We're so damn close.
That's right. I'm talkin' about Star Wars.
We're a month away from the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which means that very soon this movie that we as a culture have been talking about incessantly will finally be an actual movie, and not just the most monstrous marketing campaign ever for something that doesn't really exist yet. For every Star Wars fan, the past year has been a visceral, excruciating exercise in expectation management. I'm sure others have fared better than I. Once I saw the first teaser trailer, my hopes for The Force Awakens rose immediately (and stupidly) high. There was no helping it. I mean how could I not be stoked out of my mind after seeing this:
Fast forward to now and we've got just about every piece of footage, merchandise, and bit of information about the film that we're gonna get before it comes out and the infernal mystery is finally over. For we obsessive fans, that means we'll have very little to wet our appetites for the next month, which in turn will make for a painful four weeks of naked waiting. We're so close we can taste it, yet far enough that it seems like we'll be trapped in hyperspace for eternity. I don't know about y'all, but I intend to spend the coming weeks thinking and talking about Star Wars as much as possible, further exacerbating my unbridled enthusiasm for the franchise as well as the prospect of "new Star Wars". To make matters worse, I'll also be writing a series of Star Wars blog posts, so all of you will be forced to join me in this masochistic exercise in geek-outery.
So stay tuned, and may the force be with you...
...I've got a bad feeling about this....
