Behind the Times
Yesterday, one of my non-geek colleagues turned to me and asked, “so, when are you going to see the new Star Wars?” I didn’t know. I still don’t know. I know that I’m excited to see the film and that I’ll definitely see it at some point. I’ll probably even slouch my way into a cinema to experience it on the big screen, but that’s really as far as my plans have gone. And yet, it’s a perfectly reasonable question to ask – I present as one of the crowd who should be there, lining up on the very first night. I have been that guy, in the past. When they re-released the original trilogy into cinemas, way back in the nineties, it’s possible that I watched the movie once and went straight out to buy another ticket. And, lest we write that off as the folly of youth, I’m the guy who mainlined thirteen episodes of Jessica Jones in
