The Star Wars Problem... Part 1 of many...

Lets go back to the early eighties. For those of us who lived through the entirety of the eighties our parents threw a movie at us that was truly awesome. That movie was Star Wars (it wasn't called a new hope yet... that came later). For a good lot of us we weren't able to see it new in the theater (this was reserved for the older kids) but between VHS and cable and the taping of movies on cable a good deal of us got in a little after they gained the massive popularity they had in the early days. Back then being into Star Wars was a given. It wasn't a nerd only thing (yet) and had a popularity that didn't make much sense at the time. The action figures and the Cartoon Shows that followed were right there for us when we got to age and it cemented that whole "This is awesome" mindset Star Wars invoked. When I was three Star Wars was the shit. When I was four my father showed me Star Trek and Star Wars began to mean less. By age five transformers was out and Star Wars meant less and the subsequent years following diminished my interest in the "Trilogy". Later on (much later) the interest in Star Wars came back. Three new movies were coming out. We were gonna get to see the whole story of how Darth became Darth and the clone wars that were mentioned a couple of times in the "old" movies. How did this all work out you ask? Not the way most of us wanted to. Now it is time to go back and look at where this whole thing started for me and where it went so horribly wrong...