A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away … I Was a Star Wars Fan

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I had a hard time with the new episodes too. It took me a long time to finally put my finger on what it was that was missing. It was me, not being 12.

I don't buy it. Most people lining up for Empire when it came out in the theater the first time weren't 12.

Can't we just accept that the original trilogy was actually better (and already heading down hill in Jedi). It may not be high art, but it was cool.

No, it's not that we're not twelve any more, its that it is not 1977.

The world is no longer a place of good verses bad. We no longer face the "Evil Empire" with the threat that we would all be snuffed out if one of our leaders blinked. The world is so much more complicated now, and so are we. We have a lot more information available to us now, and this has changed us.

It doesn't help that we are not 12 any more, but even now, 12 year olds are far more aware of the complexity of the world, and that means that even they don't see the world as the simple place we did 35 years ago.

Morn the passing of an era when a simple story could bring so much joy and excitement.

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