The Fandom Menace Volume One - A Fandom Betrayed (The Fandom Menace Volumes Book 1)

by Stephen Walton

The failure to develop any of the new characters was a very large source of contention for many in the consumer base. The introduction of some truly promising new characters, only to have them left terribly neglected as fans were faced with an appalling handling of legendary and iconic characters and original cast members. This approach to such a powerful and long-term mythology was truly traumatic for the community at large. It created a schism among entire groups of fans. A variety of opinions from across the spectrum ranging from disgust at Luke’s Space-Cow scene; to outrage at Admiral Ackbar’s off-screen death, a large segment of the consumer and viewer community were upset and disappointed.

Once upon a time, we were scorned as geeks and nerds. Now, we’re dismissed and insulted by the very people whose products we’ve supported through our undying passion, our longtime devotion and our boundless loyalty. We stand betrayed and we stand together.

These social terrorists lie directly to our children’s faces and we will fight against this tyranny of false virtue. We will not allow the continued use of entertainment mediums to espouse hateful and ignorant rhetoric that divides and separates people into hateful little collectives.

What was industry medias’ response to reality? They lied to millions of people around the world. They contradicted and flagrantly ignored all available evidence to the contrary. They predictably and pathologically supported and perpetuated the same false narratives pushed by the extremists. They used the overt threat of social pressure, leverage and punishment - in order to coerce compliance. Through their support of these narratives, intentionally or otherwise, industry media and its satellites ensured that extremists were encouraged and enabled to cement their positions in the centers of power.

It was an age that required a response to an emergent and detestable social ill. The Rise of ‘the Social Justice Warrior’ had begun.

Such one-size-fits all buzzword salads must include systemic racism, the patriarchy, victim status, oppressor status, political or social affiliation or any one of the myriads of reasons used by Activist SJWs’ to justify their behaving as complete pieces of soulless shit. The most basic tactic employed by the Activist SJWs’ is to blame their detractors with the very ills they themselves display. This was known in the later part of the 20th century as the “I know you are but what am I?” method of rebuttal. This method was frequently utilized and commonly practiced by kindergarten aged children who had no faculty and no recourse to sarcasm, intelligence or even wit. Activist SJWs’ utilize these infantilistic pseudo-neo-tantrums when labelling, harassing or attacking those who do not share their ideology. Frequently, these outbursts end with a hostile swarming of the perceived oppressors by the ‘allies’ of the self-described victim of the imagined and fabricated insult.

Again, a social justice trope of needing to devalue a segment of the population in order to elevate another.

The common thread of identity politics and SJW ideology is the hate and division it creates no matter where it surfaces. Division, discord, disharmony and conflict are the side-effects of SJW infestations. They breed civil conflict. Every time. This divisive and dogmatic rhetoric has happened before. Many authoritarians in history have created carefully manufactured problems in order to distract from power grabs.

Due to social and political motivations, even as the comic industry fell ill and began to hemorrhage money due to a lack of interest in ‘Woke’ comics, they were and are forced to drudge on due to ideology. Delusion is the pathogen of social justice.

Normal, free thinking people do not support ‘Woke’ narratives.

SJW Activism is a culture built on bigotry, protected by the media, and fueled by delusional contradictory and dogmatic beliefs.

Just as with any other restrictive times at any point in history when an oppressive lever on society relies on personal shaming and is marked by constant vicious infighting a limit will be reached. A tide turns.

We must take this tale as a warning. As it is the blueprint from which Social Justice Warriors use to infect and destroy our modern mythologies.

The American Media has long been known to favor the political Left. Over the years they have been caught time and again reporting false information, telling half-truths and weaving narratives that support their dishonest reporting. They do this to create an untrue picture of what is happening around the world. They misquote, misrepresent, produce a fraction of a situation then paint a story of their choosing around it. They don’t worry about repercussions to an induvial or the communities they hurt. They support one another in a cabal of propaganda masquerading as news. Hitting the consumer from as many directions as possible with fake news in order to cement the particular narrative they are espousing that day.

