This is how old I am: I will NEVER call the first Star Wars film "A New Hope," get your bullshit retcon away from me, it is and always shall be Star Wars, forever and ever amen

[scalzi@mastodon.social]

@kayeluvian YES KAY THANK YOU

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@scalzi

I have, on my bookshelf, a copy of the novelisation of the first film, published in 1977 and written by George Lucas. As a child, the second and third were repeated on TV a lot but I never saw the first one, so I grabbed the book when I saw it.

I was confused by a lot of the uproar around the restored scenes in the remastered ones, because things like the scene with Jabba were in the novelisation.

The title of the book is:

Star Wars: From the adventures of Luke Skywalker.

[sortova@redwombat.social]

@scalzi speaking of retcon, how long does it take to do the Kessel Run?

[vmachiel@mastodon.nl]

@scalzi my brother born in 02 does the same‍️

[nerpulus@mastodon.online]

@scalzi Same. And the red-suited superhero is named Captain Marvel, and Pluto is a planet, and you type two spaces after the period.

[kithrup@wandering.shop]

@scalzi I was so very confused when I saw it an Nth time at the theatre and it had changed the scroll.

It was GASLIGHTING.

[pirateguillermo@sfba.social]

@scalzi My kids honed their eye rolling skills on their parents’ insistence that, “watching the Star Wars movies in order,” means that we start with “Star Wars”.

[cratermoon@zirk.us]

@scalzi I also will never consider "The Phantom Menace" canon. Delete the entire film from the timeline and nothing of value is lost.

[lazarou@mastodon.social]

@scalzi "The Great Schism Has Begun!"

But not really because you're right.

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@pirateguillermo @scalzi

my partner is younger than I am and watches it in "machete order": 4, 5, 2, 3, 6.

...there's a slice of people who will just say "4" instead of "star wars" or "a new hope". at least that's unambiguous, they talked about it being "4" when it was first released.

[blowurwhorens@mastodon.social]

@scalzi ta and um no;! Y

[thanne@mastodon.sdf.org]

@david_chisnall @scalzi Based on the name I thought there must be other books in The Adventures of Luke Skywalker series, and was quite disappointed to find there weren’t any. The Star Wars books that came along later weren’t the same.

[butchh11@twit.social]

@scalzi YES and get off my lawn

[billiglarper@rollenspiel.social]

@david_chisnall @scalzi

The Star Wars novel was written by Alan Dean Foster.

Pointing this out because Alan Dean Foster is a fine writer and worth looking into.

Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[soldusty@beige.party]

@scalzi
My first slice of sci-fi was Star wars, age 2, watching it on ITV at the beginning of the 1980s.

It & Doctor Who were my gateway drugs.

[robho@mastodon.social]

@scalzi A copy of the original screenplay of "Star Wars", as found in the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Luke Starkiller!?!

[virgil_tibbs@norden.social]

@scalzi
seen it '78 in the cinema

[jzb@hachyderm.io]

@billiglarper @david_chisnall @scalzi I really enjoyed the first few Spellsinger books. Need to finish the series one of these days.

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@billiglarper @scalzi

Huh, not mentioned on the cover at all, but not surprising in hindsight, it reads a lot like him.

I've read a bunch of his other things, but this was my one example of good writing by George Lucas, so now I'm just disappointed in him.

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@jzb @billiglarper @scalzi

I read his novelisations of the Star Trek animated series and didn't realise they were based on those, so had weird deja vu when I eventually saw the series!

I really enjoyed a bunch of his humanx novels and some other random ones. Most of the things of his I've read were novelisations, and most before seeing the thing they were adapted from. And, of those, the source material almost always proved disappointing when I did see it.