Star Wars Generation

For those people who "don't get it" about the Star Wars craze, all I can say is- you weren't there.  You weren't there for the very first trilogy, the one that redefined not just science fiction entertainment, but all movies to ever follow- ever.  I was an impressionable 14 years old when I was dragged to the first movie.  I wasn't a sci fi fan and was sure I'd hate it.  But from the first moment, the first note of that thundering theme, I was enraptured.  George Lucas took us to another universe, literally, and made it so believable and so real that even space travel gained popularity as we wondered if we could ever venture out and meet in person those wookies and ewoks and crazy fat Jabba creatures.  I wanted to join the Resistance and learn the ways of the Force, own my own authentic light saber and marry Luke Skywalker.  It was that thing, that word that is now almost meaningless and way overused - Epic.  Truly epic.  So, if you don't get it, just shut up about it, because the rest of us, the ones who do get it, we are in a different universe right now and you can't come along.