George Lucas Forces PhoneSaber Out of AppStore

George Lucas apparently doesn't have enough money and power so he's forced Apple to pull PhoneSaber from the AppStore. According to Forbes he's worth $3.9 billion. So we can all imagine what a threat the dangerous PhoneSaber must be to him. Anything that could bring that much free, and innocent joy to fans around the world must be considered a threat and must be destroyed immediately. Yah, yah, yah, I can already hear the logical arguments in support of his move, like, "well you know if you let one thing go," or "he does own the idea," etc. But you know what? Let it go. Nobody was making any money off of it. It was just some good, clean fun.

You know, Lucas on his own is not that good as a filmmaker (but does a great job running a special effects company.) For me the only really compelling and soul-drilling parts of Star Wars were all the concepts that came from Lucas's consultations with Joseph Campbell. Dude was deep -- and righteous. From him (originally from Carl Jung) came the archetypal material that is the core stuff of all powerful mythologies. After Campbell only the archetypal elements that Campbell had embedded in the story, and the special effects kept the franchise going strong.

First Ewoks (teddy bears in space) started to mess with my enthusiasm.

Then Jar Jar Binks really fucked it up. (I never knew that beings living on other planets out there in space spoke with Jamaican accents. Wow!)

Now forced removal of the PhoneSaber?

No more George Lucas for me.

-Forsyth