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I thought the character existed in the first place because JJ needed a role to cast his buddy in.
Careercow Chuck Wendig / Charles Wendig / TerribleMinds - Terrible author, terrible person, ruined Internet Archive's online library
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As the RedLetterMedia guys pointed out, this is probably the reason for Kerry Russell's part in ROS.
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That is correct. People need to stop saying "They killed off Wendig's self-insert!" No they didn't. Wendig wrote a child version of Snap, in the Aftermath trilogy. So claiming this is stupid.
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I mean all of snap’s characterization is grounded in Wendig’s godawful trilogy so it’s more or less true
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Is Chuck Wendig the pseudonym for the Disturbed reject/voice of Majin Buu Josh Martin?
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I didn't mention this in my The Rise of Trash review, but one thing that stood out to be was the awful hamfisted melodrama delivered by the actors. I did not believe for a second that Poe cared that much about Snap Wexley.
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Yes.
Wendigo's cuck shack where he definitely writes his stories and doesn't go to avoid the moans of his wife as she's railed by random black guys inspired my username. So he did do something useful with his... uh... "career."
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Larry Correia took a giant shit on one of Wendig's spergouts against the Star Wars fandom. It's a good read and further insight into what a crappy writer Wendig is.
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That so very many writers revere Chuck Wending and spit on Larry Correia (if they even know who he is) says a lot about the current state of the industry, none of it good.
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Just a search of the two names together brings up a lot of depressing results and proves the old adage about how correct belief will be preferred over actual talent & skill.
Did find this though.
An Open Letter to Chuck Wendig
Editor’s Note: If you are unaware of it, Star Wars author Chuck Wendig went on an extended tirade online against Star Wars fans for being racist, bigoted, white supremacist, misogynistic, ill…
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An Open Letter to Chuck Wendig
Posted by catholicgeekguest
Editor’s Note: If you are unaware of it, Star Wars author Chuck Wendig went on an extended tirade online against Star Wars fans for being racist, bigoted, white supremacist, misogynistic, illiterate, masculinist, mediocre, and possessing an overabundance of earwax. Okay, that last part was made up, but it and the kitchen sink was probably in there somewhere.
Ann Lewis, of pre-Disney canon, decided to weigh in. Ann is also the author of the excellent Sherlock Holmes book Murder in the Vatican (which you should read), among other titles. ~ MB
An Open letter to Chuck Wendig
by Ann Margaret Lewis
Dear Chuck,
This isn’t a bashing letter, just a thoughtful one. I wanted to state that at the outset, so you don’t skip over it. You’re in a rather peevish mood lately, and I’m hoping to start off my discussion here with a calm base. Further, this is going to be longer than your average blog post, so I beg you to bear with me as I make my way through this.
First, about me – I am a former Star Wars writer of long ago (and far, far away). Star Wars was my first big professional sale. While that may seem odd, my background was in licensed publishing, and up to that point, I’d written small projects for DC Comics licensed books—Little Golden Books, a book and audio, a children’s comics and fiction magazine, coloring and activity books, etc. Because I knew Star Wars well, the DelRey editor asked me to pitch a non-novel book for that line and to my shock and surprise, it was accepted. I did the job, got paid, and went on to do other non-Star Wars things. I tell you this not to toot my own horn (because it is a tiny, plastic one), but so that you know I understand what it is to work for a licensor, and I know what it is to answer to the licensor’s dictates. It is a harrowing job, and it is one that you appear to be doing to the licensor’s satisfaction since they’re giving you a lot of work. I’m happy for you and I hope you continue to succeed.
The one thing I also know is that working for a license like this, you have to deal with the fans that come with it. I’m a fan, too, as I’m sure you are or you wouldn’t be writing their stuff. But you and I both know the fans you write for have expectations that are often impossible to meet. The hard-core Star Wars fans are really, really tough.
Which gets me to where we’re going here: the fans, and their reaction to the Star Wars films and other materials now coming out of Disney. There are two narratives coming from Disney’s direction. One is that Solo is tanking because it stars a white male protagonist. The other is that fans were so angry by the “SJW”-diversity nature of The Last Jedi that they boycotted Solo.
