HULK PLAYED EVERY VIDEO GAME (WILL IT GET BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL DARK FORCES?). HULK READ EVERY DAMN EXPANDED UNIVERSE BOOK. HULK LEGIT WORE THE VHS TAPES DOWN TO THE NUB. IT OF COURSE STARTED WITH THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY THEN MOVED INTO OUTRIGHT OBSESSION. FOR HULK CANNOT EXPLAIN THE DEPTHS OF FANDOM HULK HAS HAD FOR THIS UNIVERSE. BOTH GRANDLY UNIVERSAL AND YET DEEPLY PERSONAL. AND AS SUCH, OUR RELATIONSHIP TO STAR WARS ALWAYS SEEMS. THEY'VE HAD INITIAL JOVIAL ELATION, SUFFERED AT STUPENDOUS DISAPPOINTMENT, HAD SHEER "GROWING UP" MOMENTS WITH PREQUELS. AND BECAUSE IT'S LASTED 40 YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENTIRE ARCS OF EXPERIENCE WITH IT. SOME OF US SAW IT AS YOUNG PRECOCIOUS KIDS WHO DIDN'T KNOW OUR LIVES AND UNDERSTANDING OF STORIES WOULD FOREVER BE DEFINED BY IT. SOME OF US SAW IT IN 1977, PERHAPS ON A DATE WITH OUR FUTURE SPOUSE. FOR MANY OF US, IT'S BEEN A PART OF OUR ENTIRE LIVES. SAY THEM AND IT'S NOT JUST A SINGULAR NOTION THAT COMES TO MIND, INSTEAD AN ENTIRE HISTORY BEGINS RATTLING AROUND IN OUR BRAINS. THOSE TWO WORDS CAN ELICIT ENTIRE WORLDS OF THOUGHT.
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