How has Star Wars aged with you?
not well. I still enjoy seeing OT toys in stores, even though its like the 10th version of that toy(thanks mr businessman Luca$). I still get a rush when I pop in the OOT VHS (faces) trilogy to watch. I was 5 years old when ANH came out in 77', and like all you, I was smitten. As a kid all I could think about was SW, so much that my parents stopped buying me the toys after 1977 Christmas. Before the PT garbage, SW was such a great love and an outlet when times were rough. It was fun talking SW with my close friends who were also big fans. I read the books, built the models, collected the figures, bought and beat the video games up till' 1999. I relished any interview with Luca$, or any SW OOT castmember on TV, or magazine up til' 1999. During PT, I was mystified about how something so great, all of a sudden....sucked. Now Im in my mid 30's and as far as SW is concerned, I only consider the OOT, actual SW. The PT is pure garbage. The EU is a cluster-fuck of galactic proportions. I stopped reading the comics around 96', along with the books, because both started to get silly. When I go to a comic shop, I see EU comics and Ive no clue who or what is on the cover. Or a bookstore, where there's a freakin library's worth of SW EU titles. And the video games, I cant stand that stupid force unleashed II commercial with some jedi and vader duking it out. Where has the storyline canon gone? Luca$ sure as hell doesnt know, he just knows that its his claim to fame and $$$$$$. Its because of the PT and all this EU bullshit, that Ive lost interest in SW. All in all, I cant george Luca$ anymore for what he's done to SW. The man's a phony IMO.