Savour The Hype, Being A Star Wars Fan Will Never Be This Good Again

There’s just one week to go until ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ hits UK cinemas. Anticipation has been growing ever since Disney bought LucasFilm and announced a new set of films 1,136 days ago, and it won’t stop growing until the film is out for all to see.

However, it’s important to recognise that we’re never likely to be this excited for a new ‘Star Wars’ film again. Our fandom will reach it’s peak, but that’s something worth celebrating.

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‘Star Wars’ will become routine before we know it. After ‘The Force Awakens’, there are only 12 months until the next ‘Star Wars’ film, and just five months until the one after that. No series, no matter its quality, can maintain - let alone build on - such huge amounts of hype, and ‘Star Wars’ will be no exception.

We can’t wait to see what Gareth Edwards does with his spin-off - ‘Rogue One’ - next December, or see how Rian Johnson continues the trilogy with ‘Episode 8’ in May 2017, but anticipation for those movies won’t ever reach the same heights as ‘The Force Awakens’. So we need to cherish these last few days of mystery and hopeful optimism.

This year older fans around the world have rekindled their passion for the existing films while younger fans discover this treasure trove of story and iconography for the very first time.

In 1977 Star Wars fever swept the world, in 1999 came the anticipated and long-planned prequel trilogy, and now in 2015 comes a new trilogy, under new ownership. The rise, the return and now, we hope, the redemption.

If the series is redeemed with ‘The Force Awakens’, this could be the start of a golden age of ‘Star Wars’. The beauty of these last few days before release is that we don’t know whether Disney’s franchise revival will work or not. Sure the film will make money regardless, but its quality will determine for how much longer this current spate of films will last and offer a basis for what to expect in the future.

In reigniting our passion for ‘Star Wars’ and refusing to let the disappointment of the prequel trilogy dampen our spirits, older fans are allowing themselves to be hopeful for the series’ future.

Hopeful, and excited. It’s an excitement that will bear itself in the smiles of fans young and old sitting down, popcorn in hand, awaiting the iconic bombast of John Williams’ score. That’s when ‘Star Wars’ fandom will reach its peak.

Will our optimism be rewarded? We simply don’t know, but before we do we should recognise that, more so than ever before, being a ‘Star Wars’ fan is pretty damn fantastic.

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Picture Credits: LucasFilm