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three years used to be the standard between Star Wars movies
And that three years, especially the time between the release of Empire and Jedi, was a living hell. Between the original and Empire was not the same, as I was not even aware that another movie was being made until, and my memory is foggy here, but at least until the Holiday Special aired (can't recall if that was Christmas 77 or 78).
The two year time frame between episode movies has been a double-edged sword, though. Previously, a Star Wars movie was a special thing that came along far too infrequently - at least for 10-16 year old me. Now that they have come at a faster rate, they wait is not so seemingly forever, but when coupled with the other releases they have put in there (R1, Solo), there has been a bit of an over-saturation.
There is a bit of sadness in me for what is coming this weekend (tickets for 7:00PM on Friday night). Star Wars was first released when I was 9, although I had my 10th birthday before I got around to seeing it. I'm now 52. That's the vast majority of my freaking life that Star Wars has been a big thing. Yeah, there was a long period where there were no movies, no nothing of any kind with the exception of Tim Zahn's awesome books that came out in the early 90s, but in the back of my mind, I always knew Lucas was going to return with the initial three episodes - so there was always some thinking about what those films might look like. As it turned out, I had some things right, some things wrong, in my thinking, but all in all, I was just ecstatic to finally get to see his vision for those movies. Others here consistently point out their problems, but to each his own. So with all these years of watching and thinking about these movies (I even wrote a bunch of books when I was in JH/HS set in that galaxy far, far away), The Rise of Skywalker represents the end of an era for a whole lot of people.
