http://www.theforce.net/story/front/Ang ... 160167.asp
Notable bits:
One of the movement's most controversial early actions was a comment storm on A New Dawn's release date. The aim was to draw attention to the movement and flood the Facebook and Twitter presences of Disney, Lucasfilm, Del Rey, and their employees with pro-Legends messages. Someone had suggested doing the same thing a few months prior, but that attempt appears to have gained little traction. This time around, the movement was ready to go. On August 5, in the group "Star Wars EU Forever," Edward Antonowicz posted, "Starting on September 2, 2014, Star Wars Books will be getting a surprise from us."
Indeed, the Star Wars Books Facebook page did get a surprise. Page administrators ended up deleting pro-Legends comments -- which were mostly spamming unrelated conversation threads -- at a record pace.
"As of today, A New Dawn has dropped out of the USA Today Top 150 Books list," Timothy Moore wrote on September 20, almost three weeks after the book's release. "You cannot find it on that chart which means it will most likely not make the NY Times best seller list anytime in the near future. The people have spoken with their money, we're not buying it! Death to that new canon and long live the EU. #UntilVictoryAlways!"
As part of their plan to build resistance against Disney projects like Rebels, members of the movement devised another comment storm, this one aimed at hijacking the publicity surrounding Star Wars Rebels' premiere on Friday, October 3. This "Rebel Raid," as it was called, channeled the movement's energy into posts on official Star Wars pages "demanding them to continue" publishing EU stories.
There are some amazing links in the article, by the way, like one after the above to some of the wacky artwork going along with the 'movement':The dislike of and suspicion about Star Wars Rebels -- most of which came from people who had yet to see a single episode of the series -- is the product of a confluence of circumstances. {...}
More powerful than all of that, however, is the residual anger at the creators of The Clone Wars for that show's displacement of dearly-held Expanded Universe material like the original backstory for the Mandalorians. Many "save the EU" activists are hardcore Mandalorian fans.
Who's ruining who's childhood, again?
Filoni is a convenient target for the more militant members of the movement. He essentially trained under Lucas like a Padawan learner on The Clone Wars, where the two men made decisions that would anger EU purists.
Although there were some comments supporting Filoni, the vast majority attacked and insulted him. James Puso, who appreciated Filoni's work, said, "His breed is a dying one in the world of animation," to which Gonzales responded, "Trust me, that's not a bad thing."
"He is aiding Disney in the destruction of Star Wars now with this new canon garbage," Gonzales wrote.
Other comments in the same thread nitpicked technical details based on EU errata -- "The Imperial IInd class Star Destroyer is too big to enter planetary atmosphere" -- and promised to pirate the series as a way of defying Disney.
Responding to a member of the movement who praised the premiere, Timothy Moore wrote, "I forbid you to like anything about it."
No, not the same Brian. I quoted for the fun canon bit."The tone of the comments lead me to believe that people are in denial," said Bryan Young, a co-host of the Full of Sith podcast and a blogger for StarWars.com, BigShinyRobot.com, and other sites. "Arguments over what is and isn't canon run rampant and they always devolve into personal attacks."
Wow. Where was this sort of coverage during the Traviss attacks?The outside perception of the movement is not its biggest hurdle. That would be the futility of its very goals. But the fact that the campaign has such a negative reputation will not make things any easier for its most fervent supporters. When it comes to protest movements, perception is reality, and in the world beyond this insular, angry, and factually-challenged community, the perception is not good.
More from the comments:
This SO brings back memories of the SDN crowd. All we need is active death threats against Filoni et al. to keep the flame going. Stay classy, EU Completists!SWhockeyfan • 6 months ago
This reminds me of a story from this past years Star Wars Weekends. A young man was so incensed that Rebels was now rendering his precious Starkiller obsolete, that he had to tell everyone in line, and even told Vanessa Marshall herself that he didn't get why Starkiller wasn't the guy who founded the Rebel Alliance. The guy was yelling it. What a way to trivialize the hard work that she and everyone else has done on that show. I don't understand this type of hatred for something that gave you so much enjoyment. It boggles the mind.