Suggested Reading: A Short Star Wars Article

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been a Star Wars fan. In fact, my first experience with the saga came when I was still an infant. I was born the year that Return of the Jedi was released, and my parents thought it would be a good idea to take me to the theater to enjoy it with them. Well, they learned their lesson about bringing babies to theaters, but at least I got the chance to take part in the classic trilogy from my earliest days. As I grew up, I continued to immerse myself in the Star Wars movies until their dialogue was common parlance within my family and friends. #nerdlife

Now, I hope to write a longer series about Star Wars one of these days, but not today. I’ve had an unexpectedly busy week, but I didn’t want to leave you high and dry without anything interesting to browse through this weekend. Ergo, I shall provide you with a link to an article that I think you’ll find interesting, Star Wars fan or not.

The link is to a website I’ve mentioned before: Transpositions. They’re the ones who posted my article on Anne Lamott’s book, Bird by Bird. (By the way, if you haven’t read that one yet, you should! It includes some lovely stuff about Tolkien and Lewis.) But that’s not what I’m leaving you with today.

No, today I wanted to point you toward an article written by a guy named Andrew Barber. The article is called “Star Wars: The (Not) Chosen One.” It takes a look at one of the newer Star Wars offerings, The Last Jedi. Again, I hope to submit my full opinions about this and other Star Wars films to you at some point, but for today I hope you’ll enjoy Barber’s take on the role of a messiah in Star Wars—specifically in The Last Jedi.

Without further ado, enjoy the article!

Star Wars: The (Not) Chosen One