{"id":404,"date":"2005-04-29T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=404"},"modified":"2005-04-29T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T03:00:09","slug":"on-fan-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"On Fan Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate.com posted an article today on <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2117760\/\"><i>Revelations<\/i>, a <i>Star Wars<\/i> fan film.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not seen the film&#8211;the pity of a dial-up connection&#8211;but I&#8217;ve seen a few <i>Star Wars<\/i> fan films.  The classic <i>Troops<\/i> I have on DVD.<\/p>\n<p>The article&#8217;s idea is that with Lucas finishing what he wanted to say in the <i>Star Wars<\/i> universe that perhaps it&#8217;s time to give fans free rein.  &#8220;Fans may be pointy-headed and obsessed with useless trivia, but they have excellent bullshit detectors,&#8221; writes Clive Thompson.  Films by fans, for fans.  Ewoks need not apply.<\/p>\n<p>I see Thompson&#8217;s point.  Fandom kept <i>Star Trek<\/i> alive in the 70s.  Fandom kept <i>Doctor Who<\/i> alive in 90s.  Fandom can keep the <i>Star Wars<\/i> flames burning.  Maybe fandom can even make people forget Jake Lloyd and Jar-Jar Binks.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, maybe forgetting Jar-Jar will require mass-lobotomies.  We shouldn&#8217;t get too enthused over <i>that<\/i> prospect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate.com posted an article today on Revelations, a Star Wars fan film. I&#8217;ve not seen the film&#8211;the pity of a dial-up connection&#8211;but I&#8217;ve seen a few Star Wars fan films. The classic Troops I have on DVD. The article&#8217;s idea is that with Lucas finishing what he wanted to say in the Star Wars universe<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=404\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Fan Films&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[51,953,4114],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars","tag-fandom","tag-fanfilm","tag-star-wars","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}