Update guys. So apparently Matt Wilkins and others are trying to get a "Bring Back the EU" billboard put as close as possible to the LucasFilm headquarters in San Francisco. Yes...they are actually being serious....
I swear they got this idea from an old episode of Robot Chicken. I can't find it on YouTube (though not for lack of trying) but the Star Trek fandom complains via billboard across the street from where the executive producers and writers meet.
I swear they got this idea from an old episode of Robot Chicken. I can't find it on YouTube (though not for lack of trying) but the Star Trek fandom complains via billboard across the street from where the executive producers and writers meet.
Well, with the TFA coming out in a week, the EU Movement is largely settling down atm. Don't mistake this for them giving up; there just waiting for their opportunity to sperg after the film is released. If the movie is praised, then they will over-exaggerate its flaws and sperg about how the EU was better. If the movie turns out to be a trainwreck, they will have a massive sperg circlejerk about how they were right, Disney has ruined Star Wars, and the EU was better. Ultimately, their response to the movie is going to be the same....it's the intensity of their sperg that will vary.
Hilariously enough, the main Star Wars FB pages started having enough of the EU Movement's autism on Facebook and started to increasingly make fun of them. The EU Movement predictably responded by shrinking back into restating their persecution complex and went into hiding. However, one individual by the name of Matthew Chenault refused to back down.
Mr. Chenault here pretty much started spamming tons of Star Wars FB pages with EU sperg. He started making claims like "millions of Star Wars fans were against The Force Awakens." This prompted this post from "The Star Wars Hub" FB page.
Matthew responded by basically saying Disney was brainwashing people. He even cited sources too!
Not surprisingly, the comments section did not go in Matthew's favor. It especially got bad when people accused Matthew of saying one time he thought Fallout Equestria was better than A Song of Ice and Fire. Matthew pretty much outed himself on that matter.
Matthew then proceeded to make even more of an ass out of himself by reiterating the claim made by many members of the EU Movement that Disney exploited Daniel Fleetwood's death (the Star Wars fan who was dying of terminal cancer and J.J Abrams let him watch Episode 7 early. A few days later, Daniel passed away) for marketing and Disney should have kept it "under wraps"....despite that being impossible for Disney given Daniel's wife went to NBC News about his condition and the Internet quickly made it viral.
At this point, no one was really taking Matt seriously. Another Star Wars page posted this gem (The page was later taken down by FB. It's assumed Matt reported the image and FB's fickle banning algorithms responded. But there's no real way to know atm).
I'll end this here. Matt still is roaming about on Facebook. We'll probably get some good content from him in the upcoming weeks.
BONUS CONTENT
I found this not too long along. Honestly don't know what to make of this.
I almost forgot...they are still trying to do their billboard project.
Matt Wilkins leading the charge is not surprising. What really caught my eye was Gordon Sullivan is their Website Designer. I've nicknamed him the "guy with the DisCurious girlfriend"
Not surprisingly, the comments section did not go in Matthew's favor. It especially got bad when people accused Matthew of saying one time he thought Fallout Equestria was better than A Song of Ice and Fire. Matthew pretty much outed himself on that matter.
Now, while I do kinda like some EU stuff, (KOTOR from what I've played so far is quite good), does it really matter if any of it's canon or not? Some of this stuff I imagine works on it's own regardless of it being canon or not.
Well, with the TFA coming out in a week, the EU Movement is largely settling down atm. Don't mistake this for them giving up; there just waiting for their opportunity to sperg after the film is released. If the movie is praised, then they will over-exaggerate its flaws and sperg about how the EU was better. If the movie turns out to be a trainwreck, they will have a massive sperg circlejerk about how they were right, Disney has ruined Star Wars, and the EU was better. Ultimately, their response to the movie is going to be the same....it's the intensity of their sperg that will vary.
Hilariously enough, the main Star Wars FB pages started having enough of the EU Movement's autism on Facebook and started to increasingly make fun of them. The EU Movement predictably responded by shrinking back into restating their persecution complex and went into hiding. However, one individual by the name of Matthew Chenault refused to back down.
Mr. Chenault here pretty much started spamming tons of Star Wars FB pages with EU sperg. He started making claims like "millions of Star Wars fans were against The Force Awakens." This prompted this post from "The Star Wars Hub" FB page.
Matthew responded by basically saying Disney was brainwashing people. He even cited sources too!
