It feels like the official big proper Star War films are actually now being made by someone who’s really interested and invested in the questions that the original films raised. Maybe that’s exactly why it happened, because they provided a universe with a million different environments and possibilities, then demonstrated interest in virtually none of them: the original trilogy’s vaunted failure to provide any world-building detail about economies, religions, day-to-day lives, left a vacuum that fandom (and the franchise itself, in many cases) has rushed to fill.Īll of which is to say that maybe that’s why The Force Awakens has such charm. What’s always interested me about the Star Wars universe is the fact that, although so many spinoffs in so many different formats exist-comic books, novelizations, fanfic, extra TV shows like Clone Wars and The Mandalorian-the original movies don’t strike me as being particularly interested in that kind of elaboration. I’d already seen The Force Awakens (or, as my housemate Joe and I kept cacklingly calling it, The Force Wakes Up) and already thought it makes a great, great start to the sequel trilogy.

Seeing as the sequel trilogy is its own entity, I’ve decided to review them all together. I’ve had multiple requests for reviews of The Last Jedi, though my mate Bojan (an absurdly gifted Baroque violinist, lecturer at the RCM, and husband to Esther) got in there first. African Summer reading challenge: wrap-up and retrospective.

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