tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917612005522287441.post991170691826876748..comments2023-12-18T23:20:31.042-06:00Comments on Scriblerus Club: Star Wars and the Henson Connection: A Brief Interlude.PrisonerNumber6http://www.blogger.com/profile/03156430802462353459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917612005522287441.post-25263789164210910032018-12-27T17:50:11.357-06:002018-12-27T17:50:11.357-06:00(2) It's worth catching up with, definitely.
...(2) It's worth catching up with, definitely.<br /><br />(3) I know why you wouldn't want to do that with "Saving Private Ryan", or something of that nature. Sad to say, it didn't one brief thing on comedy central. It was part some show, I forget it's name, though I know it wasn't "South Park". I'm even more ashamed that I can still recall this clip after all these years: "Saving Ryan's..." you can fill in the rest.<br /><br />And it just now occurs to me that the "Simpsons" took a brief shot at it.<br /><br />(5) That moment when you realize you can never make in Hollywood because you can't come up with a suitable "Deadpool" style response. <br /><br />(6) I can think of at least three other good examples of Meta-Canon (assuming "Deadpool" fits this description as well). The first is an old, limited run comic that went for a brief stint from 1961-63. It was created by Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas, and was called "Sam's Strip".<br /><br />In essence, it was one long, meta-fictional examination of the comic arts as it then existed. This meant a constant stream of walk-on bits and cameos from pretty much all the most famous characters from comic strips at that time, including Crazy Cat and the more obscure Yellow Kid.<br /><br />The entire strip has been collected in a book titled "Sam's Strip Lives". It's from the same company that's putting out the Collected "Peanuts".<br /> <br />The other two I would have to be Neil Gaiman's "Sandman", and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" graphic novels.<br /><br />A link for Sam's Strip can be found here, by the way:<br /><br />https://www.amazon.com/Sams-Strip-Mort-Walker/dp/1560979720<br /><br />ChrisCPrisonerNumber6https://www.blogger.com/profile/03156430802462353459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917612005522287441.post-3349717599017508042018-12-27T03:44:45.596-06:002018-12-27T03:44:45.596-06:00(1) "the contemporary memory isn’t what it u...(1) "the contemporary memory isn’t what it used to be" -- I'm lucky if I can remember a word of what I read/see/hear, at this point. I should get more sleep! <br /><br />(2) I've been a Muppet fan literally my entire life. It's always been a fairly casual fandom, though; there are a lot of episodes I've never seen, and unfortunately, the Mark Hamill one is among them. One of these days, though, I'm going to track it all down and watch my way through the entirety of the Muppet filmography. I can practically smell it in the air, just waiting for the right time to fall through a cloud right onto my head. Although a rainbow is a better comparison than rain itself. Obviously!<br /><br />(3) "What happens if you take a straightforward set of characters and set them down in a narrative environment that operates on a different narrative logic?" -- A fascinating question. There are so many variables potentially at play that I'm guessing no one answer can possibly cover every eventuality. My snap judgment is that with some things, it couldn't work at all. You'd never want to do a "Saving Private Ryan" episode of "The Muppet Show," I'd imagine. Or hey, maybe I shouldn't rule it all the way out.<br /><br />(4) "It's at this point Luke the fictional character exist off-stage, and Hamill the real life actor enters seconds after." -- This sounds incredibly weird and wonderful. Which is an apt description of "The Muppet Show," so that tracks.<br /><br />(5) The notion of acknowledging the unreality of the play-world is interesting. It wouldn't have occurred to me to think of how certain Shakespearean characters kind of wink at the audience in a manner not unlike the way, say, Waldorf and Statler do. But by golly, there really is a connection there, isn't there?<br /><br />You can still find the device in modern time once in a while. That's likely some of the appeal of Deadpool as a character. And while it might seem like a thing that will destroy an audience's relationship with a story, I think audiences have been proving for hundreds (if not thousands) of years that that isn't necessarily the case.<br /><br />(6) "The best I answer seems to be that it counts as a form of Meta-Canon." -- Hmm! Very interesting ideas here. What other sorts of things would count for you as part of the SW meta-canon?<br /> <br />And here's a question: does Yoda's existence cause "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" to enter into the Muppet canon?Bryant Burnettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01189356171455609865noreply@blogger.com