Comment Good Sci-Fi doesn't make good Merchandising. (Score 1) 363
I can remember, as a child, the exiting trips to the toy store to buy the new "2001: A Space Odyssey" action figures.
My favourite game was to spend hours pondering the deep, inscrutable surface of the Monolith, awonder with the obscure cosmic possibilities it intimated. Dave Bowman and Frank Poole were idols in my childhood fantasies. I wanted to be just like them when I grew up - incomprehensibly altered by a mysterious alien intelligence; annhiliated in the cold depths of space. Hal was a favourite, too - an insane intelligence driven into a murdering fever by contradicted loyalties. Many happy hours were passed recreating these fun conflicts on the playground.
Have I made my point?
Star Wars has been a marketing exercise from the moment Lucas procured the merchandising rights. Quality storytelling? No room for that.
Chris Stearns.
My favourite game was to spend hours pondering the deep, inscrutable surface of the Monolith, awonder with the obscure cosmic possibilities it intimated. Dave Bowman and Frank Poole were idols in my childhood fantasies. I wanted to be just like them when I grew up - incomprehensibly altered by a mysterious alien intelligence; annhiliated in the cold depths of space. Hal was a favourite, too - an insane intelligence driven into a murdering fever by contradicted loyalties. Many happy hours were passed recreating these fun conflicts on the playground.
Have I made my point?
Star Wars has been a marketing exercise from the moment Lucas procured the merchandising rights. Quality storytelling? No room for that.
Chris Stearns.
