While people waited in line to
see it again for the first time many conversations about the forth-coming prequel trilogy brought a level of excitement so big that it began to have a life of its own. It brought a warming nostalgia to some, and was considered a cultural event not unlike Woodstock to others,
Star Wars, for better or worse was huge again… or at least the media would have us believe it.
What many of the younger fans didn’t realize, waiting in line for hours to see the films the first time around wasn't something
the Star Wars Generation chose to do, it was something we
had to do. With fewer screens playing the films, supply and demand took on a brand new meaning. For many of us, the
Special Edition was only a reminder of how much it sucked to wait for the films. Only those who hadn't been there the first time, and those who had forgotten, could possibly romanticized it.
The media always pushes people into needing things to be events, and the
Special Editions were just examples of that in the end. The films arguably did more damage than good, planting the seed for disappointment. Sadly, that disappointment had a snowball effect, which has become apparent simply by checking the local movie listings. Not even September in a
Star Wars year, and no (or little) sign of the new (IMHO best)
Star Wars film playing anywhere… That’s never happened before. One has to wonder what this will do to
Episode 3.
Regardless, the
Special Edition brought the promise of something fantastic, which, if you look at it honestly it achieved, and it was only through media manipulation that it failed and come twenty years people will look back at it all with the same romantic nostalgia that we all did in 1997.
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