STAR WARS! STAR WARS! STAR WARS

mdmost said:
In today's this is how you know you're old file, Return of the Jedi was released in theaters 40 years ago today. I was 6 when it was released and there was no bigger movie for me. Empire was too scary and slow for my child brain. Jedi had lots of action, interesting creatures, a super villain that was scary because you had no idea who he was and hope much power he had if Vader was afraid of him. Then you have the Ewoks which was the chef's kiss to a child. I called my mom earlier to thank her for all the times she took me to theater so I could watch it that summer.
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I was six, as well. I was obsessed with Star Wars leading up to RoTJ's release. I remember having a collectible magazine with tons of behind the scenes photos, as well as stills from the film. Developed a massive crush on Carrie Fisher, even at six.

The movie just seemed so BIG to me then, totally magical. And the (then) silent way Vader turned to the Emperor, picked him up, and threw him brought tears to my young eyes, and still does (I tune out the "no" part)
 
mrjoshuamccormack said:
I was six, as well. I was obsessed with Star Wars leading up to RoTJ's release. I remember having a collectible magazine with tons of behind the scenes photos, as well as stills from the film. Developed a massive crush on Carrie Fisher, even at six.

The movie just seemed so BIG to me then, totally magical. And the (then) silent way Vader turned to the Emperor, picked him up, and threw him brought tears to my young eyes, and still does (I tune out the "no" part)
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That scene hits so differently now to me as a parent. That's why I always scoff at rankings that have Jedi any lower than 3. The redemption of Anakin and the love of Luke for his father and how he never gave up on him was such an amazing end to that movie.
 
mdmost said:
That scene hits so differently now to me as a parent. That's why I always scoff at rankings that have Jedi any lower than 3. The redemption of Anakin and the love of Luke for his father and how he never gave up on him was such an amazing end to that movie.
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Another thing about it: as a kid, watching the first two obsessively, seeing Luke trying and failing at the end of Empire, in RoTJ when he walks into Jabba's palace clad in all black, just totally confident, was...amazing.
 
At 3 I was a bit too young for Jedi when it came out. But I very much remember a lot of the hype and promotion around its release - particularly the little 1-inch square trading cards that came with Hostess (I think) potato chips - I definitely had a bunch of these and a few other odds and ends. It was a couple of years later I saw Empire first and then Jedi and loved both. I never saw the original until a fair few years later - knowing the bulk of its story from the perspective of C-3PO and R2-D2 thanks to Marvel's Droids comics.

Pretty sure the last time I watched Jedi was the theatrical re-release. Reckon I'm gonna remedy that tonight.
 
Jedi was the first movie I went to see on my own during a matinee. My parents dropped me off at the cinema and picked me up after. I would have been 12.

Saw both SW and ESB at the drive-in with my folks.
 
Not sure if anybody else here has read the From a Certain Point of View books, but Catherynne M. Valente's story "This is No Cave" in the Empire Strikes Back book may well be my favourite piece of Star Wars writing I've read yet!
 
My mom still has the entire Burger King set. Just be careful drinking out of them.

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avecigrec said:
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Also, I forgot Cavan Scott wrote this one. Now I'm even more excited!
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Finished this today and wrapped up phase 2 with it except for edge of balance.
Will be interestinv to see how phase 3 will bring things home. For phase 2 I think the 2 ya "path" novels are the nost essential reading, but as mentioned before, the narrative o the Main Story oc this era is far more spread out about the different Formats than in phase 1 where the adult novels carried the most weight storywise
 
Jan said:
Finished this today and wrapped up phase 2 with it except for edge of balance.
Will be interestinv to see how phase 3 will bring things home. For phase 2 I think the 2 ya "path" novels are the nost essential reading, but as mentioned before, the narrative o the Main Story oc this era is far more spread out about the different Formats than in phase 1 where the adult novels carried the most weight storywise
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I have about 275 pages of Cataclysm left to go, plus the final few issues if High Republic Adventure comics yet to come out, before I'm done phase 2 and I generally agree with the YA assessment from what I've seen so far, but I'm definitely excited to see what Phase 3 does with all the strands. Gonna be a loooooong couple years!
 
avecigrec said:
I have about 275 pages of Cataclysm left to go, plus the final few issues if High Republic Adventure comics yet to come out, before I'm done phase 2 and I generally agree with the YA assessment from what I've seen so far, but I'm definitely excited to see what Phase 3 does with all the strands. Gonna be a loooooong couple years!
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You are right, there are hr adventures issue still to come out. Sav malagan is def one of my favorite jedi characters
 
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I enjoyed The Blade much more on a collected second reading then I did reading it monthly at first. It still feels like an odd outlier for Phase 2, but I imagine it's more about setting up Porter Engle's Phase 3 story than connecting with the rest of Phase 2.
 
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