Not surprisingly, the comments section did not go in Matthew's favor. It especially got bad when people accused Matthew of saying one time he thought Fallout Equestria was better than A Song of Ice and Fire. Matthew pretty much outed himself on that matter.
Matthew then proceeded to make even more of an ass out of himself by reiterating the claim made by many members of the EU Movement that Disney exploited Daniel Fleetwood's death (the Star Wars fan who was dying of terminal cancer and J.J Abrams let him watch Episode 7 early. A few days later, Daniel passed away) for marketing and Disney should have kept it "under wraps"....despite that being impossible for Disney given Daniel's wife went to NBC News about his condition and the Internet quickly made it viral.
At this point, no one was really taking Matt seriously. Another Star Wars page posted this gem (The page was later taken down by FB. It's assumed Matt reported the image and FB's fickle banning algorithms responded. But there's no real way to know atm).
I'll end this here. Matt still is roaming about on Facebook. We'll probably get some good content from him in the upcoming weeks.
BONUS CONTENT
I found this not too long along. Honestly don't know what to make of this.
You know, I'm pretty bummed that there aren't going to be anymore EU books, especially after they cancelled "Sword of the Jedi", which was supposed to be pretty good. But why do buttholes like this have to take it to extremes? (I'm more worried that the new SW movies are going to suck, rather than cancelling out the EU)
This girl is honestly borderline LOLCOW worthy even otherwise, but I love how, with everything going on in the world right now, THIS is the cause she find most worthy of her time and outrage.
Careful guys. This thread was nearly shut down before because people were talking about the EU rather than the spergs within the fandom. If people want to slag off the EU itself, we should start a thread in Off-Topic.
I almost forgot...they are still trying to do their billboard project.
Matt Wilkins leading the charge is not surprising. What really caught my eye was Gordon Sullivan is their Website Designer. I've nicknamed him the "guy with the DisCurious girlfriend"
I remember saying a few pages back I thought the Continue the Expanded Universe movement wasn't too bad because they just wanted Legends to continue in conjunction with the new films. After reading about this "Matt" guy (who I agree is a candidate for a thread if he continues to act like this) and seeing all of that I retract my previous statements.
Also "DisCurious"? Now I know what happens when Tumblr terminology meets EU spergery.
Slightly off topic, but where has this spergfest come from? I could perhaps understand Star Trek spawning this monstrosity, given it ran for 726 episodes over various seasons, but Star Wars was only 6 films. Both series have also produced large amounts of literature. Both are undergoing/have undergone revivals recently that disregarded and glossed over previous lore. There seem to be a large number of parallels between the two, but I don't quite understand the sheer volume of spergery on display, given the fairly low screen time compared to the other scifi fandom that jumps to mind. Any ideas?
Slightly off topic, but where has this spergfest come from? I could perhaps understand Star Trek spawning this monstrosity, given it ran for 726 episodes over various seasons, but Star Wars was only 6 films. Both series have also produced large amounts of literature. Both are undergoing/have undergone revivals recently that disregarded and glossed over previous lore. There seem to be a large number of parallels between the two, but I don't quite understand the sheer volume of spergery on display, given the fairly low screen time compared to the other scifi fandom that jumps to mind. Any ideas?
Slightly off topic, but where has this spergfest come from? I could perhaps understand Star Trek spawning this monstrosity, given it ran for 726 episodes over various seasons, but Star Wars was only 6 films. Both series have also produced large amounts of literature. Both are undergoing/have undergone revivals recently that disregarded and glossed over previous lore. There seem to be a large number of parallels between the two, but I don't quite understand the sheer volume of spergery on display, given the fairly low screen time compared to the other scifi fandom that jumps to mind. Any ideas?
For Star Trek, all non-visual media was declared to be non-canon back in the 80's. Now it's possible that some people bitched about it back in the day, but I'm suspecting it was a complete non-issue because there were likely only a handful of books that were well liked. And even then this was established much earlier than Star Wars did, around twenty years after Star Trek first premiered compared to over thirty-five years later. Finally, the latest two Star Trek movies were established to be an alternate universe, not a complete upheaval of the "real" one. Regardless of what fans feel about the new continuity, the old one is still there to fall back on.
This is not the case for Star Wars. At the very least the vocal majority of the spergs believe that virtually all media in Star Wars was considered canon when it wasn't. The movies always had priority no matter what. It made sense to just make up brand new stories than adapt various books and try to sort through that mess. And honestly, even if they somehow managed to make an adaptation of the Admiral Thrawn trilogy, it still wouldn't live up to their ridiculously high expectations.