While there might be a small group boycotting Solo for these reasons, I’m going to state that for the most part, neither are in fact the case, despite the social media postings of a few minor crackpots. I don’t know what happened to Kelly Marie Tran, or other actors and actresses who left social media platforms. I wasn’t witness to any of it. But you must realize the viewing audience for these films is much, much larger than a small cadre of angry, juvenile voices making that fuss. The Solo tank and the lackluster sales of other Star Wars related products post-TLJ really has very little to do with them, despite how loud their voices seem.
The real money of the film viewing audience comes from people more like myself: folks who enjoy good stories and who follow sci fi or action adventure series as good family entertainment. We have kids, we have jobs, money to spend, and we like to share things as a group. These aren’t the hard-core fans on social media or going to cons. They are people who will spend money on a good film romp and even do it more than once if the film is good. They may even buy a novel or comic or two, depending on their level of interest. This is the broader Star Wars audience. Now, the hard-core fan group has grown larger due to social media, etc, but by and large that broader audience has the meat and potatoes film viewership and product buying power. This is the group of people Disney lost on Solo. And I am going to explain why.
The number one rule for any entertainment venture, be it film, play, book or comic is this: Do not waste the audience’s time and money. They are there to be entertained. Your job is to entertain them. If you don’t do that, they will not give you money in the future.
The Last Jedi broke this cardinal rule. It really is that simple. The Last Jedi did not entertain, but wasted my, and much of the broader audience’s, time and hard-earned cash. Only hard-core fans saw it more than once (which gave them more to complain about on social media). Now, I have seen Solo. But I will tell you that I did not want to initially. I had to be cajoled into it by my husband, who was willing to try it. I was one of those who felt burned by The Last Jedi and it had nothing whatever to do with the diversity thing. I was angry because my time and money was wasted the last time, just as it had been with the prequels. No, it didn’t ruin my childhood. My childhood was my childhood and it will not change. I wasn’t angry about the old characters being misused, etc. I was angry that the whole thing was a time suck beginning to end and not worth what I paid to see it. In fact, my comment on leaving the theater after TLJ was this: “For what they spent to make that film they could have fed a third-world country and the money would have been better spent. They couldn’t pay a decent screenwriter to give them a well-structured story?”
I know that I am not alone in this (perhaps not the screenwriter comment, but certainly the wasted money issue). Ergo, when Solo popped up, I did not want to see it. Not because I don’t like Han Solo. I love him, honestly, and somewhere in my heart I kind of wanted to see it. But I did not want to waste hard-earned money on something that wasn’t worth it.
To my relief, it wasn’t half-bad. I enjoyed it. Cardinal rule achievement unlocked.
But let’s go back to diversity in The Last Jedi, because that is the current narrative that you appear to be endorsing, along with Disney.
Disney made a huge deal about the diverse cast they had in The Force Awakens: strong female lead, black guy, Hispanic guy. Awesome. I liked these characters. I believe most people, like myself, had great hopes for all of them. Finn was promising as a growing hero. Poe was a fun guy who seemed ripe to jump into the Han Solo devil-may-care hot-shot pilot role. Rey was cute and I generally liked her. Kylo was whiney, but hey, so was Luke. While TFA’s plotline was an obvious re-tread, I was fine with it. I hoped they’d grow and we’d see more.
But that is not what happened with TLJ. The storytelling in the film failed each and every one of these characters. Let’s go through what happened to our diversity cast in TLJ, one-by-one:
Boy, was I disappointed. I got a pink-haired runway model with the leadership skills to match. God help us.
Then you have the two white women, Leia and Rey. Leia sleeps through most of the film (which I’m sure was a blessing to lovely Carrie Fisher, may she rest in peace). And Rey—well, she actually does something that matters in this film, for what it’s worth.
That leaves the two white guys to do things: Luke and Kylo, and they were two of the most compelling characters in what remained of the film.
Diversity? If you give us a diverse cast, please have them do something meaningful, have them win, achieve a goal, beat the bad guy or actually die trying. That is one thing that Solo got right because at least Lando did something that mattered. Even with Empire, which was a calculated loss for the good guys, we were concerned about our characters and rooting for them because what they did meant something. Nothing that these diverse characters did really mattered in TLJ. It was a poorly constructed story with nothing to root for or cheer for and that is where it failed and wasted the broader audience’s time and money. Thus, having been burned, they did not return.
