The Audience Strikes Back2008

Lloyd:
I was eleven when I first saw Star Wars and I was riveted and I went every week as soon as I got my allowance. But it wasn't just the special effects I liked - much more than the effects, it was the adventure, because it seemed to promise that adventure in my own life was right around the corner and all you needed was "a good blaster at your side" and the ability to trust in yourself. But life - real life - isn't like that. Real life is all about compromise, and the choices you make in real life are not nearly as clear cut as in Star Wars. So I ended up making a thousand little choices until by a thousand little cuts all the adventure was drained out of my life, and a few years ago when I put on my old Star Wars tape to try to recapture some of what I no longer had, I realized that the only person in the entire movie who made any sense was Uncle Owen - stay on the farm, mind your own business. That's why I had such high hopes for the prequels, because I thought they might be able to give me back some of what I had lost. But of course they didn't, and probably wouldn't have even if they had been any good, because the movie of my life is no longer Star Wars but something very different.