As If Nothing's Changed

I’ve managed to find the time (near the end of each year these days) to watch through my Blu-Ray set of Star Wars movies ever since buying that collection; by now, I suppose I’ve viewed those discs more than the previous DVDs, and more than made up for the years when I was worried that to revisit the Special Editions or their previous versions on videotape, much less watch The Phantom Menace and then Attack of the Clones again, would all of a sudden leave me unable to resist the accusations of “everyone else.” Managing that every year, though, when I’m so tied up scheduling half-hour episodes of TV animation from Japan throughout each week in turn I don’t often find the time for other movies, can still have me wondering about “best uses of time” and “obsession” in general. However, I’m stuck admitting once more the possibility of fitting more than “six movies” into a personally satisfying package has rolled past, and I’m still watching the same set as if nothing has changed...

My feelings, impressions, and thoughts on the matter don’t seem to have changed too much since last year (or earlier this year), even as I remain very conscious certain attacks have led some people to very dark places. The one thing that did change this year was managing to watch the saga over six days, not six weeks. It might not have been quite as overwhelming as when I managed to watch six DVDs in a regular weekend (starting on Friday night and leaving Sunday morning regularly occupied), but it did feel satisfying enough, and this time I don’t think I had much in the way of impressions of “puppet Yoda” somehow looking kind of strange at certain moments. That, of course, might not do a lot to help me with some of the few people who might see this post on their reading lists, with the very most I can hope for from them being “polite silence.”