16 years after Return of the Jedi, a new Star Wars movie was heading to the big screen.  It’s hard to describe how excited I was for this.  A big part of my childhood was coming back, and I was young enough to enjoy it and old enough to support that enjoyment.  I bought the new toys, books, comics… pretty much anything leading up to the premiere.

Then, I saw the movie and it was… dull.  Boring.  Had I outgrown the franchise?  Or had George Lucas finally put toys and video games ahead of making a good movie?  To be honest, I’m not sure if I’ve figured out that answer nearly 13 years later.  I can say it did affect my enjoyment of the series going forward.  I did see the next two films, but didn’t buy into the hype (or the toys).  Fast forward to last year, where the entire series was released on BluRay for the first time, and it never even occurred to me to purchase them, either the full set or just the original trilogy.  Not to mention the re-release in 3D on the big screen a few weeks back, which I have also decided to skip.