{"id":10318,"date":"2015-12-26T14:57:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T21:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10318"},"modified":"2015-12-26T14:57:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T21:57:41","slug":"first-impressions-of-star-wars-the-force-awakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/first-impressions-of-star-wars-the-force-awakens\/","title":{"rendered":"First Impressions of Star Wars: The Force Awakens"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is going to be spoiler-free, but if you haven’t already seen it and you don’t want it spoiled, you had better go on an internet blackout and get thee to a cinema because there is a lot\u00a0that can be spoiled!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>First impressions: I liked it! I really liked it! It felt very true to the originals, much\u00a0more so than any of the prequels. It had all the same beats and sci-fi elements, the same focus on the characters (as opposed to spectacle), and a lot of the same magic.<\/p>\n

At the same time, it wasn’t just a nostalgic rehashing of episodes IV, V, and VI. There was a lot of new stuff mixed in with the old. I know a lot of the true fans are ticked off that Disney nixed the expanded universe, but the new stuff feels like it fits. The new characters have some very big shoes to fill,\u00a0and it will take more than one movie for them to grow into those shoes, but in this one at least\u00a0they did pretty well.<\/p>\n

Does it fully live up to the originals? I think that’s the wrong question to ask. For those of us who grew up with the original Star Wars, nothing will live up to that experience. The golden age of science fiction is between ages 7 to 14, and in some ways it just isn’t possible to recapture that magic. But\u00a0for those of us old-timers, I think this new one pays homage to the originals in a way that the prequels never did.<\/p>\n

Was it campy? Yep. Was it rife with scientific inaccuracies?\u00a0Oh heck, yes! Were parts of it over the top? Yeah, probably. But these\u00a0were all true of the original Star Wars, too. The stuff that\u00a0really mattered was all there: good writing, solid plot, believable characters, awesome music, and that grand sense of wonder that drew us all into Science Fiction in the first place.<\/p>\n

So yeah, I’m satisfied with this new Star Wars movie. And while I’m sure I’ll be spending the next several months nitpicking it to death with other like-minded fans, my first impressions are very positive. I will definitely watch this movie again, and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is going to be spoiler-free, but if you haven’t already seen it and you don’t want it spoiled, you had better go on an internet blackout and get thee to a cinema because there is a lot\u00a0that can be spoiled! First impressions: I liked it! I really liked it! It felt very true… Continue reading First Impressions of Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"First Impressions of #StarWars: #TheForceAwakens","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-10318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-star-wars","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2Gq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10319,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions\/10319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}