It's pretty interesting that many of the people here on theRPF know BOTH the lore and production of the films better than some of the people that work at Lucasfilm. I couldn't say with confidence that I am one of them, but still.
"Amazing" Star Wars "Discovery"
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It's pretty interesting that many of the people here on theRPF know BOTH the lore and production of the films better than some of the people that work at Lucasfilm. I couldn't say with confidence that I am one of them, but still.
Well there is a reason a lot of the collectible companies consult people on here about costumes and props for their products. There are probably more actual experts on specific props or costumes here than at Lucasfilm. Even some of the people who worked on the movies have gotten confused over some details on certain props recently.
el toro
Sr Member
Let's be frank here. Pablo can't know about every prop's history and background. However, when Pablo "discovered" this NY graflex point, why didn't he simply google his "finding" to verify that he just discovered a novel (or uncommon) point. The fact that he didn't indicates intellectual laziness, which is not uncommon these days. But when you have the internet at your fingertips, why not double check?
CT1138
Sr Member
People refusing to Google simple concepts these days is amazingly pathetic. I moderate a large Jurassic Park fan group on Facebook, and it's amazing how many simple concepts people pose questions about that could be answered in 5 seconds over Google. Literally the WORLD at people's fingertips, and they're too lazy to type in their query.
The worst part is, he isn't claiming he discovered this. He just noticed it for the first time himself. The frikkin' internet are the twits saying he discovered this "never before seen goof!". If only he had JFGI and seen that we have that pic among all the thousands we have pored over for decades to replicate the props, and then if only he'd posted something like... "Just noticed the thing. Googled it and discovered the Star Wars prop community has known about this for years. I know a lot, but sometimes I feel like such a noob." we'd've been a lot more forgiving...
CT1138
Sr Member
That's what happens all the time. Things that the fan experts have known for years gets noticed by somebody with a bigger name, and suddenly they get the discovery credit. So it becomes, "well according to X fan" when the real credit ought to go to the actual evidence itself.
What's worse is when the big name has no morals and takes their credit and runs with it, making up things they have no idea about that is completely wrong, but gets taken by fact by the layman. And then it becomes incredibly difficult to debunk the false facts and get the real ones out there.
