The Jedi Worm reminds me of my fear of ET. My parents taped that movie, so it began several minutes in, and was grainy and distorted. This made the movie all the more terrifying, as I had little idea of why this creepy alien was on Earth and what was going on. Seeing the DVD this Christmas was the first time in 20 years that I had watched the movie in good quality, and was the first time I could fully appreciate the artistry of it.

I had to leave the room when Luke was in the Dagobah cave, again because I did not understand what was happening in the VHS version when the facemask blew up and there was some woman's face underneath (I couldn't tell that it was supposed to be Luke).

Whenever I understand what a movie is trying to do, I can no longer be afraid of it. I think that applies to life as well, for fear can only survive in a mind without understanding.

My brother's favorite ship was the Y-wing. We didn't really roleplay Star Wars, or anything else for that matter, we just played with Legos and built our own spaceships out of the official Lego Star Wars sets.

I remember going through the EU phase as well, reading everything Star Wars I could get my hands on. Partway through the Yuuzhan Vong invasion I quit, as it was becoming clear that these books and movies would never stop.

The magic of Star Wars was never in the movies, or the books, or anything else, at least not for me. The movies were fun, the books were occasionally decent, but the magic came from the idea that out of thin air, a universe of adventure could spring into existence that could capture the imagination of the world, and could be so exciting and resilient that everyone could consider that they could live and work there. It's like Minecraft for the mind. You can download the original program, and perhaps the 2 expansions, but everything else is fan-made, and watching or reading it is like looking at someone else's save game. It's much more fun to build your own.