ekm’s 31 DAYS OF THE FOURTH: SECOND EPILOGUE – THE ONCE AND FUTURE STAR WARS

ekm’s 31 DAYS OF THE FOURTH: SECOND EPILOGUE – THE ONCE AND FUTURE STAR WARS

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ekm’s 31 DAYS OF THE FOURTH: SECOND EPILOGUE – THE ONCE AND FUTURE STAR WARS 

Lots of links in this one, which gives you a glance backward at this mammoth series.  If you’d like to own a revised and updated version of the entire serial, check out the upcoming book from Roxton Press.
 
In the week leading up to the release of THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, I revisited the saga for what is a supposed ending that definitely isn’t.  This multi-evening experience was composed of my preferred STAR WARS canon: I began with ROGUE ONE, and then blazed through the Original Trilogy, and ended with the two sequels.  Neither SOLO nor the Prequel Trilogy were included, as I consider them incongruous, poorly-made, and, at worst, contradictory to the aesthetic of those first three movies as to render them the (theoretically) “lesser” entries by virtue of the lack of comparable bombastic spectacle.  
In spite of authoring more than 200 single-spaced pages of content on the Lucas saga for AICN in 2019, I’d not watched STAR WARS, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, or RETURN OF THE JEDI since my previous marathon, one that ended with the opening of THE LAST JEDI.  In that time, I’d acquired a 4K television, and the standard for both physical and streaming media had naturally provoked a certain expectation during the interim.  That 2017 rewatch had been distressing, given my refusal to watch the SPECIAL EDITIONs of the Original Trilogy, which remain the only way to see the films in

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