Each year as the air gets colder, as Halloween passes and Thanksgiving and Christmas loom, I get a strange craving; an insatiable urge to dive deep into all things 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars.
I've always loved Star Wars, so this isn't all that surprising. But what is surprising is how much my desire to spend time in the galaxy far, far away corresponds to the month on the calendar. Somehow, my body knows that when there's a chill in the air, it's time to reach for a lightsaber.
I think this must have started in 2015, when The Force Awakens inaugurated the series run as Disney’s big Christmas release. I loved that movie, and between TFA and Bad Lip Reading’s A New Hope-themed song “,” that winter is very tied up with Star Wars in my mind. The Last Jedi cemented the Christmas release pattern in 2017, and The Rise of Skywalker kept it going, but broke the spell. I’ve never disliked a movie as much as that one, but at the time it was okay. There were plenty of other Star Wars stories out there. I could go home and watch the latest episode of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Mandalorian or start a new playthrough of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, my favorite game of 2019.
Four holiday seasons later, I’m making my way through 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on a library copy and having a great time. It’s good to see Cal and Greez again, and it’s a breath of fresh air to play a cinematic, linear, triple-A game that makes room for exploration. I’m not far yet, but its take on heroism is resonating with me in a way that the same tone doesn’t fully in (the also great) 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Spider-Man 2. Greez is just a whole lot more𒅌 earthy than anyone in Insomniac’s New York, which makes the earnestness of Cal’s quest🎀 go down a little easier.
I also recently started reading Honor Among Thieves, a 2014 Star Wars book set shortly after the events of A New Hope. Star Wars books are a dime a dozen but the interesting thing about this one is that it was written by James S.A. Corey, author of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Expanse novels. I've gotten really into that series this year, but given that each book is around 500 pages long, I tend to take a break between volumes. When I saw that Corey had written a Star Wars book together (that was significantly shorter), I had to check it out. So far, it’s pretty good! Corey writing Han Solo kinda makes the character feel like Holden and Miller from The Expanse got rolled into one guy, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
James S.A. Corey is a pen name shared by authors Ty Franck andꦚ Daniel 𓂃Abraham.
Though my Star Wars mood kicks in around November, it doesn't correspond to the calendar, meaning that I don't actually want to watch any of the new Star Wars TV shows that were released this year. I've gotten to the age where I'm not interested in following all of the output of any franchise, and the Mandoverse is squarely in the sector of Star Wars offerings that I'm perfectly content to ignore. I’m not writing off all Star Wars TV, though, as the real pinch hitter that I’m saving for the moment when I really need it is an Andor rewatch. It’s a show that, though deeply focused on politics and revolution, I strangely find incredibly cozy. That might be because it presents the world of Star Wars with such a detailed focus on everyday life and regular people that it almost feels like a period piece. There aren’t any glowing hearths, but it gives me a warm feeling like Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, or The Muppet Christmas Carol.
I can’t fully explain it, but Star Wars is for Christmas time. It’s that time, once again, for the Force to awaken 🅰— and then go back to sleep after a big turkey dinner.