Comments on: NEW STAR WARS TRAILER!!!!!11!

NEW STAR WARS TRAILER!!!!!11!

mkn — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:38:28 -0800

Do we really need a new thread every time a new Star Wars trailer comes out?

By: y2karl

y2karl — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:00:23 -0800

What I want is an animated gif of Darth Vader saying D'oh! for each such post.

By: rcade

rcade — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:02:03 -0800

I hope not.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:19:31 -0800

Everyone who posts a Star Wars link gets a free Ewok.

Or a free Jar Jar Binks tongue sucker.

me-sa infesting your brain like a virus.

By: kokogiak

kokogiak — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:18:34 -0800

Jesus mkn, as a poster of one of the offending SW posts, I take offense (lightly) that you would take offense.

A) How many trailers could there possibly be - maybe 5 at most.

B) A lot of people seem to like SW, and are excited about such things - and the threads generate a fair amount of discussion

C) What on God's green earth is wrong with such posts - other than being related to something you are unintersted in?

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:21:25 -0800

Everyone who posts a Star Wars link gets a free Ewok.

Or a toy yoda...

By: jasonshellen

jasonshellen — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:35:13 -0800

Yes we do need a new thread every time a new trailer comes out. *Especially* when it involves great bodily harm to Jar Jar.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:39:16 -0800

I still don't understand what the problem is.. Seems like if you don't like the post, you just wouldn't click it, and the only harm done to you would be the extra .5kB of page size you have to download.

By: phooey

phooey — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:55:32 -0800

i'm wondering where the harry potter posts are!

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:27:57 -0800

i'm wondering where the harry potter posts are!

The Sarlacc keeps eating them.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 18:44:41 -0800

Metafilter : me-sa infesting your brain like a virus.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:01:50 -0800

Seems like if you don't like the post, you just wouldn't click it

--Bored gored by more bored in rat maze cheese quest.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:06:41 -0800

I ignored the bored gourd and went straight to the gored board.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:15:51 -0800

Gored board bored gourd?

By: Hildago

Hildago — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:47:12 -0800

(responds with secret Masonic handshake)

From the west, traveling? Will no one help the widow's son?

By: rcade

rcade — Sat, 17 Nov 2001 05:05:11 -0800

Seems like if you don't like the post, you just wouldn't click it, and the only harm done to you would be the extra .5kB of page size you have to download.

Part of the charm of MetaFilter is using MetaTalk to kill disturbing new trends. There was an ugly period on MetaFilter when every new episode of Survivor was getting its own post. I'd put the Star Wars trailers in the same category -- let Slashdot be the site that hangs on every word from George Lucas with adolescent adoration.

By: kokogiak

kokogiak — Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:04:28 -0800

Point taken rcade, but I think it's the democracy of the masses (and/or Matt) that gets to decide whether rabid Star Wars fans postings are a "disturbing new trend" or not. (I think it's funny as well to be put in a position of defending feeling good about a piece of entertainment)

It just seems like a measure of degrees here - if it were on the level of every new episode of Survivor, yeah that would be overboard, but 3 SW trailer posts is barely a trend, not really overboard IMHO.

Also, I agree - it is great to have MetaTalk to clarify things and put across arguments/defenses.

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:21:51 -0800

:o( though a lot of people won't like it when someone posts it, i'm waiting for the harry potter thread.. i mean, really. did anyone see the monsteres inc. psuedo-trailer?

By: skallas

skallas — Sat, 17 Nov 2001 22:41:38 -0800

but 3 SW trailer posts is barely a trend, not really overboard IMHO.

I don't like the Survivor analogy either. You don't need to be Yoda to see what the future holds - a couple more trailers and no more mention of SW until the next and last one comes out.

In the end its the democratic function of MeFi that decides, the complaints are in the minority and people are acually enjoying Lucasfilm's marketing strip-tease. In next week's trailer we learn that not only does Anakin have a crush on the Queen/Senator so does Jar-Jar AND a droid that just learned to love.

Trailers as soap opera.

By: silusGROK

silusGROK — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:36:01 -0800

Ah man! I missed my only MeTa thread (at least in memory).

Damn. I always miss the fun stuff.

(I still want my Yoda doll, though)

As for Episode II trailers becoming some sort of meme. I don't see why they would: the first trailer was linkable because it's STAR WARS, and it was the first... not to mention how bad it was -- which is reason enough to post just for the belly-aching that would ensue; the second trailer... well, I can't defend posting the second trailer. It was almost as vapid as the first... so there was nothing particularly linkable about it; the third (and I'm biased, of course) was linkable because it was the _first_ trailer with any meat to it.

Now if someone posts a link to the fourth -- unless it has some explicit JarJar death imagery -- then we'll have something to complain about.

As long as it's something new... and of interest to the MeFi masses, why not post it. I mean, it's not the high link-art of an SDB post. But it's not exactly flame bait either.