I sense maybe I’m asking the wrong audience this question. I don’t think there is any great love for Star Wars on the Afterword, but maybe I’m wrong.
I don’t know why I’m thinking about Star Wars. Probably just because there are adverts for it everywhere at the moment (or at least it feels that way if you have Disney Plus). I remember when Disney bought the franchise, and people did say there would be a lot more content coming out and they would milk it dry, and that now seems to be the case.
Anyway, it just makes me ponder when I stopped caring about it.
It was definitely a Big Thing in my youth. I was born in 1973, so was the perfect age for all the toys and stuff, and my generation got swept up in the whole thing. I was ten when I saw Return of the Jedi in the cinema and still remember it as a formative cinema experience. The first time I remember really engaging in something as an existing fan and having my (ten-year old) expectations totally surpassed. It was magical.
But before that, I had already worn out the first Star Wars » Continue Reading.
