Comments on: A Long Time Ago, sweet memoir of growing up Star Warsish

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:07:00 +0000

All of em.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:58:00 +0000

No, I have memories of being 19 years old and seeing it three times in a row in an air-conditioned theater in Boston with a bunch of other hot, cranky drag queens.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:52:00 +0000

The problem is you don’t have memories of being 9 years old & seeing Star Wars for the first time in 1977 on a summer day camp trip like I did at the Loews Astor Plaza in NYC. Or have to truly hunt down the first 12 figures because the market wasn’t saturated with the merch back then like it is now.

By: thissortofthing

thissortofthing — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:29:00 +0000

Amazon messed up, but they corrected it very quickly and actually apologized to me in an e-mail from a senior person. I was impressed by that, and by how they handled it generally.

By: Chris Woods

Chris Woods — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:57:00 +0000

LONG overdue on boingboing.net. Nice work Gib. You should be proud. A great read and a great guy.

By: Daneel

Daneel — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:51:00 +0000

Which one? Obi-Wan or Han?

Screw it. Just do what every other casting director in the whole world is doing and cast either Benedict Cumberbatch or Michael Fassbender.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:18:00 +0000

I re-watched them a couple of years ago and found them remarkably boring.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:03:00 +0000

Is it wrong that I’d prefer to see Ewan play the role than Harrison?

To be honest I just think he’d do a better job of it.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:17:00 +0000

draft dodger

He was raised by Ted Nugent?

By: uberbitter

uberbitter — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:41:00 +0000

I just finished reading this last night, prompted by the earlier mention. I’m slightly out of Star Wars’ prime marketing demographic (born in 1977 and female) but I love the original trilogy deeply and enjoyed this book. Having a young child now myself, the part about the author introducing the story to his kids struck a chord (we settled on a modified Machete order) but I was surprised how my heart beat quickened and my stomach flopped when the author mention Heir to the Empire. I found that book in my local library the summer after eight grade by happenstance – it was sitting by itself, out of the proper section, alone on its shelf. Serendipity! I was the first the one to check it out, and I COULD NOT WAIT to get home and devour it. I read it over and over that summer, and the subsequent novels when they appeared.

By: Wild Rumpus

Wild Rumpus — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:54:00 +0000

British Colombia must be a little known colony in South America…

By: Xploder

Xploder — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:51:00 +0000

Well, I bought it from Amazon despite the dust-up. On that note, my wife says you guys have GOT to stop reviewing books here as every time you do, I buy it regardless of what it is. It isn’t quite THAT bad, I think I didn’t buy at LEAST two over the past year.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:37:00 +0000

He explains how he fell away from Star Wars fandom after the third movie…

I can relate to this, but happened when Return of the Jedi was released. Boy was I stunned at how flat it fell for me. Saw it twice in the stereotypical geeky way of trying to “get it” again.

Meant little to nothing to me. And the main appeal of the “Special Editions” in 1997 was to see the film on the big screen again. That was fun for a few minutes until the tweaks started to popup on the screen. Man, the CGI killed it for me.

To me it was about the magic between 1977 & 1980. When the LucasFilm empire had not grown that much. Marketing was still hokey. And the franchise still had a scrappy feel. Like going to toy stores & seeing blatant knock-off toys made professionally that were clearly “inspired” by Star Wars but would clearly not exist nowadays in the ultra-liscensed & litigious world we now live. THAT was the fun to me. None of the prequels or even new sequels will feel the same.

You know why? Because life was better when I was 9 to 12 years old.

By: Daneel

Daneel — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:36:00 +0000

They should totally call that channel Zorro.

I see Ewan McGregor is fishing (but not in the Yemen) for another go at Obi-Wan, too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/15/ewan-mcgregor-star-wars-movie?CMP=twt_gu

By: yeastbeast

yeastbeast — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:17:00 +0000

British Colombia?

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:09:00 +0000

Love the cover.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:08:00 +0000

How unusual!

I just found the… juxtaposition? notable.

Don’t Fox hate non-white foreigners?

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:24:00 +0000

Please tell me they pulled Boba Fett out of the sarlacc.

By: strugglngwriter

strugglngwriter — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:00:00 +0000

I want to buy this but I don’t want to buy it from Amazon because of the already mentioned dustup.

By: skeptacally

skeptacally — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:55:00 +0000

according to some geekish friends of mine (and i say that lovingly), they are a pretty reliable source for breaking movie news.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:47:00 +0000

Hang on a minute. Latino Fox?

By: skeptacally

skeptacally — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:38:00 +0000

while we’re on the topic:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2013/02/15/harrison-ford-will-play-hans-solo-in-new-star-wars-latino-review-says/

is han solo back? does this also mean leia and chewie?