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Fac stultum res Bassist for A Sound of Thunder AI isn't art
Fac stultum res Bassist for A Sound of Thunder AI isn't art
![Dear readers,
It has been decided by the editors to cease publication of AGAINST THE SITH and the other fan publications- ATS #10, STAR JOURNEYS II, A RAY OF HOPE, CRUDE MATTER will not be published. Enclosed with this announcement are all refunds (see below).
Over the past months it has become increasingly clear to us that we cannot continue publishing a fanzine for a movie in which we find so little to recommend. We still stand by everything we felt in our first letter to fandom in May -- but would word it differently now. Since then, we thought we could fool ourselves, try hard to accept the film and put out two more issues [of Against the Sith] (#8 & 9). But we realized we weren't having much fun. Not only has this film fractured individual fans' emotions, fandom is fractured. Judging from feedback on #8 & 9, most people are confused and much less enthusiastic about TESB than they were about SW. The questionnaires sent back to us had such diverse answers on all the subjects listed that it proved to us that no one has any clear idea of what the film is really all about. At this point, judging from the contradictory statements from the film creators, we're not sure they know what they're doing either.
We know a lot of fans have "accepted" TESB, but we wonder how much they really love it as they loved SW. For us, TESB left out the most important ingredient: love — from which flowed an innocent sense of fun. Without this the film is a peeled zero. It is not for us any great piece of literature, philosophy or religion. The filmmakers took themselves too seriously and fandom is following suit. It happened in Star Trek and when this happens, we split.
We kept the zine going mainly because of our readers' wishes. Most seemed to care more about ATS and whether or not it was coming out than what its editors thought one way or another about the sequel. We were highly flattered by this, believe us, but we
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