For my generation, impossible to overrate

Rating: 10/10 (8 October 1999)

I was born in 1979, into a world already saturated with pop culture. A post-Star Wars world. What World War II did to define the world that the Baby Boomers were born into, oddly enough, Star Wars did for mine. This generation has been entirely molded by popular culture, and as such, Star Wars is of a significance that cannot be overrated. Because it changed everything in pop, and it created so many icons....Darth Vader...Han Solo...the Jedi Knights...Obi-Wan Kenobi...the Evil, Galactic Empire...Princess Leia...the Death Star..."I'm Luke Skywalker, I'm here to rescue you!" These elements formed a mythos whose impact cannot be described to anyone older than 21...but there is no one, but no one, born after 1977 who doesn't get tensed up, and feel a shiver in their spine of anticipation for the huge horn crescendo that comes next at the mere mention of the phrase "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."