Woke Entertainment has no loyalty to the traditional customer base. In the eyes of the SJW, that base is everything they themselves are. Sexist, racist hate-fueled assholes who want nothing more than to defile everything you love. To stick their ideology in your face and make you accept it without protest. Their smug perceived moral superiority ensures them that they know better than you, the ignorant brainwashed successor of systemic ist’s and ism’s. This is how the SJW see’s everyone who is a member of the groupthink. They do not take the time to understand another’s view or why they would feel the way they do. SJW’s do not take time to reflect within themselves. They do not take responsibility for their own actions. Instead, they blame failures on others while celebrating anything they perceive as a victory no matter how empty, hollow and meaningless it is.

Cobra Kai should be must see for anyone in school for film. That series cannot be lauded enough for how wonderfully it respects the original lore and legacy characters. It is opposite of the Disney Lucasfilm Star Wars sequel trilogy, where decades of lore were tossed out, original characters were presented with no respect and new uninteresting characters were thrown in our faces.

In separate places and over immense distance we had waited for ‘the rest of the story’ for as long as we could remember and the whole thing seemed to a joke, a sham. Characters that we had waited to see again post-childhood played by the original actors had been wholly unfamiliar, even missing. New characters seemed forced, flat and feeble. The film had seemed like a terrible troll, poking fun at our expectations, pulling down our hopes while shredding our dreams and memories. It was at this point I finally, genuinely felt a kind of vindication, a validation. I was pissed off about this film and its messaging. Star Trek had already opened my heart and spat on it with Discovery. Disney’s new ‘Star Wars’ had made me feel even worse.

From their perspective, my teenage son was going to mature into a racist piece of shit that hated women simply due to the tone of his skin. That’s when it finally hit me. These hateful liars were stopping at nothing to reignite divisions within society that past generations had fought so hard to destroy. The extremists in power were trying to shift the pendulum away from balanced scales and back to racism and inequality. This threatened my son’s future and all who followed. Extremism in any form should be confronted.

it wasn’t until the rise of the deranged virtue warrior cult of the last half decade that led him like so many others to seek a voice in response.

During the reshoot for The Last Jedi, overwhelmed with personal memories, emotions and probably the immense pressure that would be his alone, to truly know what his work means to so many; Mark seemed to experience an exhaustion and a breakdown of sorts. Rian Johnson was like ‘Meh’ and walked off the set. That’s right. As Hamill let out his deep angst, attempting to legitimize this scene from a place of true love for the character – Johnson…walked off set? What a fuckin’ asshole…forget about Star Wars. What cruelty, unyielding arrogance and self-entitlement. Fans fought back tears in confusion and rage. Who at Lucasfilm would think that it was a good idea to include the personal and private moments of cast members in the hopes of boosting DVD sales? Why show your consumers what heartless beasts and sociopaths you have on the payroll…building our dreams by destroying our heroes? Why share with adoring fans the crushing realization that a part of a personal legacy is being twisted and destroyed with a budget of over half a billion dollars? With such conduct and decision making or the lack of it dumping mountains of fuel to the indignation and outrage of the consumer base; combined with such direct and open distain by Johnson. The risk of an impending open rebellion against Disney/Lucasfilm by the fanbase became a very real possibility.

While on set, and without the freedom to play the role of Luke as he should have been written and respected, Hamill had broken down in tears.

Mark provided the only care observable for a legacy and his role in it. Our hero, the Greatest the Galaxy has ever known, knelt weeping and distraught…Rian Johnson did not care for his actor. He did not stay long enough to notice. He seemed incapable of comprehending the damage he had done to this performer or the lore behind the masterpiece he had been given the privilege of dishonoring.

Star Wars was built by George Lucas for everyone. These stories are meant to inspire hope and wonder in the darkest of times. The Star Wars Universe was built to engage imagination and create introspective thought built on a Heroes Journey. Disney/Lucasfilm now uses the franchise only as a plaything used to troll fans, to cause and perpetuate further outrage and buzz. They are incapable of telling real stories. The only power they wield now is the power of the outrage mob.

