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Skriven 2007-07-31 12:51:32 av Amy Guskin (2773.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Reports from Comic-Con
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>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:41:29 -0400, Jan wrote
(in article <f8n75901ln7@drn.newsguy.com>):

> In article <1185865839.738509.115690@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
> dachapp@worldnet.att.net says...
>> 
>> 
>> Wow, this really hurts. I'm a long time fan so to show support I
>> ordered my TLT right away through Amazon. JMS did the exclusive
>> interview with Amazon. I ordered through them. I had no idea that by
>> choosing Amazon that I would be penalized in this way.
>> I hope the comic stories will be available to us sometime in the
>> future.
>> I agree with a lot of people here: I won't be so quick to pre-order
>> again.
>> I will wait to the day of release.
>> Dave
> 
> Dave, apologies for picking your post to reply to with this rant but, I'm
> getting *thoroughly* annoyed by all of these "WB shafted/penalized us for
> pre-ordering" posts. <<

Jan, with all due respect, it's easy for you to see our annoyance as 
misguided or an overreaction: you _have_ the comic.

>> First of all, does everybody understand that if they don't get the 
mini-comic
> they're not missing out on any story or canon?  The mini-comic is a tribute 
to
> Rick and Andreas and expands on a comment in the DVD on why they're not 
> present. <<

I'd think that would make most people here want it _more_, not less.

>> Handing out the mini-comics at SDCC was a marketing ploy, regardless of the 
> fact
> that the mini-comic is a lovely tribute.  So is the Best Buy thing.  Why is 
> one
> more upsetting than the other?  <<

Personally, because it _feels_ like the wrong people are being rewarded.  How 
many people put their money down four months before something -- besides a 
car, say, or an iPhone -- is available?

>> Next, why oh why do otherwise intelligent people insist on attributing 
> emotions,
> especially malice to corporations?  <<

Did anyone do that?  I'm certainly not sitting here thinking that WBHV is 
sitting around rubbing its corporate hands together and high-fiving one 
another, saying, "Way to screw the _real_ fans!"  I just think it was a lack 
of forethought.

>> I'm reasonably sure that the *only* 
> emotion
> behind the mini-comic existing and being distributed belongs to JMS and the 
> team
> who put it together who wanted to honor their friends and colleagues who've 
> left
> us. <<

Right.  And who, among the buyers of this product, really cares about that, 
or even knows the names of the actors (much less cares about their passing)?  
Someone who's picking up a B5 product for the first time?  Or someone who 
cares enough about the franchise that they _put their money down four months 
in advance_??

>> If somebody can find the "Screw the Fans" department of Warner Bros.,
> please get me their phone and fax numbers-and a business card.  Otherwise 
it's
> probably safe to assume that there's no malice or punishment or screwing
> intended by the big, bad corporation. <<

All this hyperbole from you is simply minimizing a feeling experienced by 
many that is completely justified, IMHO.  I'm not sure why you're so angry at 
us.

>> And finally, have I used the term mini-comic enough to get across the fact 
> that
> this is a small 4.5" by 7.25" pamphlet with 8 pages including the covers that
> you're all getting so upset about?  May I repeat that there is no 'story' as
> such?  Can we please go back to anticipating the DVD. <<

Again, easy to say -- "Get over it!" -- if you _have_ the comic.  I'm just 
sayin', Jan: think about how you'd have greeted this news if you _hadn't_ 
been at SDCC.

Amy
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