As you may have heard, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is officially out today. (It was actually released yesterday but I haven’t seen it yet and am not bitter about this fact at all.) At this time I can admit this: I am very turnt to see the new film.
Why? Well, for much of the 2000s, thanks to the prequels, Star Wars was bad. Now, thanks to the new batch of movies, Star Wars is good again. Granted, with Disney’s purchasing of Lucasfilm (and much of our childhoods), we can talk until we’re blue in the face about corporate hegemony and the potent weaponizing of nostalgia.