[School of Everything Else 2022]
There are two things about Star Wars that seem endemic, inextricable from the process of engaging with the multitude of stories that have emerged over the many years since 1977.
One is that we always seem to return to Tatooine. It ties in with the fact that Star Wars plays on nostalgia. Even as early as 1983's Return of the Jedi they were bringing us back to that sand planet only actually named out loud at the tail end of The Empire Strikes Back. That movie also continued the long procession of Death Stars. But if we accept that these touchstones will mean that many people's first Star Wars will feature Tatooine, we can accept that this nostalgia and going back to that feeling when you were a kid, and could get excited about all sorts of things, that's the source of its power. George's movie was itself based on his own nostalgia for spacefaring adventure, cowboys and samurai.
The other element that one must accept if one is to be at peace with Star Wars is that as that multitude of stories emerge over the years of our lives we are going to encounter not just one but a cluster over a period of time that disappoint us and make us feel like this saga has lost its way and isn't for us any more. But inevitably if that love was there to begin with, something will come along and surprise us in a good way.
And for us that was Obi Wan.
Guests:
Chris Finik @finmonster09 who assembles New Century's TV Tropes Pages and who writes fanfic (including a Dark Tower / Tiger's Eye crossover)
Austin Wilden @WC_WIT of Wits-Writing
Guest Lecturers Matt Reeves & Rupert Wyatt on Directing the Apes
Guest Lecturer: George Lucas on Star Wars
Guest Lecturer Ben Burtt: The Sound of Star Wars
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Justice League Unlimited
Justice League: The Animated Series
Guest Lecturer: Guillermo del Toro
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Season 2)
The Mask of Zorro
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Season 1)
Rise of Skywalker Revisited
X-Men: Evolution
X-Men '92
Star Trek: Discovery
Strange Days
Prey (2022)
Undertale
Gravity Falls (Show 6: Episodes 37-40)
Gravity Falls (Show 4: Episodes 21-36)
Wakanda Forever
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