Yeah, the touchstone of a Star Wars essay is: "Is this essay diverting enough to make me forget all about George Lucas?" This one doesn't quite get there. Inde

Yeah, the touchstone of a Star Wars essay is: "Is this essay diverting enough to make me forget all about George Lucas?" This one doesn't quite get there. Indeed, so far I've only seen one essay incorporating the dreaded prequels that did: http://km-515.livejournal.com/746.html http://km-515.livejournal.com/746.html ... though it's not as if I read widely in the genre. I generally prefer to pretend that all Star Wars footage filmed after 1984 was part of a bad dream I had in the mid-1980s. [1] --- [1] I really did have a dream, sometime in the Eighties, where I was watching some sort of Star Wars movie on TV, but couldn't figure out which it was, and in the dream I eventually figured out it was some kind of made-for-TV Movie #4, and then I figured out that I probably hadn't heard of it because it was awful. And I was sad. I assume this was actually a memory echo of the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, which I saw at a young age and have since managed to completely suppress except in nightmares.