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STAR WARS: CATCHING UP WITH THE
SAGA
By Gary Sheppard
I know who have watched it seem to either dislike

Sonic the Hedgehog games. As I get older though, I
realise that it just doesn’t matter. I don’t have to have
just one or the other. I’m an adult now and nobody
can stop me from enjoying both! (Nobody except my
partner who banned me from watching them on the
big TV while she was home as she hates sci-fi).
Even with the realisation a long time ago that I’d

or absolutely adore it. I’ve never met anyone who

probably quite like Star Wars, I still never got around

thought it was ‘kind of OK, I suppose’. As someone

to watching it. I won the original films on DVD in a

who had never seen it, I was looking in at that cult,

work competition sometime around 2005 but ten

wondering what it would be like to live with my

years on, they were still unwatched. It wasn’t choice

friends in Jonestown. I’m happy to be seen as a

any more, I just hadn’t got round to it. I’d somehow

geek, but I wasn’t part of that club of ‘proper geeks’

made time in those ten years for about four Vinnie

who had shunned me for not following in their

Jones films, God knows how many episodes of The

footsteps. I was ostracised by both regular society

Simpsons even though they hadn’t been funny for

and the geek clique and left in this horrid purgatory.

ten years and a film about a woman with teeth in

universe then. Not with thunderous applause:

her genitals. All of that rubbish I’d sat through, and

but with a lethargic sigh of “I suppose I ought to

I owned three films regarded as all-time classics

watch these things before the new one comes

sat in their shrink wrap waiting to be viewed.

out.” I’m expecting good things but I’m not sure

When I was younger, I was quite proud of the
fact that I hadn’t seem them. See; I was born around

Here begins my journey into George Lucas’

I’ll be coming out of this raving about it like

the time that Star Trek: The Next Generation was
exploding into popularity. In the school playground,
there were kids who like Star Trek and kids who liked
Star Wars. You couldn’t be both, it just wasn’t allowed.

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Part IV: The Background
y friends and family threatened

Sure, there was that one kid who was obsessed with
Battlestar Galactica but nobody talked to him, he
smelt funny and made weird noises sometimes.

to disown me. I was ordered to
get out from a meeting at work.

I digress though, essentially my upbringing drew

My best friend announced that

me to pledging my allegiance to one series much

I was dead to her and another

like we did with computers and consoles. It’s in the

told me to just not talk to him any more. What was

nature of the young to want to pick a side and stick

my terrible crime? I’d never seen Star Wars.

to it. Everyone wants to be on the winning side, but
we can never agree on which side that is. Whichever

See, you can’t just like Star Wars, you have to
love it. It’s more than a film; it’s an entire cult. People
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side we pick, regardless of flaws, that will be the
one that we keep close to our hearts regardless of
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