Kerwin Fjøl

Media ecology, semiotics (not the French kind), intellectual history, other various nonsense.

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

New, on "The Seafarer" (an Old English poetry classic), with comments on Ezra Pound's translation, the poem's meaning, the Christian transformation of the Aryan ideal of undying fame, and MORE!

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@nmeoftheright I think there are many directors who thrive with full creative control. Not Lucas, though. He isn't a visionary.

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

It's interesting how the prequels are now going through this moment of critical revisionism. I saw Phantom Menace when I was like 13 and found it godawful. It was proof that George Lucas is not, in fact, a creative genius but merely a guy who stumbled upon a viable concept.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

its so funny how the star wars prequels are obviously cinematic masterpieces, but a bunch of chungus gen X nerds who never amounted to anything convinced us they were bad because they didnt make them feel like empire strikes back did when they were 10

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@freedream2402 I am talking about my classmates at school, dude. If anything, the older people were more relaxed about Star Wars and were like, "Ah, it was some alright family fun!" You must be young.

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@alfredjviii "To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the esoteric meaning of Jar-Jar Binks"

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@freedream2402 Pretty much everyone was underwhelmed, man, I don't know what to tell you.

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

These lists would be better if they just excluded other genres besides rock. They have the 2nd Miles quintet as #4, and while it's nice to see them get a shout-out, it's like... ok, why not put Coltrane's quartet in there. Or Duke Ellington's orchestra, while we're at it.

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

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[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@SW_Fan10000 @EyeDeeNumbers Alright, whatever. It still sucks, though. Original trilogy was decent, the rest crap.

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@TownTattle Star Wars has always been marketed to children and teenage boys, its fanbase is heavily male-leaning, and the main reason it has cross-generational appeal is because the boys to whom it was marketed grew up and continued to watch the later installments.

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@SW_Fan10000 @EyeDeeNumbers That's how Lucas later decided to market it, but when Star Wars first came out, it didn't have "Episode IV" in the title card. It was just a movie called "Star Wars." He has continually re-conceived it as the franchise has evolved.

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@JacobTelltale The vision is making money. And he did it very well.

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@king_baffled @EyeDeeNumbers Yeah, I suppose that's true. The action scenes were more deliberately paced, though. I mostly remember the prequel-trilogy having a bunch of fighting scenes with very choreographed martial arts sequences, whereas the first trilogy used the action parts to actually tell the story.

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@daniel_jaf Many people don't know that Empire and Jedi were not directed by him

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@EyeDeeNumbers Well, they probably watched the prequels first because the series is set up so that they run as episodes 1, 2, and 3. So if you're like 13 in the year 2020 or whatever, you're thinking "OK, that's just the beginning of the story as it was always intended."

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@EyeDeeNumbers Yes. I think that many of the younger people might have seen the second trilogy before the first, so they never really accepted the idea that Star Wars succeeded because of its more deliberately paced storytelling. To them, the first trilogy is simply primitive.

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@fxxfy I thought the whole point of signatures is that they're supposed to be terrible

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

@DOssuary I think that's what it is, yeah. Plus, they really were what happens when you let George Lucas do whatever he wants, as he had more control over the 2nd trilogy than the 1st. But it's wild how people are so dead-set on wanting to believe in Star Wars hype in the first place.

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[MW @Ty777E]

Egon Friedell’s ‘The World-Nightmare’ [of the European so-called ‘Incubation Period’ following the plague] sounds a lot like a lot of mindsets today!