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Not that I care about the tweet (primarily because I don't completely disagree with it, considering all the people going out of their way to record their blubbering and other inane reactions, simply to score likes and views), but your interpretation does not seem to align with the explanation given in the article.

The article seemed to also share his apology that didn't appear to mention what you stated. Though if I missed something, I apologize.

My only real mild issue with his tweet was that his position should suggest that he exhibits more self-awareness of what he's sharing publicly.
So it's hard to confirm anything, as Tweets were deleted, and Pablo himself keeps his Twitter private. But from what I've pieced together around with discussions on Reddit. A Twitter user by the name of 'dune opinions account' posted a video of SWT crying(which was taken taken from SWT live episode stream). From all accounts he was mocking SWT, saying "don't recreate that **** for views." Pablo Hildago replies to said user this...
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SWT, takes it as an insult to him. And like what happened with his Vader film fiasco, he played the martyr. And now the so called 'Fandom Menace' have grabbed their pitchforks and lit their torches.

(Though full disclosure, I don't know how Twitter works, and as I look at this screen grab, I'm now wondering is this 'dune opinions account' replying to Pablo? Or Pablo replying to 'dune opinions account'?)

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The more I look at this the more I realize my assessment was wrong. The is 'dune opinions account' writing to Pablo. Which prompted Pablo to change his banner to this. Sarcastically mocking, not SWT, but this "dune opinions account'.
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Bottom line is. Pablo defended SWT, but SWT felt he was being mocked, and is playing the sympathy card, yet again, to gain clicks. Oh and now he's teaming up with Geeks & Gamers. Oh my this fandom....
 
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So it's hard to confirm anything, as Tweets were deleted, and Pablo himself keeps his Twitter private. But from what I've pieced together around with discussions on Reddit. A Twitter user by the name of 'dune opinions account' posted a video of SWT crying(which was taken taken from SWT live episode stream). From all accounts he was mocking SWT, saying "don't recreate that **** for views." Pablo Hildago replies to said user this...View attachment 1386863

SWT, takes it as an insult to him. And like what happened with his Vader film fiasco, he played the martyr. And now the so called 'Fandom Menace' have grabbed their pitchforks and lit their torches.

(Though full disclosure, I don't know how Twitter works, and as I look at this screen grab, I'm now wondering is this 'dune opinions account' replying to Pablo? Or Pablo replying to 'dune opinions account'?)

That's the problem with hit and run posts. We miss the context of the moment. Then the post is deleted.

What was the SWT Vader film issue you mentioned?
 
That's the problem with hit and run posts. We miss the context of the moment. Then the post is deleted.

What was the SWT Vader film issue you mentioned?
He asked Lucasfilm for permission if he could make the film. They generously said yes. But then his film got hit. He spread the story that it was Disney. But in reality is was Warner/Chappelle, that hit the video because of the music. And Lucasfilm went to bat, and got his film released. He eventually in passing mentioned in a video, briefly, that it wasn't Disney. But most of people familiar, still blame Disney.

BTW I added to my post above
 
He asked Lucasfilm for permission if he could make the film. They generously said yes. But then his film got hit. He spread the story that it was Disney. But in reality is was Warner/Chappelle, that hit the video because of the music. And Lucasfilm went to bat, and got his film released. He eventually in passing mentioned in a video, briefly, that it wasn't Disney. But most of people familiar, still blame Disney.

BTW I added to my post above
Yep I remember that fiasco. Best way to explain it, was he let the fire burn, then when the fire brigade turned up and put it out, he tipped his bottle of water on it.
 
Well I think society and social media are going too far with attacking people over something they said or reading/hearing something that's not there without letting the person to explain so I don't think it's fair to assume anything. I have an emotional reaction to the Sequels every time they are brought up so I'm not going to cast stones. :lol:
 
Treadwell, I'm going to comment over here. The Pablo Hidalgo thing got posted to both threads, but this feels more All Things Star Wars than The Mandalorian...

