Personal Narrative: Death Star Day

This was the first post I wrote for the event, I wrote it several months ago well before we began to have any victories, most noteworthy, the Black Series poll and the TOR expansion. It doesn't pull it punches and is somewhat harse, but quite accurate. This was written at a time I wasn't sure if we could win and I was gearing up for a lifelong struggle. I now know we can and will win this fight. We will restore the #TrEU. This was written with raw emotion and abandon. The final post will be a contrast to this as it was written just a two days ago and hope has never been higher. They should make for interesting comparisons.- Bill

A series of unlikely events started late in 2013. George Lucas sold LucasFilm to Disney; shocking everyone despite …show more content…
While some of Star Wars' most ardent fans unstood immideatly that this meant trouble for their favorite franchise; most of us didn't know what to make of it. Disney execatives quickly got to work showing us what this meant by effectively shuting down LucasArts and scraping planned novels. It was always assumed Disney would return the comics to Marvel to bring them in house and abandoning the long tenor of Dark Horse. But again few realized how it would be done. On April 25, 2014, a day that will hence forth be known as Death Star Day, the announcement that killed the EU was made. http://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page The Star Wars Expanded Universe would no longer be canon. Not only did this mean that the characters, places, plots, times, and storylines we loved were erased but the realworld items people had spent $33 Billion (yes that is billion with a "B", we Star Wars fans have spent that much to keep the franchise alive even without feature films coming our way) on novels, technical manuals, …show more content…
There are a combination of reasons for this. I'll provide 3 example in no particular order. One It begins with the technology boom, everyone has a computer and you have geeks to thank. Second the anti-bullying programs and campaigns are a direct results of weirdo's, perhaps wrongly, taking guns to schools and clock towers and mowing people down. And thirdly after 9/11 we needed heroes so we turned to the nerds and put there superheroes on the big screen. And I can't deny The Big Bang Theory has pulled us across the last few miles into the mainstream. I mean its great that geek and nerd and weirdo are no longer the hate words they were created to be. But we did that. No one else, definitely not the media. We decide we were not going to let those words hurt us anymore. That instead they would empower us. And it's great that the young women that once wouldn't have even acknowledged a geek in there presence can now recognize the logo's and catch phrases of our favorite franchises. And media corporation's are pumping out sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV shows like there's no tomorrow. But its all skin deep. We haven't gotten any real respect just faux respect. For that girl that recognizes The Flash's lightning bolt emblem only does so because its on the shirt Sheldon Cooper wears not because she's read comic books or