:: SPOILERS BELOW :: If you haven’t watched the Mandalorian or any of the various Star Wars animated series, and you intend to watch them spoiler free, continuing to read this piece is not the way. :: SPOILERS BELOW :: For Christmas in 1997, my mother gave me the VHS set of the Original Trilogy of Star Wars Initially, I stuck my nose up at it as Star Wars was for dorks. After being coerced into watching “A New Hope” I quickly jumped into “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi.” I must have watched those movies over a dozen times during the coming weeks and months. As the prequels came out I remember going to the movies right after school to watch “The Phantom Menace” (yes I know it was garbage, but at the time, we were excited). I saw “Attack of the Clones” on opening night, however waited to see “Revenge of the Sith” as I was serving my mission when the movie came out. I read the Timothy Zahn novels, watched the various animated series, and waited patiently for the Disney trilogy and other movies to come out. As a diehard Star Wars fan, I have often been disappointed in the movie theatre and felt that the last few rounds of Star Wars movies were hot garbage. “The Force Awakens” was just a retread of “A New Hope,” “The Last Jedi” was an absolute trainwreck, and “The Rise of Skywalker” was neither a rise or had much to do with any Skywalker. Since the Disney purchase of Lucasfilm, about the only redeeming cinematic outcome, was “Rogue One,” and “Solo” was, at best, mildly entertaining.