All that being said, I want to finish with this—it’s not worth it to fight the fans. You have books and comics to write and sell, so you can’t be doing that. You’re wasting time and energy doing it. You need to concentrate on the cardinal rule of entertainment and do what you’re being paid to do: entertain. Write good stories. Step back from social media if you have to. If you concentrate on producing well-constructed space opera story arcs with heroes to cheer and villains to boo—be they black, white, brown, or somewhere in between—the fans will by and large spend their money to be entertained. It’s all up to you and Disney to make that happen. I hope you do.
Wishing you all the best,
–Ann Margaret Lewis
Posted by catholicgeekguest
Editor’s Note: If you are unaware of it, Star Wars author Chuck Wendig went on an extended tirade online against Star Wars fans for being racist, bigoted, white supremacist, misogynistic, illiterate, masculinist, mediocre, and possessing an overabundance of earwax. Okay, that last part was made up, but it and the kitchen sink was probably in there somewhere.
Ann Lewis, of pre-Disney canon, decided to weigh in. Ann is also the author of the excellent Sherlock Holmes book Murder in the Vatican (which you should read), among other titles. ~ MB
An Open letter to Chuck Wendig
by Ann Margaret Lewis
Dear Chuck,
This isn’t a bashing letter, just a thoughtful one. I wanted to state that at the outset, so you don’t skip over it. You’re in a rather peevish mood lately, and I’m hoping to start off my discussion here with a calm base. Further, this is going to be longer than your average blog post, so I beg you to bear with me as I make my way through this.
First, about me – I am a former Star Wars writer of long ago (and far, far away). Star Wars was my first big professional sale. While that may seem odd, my background was in licensed publishing, and up to that point, I’d written small projects for DC Comics licensed books—Little Golden Books, a book and audio, a children’s comics and fiction magazine, coloring and activity books, etc. Because I knew Star Wars well, the DelRey editor asked me to pitch a non-novel book for that line and to my shock and surprise, it was accepted. I did the job, got paid, and went on to do other non-Star Wars things. I tell you this not to toot my own horn (because it is a tiny, plastic one), but so that you know I understand what it is to work for a licensor, and I know what it is to answer to the licensor’s dictates. It is a harrowing job, and it is one that you appear to be doing to the licensor’s satisfaction since they’re giving you a lot of work. I’m happy for you and I hope you continue to succeed.
The one thing I also know is that working for a license like this, you have to deal with the fans that come with it. I’m a fan, too, as I’m sure you are or you wouldn’t be writing their stuff. But you and I both know the fans you write for have expectations that are often impossible to meet. The hard-core Star Wars fans are really, really tough.
Which gets me to where we’re going here: the fans, and their reaction to the Star Wars films and other materials now coming out of Disney. There are two narratives coming from Disney’s direction. One is that Solo is tanking because it stars a white male protagonist. The other is that fans were so angry by the “SJW”-diversity nature of The Last Jedi that they boycotted Solo.
While there might be a small group boycotting Solo for these reasons, I’m going to state that for the most part, neither are in fact the case, despite the social media postings of a few minor crackpots. I don’t know what happened to Kelly Marie Tran, or other actors and actresses who left social media platforms. I wasn’t witness to any of it. But you must realize the viewing audience for these films is much, much larger than a small cadre of angry, juvenile voices making that fuss. The Solo tank and the lackluster sales of other Star Wars related products post-TLJ really has very little to do with them, despite how loud their voices seem.
The real money of the film viewing audience comes from people more like myself: folks who enjoy good stories and who follow sci fi or action adventure series as good family entertainment. We have kids, we have jobs, money to spend, and we like to share things as a group. These aren’t the hard-core fans on social media or going to cons. They are people who will spend money on a good film romp and even do it more than once if the film is good. They may even buy a novel or comic or two, depending on their level of interest. This is the broader Star Wars audience. Now, the hard-core fan group has grown larger due to social media, etc, but by and large that broader audience has the meat and potatoes film viewership and product buying power. This is the group of people Disney lost on Solo. And I am going to explain why.
The number one rule for any entertainment venture, be it film, play, book or comic is this: Do not waste the audience’s time and money. They are there to be entertained. Your job is to entertain them. If you don’t do that, they will not give you money in the future.
