…yeah, I know, it’s a fake Marketing Holiday engineered by Disney, Lego, Hasbro and a dozen other Capitalist lampreys. Still, the excitement gathering around The Force Awakens has been taking on the same level of fuss/hype since The Phantom Menace 16 years ago. The difference? I think JJ Abrams will deliver. The guy can’t make a Star Trek movie save his life but Star Wars is closer to his style.
I’ve been reading all the horror stories online regarding the shortages people encountered at the product unveilings. Me? I’m not really worried. There will be plenty of new Millennium Falcon and T-70 X-Wing Lego sets in the upcoming weeks. I do have the new book Aftermath, saving it up for our upcoming vacation and as a reward for finishing The Martin and Star Wars: Rebels, New Dawn. The former is good despite the astronaut’s entries/rants wearing thin. The latter is well done. Made me realized, I haven’t read a terrible Star Wars novel yet. Novelization? Maybe. I blame the source material with Menace and Clones. Plus, I’ve only read a few Star Wars books. Star Trek, PU! For every strong paper back of Kirk or Picard’s additional journeys, there’s a turd written to counter it, namely when the author is compelled to introduce their lame character into this universe.
Back to Star Wars.
We’ll find out on December 18th if crowds of people will be going “woooooooooow!” as they did during Star Wars in 1977 or a making collective “whaaaaaaaat?” during the midichlorians’ debut during The Phantom Menace in 1999.