The much touted and pathetic narrative of modern quasi-leftists and Neo-Marxists is that the ills suffered in today’s world stem singularly and ominously from the acts of white men of the past alone.

These post-neo-liberal, extreme leftists can see only as far as their communal, narrow and biased views allow. They abhor factual history and see only the reality that fits their restricted groupthink. The structure of their philosophy prevents free thought. Their ideology prevents the exchange of ideas and is hostile to contrary, critical or opposing points of view.

These deranged and sociopathic activists tweet their social outrage against #ORANGEMANBAD using cellphones built in sweatshop factories complete with suicide nets installed to prevent employees from ending their own misery. They must be the sultans of virtue, the Caesars of progress. These new social terrorists don’t understand irony or poetic justice it seems. They know no loyalty. They have no set value in anything it seems other than a mob’s obsession with the next outrage or insult or target of the moment. The application of such a restrictive social reasoning, leveraging and pressure is a very real condition of inclusion to their community. One must erase the self to be part of a bigger group of ‘allies’. They adopt the language and rhetoric of the historically righteous in order to legitimize their warped social views.

They see a tool to shape future perspectives and use it as a not so subtle form of antagonism through social provocation. In some strange and novel way, the enablers of this new concept of creation at Disney/Lucasfilm have fused a powerful cultural myth with militarized, unapologetic and naked form of propaganda. Astonishingly, it displays a marked antagonistic quality and a brazen self-satisfaction meant only to provoke conflict, discord and fracture among its fanbase.

Once the sexist overtones, poor writing, the erasure of the Expanded Universe from officially recognized canon were mashed together these new story lines did not integrate well into the sequel trilogy. They had piss-poor or non-existent character development. They were overtly and intentionally marketed directly at SJW outrage culture to the exclusion of a wider audience. The executive and their devoted ideologues gambled that they could run one group of consumers and fans out of the franchise in order to replace them with another. This was blatant discrimination based entirely on a misandrist application of discord between two demographics for the purposes of economic exploitation of a marketplace. A Fandom Engineering of sorts. After employee’s and other professionals at Disney/Lucasfilm began labelling and belittling Star Wars fandom, Disney/Lucasfilm a social media flame war began.

They have waited decades for a possibility of seeing original Star Wars cast members back together again on-screen. Countless Expanded Universe novels that had been previously crafted and contributed to the lore and legends of that enormous Star Wars Universe were thrown away. Talented writers had promised the community unique and previously unvisited worlds, fierce warriors and mysterious explorations of the ancient religions of the Jedi and Sith. Wonderful post-ROTJ characters and story arcs were explored and fleshed out. Alas, Kathleen Kennedy like a crowned queen of Disney/Lucasfilm army SJW writers, had no interest in a vast decades-long catalog of potential that had been spread out before her like an enormous cornucopia of galactic awesomeness. So much so, she forgot they even existed. Darthleen went full-Batwamen vicariously taking credit for a man’s accomplishments while degrading the same work and genius he had built with the very edifice she stood on.

And so, one of Kennedys first moves was to hire a new story group. In order to reinforce her position and to facilitation her new approach to Star Wars branding and entertainment(s), she needed a group of talentless hacks and morons that would cosign to her new company culture. She found people with no real background in space opera. They needed only a shared hypocritically dogmatic and biased sociopolitical extremism. They needed to coalesce to anything they were told.

