{"id":9018,"date":"2012-11-01T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T18:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=9018"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:00:02","slug":"our-next-step-into-a-larger-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/11\/01\/our-next-step-into-a-larger-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Next Step Into a Larger World\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/11\/01\/our-next-step-into-a-larger-world\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9019\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"future_starwars\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/future_starwars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has taken me longer than I thought to get my brain around the fact that <em>Star Wars<\/em> is now, not only a <em>Disney<\/em> property, but about to have an unprecedented resurgence in fandom and in the mainstream community by way of new live-action films.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>To most fans and collectors, <em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0had never really left us, even during the dark times of the late 80s and early 90s. Fan fiction and extended\/expanded universe satiated us for the most part until we heard that George was actually going to tell the Skywalker origin story with Episodes I-III. When that news broke in 1993, we all remember devouring every single frame of footage and\/or photograph we could get our hands on &#8211; whether it was through wearing out our VCRs by watching recorded clips, teasers and trailers from Entertainment Tonight (I still have those tapes somewhere), gazing upon behind-in-scenes images released through the Official <em>Star Wars<\/em> Fan Club\/Hyperspace or exclusive &#8220;first looks&#8221; in various publications like <em>Star Wars Insider, Entertainment Weekly<\/em> and <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>.<\/div>\n<p>That being said, my current level of fanboy excitement is tempered with a &#8220;fool me once&#8221; attitude as the prequels, while entertaining on the whole, weren&#8217;t quite what I\/we expected despite knowing where the story eventually had to lead us. The other side of that coin is that we are all about to take our next step into a larger world as the future of the saga is an unknown, as it promises to be an all-new adventure not covered in any literary works that have preceded it. That&#8217;s not to say the Expanded Universe won&#8217;t have its influences or that there won&#8217;t be some familiar themes explored in the story and that leaves me optimistic. <em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0has always been bigger than one man&#8217;s vision and that will be very apparent now that &#8220;the flanneled one&#8221; has loosened his grip on the property allowing for fresh new talent to not only expand his original tale but to reshape it again for a new generation of fans.<\/p>\n<p>I close my rambling with this: whatever the next chapter in the <em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0saga brings it won&#8217;t be what we expect and I hope to not be fooled twice. Whatever the result, it will not change my affinity for the Original Trilogy or my love of\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em> as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken me longer than I thought to get my brain around the fact that Star Wars is now, not only a Disney property, but about to have an unprecedented resurgence in fandom and in the mainstream community by way of new live-action films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[85,614,73,25],"class_list":["post-9018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie_news","tag-disney","tag-episode-vii","tag-lucasfilm","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9018"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9034,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions\/9034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}