My memory is all garbage (unless we’re talking about my early formative years where I lived on a constant barrage of sitcoms and Nintendo) but this particular era is coming back with clarity when looking back at these.
Our high school– which at this point is deservedly no longer in existence had such little faith in its students that the number of rehearsals to graduate was in the double digits, and quite frankly the number of students in our class was not much higher than that number.
The place did a lousy job of anything other than guaranteeing that moderately well-off parents could get their dumbest kids into college. It was without life and colorless. It ground anything that could be joyful into a beige paste of Christianity and white privilege.
It’s okay, though. We still believed that there was good Star Wars in our future. After all, we were finally seeing some Star Wars with Christopher Lee- the breakout of star of Gremlins 2. It turns out that collectively, there has been about 75 minutes of enjoyable Star Wars since 1980, despite Lee getting a whole movie of setup just to throw him away in the opening sequence of the one that followed.
Next post, we’ve got a much-beloved guest strip!It’s okay, though. We still believed that there was good Star Wars in our future. After all, we were finally seeing some Star Wars with Christopher Lee- the breakout of star of Gremlins 2. It turns out that collectively, there has been about 75 minutes of enjoyable Star Wars since 1980, despite Lee getting a whole movie of setup just to throw him away in the opening sequence of the one that followed.
