Of Jedi and Force and fangirling
Seems like Iām having some sort of writerās block since itās been surprisingly hard to start this blog sort of properly. Well, I guess itās better to have such in the beginning rather than having a good start and then being forced to disappear/have a pause of writing.
But here I am! Today I wanted to tell how did I become a Star Wars fan. The embarrassing truth is, I saw the movies really late, not before last year. My boyfriend had been talking years that I should see them, even for the sake of common knowledge if not a pure enthusiasm. I actually find it a bit odd I never wasnāt that interested in seeing them, for I really liked space as a theme (eg Lilo & Stitch) as little. Perhaps it was the āwarā that kind of scared me and the fact I was never really into sci-fi; fantasy has always been more kind of my genre. All I knew about Star Wars were the names of Luke and Anakin Skywalker and that Darth Vader is Lukeās father.
Well, what do you know! In March 2016 my boyfriend finally got me to watch ANH. I found it quite good but a bit boring, too and didnāt become a fan yet then. In the autumn he then showed me ESB and RotJ and after that, I was sold. (Return of the Jedi is my personal favorite.)
Almost imperceptibly, I started following fan/meme accounts on ig and got buried deeper and deeper into this. However (the so-called true fans probably find this quite embarrassing), it wasnāt until the prequels that the fangirling stage completely stroke :D I remember telling my boyfriend -when he asked whether Iād like to see episodes I-III as well- that the original trilogy felt so flawless I didnāt know if I wanted to see the background for them. But eventually in December I finally wanted to see them and we watched all the prequels during one weekend. PM was, well, my fellow fans know, AotC something in between and RotS actually quite good. I certainly agree they could be a lot better and some of characters were, sadly, just wasted, but I donāt think the prequel trilogy is that bad. And I canāt understand the utter hate against them and/or Hayden Christensen (imo he was not bad, and itās not his fault he was given such crappy dialogue etc). But, Ewan McGregorās performance as young Kenobi was the saviour of the prequel trilogy and he made Obi-Wan my absolute number one fav character in the whole universum <3
And, at the latest at that point, I was hooked and have been ever since. During Christmas break I watched TFA and within a week of that went seeing Rogue One in the cinema. Both were good, and Iām soooooo excited of episode 8! Oh and last Christmas I actually asked my dad why didnāt he ever show me Star Wars for he and my brother anyway had watched them many times, and we had the old ones on VHS. He answered thatĀ āI thought you probably wouldnāt be interested in themā :D Which is a bit true nevertheless, because I was so into other things (such as The Lion King) as teenager. But I still wonder how come I donāt even remember for example when the prequels came to the theatres :D And now Iām like āwhere has this thing been my whole life?ā
I never actually thought I could become this hard fan at so āoldā age :D I thought I had already found my fandoms (mostly Disney) and even though Iāve always liked fantasy as a genre, even LotR universum didnāt cause this big impact on me. Even though Harry Potter has been a huge phenomenon for my exact generation, itās never been that big thing for me. Iāve read all the books and seen the movies and theyāre great, but thatās it. This SW hype of mine has been constant since last December and canāt see the end in the horizon :DĀ
And how deep am I at the moment? Well, while exploring the endless sea of instagram, I once ran into a hashtag of āobidalaā. I found out what it was, then I ran into obitine. āOooh, my fav character has a love affair!ā I then asked my boyfriend to show me the Clone Wars movie but for my disappointment seeing this Obitine required watching the animated series! My first thought about the CW series was more or less āwhy the heck do something like thisā, and honestly, the movie wasnāt really good :D But, since I canāt do anything incomprehendly, I decided I would watch all the Clone Wars. Started last summer and now Iām going somewhere in the middle of the fourth season. And itās actually a good show! I wonder if my boyfriend ever regrets showing me the movies but he seems just happy that I became this enthusiasted.
(But Iām not sure if I can ever forgive him for spoiling me that Luke is Leiaās brother! It went like this: we were starting to watch ANH and I asked the name of Leiaās father/king of her home planet. And he could just have answere Bail Organa but no, he said Vader!! He told he had thought I would have known such commonly known thing but na-a (why would I ask if I knew?) and I was so mad at him. Damn.)
