Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is out on DVD today, and it’s a bittersweet feeling I’m dealing with. The supreme myth of Generation X is done, finished, over. It is no more. It has ceased to be. It is an ex-cult.
Not really, of course. The arrival of this last DVD means we can now gobble up the entire saga at home, and oh, you know that will be happening -- Star Wars parties, at which the entire sexogy is shown, will now become staples of geek entertainment. As Forbes freakin’ magazine noted today:
Mission completed. At just under 13 hours, the entire six-part saga of Star Wars can now be viewed from start to finish on a single sitting.
It’s true that Star Wars is part of what helped geekiness go mainstream, made it sorta cool to be into science fiction (though of course we still haven’t gotten past the idea that it’s weird to dress up as Obi-wan Kenobi but not weird to paint your naked torso in team colors and display your decorated beer belly in a football stadium in subzero temperatures). But it’s only the true geeks who will be spending some weekend this holiday season with a few true-geek pals sitting on the couch and dissecting the whole series frontward and backward, having fun but being totally, solemnly serious at the same time.
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