I feel that so hard. From a pretty young age, I knew I wanted to do... something with my big three fandoms. I was a well-behaved only child, so my parents had no qualms about taking me with them to Star Wars when it came out, even though I was only two (and a half, to be fair). I remember scattered moments from that first screening, and Star Wars has been a part of my life for the entire duration of it as a conscious and aware entity.

The other two are Star Trek and Transformers. The one was a presence even before Star Wars. My parents were first-generation Trekkies in college, were part of the letter-writing campaign... So the reruns were on every Saturday. I didn't dislike it, but it didn't really click with me until I was a tween. Transformers came along in the middle of that, when I was 9, and was the first of the three where I got frustrated that the owners of the I.P. didn't understand the lore of their own possession. Hasbro has spent a long time dropping the ball on the rich depth others created to market their relabeled Japanese toys -- Larry Hama, especially, for G.I. Joe, but the creators of the cartoons and comics for Transformers came up with something truly epic -- that got utterly flushed when Hasbro gave Michael Bay the nod.

So all three of these were locked in as bone-deep and abiding loves before I was out of middle school. I knew I wanted to do something within them, but no one ever talked it through with me. When I'd express it, I'd either get variations on, "That's nice, kid -- now, what're you gonna do for a real job?" or well-meaning wrong things (in high school, my step-dad called ILM and asked them to send me an information packet on what I'd need to do to work there -- I appreciate it and admire the heck out of what they do, but, while I love building models, I don't want to do it professionally).

Through and after high school, as the internet dawned, my scope of contacts broadened from "meeting Patrick Stewart once at a local convention" or "writing a letter to 'Jack McKinney' when I discovered 'he' was the writing team of Brian Daley and James Luceno"... to chatting and being friends with the likes of Rick Sternbach, Mike Okuda, David Stipe, Andy Probert, Jeremy Bulloch, Dan Logan, George Roubicek, Jason Fry, Steve Sansweet, Peter David, David Mack, Jeff Veregge, Andy Mangels, Mike Vilardi, and on and on and on... Somewhere in my mid-20s, I stopped short one day after I got off the phone with Rick about something obscure and space-related and realized... that was his real job! And had been since the '70s! I felt utterly conned and, worse, that I'd missed a window somehow that I hadn't even known was there.

The reason I work on my Star Wars, Star Trek, and Transformers rewrites, the reason I have such bristly opinions on here and elsewhere... *sigh* I've internalized so much about those universes, both the fictional inner universe and the real outer universe that went into making them... Every time I see someone actually working there and getting paid to do what I've wanted to get paid to do since I was in my teens... It's worse when Leland or Pablo or someone on the other properties get something wrong and I have to sit here on the outside, a civilian, and grind my teeth. Back when Beat the Geeks was on, I applied as a contestant specifically so I could challenge the Star Trek Geek for his job after he got a stupidly easy one wrong. I see so many Transformers from the "War for Cybertron," etc., arc that I would buy in an instant if Hasbro had done their homework and was willing to pay for vehicle license rights. Mainly, that all the cars and trucks have wheels, when we saw in the original lore that they didn't. Kup, Hot Rod, Springer, and Wheelie were iffy, but every other Cybertronian ground vehicle we saw -- sentient or not -- was hover/antigrav.

So I utterly get the "that should be me" feeling.
 

I only know his work through the Genndy Tartatovsky Clone Wars as Yoda, a role he continued in Filoni's Clone Wars as well as all kinds of other Star Wars media. I hope he makes a full recovery! From everything I've heard about him he sounds like a really great guy.
That's terrible! Kane is very talented, and I've loved him from voicing the late Donald Pleasance's role of Dr. Loomis in Halloween: 20 Years Later, to his role of Yoda and Admiral Yularen in animated SW. He had a talent, and a sharpely unique voice. I hope he speedily recovers.
 
