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i got a lapras from my boyfrand
he said theres another one that should be here soon.
tricksy hobbitses
I'm drinking milk, currently. But, I've been working on cutting back by replacing soda with juice, which I need to buy tomorrow. I've also drank a half-gallon of milk in about a day.
Guts are feeling fine right now.
I'd better not drink my Mountain Dew too fast, then. My guts are only now finally behaving.
So, there is this Toy Story theory going around that Jessie's former owner, Emily, and Andy's mom are the same person. The reason being because Emily had a cowboy hat that Andy was seen wearing in the film. They even went as far as to show the hat without the white band around it, illustrating that it's old, therefore losing some of its parts through the ages.
For a refresher (assuming you've all seen the Toy Story films), Emily is seen in this sad-as-[tornado fang] scene.
Toy Story 2 "When She Loved Me" Sarah McLachlan 1999
If I recall, Andy only wore the hat in the first film, while Jessie and Emily were introduced in the second.
Funny how this eluded so many people, me included. Huge props to Pixar for making the viewers look for the hints, without outright telling you that they're the same person and the hat was passed down to her son.
The experience made me curious. Is there a mythical creature any of you identify with?
Annnnnd I just made a new ruff (furry yarn, something I can actually wash).
I am a sexy beast.
I read your post, PB. You make a lot of good points, some of which I'll take into consideration with the death of the EU.
I mean, I'm still upset. I'm a huge EU fan, so rightfully I'll be upset. But, Disney didn't decanonize it just to be jerks. They needed to unload years and years of baggage so that the sequels will be more accessible.
And I'm still looking forward to the sequels, and even more so with the demise of the EU, as I won't be fretting over the massive amount of retcons needed afterward. This frees my mind and will let me enjoy the movies! I can't wait!
And likewise for the Rebels series, though I wasn't worried about that at all. What I worry about for that is finding a way to watch it! Hopefully it comes on Netflix or something.
I've had time to process the demise of the EU, and while I don't like it, I do understand why it happened. It won't stop my fanfics, though.
Very well written.
Also I hate this freaking pre-summer heat wave right now, if I don't have the fan on in some way I'll be miserable but if I have it one my throat with get dry up and sore and I'll also be miserable. This seriously bugs me.
I'm honestly interested in what you got to say about this.
Sigh, I'm probably going to regret this...
Clement is 100% right about two things: that it's a matter of perspective and that MegaMan is now a niche market. Keeping both of those things in mind, that's also the problem with what Capcom did with Legends 3.
(At this point I'd like to point out that I honestly do not care that MML3 or MMU was cancelled, and this is just to offer my personal accounts of what happened. I have no problem with Capcom. At all.)
I was there at the NYCC MegaMan Legends 3 announcement. I sat in the room, watched everything they had to offer, and was pretty blown away with the announcement and especially all the coming fan feedback towards helping make the game. What blew me away was not the fact that MM fans were finally getting a new Legends entry, but more that Capcom was making it in the first place. My immediate reaction to that panel was "Wow. That's ummm, that's really nice of Capcom. They really do respect & like their fans!"
The reason I said this is because, even back then it should have been obvious that the Legends series was never that profitable, even among MegaMan fans. It was Capcom's cult favorite, nowhere near as profitable as the Classic, X, or their BN series. Capcom is nice to their fans, but Capcom is still a business that's all about making money. Prior to this announcement, at PAX East I talked to Seth Killian about a new Power Stone entry and he was very nice & upfront with me about why the odds of seeing one are very low.
S-Kill - "Sure, they could make a Power Stone 3 to please fans and people like me. OR, they could put that money and make another Street Fighter or Devil May Cry and make a lot more money. They'll go with the sure bet rather than the cult gamble!" (I love that S-Kill loved Power Stone)
That's the bottom line. Capcom is a business, and as a business, they royally screwed the pooch on this one. The problem wasn't the cancellation. The problem was the announcement of bringing it back and ESPECIALLY the part about creating a community to help build the game WITH Capcom, via Servbot numbers, polls, voting, and everything that went into creating the utter shitstorm that followed.
The game was never going to be profitable from the get go. It was for the niche fans, a kind of "Thank you for supporting us all these years, we appreciate your patience so here's something just for you" kind of game. You cannot, repeat, cannot get a cult fanbases hopes up, get them involved, and then tell them it's not happening in the most [acid burst] poor way possible, and then offer little to no compensation for your screw up. This isn't a matter of entitlement, but rather simple business & customer service practices. When a business you shop at, buy from, or use a lot screws you over, whether intentionally or unintentionally, they usually offer you something in return. Capcom never did that, at least not immediately.
But here's the real kicker. They know they don't have to, because ultimately gamers are addicts, as CLEARLY shown by the constant entitlement you see from MM fans and...well pretty much most gamers in general. That's why when someone asked me if I was going to boycott Capcom after MML3, I said "Absolutely not, because if they make another 8-Bit MM11 download game, I'm going to buy it without hesitation." because the Classic series is my favorite, and they've done alright by me. As Clement said, MegaMan is in Smash Bros. I've wanted that since Melee. I'm happy. That's me though.
Anyway, what I stated about is why I think SOME MegaMan fans are still pissed. (Not all, but some, because some are more mature & sane than the whiniest of MM fans) Not just because of the cancellation, but rather everything that happened with Legends 3 from the announcement to the cancellation. If I were a huge Legends 3 fan, I'd probably still be upset. It would be if Kojima finally stopped accepting Metal Gear Solid Konami money, announced a new Zone of the Enders 3 and asked me to vote on Orbital Frame designs, only for him to crush my hopes and dreams utterly. I'd be pissed.
tl;dr MegaMan, except for classic series nostalgia DLs and items, is not profitable anymore, and it may never be again. It's now a niche market, plain and simple. No amount of whining or complaining is going to make it come back.
So, I added a bit to the evo-hoodie...
I'd love to be able to retcon large chunks of my life when I can and i'd love for it to have the most pliable of canons. But, it doesn't. That sucks. However, I still like some semblance of consistency. I want my apartment layout to remain the same day to day, not change on the whims of the universe because it got bored and decided that my current living quarters were dull.
If you eliminate canon in a franchise, you essentially eliminate the overarching world it exists in. Personally, I'd rather be able to trace events through multiple stories and watch my favorite characters grow than have a disjointed series of meandering events in a world where absolutely nothing matches up.
The fans will support whichever of the continuities they prefer, either because they have affection for the author, or because they like one more than the other, or maybe some of them will support all of them because they like all of them. That’s how it should be.
What that article fails to mention are the good things about canon. Canon gives us continuity. Continuity for world-building is a good thing. There are consistencies, there are things that happen because something else happened. These things exist in our own world, and when they're applied to fiction, they give a franchise a grounding in reality. Character see consequences that follow them, just as we do. Characters grow in response to various incidences, just as we do. And characters can expect something in their world to work the same way every time they use it, just as we do.
Let's face it; if there was no continuity, you'd be starting your car a different way each day, and it'd look different every time you see it. Our lives have a canon, so why shouldn't our fiction?