The head of the Lucasfilm Story Group in 2012 was Kiri Hart. Her writing credentials were: 1 episode of Crossing Jordan in 2003 and 1 episode of 1-800-Missing also in 2003. She worked as a story editor on 7 episodes of Crossing Jordan in 2003, and 2014 when she earned a credit on a Phineas and Ferb Star Wars special. This was the person Kennedy decided was the best fit to inject identity politics into Star Wars. Ideology over experience. That’s all that was required. Hart was quoted as saying her “first move was the make the story group entirely female, starting with Rayne Roberts and Carrie Beck”. Sexist hiring practices is apparently a foundational tool at Disney Lucasfilm. Agenda over content, ideology over character development and sociopolitical propaganda that rules overall. Rayne Roberts experience was as an assistant to someone on a movie called Life As We Know It and as an associate producer for a 2008 documentary called The Fair Trade. Yes, that’s it. But she had a vagina, and that was all the experience she needed. Carrie Beck’s only experience was as an executive producer for a made for TV movie in 2010 called Ghosts/Aliens. Yes, these were the people being hired to intentionally ruin Star Wars. How else can one see it? A myriad of talented experienced people in the film industry. Some of whom had to love Star Wars but no, agenda over content. Diana Williams, her experience was…. nothing. Absolutely, nothing. Kennedy could have chosen a street bum at random and...

They simply tossed it all because they did not understand it, nor did they have the talent, experience or wisdom to learn from anyone that did. That’s the real reason the EU was jettisoned.

Instead, Rey - daughter of Space-Hobos, recently retconned into a Palpatine, (To be discussed in a further Volume) the junk store canteen operators finger puppet and fantabulous unknown Jedi Master was shat out by the new Lucasfilm Story Group.

Far-Left ideologues understand that their followers are not very bright. They are easily fooled and don’t like to get bogged down with complex thoughts or plot devices and apparently fantasize about abusive relationships. Critical thinking is something that distracts from any kind of modern application of what is called ‘social justice’. Fanatics have tunnel vison and as such, entertainment geared toward these mouth-breathers must be heavily dumbed down. Nuance was lost in this culture around 2008 when we could see the bones of the system finally. There is not even an attempt to create the illusion that the Star Wars universe is held to some form of thematic standard. Activist SJWs’ are not capable of keeping their attention focused long enough to think about such things. SJWs’ need pew-pew, virtue signal, pew-pew, muh representation, pew-pew WATCH OUT! – HERE COMES THE NAZI MAN!

How could anyone be led to believe that the Disney/Lucasfilm Story Group was made up of inexperienced hacks who had an ideological agenda to press over decent story telling? Yet here we are.

In this environment and with these ideological leanings and influences, instead of bringing the community together again he divided, polarized and fractured the consumer base more than it had ever been before. Perhaps fatally for the franchise. His open contempt for the material and the community broke the heart of the franchise in my ways. The division he created ensured that enough outrage was generated that the click revenue at Disney/Lucasfilm from outrage most likely generated more income in advertising revenue than the film itself. The mark of directorship ‘Greatness’ right there…No? The echo-chamber that is Hollywood presently, is an environment in which the elites of our New Age of neo-authoritarianism live protected.

With social attack from a company sanctioned supporting cast-work of bobble-headed nothings and other Lucasfilm ‘insert name heres’ - the traditional consumers finally began to understand the true level of contempt they were in store for. Family entertainment giant Disney? Most of the consumers gave up. It became painfully clear that their franchise didn’t want them anymore.

After The Force Awakens, for whatever reason, length of picture, whatever, it all got cut out. So, after waiting 30 years to reprise Ackbar I was a little disappointed with Ackbar's role in that picture. So, in The Last Jedi, I was quite looking forward to maybe them giving him something more juicy. We were only given the script on the day when we were shooting that piece of script, so each day I would come to work going, ‘Is today the day when Ackbar gets something a bit more involving?’ And I looked at my script and I went, ‘Oh, Ackbar's going out of the window. Well, that's that then!’ I wasn’t quite dead yet. We finished all of our bits and they asked me to come down to camera. And I thought, ‘Oh well, maybe they’re going to say thank you for being one of the heritage characters and giving 30 years and all that.’ But what they did was, they gave me a Millennium Falcon sign that had the day and the date on it, the scene number, and they said, ‘Can you look at camera and say 'It's a wrap?' Because that would be really funny.’ … I was actually in tears in the suit because I thought - after everything, after hoping there’d be something, after knowing there wasn't going to be anything else, Ackbar's final moment before he went in to the box was a big joke about ‘It's a wrap.’ They just thought ‘Wouldn’t it be funny?’ And that was the sum total of my life as Ackbar." -Admiral Ackbar Actor, Tim Rose

This is Kathleen Kennedys new ‘Woke’ audience, right? They don’t know the original films. They don’t even know how long Star Wars has existed in the publics’ consciousness. These are Activist SJWs’ who have no respect for anything that came before them. They have no knowledge or understanding of the Expanded Universe or any of Admiral Ackbar’s stories. They are blissfully and hatefully unaware of his races’ history with the Alliance. This is the kind fandom Disney/Lucasfilm attracts.

