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,...
My curiosity with any sort of fantastical
science-fiction world originally started with the Lego toy line, Bionicle. I had left that fandom some time ago, and
Star Wars helped to replace that gap. In
late 2011, I found a new fandom: MassEffect. It felt like Star Wars with
its own science fiction/fantasy world, but it had more of the former compared against the galaxy far, far away. It was
through Mass Effect I learned that it
wasn’t just that specific genre I found enjoyable, it also was well-written
characters and the epic stories those people take part in.
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