An interesting article.


great critique. I do think there are people on both sides of the spectrum, people who love everything Disney/Star Wars/Trek/etc and people who hate everything that is not OG and both extremes are wrong. As fans, we shouldn’t just hate something because it doesn’t cater to our specific niche interest but we also shouldn’t just accept something because it has the brand name slapped onto it.

I do think the Star Wars IP was treated very poorly by Iger and Disney who did seem to think that as long as we slap Star Wars on something, people will lap it up and that’s not right because no one appreciates a blatant cash grab.
 
great critique. I do think there are people on both sides of the spectrum, people who love everything Disney/Star Wars/Trek/etc and people who hate everything that is not OG and both extremes are wrong. As fans, we shouldn’t just hate something because it doesn’t cater to our specific niche interest but we also shouldn’t just accept something because it has the brand name slapped onto it.

I do think the Star Wars IP was treated very poorly by Iger and Disney who did seem to think that as long as we slap Star Wars on something, people will lap it up and that’s not right because no one appreciates a blatant cash grab.
Just because I don't like something doesn't mean I hate it. This is the notion that doesn't go into the heads of these so called fans. I can criticize what I want if I have any arguments to back it up and still not hate it. It's just a really dimwitted approach to call someone hater who doesn't like what I do.
BTW what is OG? Genuinely asking, saw it so many times, I know OT is Original Trilogy, GOUT is George's Original Unaltered Trilogy but what is OG shorthand for?
 
Just because I don't like something doesn't mean I hate it. This is the notion that doesn't go into the heads of these so called fans. I can criticize what I want if I have any arguments to back it up and still not hate it. It's just a really dimwitted approach to call someone hater who doesn't like what I do.
BTW what is OG? Genuinely asking, saw it so many times, I know OT is Original Trilogy, GOUT is George's Original Unaltered Trilogy but what is OG shorthand for?
OG is shorthand for the slang term "original gangster", often used in rap and hip hop culture, which is basically meaning the original.
 
Just because I don't like something doesn't mean I hate it. This is the notion that doesn't go into the heads of these so called fans. I can criticize what I want if I have any arguments to back it up and still not hate it. It's just a really dimwitted approach to call someone hater who doesn't like what I do.
BTW what is OG? Genuinely asking, saw it so many times, I know OT is Original Trilogy, GOUT is George's Original Unaltered Trilogy but what is OG shorthand for?

I'm not sure if it was this thread or Mando but my biggest gripe with the fandom is this demand some have for strict adherence to anything or to go the other extreme and claim it's no big deal because it's just a movie. The truth lies somewhere in between.

It's these dogmatic approaches that get under my skin because it leaves no room for critical thought. And for the record, expressing an opinion, no matter how emotionally charged it gets is not necessarily the same thing as demanding fealty.

Also can we please stop qualifying our posts by telling everyone how long we've been a fan? As if that somehow makes your opinion any more valid than anyone elses? Opinions are by definition biased, otherwise they'd be irrefutable facts. Announcing to the world that you saw the original film in theaters in 1977 has absolutely zero bearing on almost any point you make so why point it out? Either your opinion has merit by nature of how well you back it up, or you're hoping longevity is somehow going to make your point more credible.
 
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“I’ve been a fan for (many) years” always reads as “I’ve spent entirely too much money on this franchise” regardless of which angle they’re taking lol
I need to update my Star Wars Geek Code Block, but it's currently something like... 1977.12.6.5.105.25.21.128.40.20.30.[over a thousand].3.60

Like I said, I need to update it. That's a current approximation. Year introduced, films seen in the theater, how many copies of the OT I own on home-video media, TV series or specials (including, these days, streaming), novels and smaller books I've owned/read, comic series (miniseries under a larger umbrella title like Tales of the Jedi or X-Wing: Rogue Squadron are counted once), video/computer games and other digital media (i.e., the Behind the Magic CD-ROM), action figures and vehicles, models, miniatures, miscellaneous toys, trading cards (gaming and non), Celebrations attended, costumes and props I own or have made or are under construction. I have definitely spent too much on Star Wars over the years. :lol:
 
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