Well put me in overshoes and call me a duck.
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— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) October 27, 2015
Maybe… maybe it won’t suck like we’re all afraid (secretly or not) it’s going to.
Worst case, we get another 90 minute Plinket review. Can’t lose.
You cannot go home again.
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But sometimes you can visit, put a cooler of beer in the garage, and have those after mom and dad have gone to bed and you and your brothers start telling the stories that your eldest nieces and nephews have never heard.*
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This may be that. It will not be the first one, nor the next two. All it has to be is good guys vs. bad guys and big background, and explosions, and fighters dueling, and love interest**, and dueling and fighters.
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*The look on faces when they say “Uncle Mikey NTH – you did that?” And the one after the response “Yes, now shut-up; I don’t think the statute of limitations has passed on that until next year.”
*glare*
“Now, here’s this story about your father…”
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**Stories need that for some reason. Gold, God, and Glory was enough for the Conquistadors.***
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***BTW – where are the shipyards turning out all of these space battleships and the factories turning out these fighters? You would think those worlds would be more important than a desert latrine of a world like Tatooine.
Heh. I’ve got a couple of stories, that I am expressly forbidden from sharing with a friend’s son, until the son is at least 18 and has been through a year of college.