How the most annoying character in Star Wars history found a pair of unlikely fans
"A long time ago, we were just stargazing kids, worshipping our letterbox collection of George Lucas' original Star Wars trilogy. Years later, the Force is strong with us once again as we do the Imperial March towards J.J. Abrams' highly anticipated sequel, The Force Awakens. To celebrate, we're spending the next week talking about Nothing But Star Wars! with a rogue squadron of features, essays, and stories. Today, Sarah Kurchak recounts how the most annoying character in franchise history came to find a pair of unlikely fans
The Phantom Menace was the last film my grandfather saw in a theater before he got sick. If I were a more passionate Star Wars fan, I'd probably be tempted to blame George Lucas for Da's fatal condition, but I was never that emotionally invested in the franchise.
My own fandom, if it can be called that, was one of amiable indifference at the time. I had some Star Wars toys that I'd amassed as the result of being a child in the ‘80s and thought they were cool enough, but I always preferred my Dune coloring book. I'd seen and, as far as I can recall, enjoyed the original trilogy multiple times, but my own taste in film had long since veered toward the Canadian and visceral or the Swedish and depressing. I never begrudged Star Wars fans their rapturous obsessions, nor did I mock them for it; I just couldn't share them. I did end up going to see Episode I on opening night, but that was for a reason far more improbable than anything I had ever witnessed in a space soap opera: a boy asked me…"
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So… not all is about negative waves for Jar Jar Binks…
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