• Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeOP
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    5 months ago

    I wasn’t trying to claim the movie was based on a book (not sure where that’s coming from), just that the book’s status as coming before the movie in terms of release has the weird effect of implying the hype train could’ve begun with a book and that one could argue Star Wars is technically a book series first, even if it’s a movie tradition first.

    Like imagine back then any Lord-of-the-Rings-type discussions that could’ve played out, a la “did you see this movie, it’s awesome” followed by “yeah, but did you read the book?”

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      5 months ago

      “implying the hype train could’ve begun with a book”

      But it didn’t. Yet your title wasn’t posed as a hypothetical but as a fact.