{"id":363,"date":"2009-01-15T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-01-15T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T20:19:06","slug":"an-aside-star-wars-as-told-by-someone-whos-never-watched-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/news\/an-aside-star-wars-as-told-by-someone-whos-never-watched-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | Star Wars as told by someone who’s never watched Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone knows that person. You know, the one that hasn’t seen Star Wars<\/strong>. You try to pretend it’s not a big deal, but deep down you can’t help but sneer a little at their lack of foresight when it comes to one of the greatest movie trilogies of all time.<\/p>\n

This guy knew a girl like that and, well, just read what he had to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAmanda seemed very confident in her knowledge of the Star Wars saga despite never having watched any of the Star Wars films. That was the first good sign. When we sat down to watch them, she started telling me what she thought the plots were going to be, so I told her to hold steady while I went to get my voice recorder.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it)<\/a> from Joe Nicolosi<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/div>\n

What’s amazing to me is that despite having never seen the movies, she’s familiar with Darth Vader, Chewie, Han(s) Solo, Yoda, R2D2 and all the rest of the characters. Just goes to show how ingrained those movies are in popular culture these days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone knows that person. You know, the one that hasn’t seen Star Wars. You try to pretend it’s not a big deal, but deep down you can’t help but sneer a little at their lack of foresight when it comes to one of the greatest movie trilogies of all time. This guy knew a girl… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n