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...last column, I considered writing some great ideological manifesto that would be my parting salvo against injustices here and elsewhere. Instead, I went to see "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace." I decided to use the Star Wars "phenomenon" as a lens through which to examine some of the joy and wonder I've tried to write about in this space this past semester. Warning: if you haven't seen "The Phantom Menace," spoilers ahead...
...despite Phantom Menace being sans Solo, did I end up in line to go into the theater only five days...
...could find something wrong with The Phantom Menace if you wanted. Rag on Amidala's bizarre lipstick. Say the digitized characters look fake. Make fun of poor Jar-Jar Binks. Not I. Doing that is missing the point. I'm a fan. And sitting there, in the still-bright theater, I decide I can even get over missing Han Solo...
...front of the line enter the store and stumble out with a signature scrawled across a CD or on a poster or even on their skin. Some leave crying tears of joy. At a multiplex across the street, Fox is holding one of the first screenings of The Phantom Menace. You can see a flicker of hesitation on the faces of a few Phantom ticket holders. I thought I was in the red-hot center, the flicker seems to say. What's going on over there...
...Will take place up to a decade after Phantom Menace (true...