I also know diehards are already sharpening their knives, ready to cry, “Trolling!”
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The truth is though, is that it is impossible to watch Star Wars with any objectivity – even if you’re watching almost two decades after your peers.
Things hit a breaking point at the end of the 2014-15 school year when a colleague across the hall, Patrick Roenicke, called Somerville into his room giddy that a trailer for the new “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” had surfaced online. The Sixers Phlight Squad, performing in Jedi attire, will dunk over Storm Troopers to a mix of iconic Star Wars music. They’re surprisingly more modern for being made only a few years later. “I’ll bring my son to the theater just like my dad brought me, and then traveling to SC so that my dad can see it with his grandson, continuing the tradition”.
The Force and the advice to use it is total, arbitrary, superficial BS.
Luke Skywalker? “He’s a good guy”, Byrne said.
As for Disney, the company has yet to react on the latest speculations.
In the first segment, after the words “Darth Trump” appear on the screen, Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) comes into frame and says, “Only you could be so bold”.
Everyone freaked out post-“Phantom Menace” about Jar Jar Binks-as they should have, since he’s one of the weirdest and least successful creations in movie history (what is that nasal duck voice trying to be?). The evil Galactic Empire is really Nixon’s America, and it is bad; the Republican rebels are really the Vietcong, and they are good.
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The Auralnauts are known for releasing other “Star Wars” parody videos, such as “Star Wars EP 1: Jedi Party”, “Star Wars EP 2: The Friend Zone” and “Star Wars EP 3: Revenge Middle Management”. Weak storytelling and minimal emotional engagement equals snooze fest. Something about the humor, the story, the battles, and of course Yoda just spoke to me when I was young.
