Really, is there anything else I could
write about for my grand re-entry into the blogging world?
That's right. We're going to talk
about Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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| *fanfare* (The film will now pause for ten minutes while the audience applauds wildly.) |
Although I could, of course I could,
I'm going to restrain myself from talking about the movie in relation
to the history of Star Wars; the prequels, the old Expanded Universe,
all those sorts of things. I absolutely will go into those issues at
some point, because good heavens is there ample fodder for discussion
there! But it feels appropriate to start with the movie, not as the
obliteration of nearly twenty-five years of continuity (that's right,
I count from the Thrawn Trilogy; suck it, Splinter of the Mind's
Eye!) or the rectification of the poor choices and missed
opportunities of the now-decade-old prequel trilogy, but as nothing
more or less than a movie in its own right. Because ultimately, it
has to stand and fall as that.
So, The Force Awakens. Is it any
good?
