Steve Murphy on "The Forever War"

[TristanHuwJones]

Originally Posted by darthsmozers

You're missing the point.

No, I'm not, I completely understand where you and everyone else are coming from, but the fact is people keep saying and implying that they were promised something, which was never the case.

Yes, it did look like TFW was going to happen. There was so much stuff there indicating this, but my point is that NOTHING was promised, and that there's a difference between promising something and indicating that something would eventually come out.

How can you nitpick the word promise, after a build-up like that, something thats been that "unfinished ending" to a great series, that was already cancelled once?

Because nobody was promised! Like I said before, imagine if he actually had promised it would happen? There'd be reason to get up in arms about it because it was promised, and a promise is something that is sworn to be fulfilled.

Yes, I agree that it's a bitch certain very cool things never eventuated, but some of the responses I've seen to this have just been mystifying. I can understand people being pissed off, but to cry foul about something being promised when it wasn't, and to say that the past X years of fandom have been for nothing (which a number of people -- not necessarily here -- have been saying), seems over the top to me.

There's every possibility that whoever picks up the license to the comics may finish things off. ****, Archie could get the license back, reprint all their classic material and then pick up where Murph left off! I'm not saying it will (certainly not promising anything), but it's a possibility. Just because Mirage can no longer finish the book legally, doesn't mean somebody else can't. It all depends on the license.

Not trying to pick on you but for goodness' sakes, its easy to see how its such a dissapointing turn of events.

I realise that, and as I said, I understand where the disappointment comes from, but I stand by what I've said. If we actually were promised these books, then I would understand why there has been such a vehement backlash, but really this is no different to what happened with NECA.