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The nexus of fandom and logic (was: A little experiment)
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CooperTFN
Title: TF.n EU Staff Emeritus
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Jul '99
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Date Posted:
2/8 12:28am
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RE: A little experiment - make your voices heard!
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Okay - for a variety of reasons, but mostly because the results are coming in more and more slowly as the news post drifts further downstream at TFN, I'm gonna cut the deadline in half, from two weeks to one. Anyone who still wants to fill it out has until the end of the day on Monday the 11th (or thereabouts, depending on when I have a chance to turn it off  )
Oh, and...no one's quite got it yet. 
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SuperWatto
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2/8 2:17am
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Lazykbys posted:
I thought it was referring to his "return" in the HoT duology, too. *sigh* Subtract two points from the total, please.
Same goes for me.
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dp4m
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Date Posted:
2/8 6:45am
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CooperTFN posted:
Oh, and...no one's quite got it yet.
Despite all of the kvetching of Del Rey and Bantam over the years, the ratings will be distributed equally between the two eras.
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Trip
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Date Posted:
2/8 10:58am
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RE: A little experiment - make your voices heard!
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dp4m posted:
Trip posted:
How do I rate question nineteen?
'Cause Jacen never got any Potentium training from Vergere.
Lies!
I'm being serious (if a bit pedantic ).
What I'm asking, Coop, is do you mean "Potentium training" in the literal sense, or the fanon sense?
(And yeah, I know which one, but like I said, I'm being a pain, since this is a peeve of mine. )
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Darth_Foo
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2/8 11:29am
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took the survey but i have to admit that i haven't read most of the books it asked about.
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AlrikFassbauer
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2/12 1:52pm
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I forwarded the thing to a Star Wars collecting forum a week ago.
Now I'm interested in the results.
Personally, I must say that the EU is drifing more & more away from the original Star Wars concept, that is my personal feeling. And so I've voted.
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leia7
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2/26 5:02pm
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Ok - found this thread! What were the results? Thanks!
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CooperTFN
Title: TF.n EU Staff Emeritus
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Jul '99
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Date Posted:
2/28 2:38pm
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RE: A little experiment - make your voices heard!
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Quick update - I've got the data all compiled and arranged and such now, and there's a lot of interesting details coming through; some I predicted, some I didn't, and some I hadn't even planned on looking for. I'm having some unfortunate computer problems at the moment (as in, it's broken), so it's hard to say when I'll have a chance to sit down at a keyboard for the few hours it'll probably take to write the report, but it's definitely looking like a worthy endeavor. Here are some random interesting bits from the data, just as a hint of the type of stuff I'm looking at:
Highest Familiarity - 94.2% - the death of Chewbacca
Average Score for Traitor - 7.38
Average Score for Jacen's Potentium Training - 6.64
Lowest Average Score - 4.02 - introduction of Jaxxon
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Eyrezer
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2/29 4:38am
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CooperTFN posted:
Lowest Average Score - 4.02 - introduction of Jaxxon
 
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CooperTFN
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3/20 11:40pm
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Another Quick Update™: my computer is back in business, and I'm finally getting into the thick of this thing - I'm about two-thirds though, and I'll hopefully have it up by this time tomorrow.
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CooperTFN
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Date Posted:
3/23 2:04pm
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...not quite, I guess. Anyway, it's done at last. Feel free to pick apart my argument here or in a blog comment. 
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Havac
Title: Lit Mod of War
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3/23 2:37pm
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Hmm. I'd possibly chalk that up to the geek predisposition to think "That's not the way it should happen." So while you can enjoy what you're given (and rate the book high) there's a greater feeling of "That was a bad decision to go that way," in relation to plot-points, which makes it easier to rate them lower.
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CooperTFN
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Date Posted:
3/23 8:33pm
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RE: The nexus of fandom and logic (was: A little experiment)
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I can see what you mean - how exactly would you define a "geek disposition", though? Do you think any other franchise, say Trek, would yield similar data? I literally don't read any other "geek"-type books (aside from comics, I guess), so I don't have any basis for comparison.
To those of you who do read other franchises heavily - how would you say your relationship to that material compares to SW?
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Havac
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Date Posted:
3/23 8:48pm
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Hmm. I mean more of the heavy investment in the saga, the sense of ownership. The same thing that has people complaining that the prequels were all wrong, because they had a mental image of what they should be and it didn't live up to that. It's a general thing, but, for example, while I love love love the Thrawn Trilogy and the whole EUverse that has built upon it . . . I think Zahn made a horrible, horrible mistake in having Han having resigned his general's commission and regressing him back to his TESB "Guy flying the Falcon around" status, and the EU has just compounded that. I think that, in terms of direction, of what the EU should be, a mistake has been made -- heck, a fundamental mistake -- but I'm still capable of enjoying the material tremendously despite the direction it's taken.
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CooperTFN
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Date Posted:
3/23 8:50pm
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Some people would say it was a mistake for Han to even have survived RotJ.
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