Praise the Lord... I'M CURED!!!

Rating: 1/10 (24 March 2020)

Statutomania: (n.) 1. A compulsion for collecting complete sets. My mother had it too. She never completely kicked her need to own every Beatles album and single, buying every EX-Beatle recording as well... she just skipped over the Yoko Ono stuff. For my part, I've struggled with this all my life. If I lack even one piece of a complete set of anything, it drives me clinically . So it was with Star Wars. Episodes IV to VI were near-perfection to me (I'd have been fine without C-3PO/R2-D2 and the Ewoks), so I bought the DVDs. Then Episode I Featuring He Who Must Not Be Named came out; in spite of the resulting odor coming from my DVD shelf, I picked it up anyway. After all, the packaging was still uniform so I still had the whole set, and I might still watch the Darth Maul scenes from time to time. Episodes II and III came out, and they were slightly more watchable. I was content, having the existing six. Rogue One was an okay addition thereafter. Then, Episodes VII to IX and Solo happened. I'd found MY Yoko Ono! But on a much grander scale, enough that I never want to see another Star Wars creation as long as I live. Even if you don't hate Kathleen Kennedy's woke feminist agenda, the latest trilogy was a complete wreck of storytelling from every angle, making the "midichlorians" thing seem legit by comparison. The sole redeeming feature I was able to find in the whole thing was that they finally gave Chewbacca some emotional depth. I suppose it was also nice to see the robots given minimal exposure and used for something more than Laurel-and-Hardy appeal to 3-year-olds. My Star Wars DVD collection sits at seven, and there it will remain. Never say it can't get worse.