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Star Wars: The Force Awakens(2015) and other observations

I’ve been reluctant to write about the Star Wars saga on this blog, largely because there is really nothing more to be said. Just type in the words Star Wars on any search engine and you will likely come across more than a million results.  My Star Wars fandom is limited to the original trilogy - I don’t like the prequels and have never read a Star Wars novel/comic book in my life. It used to annoy me how  hardcore Star Wars fans insisted that Boba Fett survived the events of Return of the Jedi, because they read it in a Star Wars novel.  The fascination with Boba Fett has always baffled me, especially considering his death in Return of the Jedi is treated as a punch line, but I digress. While the rest of the internet was a buzz over The Force Awakens, I was fairly indifferent. However, when my sister offered to buy me a ticket to the movie, I figured, “Why not? It certainly can’t be any worse than Attack of the Clones,” and promptly accepted her invitation.  I was pleasantly surp