One quick note- Went to see Freedomland Saturday night. Good flick. Great performances all around. Depressing as hell though. If you aren't on anti-depressants before you go into the movie, you'll feel like you need them afterward.

Anyhoo, on to bigger & better things. How about some more of my musings on Old School Star Wars? Sound good? Everyone seated? Good...

My mom, bless her, had a way of disappointing me with Star Wars. I'll explain: I was 6 years old when ANH came out. I was hooked from the start. The 3 years between movies seemed like an eternity! Other than the movies and toys, we didn't have much to tide us over. Sure there were a few EU books and the Marvel comic strip, the ill-fated Holiday Special, but that was about it. No internet, no www.starwars.com, no Star Wars Insider. It was lean times between movies. How does my mom play into this (lets keep the mom jokes to a minimum, K? )? Well, seems like every year she'd say "There's a new Star Wars movie coming out." Me, being the young and impressionable youth, would be over the moon at this news. "What's it going to be like? Who'll be in it? When is it coming out?" My brain would begin working overtime to process this information. You may as well of told me that I won the lottery, that's how excited I was. Your folks wouldn't steer you wrong, right? Not intentionally anyway. It would seem that within a day or two of Mom telling me about the new SW flick, she'd correct herself and say she meant Star Trek. Commence the world crashing down around my ears. It was never intentional. Anyone with kids knows how tough it can be to keep straight everything your kids are into. She was just kinda clueless when it came to Star Wars.

Now please don't think I'm trying to bag on Trek. I'm just not into it. Never have been. Wrath of Khan and the Undiscovered Country were both cool, but other than that I've never been able to really get into Star Trek. I tried in college. A couple of my room mates were into it. I tried watching but it never did anything for me. Kinda like pouring water on a rock. That said though, even though Trek has been around longer than Wars, I still hold to the contenntion that the ST franchise as we know it today wouldn't be around now were it not for SW. That, however, is a tale for another time...