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May 5, 2015 - 7:11 PM
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Tom Servo
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Hey! This month marks the tenth(!) anniversary of the release of "Revenge of the Sith"! Any warm memories on this no-doubt momentous occasion?
I know I already posted in this thread from 2 years back, but yes, I have fond memories of seeing Episode III in the theaters. It was my last midnight showing I attended, then I wound up seeing the movie again about 8 hours later with my wife at the time and our friends. It was a great experience and Episode III gave me everything I'd wanted to see in a "Star Wars" movie since I was a kid. It's still one of my most watched movies of the that series.
And in all honesty, in the years following its release and the airing of the "Clone Wars" TV series, I've become a much more ardent fan of the prequel era than the OT era. Maybe it's just that I grew up with the OT and I was ready for something new in that universe. I also just found all the aspects of the prequel era fascinating, from characters, world-building, politics, battles and more. Even now, I'm excited at reading the new comics and books that occur in that time frame, more than reading the post-ANH material.
So anyway, that's my 2 cents! 
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May 6, 2015 - 10:11 AM
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Joe E.
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They never left me completely, either, but I too have gone back after periods of diminished interest.. I stopped watching Star Trek at a point in the '90s; there was just so much of it then, and so much of it wasn't great, and... I don't know why else, but for a time I just got kind of burned out on Trek. Eventually, though, I found my interest rekindled, and I've gone back and started getting caught up on all the stuff I've missed. I never saw a single episode of Enterprise while it was originally running, but recently I've gone and watched the whole series on Netflix, and really enjoyed it. I've since moved on to the original series, during which I've taken a couple short breaks but always returned; I had of course seen every episode of it already multiple times, but now I've been going through the whip series once again. Shortly I'll be done with it, and move onto the animated series, and then the TOS-era-ish movies, and then onto Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm going through everything in more-or-less chronological order.
I've also gotten hugely into LEGO again in the last fifteen years. I loved it when I was a kid, but of course fell away when I became a teenager and thought I was too cool for it or whatever. In adult LEGO fandom there's actually a term for this - one's "dark ages", that void between when one first loves LEGO as a kid and then when one rediscovers it as an adult. Lots of fans naturally go through this period, usually in their teens, when they either legitimately lose interest or are afraid of what their peers will think, and abandon playing with little plastic bricks (most people never come back, of course, but plenty of adults are happy to put their dark ages behind them).
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Jake's agents and coaches remind me of Billy Mumy's family in the Twilight Zone. When Jake signs his contract, they all say, "That's real good that you did that" and then just hope he won't wish them all away into the cornfield.
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In the years between RotJ and TPM I was pretty far removed from much of my childhood interests. I am more interested in these things now--that is, the older stuff--than I ever was in high school and 20s. Though to be fair I have never been *completely* removed from it. My interest during those years consisted more of fits and starts than long periods of in-depth interest. 