The Last Jedi broke this cardinal rule. It really is that simple. The Last Jedi did not entertain, but wasted my, and much of the broader audience’s, time and hard-earned cash. Only hard-core fans saw it more than once (which gave them more to complain about on social media). Now, I have seen Solo. But I will tell you that I did not want to initially. I had to be cajoled into it by my husband, who was willing to try it. I was one of those who felt burned by The Last Jedi and it had nothing whatever to do with the diversity thing. I was angry because my time and money was wasted the last time, just as it had been with the prequels. No, it didn’t ruin my childhood. My childhood was my childhood and it will not change. I wasn’t angry about the old characters being misused, etc. I was angry that the whole thing was a time suck beginning to end and not worth what I paid to see it. In fact, my comment on leaving the theater after TLJ was this: “For what they spent to make that film they could have fed a third-world country and the money would have been better spent. They couldn’t pay a decent screenwriter to give them a well-structured story?”
I know that I am not alone in this (perhaps not the screenwriter comment, but certainly the wasted money issue). Ergo, when Solo popped up, I did not want to see it. Not because I don’t like Han Solo. I love him, honestly, and somewhere in my heart I kind of wanted to see it. But I did not want to waste hard-earned money on something that wasn’t worth it.
To my relief, it wasn’t half-bad. I enjoyed it. Cardinal rule achievement unlocked.
But let’s go back to diversity in The Last Jedi, because that is the current narrative that you appear to be endorsing, along with Disney.
Disney made a huge deal about the diverse cast they had in The Force Awakens: strong female lead, black guy, Hispanic guy. Awesome. I liked these characters. I believe most people, like myself, had great hopes for all of them. Finn was promising as a growing hero. Poe was a fun guy who seemed ripe to jump into the Han Solo devil-may-care hot-shot pilot role. Rey was cute and I generally liked her. Kylo was whiney, but hey, so was Luke. While TFA’s plotline was an obvious re-tread, I was fine with it. I hoped they’d grow and we’d see more.
But that is not what happened with TLJ. The storytelling in the film failed each and every one of these characters. Let’s go through what happened to our diversity cast in TLJ, one-by-one:
- Finn – the one black character, who wants to be heroic becomes the bumbling, loser sidekick to…
- Rose – the one Asian character, who gets easily hoodwinked by a con (pulled by the other Hispanic character, because of course, Hispanics cannot be trusted), fails in her mission and ends up lovesick.
- Poe – the primary Hispanic character, engages in epic fail because he isn’t told the truth and gets slapped around (because he cannot be trusted) by …
- Vice Admiral Holdo – who was, apparently, gay. (Though honestly in a kid’s movie who cares about that? But I digress.) She was a horrible leader and a terrible strategist. I mean, when they said they had a lesbian military leader chick I was looking for this:
Boy, was I disappointed. I got a pink-haired runway model with the leadership skills to match. God help us.
Then you have the two white women, Leia and Rey. Leia sleeps through most of the film (which I’m sure was a blessing to lovely Carrie Fisher, may she rest in peace). And Rey—well, she actually does something that matters in this film, for what it’s worth.
That leaves the two white guys to do things: Luke and Kylo, and they were two of the most compelling characters in what remained of the film.
Diversity? If you give us a diverse cast, please have them do something meaningful, have them win, achieve a goal, beat the bad guy or actually die trying. That is one thing that Solo got right because at least Lando did something that mattered. Even with Empire, which was a calculated loss for the good guys, we were concerned about our characters and rooting for them because what they did meant something. Nothing that these diverse characters did really mattered in TLJ. It was a poorly constructed story with nothing to root for or cheer for and that is where it failed and wasted the broader audience’s time and money. Thus, having been burned, they did not return.
All that being said, I want to finish with this—it’s not worth it to fight the fans. You have books and comics to write and sell, so you can’t be doing that. You’re wasting time and energy doing it. You need to concentrate on the cardinal rule of entertainment and do what you’re being paid to do: entertain. Write good stories. Step back from social media if you have to. If you concentrate on producing well-constructed space opera story arcs with heroes to cheer and villains to boo—be they black, white, brown, or somewhere in between—the fans will by and large spend their money to be entertained. It’s all up to you and Disney to make that happen. I hope you do.
Wishing you all the best,
–Ann Margaret Lewis
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"history is full of contradictions."
