Following the crash landing of Solo at the box office you may have read of “Star Wars fatigue.” It’s a phantom illness that is being blamed for audiences’ alienation of affection for Star Wars movies after 41 years of wedded bliss. The fans are not tired of Star Wars—they are in an uproar over the direction that the president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy has taken the franchise. The fans are centrally angry that after 30 years of waiting for the continuation of Luke Skywalker’s story, he never saw any action and died at the end (was killed by director/writer Rian Johnson). The other issue with fans has been the political shift from focus on authoritarianism/militarism toward identity and party politics. Snoke is Trump, Poe Dameron’s mutiny represents the Bernie Bros, and the leadership of the Resistance are all elderly, affluent women (Clinton, Warren, Pelosi). continued after break...

After revising my short-play list last night, I got down to some new titles today (Monday that is) starting with the Wii. I had my Game Cube controller ready to go for some Game Cube games too. Then it was back to Xbox 360, football and more Xbox. 

Today I knocked off a bunch of games off my shortest-to-longest playlist. I skipped handheld titles because console is what Mark and I do. I may try to do them next time though, they are piling up on my list. I've gotta hook up my Wii again too. I think I've discovered enough room for it in my rig at Mark's place.