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[Nerdspresso] This Is the Way - to Enjoy Star Wars Without Expecting a Time Machine

The Mandalorian and Grogu is entertaining and more authentic than The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker. Those flicks always felt to me like they were more a product of corporate synergy than storytelling. You can tell that this new flick was made by fans

Jeff Stanford

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[Nerdspresso] This Is the Way - to Enjoy Star Wars Without Expecting a Time Machine
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Okay, I’ve shared multiple times in this column what the original Star Wars movie means to me. How it blew my little kid mind back in the summer of 1977 and turned me onto a lifetime of sci-fi fandom.

I’ve been chasing the buzz from that opening scene every time I’ve gone to the movies for almost 50 years. Back then, if you had told 8-year-old me that one day I’d have access to non-stop Star Wars content (movies, TV shows, cartoons, comic books, video games, etc), I would have needed a new pair of dungarees. 

So here I am in 2026 watching The Mandalorian and Grogu, an all-new Star Wars movie, with the promise of another flick (Starfighter with Ryan Gosling) coming in just 12 months.

What an amazing time to be a fan, right? I should be in Nerdvana, but I’m feeling…just okay. That’s not because The Mandalorian and Grogu is a bad movie. It's not. This flick doesn’t promise anything other than a good time - and it delivers.

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