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...Lucas and many of his stars came into view, the orchestra struck up the first martial notes of John Williams' theme. "Georges Lu-cah!" a French voice fanfared over the loud-speaker system, and the crowd cheered. The spectacle was as majestic and fun as the celebration of the Jedi's triumph over the Death Star in the final scene of the first Star Wars, such a long time...
...That was confusing--to me as well as most of the boys in the neighborhood--but my mounting uncertainty found a clarifying counterpoint in Han Solo. When I was playing with the neighbor kids, I would adopt a sarcastic, daring Solo persona. I didn't quite get Lucas' hieratic Jedi myths or his nearly liturgical lightsaber duels. But Solo's weapons--his blaster and his mouth--those I got. I would charge through our house shouting Solo's smart-ass lines from memory and mercilessly blasting light fixtures (Death Stars) and the cat (an Imperial Star Destroyer...
When I was 12, in 1983, Return of the Jedi was released. By then we had moved to Pine Bluff, Ark., and we attended the Church of Christ three times a week. In the months before my brother and I went to Little Rock to see Jedi open, I prayed the Lord would send me to live with Han and Chewie. I doubted my ability to perform Jedi-like feats, but I figured the Obi-Wan ghost would help me. This was a period when I came home from school with spitballs in my hair...
...After Jedi, I was despondent that Star Wars had ended. But a few weeks later, I discovered Star Trek reruns. I watched every one of them, usually late on hot summer nights, the air conditioning dialed down to freezing, like space. I became, of course, a stupendous nerd. It had been sort of sweet when I merely yearned to be transported from a world I couldn't control. Now I was learning Klingon phrases...
...other forum topics include “before the hell begins” (“Is it true that doing dorm crew makes you a loser? I heard that somewhere”), “Intellectual Debate” (“First of all, the plural of jedi is jedi”), and “must-have’s for dorm rooms” (“i’m going to princeton?...