Chuck-confirmed holocaust denier.
Chuck-confirmed holocaust denier.
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*record scratch*
History is just that. Sure, a lot what people write about it can be slanted or biased, but it objectively happened, it can't be changed as an objective fact later. Fiction creates it's own internal history, and even if it's a story with time travel or something else that alters pre-existing canon, those events still happened in an objective sense in the earlier parts of the fictional history created by the fiction writer.
Chuck is basically saying he can wipe his ass with that concept for no better reason than he said so.
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Thanks Chuck for telling us real-ass history is all made up.
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He can go wipe with sandpaper for all I care. If I want to read about history, I'll just take a book off of my dad's many bookshelves and read through. I don't need some screeching asshole behind my back screaming about what did and did not happen in history.
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It's not actually about history at all. Cuck Windbag is justifying his lazy approach to world building. His stories are just vehicles for his characters (who are all based on him and his douchebag hipster friends) to give self indulgent monologues and hot takes, and to deliver thinly veiled political and social messages. He writes whatever pops into his head that will help him deliver his messages, stream of conscious style, without worrying whether it makes any logical sense or contradicts what came before, and he resents being expected to do research or take any care with whatever fictional world he's writing, whether it's his or someone else's. The man can't even be bothered to write in anything but present tense (except for those times he forgets in the middle of a paragraph) for crying out loud. He definitely doesn't self-edit, beyond maybe a quick spell check.
He pretends like he doesn't focus on good world writing because character writing is more important, but all his characters are just walking livejournal entries or one dimensional villains, many of whom are thinly veiled strawmen of conservatives. He can't write characters that are distinct from each other and fleshed out because he can't empathize with anything beyond his own worldview.
In short, Windbag is a "writer" who really just wants to write about himself, but since nobody wants to read some emotionally arrested pudgy beardo soyboy's deep thoughts and strong opinions about life and the world, he has to dress it up as science fiction and fantasy even though he couldn't give two shits about the craft involved in creating either.
He pretends like he doesn't focus on good world writing because character writing is more important, but all his characters are just walking livejournal entries or one dimensional villains, many of whom are thinly veiled strawmen of conservatives. He can't write characters that are distinct from each other and fleshed out because he can't empathize with anything beyond his own worldview.
In short, Windbag is a "writer" who really just wants to write about himself, but since nobody wants to read some emotionally arrested pudgy beardo soyboy's deep thoughts and strong opinions about life and the world, he has to dress it up as science fiction and fantasy even though he couldn't give two shits about the craft involved in creating either.
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Maybe Wendig can write more of his original work like Mariam black or something? Or he could go back to a small pond of a fanfic writing site and start writing his own star wars fic about how snap wexley survived episode 9 or some shit
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How big of a check do you suppose Disney wrote Cuck for use of the character? While it's funny he went out like an incompetent punk, Cuck probably got a nice payday from it.
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I think (and hope) that part of the deal of him getting to write under the Star Wars license was that the rights to all his creations under that brand are property of the Mouse and they can use them how they see fit.
Disney may have farmed out the creative side of one of their largest franchises to the lowest bidder, but I doubt their legal team would have the same sloppy attitude about the financial side of it. They wouldn't want Windbag owning the rights to any part of Star Wars. Why pay for rights again after already paying Lucas when you can nip that shit on the bud in this loser's contract? He doesn't have any leverage with them to demand more.
Besides, didn't someone earlier in the thread say Wexley was actually created by someone else but was a glorified background extra until Cuck made him a major character in a couple of his books?
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Chuck Wendig is a terrible writer, is it any surprise he also holds terrible views on writing for established universes? The guy is a soy boy idiot.
History is not full of retcons and ragged contradictions. What’s going on now are woke idiots attempting to rewrite history by projecting their belief that everything is racist like the 1619 project which is a complete joke and is discredit by a ton of established historians. Somehow the “we wuz kangz” crowd has moved on to saying “we wuz democracy founders”.
Edit: See, proving my point. Historians centered whiteness and everything is racist...duh!! Fuck all those facts and sheeit. We don’t need that, just our feelings and what we “think”.
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Hmmm... I know @FROG got a nice check for the Justice League movie because they used one of the characters he created or co-created. Disney may of course work differently, but it wouldn't be out of the question to give him some "don't cause trouble" money.