All Hollywood corrupts, and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. –Edmund Wilson

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. –Nikos Kazantzakis




A LAZY OKATU FANBOY'S FAN ART!!!




This is my guilty pleasure, that little show called Teen Titans. Hell, that show has better plot and art than some shows that crossed the Pacific. And of course, Raven is teh best. Edit: Here it is shaded. I'll try to color it, if I get around to it. And you know it's true. Goth chixors are t3h shit.

And now for something completly different,

It's been awhile, but I needed to let my thoughts coalese (horrible spelling skillz!).

These are my problems with the latest Star Wars Trilogy:

First off, this is the root of the problem: the orginial Star Wars was not really Sci-Fi. It was Fanasty in a Sci-Fi setting. Look, a princess in danger, world ending weapons, evil wizards (with a hint of litch-ness and undead), necromancy, a mystical energy source, various other creatures, the father/son effect, etc. All staples of Fanasty. And I'm not saying this is bad. There's a reason why fanasty and sci-fi are in the same bookselves in the bookstore. But the latest eposides were Sci-Fi in a Sci-fi setting. There was none of the orginial magic, because everything was so technized. It was so bad, even elements of fanasty, like the that ancient prophesy Anakin fullfilled, seemed completely out of place and stupid.

This Sci-fi-ing led into several other problems. One was the whole mitoclorians crap. It was these parts of cells that made people force sensitive. A solid sci-fi solution, but uttertly gay in all other ways. Face it--nobody cares how people channel the Force, we just want to see cool Force action. Scientific conclusions are the stuff of hardcore Sci-Fi, but Star Wars is anything but hardcore sci-fi. Lucas, no. Also, special effects--way to much. We have a society 20-30 years before the A New Hope, yet it seems like a society 50-100 after. Come fucking on! With all those special effects, you could make it look older and yet still look really cool.

Another problem: George 'One Man Band' Lucas. Yes, it's your story, but couldn't you at least listen or talk to the fan base? I mean, you really pissed of a lot of people a damaged your legacy in the annals of Geekdom. Listening to other's people's ideas could have made the stories a lot more kick-ass. Also, you can't write a love story worth shit.

Jar-Jar Binks-Why?! Oh, God why?!

Robot army. Okay! There are reasons why there is no robot army in the later books and movies. Its a little something first seen on Hoth called an 'Ion Cannon'. These 'Ion Cannons', which Lucas himself introduced, have one function-shutting down electronics. Electronics like, lets say a DROID ARMY! FOR BUDDHA'S SAKE, A SQUAD OF 50 MEN WITH ION GUNS COULD TAKE DOWN THE ENTIRE DROID ARMY!!! Especially since the driod shoot sooooo bad and are sooooo lame. I have a theory which states a movie is good in comparison to the number of people that get killed. Look a the first trilogy--hundreds of stormies, tie fighters, and bad guys are slaughtered! Hell, the very first scene has a squad of stormtroopers killing a bunch of rebels. In comparsion, you could count the dead in Eposide 1 on one hand.

Names. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOUR NAMING?!? Grevious? Maul? Sidious? Dooku? Come on, I could come up with better names than that. Its like you pulled out a theasaurus and wrote down the symonims for 'bad'. ARRRRGGGGG!!!

No Darth Vader v Jedi action. You said it yourself in Epsode IV. Darth Vader hunted down and destroyed the Jedi. Not Darth Killed some kids while a trap that no jedi should have ever fell for killed them all off.

Tatoonie. I HATE this planet. And in every movie we go back to this stupid little rock ball. Even half the games have it in their for no reason. Its like whenever Lucas was writter's block, he sends everyonr off to Tatoonie. Have an orginial thought for once in your life!

The 30-second hot Wokkie action -- was not hot. If your going to have a cool fight on much discussed but never seen planet, can't we have more of it? Instead the plot just feels stretched, while we go off to Tatoonie. AGAIN!!

Other major discrepances between movies (and books). There were a few of them, which I will not mention here, but there are things like Timothy Zhan's ideas of the Clone Wars, or more along the lines that Clones are supposted to go insane. A really cool idea that Lucas strapped for some reason.

And lastly, too kiddy. Lucas, your first movies were big in the older teens and twenties, and crossed to sucess to lower and higher ages. These movies seemed to aim to the 10-13 age group. Just stupid, while alieninating your fan base. Lucas, I am disappointed. I am disappointed because a man which could have been a god in geek/fanboy lore has became a demon.