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Star Battle Enterprise
Apr. 17th, 2019 07:14 amLast night I had a dream that I was reading the synopsis of the new Star Wars movie on Wikipedia. It was both very detailed and very boring. Also, Adam Driver himself came to me in my dream and told me that Reylo is canon. I had to tell him that he is a very sweet man but that I don't care about Reylo. He seemed disappointed, and I felt bad. That was it, that was my dream.
When I was in college I drew a comic strip for the university newspaper about how I had never seen a Star Wars movie in one sitting from start to finish. The running joke was that I couldn't keep the plot straight or differentiate between Star Wars and other big American sci-fi franchises like Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, which I had also never seen in their entirety. The real joke was that, as a real person and not a fictional version of myself, I had somehow managed to acquire an encyclopedic knowledge of all of these franchises and was therefore able to play metafictional games with their worldbuilding and narrative elements that were borderline clever enough to be amusing to a few other people.
I'm not sure that "pretending not to know things about Star Wars" is a joke that would translate well into the present, and I'm grateful that this comic doesn't exist online, but I enjoyed myself. The fact remains, however, that I'm not emotionally invested Star Wars, and I probably never will be.
Still, it's a lot of fun to watch people get excited on Twitter, and I'm genuinely happy for them that they have something to be excited about. As much as I don't care about Star Wars, it's a wonderful experience to see people actually being nice to each other on social media.
When I was in college I drew a comic strip for the university newspaper about how I had never seen a Star Wars movie in one sitting from start to finish. The running joke was that I couldn't keep the plot straight or differentiate between Star Wars and other big American sci-fi franchises like Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, which I had also never seen in their entirety. The real joke was that, as a real person and not a fictional version of myself, I had somehow managed to acquire an encyclopedic knowledge of all of these franchises and was therefore able to play metafictional games with their worldbuilding and narrative elements that were borderline clever enough to be amusing to a few other people.
I'm not sure that "pretending not to know things about Star Wars" is a joke that would translate well into the present, and I'm grateful that this comic doesn't exist online, but I enjoyed myself. The fact remains, however, that I'm not emotionally invested Star Wars, and I probably never will be.
Still, it's a lot of fun to watch people get excited on Twitter, and I'm genuinely happy for them that they have something to be excited about. As much as I don't care about Star Wars, it's a wonderful experience to see people actually being nice to each other on social media.
