A Fourth Low on Enthusiasm

Ever since happening on the period "making of The Empire Strikes Back" book, contemporaneous with the movie itself, in a nearby used book store, I've known "May the Fourth be with you" was proclaimed outside of "fannish" contexts (or at least, I halfway want to think, before the bundle of arch attitudes that seem tied up with them but just happen to leave me uncertain about embracing them too tight had filtered into those wider contexts) back when just one Star Wars movie was complete. Telling myself that, though, doesn't seem to be helping all that much as the phrase is invoked once more in the arch tones I've already alluded to and, more than that, posters go up in nearby bus shelters for yet another new-era Star Wars movie. It may be opening in the month the original six all premiered in, but I am now contemplating breaking a pattern of "keeping my first reactions all my own" (even if that's come to mean holing up newsless well past opening weekend), with the distinct possibility of not seeing Solo: A Star Wars Story at all.
( The dangers of indifference )