A great one is a two-part YouTube contribution from #TheFandomMenace community titled – Star Wars: The Last Straw.

The messaging and virtue signaling were nauseatingly pushed over and over, week after week over two years. It was pushed by those too sensitive to criticism and too narcissistic in their perceptions of themselves to tolerate any subversion of their ideas or any challenge to their narrative. Hypocrisy is the mainstay of this New Age. This new hate and willful ignorance is a new form of ‘honor’ to these subversive people. They loathe themselves and blame everyone else for it. They congratulate each other for it like they’ve all won last place in the race. Humans are lazy. It’s the truth. We’re all guilty of that in one way or another. It is much easier to assume victimhood and blame another rather than take responsibility for your own poor choices. The path of least resistance appeals to all of us in some way. For Activist SJWs’ it is path to greatness. “Whine and cry enough and Mummy will give me my bottle. If I scream even louder next time, she will be here that much faster. It’s fun watching adults run around in circles isn’t it?” This mentality is exactly what the leaders of this New Age and their new ‘Woke’ followers want. Encouraging and enabling Infantilism on a global scale seems like a great way for authoritarians to gain control again. Their comrades in the media help to push this victimhood narrative across as many platforms as possible. Disney/Lucasfilm already has an unhealthy stranglehold on the ability of mainstream media. As a result, criticism has been restr...

It refers to any sort of business, enterprise or organization that allows Activist SJW influence within their ranks that would sooner or later be in danger of losing their economic viability as a result their own ‘Woke-ness’. As of this writing, one of the larger companies IDW is currently losing almost 4.3 million dollars per quarter.

An SJW becomes offended by the perceived lack of representation for a group for which they do not belong to. This gives others the SJW is signaling to, that the SJW is fighting for a cause, even though this cause is false or manufactured in order to exploit the outrage associated with it. The SJW does not believe that the group they are defending has the same power to voice themselves as they do, even though this very belief shows a form of perceived superiority. For instance; an SJW would become offended and advocate for the manufactured injustice against a person of color. Miraculously, they then go about speaking for that person of color and on behalf of them, while at the same time dumbing down their vocabulary to explain to this person of color what is holding them down. This “POC-Splaining” occurs because the SJW believes that because of oppression, that colored individual is too uneducated to understand proper English, sophisticated enough, intelligent enough or evolved enough speak for themselves.

injection of identity-based Far-Left regressive ideologies.

One of the functions of the SJW is to do everything in their power to deny a person who does not believe in their ideology from being able to financially support themselves or their family.

As the political rhetoric was being ratcheted up due to the 2016 American Presidential Election, people who are conservative leaning were feeling the pressure within the comic industry. For several years an injection of social justice warriors into the industry had begun to change it creatively and fundamentally. This unopposed change allowed and encouraged Far-Left extremists to openly vilify and attempt to publicly defame and destroy anyone who did not agree with their ideology.

‘I cannot put a price on speaking my own mind, nobody can buy that from me. My views, my politics are so important to me. They come first.’

Ethan is an example to all professionals of what an elder statesman should be. Wise, intelligent, empathetic and giving to those who need guidance.

SJW extremists have no loyalty, no solidarity and no scruples as has been repeatedly stated in this Volume. They will absolutely turn on each other with the same viciousness that they expose others to for the slightest dissent, hesitation or departure from the acceptable ‘groupthink’ of the moment.

In fact, these dual movements and communities that have now combined in such amazing and overarching ways are the predictable response to the oppression and constricted thought and expression of society at large.