s just the nature of fandom these days; it begins, lately, with anger and rarely leaves it. At least, that’s the online experience, and due to these past years of isolation and technology, the primary experience. The mechanics of this world seem to fight against us gathering in any real places, and so without these social cues and interactions, we become more brash, more rude, more abrupt, and we mistakenly think that’s how we’re supposed to behave in real life.
On STAR WARS Fatigue, ANDOR, And How Modern Consumption Is The Enemy Of Art
On STAR WARS Fatigue, ANDOR, And How Modern…
On STAR WARS Fatigue, ANDOR, And How Modern Consumption Is The Enemy Of Art
I can’t miss you if you never go away. And for me, that was never more true than my relationship with STAR WARS. This last weekend, I was on a panel with other writers at Comicpalooza about STAR WARS. We all came at it from different places; I was the oldest on the panel, and the only one who saw the original film in a theater in 1977 - the others weren’t born yet, or were too little. I was geared up for some hostility. That’s just the nature of fandom these days; it begins, lately, with anger and rarely leaves it. At least, that’s the online experience, and due to these past years of isolation and technology, the primary experience. The mechanics of this world seem to fight against us gathering in any real places, and so without these social cues and interactions, we become more brash, more rude, more abrupt, and we mistakenly think that’s how we’re supposed to behave in real life.