The only thing that can rouse me from my writing slumber is sadly some form of nerdrage or annoyance. Obviously this has occurred.
Yesterday marked the release of the Star Wars edition of the Xbox 360, another exploitation of a long beloved property that nerds/geeks will hand over their hard earned cash for. This blatant exploration is shockingly NOT what brings me here today.
It's the annoying reaction of said Star Wars fans to the proliferation of SW merch that bothers me. The constant harping about how their childhood is being ruined or "raped" (which is an obvious tasteless overstatement). Maybe I'm just getting old but all this bitching over this kind of nonsense is annoying.
Yeah, you heard me. I don't care anymore. I am tired of people thinking that a reboot or a revamp has somehow erased or removed the happy memories of what you liked of the original property, be it Star Wars, Transformers or the current target of hate: the revamp of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Yes, the new stuff is CRAP. The quality of many of the new things is very questionable and that is something I will not defend. BUT it's existence does not make history GO AWAY! That stuff you loved is still around!
You DO NOT need to buy or watch the new crap! IGNORE IT! Instead of giving this crap attention just let it go away! Not saying anything at all will do much more damage than making some sort of protest or angry campaign against it. Vote with your wallet! Don't go see the movie, don't buy the merch and let it fail on its own.
Do not let it consume you! Bitching and whineing about it means that the "enemy" has "won"! They are in your head and that was their goal. You complain about it to everyone you know and one of those people may want to see it for themselves to see if you were right. You just gave then free advertising.
Sometimes I think Hollywood and other forms of media are doing this shit on purpose. "What dedicated group of fans can we piss off to create buzz about something? " Look at the transformers movie franchise, each has been worse than the next, yet droves of people are going to see it regardless of the quality. They recycle and reboot shit because it somehow makes money!
Back to my original point. Look at the smart move by Microsoft and Lucasarts. They slap an R2-d2 paint job on an Xbox and string together a bunch of star wars motion games and all the fans, WHILE BITCHING ABOUT IT, go out and buy these things, even if they already have one.
They do this to us for one reason and one reason only, because they can.
