Re: WoW - I wonder....

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, David Shepheard wrote:

>>> Treasure Planet,and It is a real good spelljammer movie.  90% of  the 
>>> movies
>>> the public likes nowadays is trash so a movie that they do like or do not
>>> like does not mean it is bad or good.   zephyr.
>> 
>> Well the question was: Can a mainstream form of entertainment (World of 
>> Warcraft) make SJ more popular by popularizing SJ-like concepts, and 
>> Treasure Planet was definitely a mainstream movie (or at least intended as 
>> such). And it flopped. By which I intended to show that the greater public 
>> just won't care for the concept.
>
> That logic doesn't hold Nils. The failure of Treasure Planet doesn't proove 
> that the public doesn't like the concept of ships sailing in space. There 
> could be any number of reasons for the film to flop. It might even be ahead 
> of its time, attract cult status and be hailed as a success later.

Granted, and fashions do change, but the evidence so far seems to indicate 
that the SJ concept is just too weird for the general public.