So a few weeks ago, I took my kids to see the Mandalorian and Grogu, and I have to give you

my belated review of the movie. Why? Because Mondays and Wednesdays, while we talk about

apologetics and theology, Friday, we talk about whatever I want to talk about, it's free for all

Friday. And today, I'm just going to give you a movie review and a little bit of insight on

this movie and why Star Wars

seems it seems kind of dead to me. Oh, it's, it's so sad because I was a, I was a Star Wars kid,

grew up on the original trilogy. I mean, I'm a millennial Star Wars kid, so I grew up with it on VHS.

My boss, John Sorensen, he regales me with stories about going to see the original trilogy in theaters.

And when he went to see the original trilogy, he just had to sit in the aisles of the movie theater because it was packed.

And it's Gen X, you know, 70s, 80s. They don't care about fire codes, things like that.

Oh, I wish I could have been there. I at least was part of the big pizzazz of waiting in line for the theaters to go and see Lord of the Rings. So I guess as a millennial, Lord of the Rings was my Star Wars. The Star Wars for Gen Xers was probably, you know, Lord of the Rings for me and my other millennial friends. Others might have wanted to put Harry Potter. I mean, Lord of the Rings,

I think it was bigger than Harry Potter. It was huge, obviously. So the point was that I grew up on Star Wars, the VHS's. I have still managed to track down the original theatrical releases

on DVD because most of the DVDs are a special edition where

Lucas gets his little grubby hands in the editing bay adds a bunch of like monsters adds a bunch

of like unnecessary CGI creatures that don't need to be there that weren't in the original

changes it so that Greedo shoots first instead of Han shoots first because he's a rogue

and you know completely your defeats the purpose of understanding who he is as a rogue I don't even

get me started on that but I grew up at that and I loved it then when the original then when the

prequels came out uh I was I thought oh this is okay little kid, but at least Star Wars is here. I'm all right with that, but there was a lot to make fun of. Revenge of the Sith was cool. I liked that. There was still a lot to make fun of. The dialogue and the acting, not great. Even when you watch the original trilogy, I know the acting isn't stellar, but it is not as cheesy as in the prequels.

But the prequels were fine. They were attempting to tell their own unique original story.

And so I appreciated that. I was in college when those came. I think when I was in high school for Phantom Menace.

Then by the time Revenge of the Sith came out, I think it was about halfway through college.

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