This is weird to say but I read this comment a couple days ago, didn’t think to reply, then spent the afternoon thinking of the myriad ways 1985 and 2015 are different. TVCR said so, but I think the lack of perceived difference has a lot to do with (presumably) having gone through the last 30 years as a continuous live…

I remember a cover story in Starlog asking, “Is Star Wars fandom dead?” That was about 1987.

Dramatic for us at the time, but when my nephews watched this movie, I finally asked them the long-awaited question of whether they could even describe a difference between 1985 and 1955. Except for the parents being obviously younger, they could not.

Also with Spidey-- while there are some legit issues with the JMS run, one thing he was doing a great job of was advancing Peter in his life.  Aunt May knew he was Spider-Man.  He and MJ and Aunt May were all living in Avengers Tower.  He still had problems but he was continuing to mature and grow, and it was great…

Ok, so I’ve had the OG movies on my computer for several years now, I scrounged them up as a torrent many years ago. I checked the scene in question and... there is not “I got you kid”. Looks just like the scene Bob posted minus a few shots of Empire ships flying around.

All that made me think of is how the minute Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale are dead, a BTTF remake will be greenlit before (whichever one dies last)‘s body is in the ground.

On Reddit, I just saw a comment by someone who said they never noticed Lando pausing to make sure Luke was Ok when Luke wandered up to the cockpit.

Well, there’s one sequel, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which most people hate as far as I’m aware.

Same memory. I was a white Air Force brat in New England. Lando was the coolest man I’d ever seen and I hung on his every word.

I think you’re only saying that because you (presumably) didn’t live through 1955-1985, but did live through 1985-2015. People were still listening to Elvis in ‘85, and old TV shows were rerun ad nauseum. Reagan was bringing back the 50's morality trying to roll back all the hippie progress. Nothing ended then either.…

Yeah, but Harry Potter DID end, though. All we’ve gotten since then are a bunch of terrible prequels. Which makes the whole thing even more pathetic. It doesn’t even have a *narrative* reason to keep going.

Eh, we did the wedding party introductions to the Imperial March at our wedding because we thought it was funny. I was 29 and my wife was 30 when we got married.

What are your thoughts on the Star Trek theme? Does it have to be serious music not associated with a media franchise? What if it was an Avenged Sevenfold song?

Oh man, were you around for the Star Wars VHS remasters, which led to the Special Editions?

I remember as a kid a friend of mine had a shirt that said, “Star Wars: The First Ten Years - 1977 - 1987" on it. And I thought that was deeply weird and sad.

People with Masters degrees who can’t actually read and comprehend sentences just blow my mind, I swear.

Honestly, with the amount of people I know who are barely literate, I’m happy when anyone reads anything.

Yeah, I’ve never been aboard that particular train. I have said (correctly) that HP is another version of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey/monomyth concept, and that there are better versions of it out there. It’s a great starting point, but shouldn’t be one’s ending point (and I don’t think that it is the end point,…

Yep, that’s very real as well. A whole bunch of kid Potterheads grew up into young adults who were just tremendously let down by their hero. Probably led to a lot of discussions about separating art from artist (which I think can be done, but that’s a whole other thing).

There’s something to this. Star Wars was at least gone - except for increasingly ludicrous books and some primitive video games - from 1983 to 1997, when the special editions came out.

Harry Potter won’t even go away for that long.