2015 arrives, as does the return of Star Wars with its latest film, The Force Awakens . It premiered towards the end of my university’s finals week. While I had completed my final exams and essays by Tuesday that week, I stayed to watch this franchise return to theaters after a decade long hiatus. I didn’t have a car and my friends had all gone home for the winter break. It was starting to snow that night, and I knew the line to get in would be long. I left two hours before my showtime to walk to Richland Cinemas and stand in line for over an hour just to see this film. During that time, I met some great people, all of which were excited as I was to be witness to what happened after Return of the Jedi . Despite the snowfall, the biting winds, and the lack of movement, we all felt fine. This movie wasn’t just another installment in a series, it was an event; one that brought a whole fandom closer together. Walking out of the theater,...
So. 2009. I’m
in middle school. I’ve slightly gotten
into comic books after discovering them through the video game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. After some time, I wanted something new to
look into, and I ended up getting StarWars: The Force Unleashed, yet another game that would kick-start my
interest in another fictional franchise.
I had seen the prequel films (The
Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones,
Revenge of the Sith) as they came out
and watched the originals on my grandfather’s VHS, but I never paid much
attention to them. The game immediately
pulled me in to the Star Wars galaxy, and I haven’t left that fandom since.
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