 Okay, we are live I'm gonna wait a little bit here and just kind of Wait a little bit if we get any people coming on in so a little bit of what I'm gonna be talking about Basically going through My well first off I should probably go ahead and introduce myself for those of you who don't know I am John wise and You are watching come again TV and this is my Star Wars story Basically what I'm going to be going over is my My history through Star Wars So where Where when I first watched the first movie all the way Through to the prequels through the new movies And a little bit in between like the figures and stuff, so that's what I'm gonna be talking about Excuse me, of course you can feel free to Comment below while I'm speaking or after you've watched this video Comment below of course Like and subscribe so you get all of the newest come again TV videos, okay, so My my history through Star Wars is pretty much as follows. I was born in 1979 so too you shy of Being able to catch the original Star Wars movie You have no idea how bummed I have Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980 when it came out. I was four months old from what I was told We did go see Empire Strikes Back. I had a drive-in theater. I Do not recall this but that's what I was told also I Vaguely remember in 83 seen return of the Jedi so to me return of the Jedi is essentially the first Star Wars film I had a chance to see at at the theater never again that one was also was that a drive-in we loved going to the drive-in and Check some things here make sure it was okay And I the only reason why I know I saw return the Jedi to theirs at the drive-in is because I remember looking through the car window and I remember seeing Yoda and I ever seen the Ewoks That's it So that's all I remember Until later on they would come on tell it. They would air on television mostly on like ABC Sunday night movies that was that would be when I would first see the original Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back and Livestream baby and return to the Jedi But of course those all had commercials I Wouldn't get a chance to see The original trilogy and it's uncut form until VHS when we got a VCR and I loved them. I absolutely loved them. I owned Like one Star Wars vehicle and it wasn't even a main vehicle. It wasn't a vehicle. It was even showed up in the movies It's like this little brown ship That kind of I can't I even describe what it was like brown. I was like two shades of different brown And I had a couple of figures The only character I actually remember was General Nadine or General Nadine The only figure I actually remember owning I did own Luke or Han or Chewie At the time I wasn't a huge Star Wars fan like I am now My thing was he meaning and the masters of the universe But I did own a few Star Wars toys now Skip to Good God, I Believe it was 96 when they released the Star Wars special edition And I think the release to my two theaters. It was like the coolest thing. I was exciting I was hyped. We were getting I was buying the new Star Wars figures Which a lot of fans have labeled them the superhero figures because they were so buffed up. This might also be 97 96 97 kind of mesh together for me because I Got to see the Star Wars for the very first time on the big screen. It was a special edition But it was Star Wars and the reason why I say it meshes is because I was in the process of moving From the Cook County area near Chicago to where I live now in Decatur So I didn't get to catch Empire Strikes Back Or return to the Jedi until they actually were released on VHS Again, I didn't get to see the entire trilogy the new trilogy until VHS my first impressions of The special edition a new hope as it was labeled It didn't bother me at first. I think I was just still in the hole. Oh my god I'm seeing Star Wars on the big screen for the very first time Of course years later where I would Grow up and realize this was really stupid. Why did he do this? and But at the time it was really cool because we didn't have any Star Wars films being viewed at the movie theaters, so this was really cool and then of course shortly thereafter it was announced that Lucas was going to bring us brand new Star Wars films With episodes one two and three. They didn't have a name at the time. They were we just knew they were gonna be prequels they were gonna be before Luke Skywalker We assumed it was gonna be all about Vader and we were correct and It was just an exciting time The hype Going into episode one of Phantom Menace as it would be called in 99 was So cool cuz I was still in high school at the time and it was I'm getting kind of goosebumps Please thinking about it for me. It was really cool. This was supposed to be the first new Star Wars film that I got to see that I was gonna see it at the theater. I was gonna be a part of this huge new event it It was gonna be something special to me. It is still special. I still have a special place in my heart for Phantom Menace Regardless of what it was a good movie bad movie. I still have a still have a spot in my heart for Phantom Menace And to me it's still not the worst one Episode two still holds as the worst Star Wars film for me The hype going into there now I'm somebody who I don't like spoilers the new Iron Man movie comes out or Star Trek or Justice League which comes out as I'm recording this this week. I don't want to know Back then when you know like Batman forever came out or Batman later I wanted to know everything When Star Wars Phantom Menace came out I wanted to know everything I wanted all the characters were one of them the story that I want to know everything This was gonna be awesome, right? So cool I Was in school During lunch period where I sneak into the IMC or the library which is what it was. I don't why they call it the IMC We'll see you in the library and go on the computer and internet was still in its infant stage Kind of growing up and you had to use like Internet Explorer and download movie trailers You couldn't just click a button and There it is. You would have to download so I would download the Star Wars episode one trailer And I would constantly play it before it was even finished and My god is just I'd watch it over and over and over again. I Absolutely just couldn't wait and we had a friend of ours who Had agreed he was he had in his mind. He was going to skip school Stay the night them came back the movie theater and get get our tickets So he gave him his money. He came back to school the next day. He gave us our tickets really yes I mean it was so big I Wasn't a bowling class. That was my PE That buddy of mine we would constantly change our names on the computer to like quite quite John Jinn or Obi-Wan Jenkins or Darth Chris or Obi-Wan John Kenobi or some some we were just being Dorks We were excited. We were hyped. We were ready We got there There was lines going into the movie theater. I Had brought my lightsaber with I didn't dress up, but I did bring my lightsaber Well, I had my quite on chin lightsaber. I bought a Toys R Us And it was just all we sat down We go through the trailers and this was when commercials Before the previews at the theater were new like they used to be previews Movie now, of course, you know you have The Screen time like trivia and and and they you know behind the scenes of this movie and that Then we get commercials Then we get movie trailers and then we get the movie this was a new concept and the one Blast a commercial that they'd kept Playing was An avatars for Bod I want your bod Bod spray Something like that After seeing the movie five times it got really annoying But then the screen would go black and you'd get the Lucas film in the now famous Lucas film like green glitter gold Logo and then you get in a galaxy far far away and then John Williams infamous Ah The theater went apeshit We all just went nuts. We loved it. We We we Couldn't help ourselves like we knew that we were going to be a part of something new something Fenty we are now part of something fantastic, you know We now were able to share in the joy of what people were like Back in 77 when they first saw Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. We were now part of the elite group And it was such a wonderful feeling it was so great it was so grand I Particularly enjoyed the movie. I really liked it. There were aspects of the movie. I didn't like I didn't like the wine Kid Anakin and all that, but I really enjoyed like quite on Jane and loved Darth Maul Obi-Wan Kondo, I mean this is I loved I really enjoyed the movie But this wasn't back in 99. I Graduated later on that year So a few years later when episode 2 came out. I was no longer in high school I was still talking to most of my friends from high school And episode 2 came out an episode 2 I I Didn't stay the night the theater, but I did go early in after an early morning afternoon Got my tickets. There was a small line of some people who actually did stay the night. I Actually had a pop that And that was kind of cool I actually kind of befriended them there we walked to Toys R Us we bought some lifesavers We talked Star Wars we played Star Wars board game. It was amazing time Bought the tickets was ready went there Got to see episode 2 same experience on opening day first showing and so again with the Star Wars fans and again the Moment the screen went black and you saw the Lucasfilm logo and you got Galaxy far far away and The John Williams Orchestra theme went off Again the crowd is way. Yes. I mean you haven't seen Star Wars Until you've seen a theater with a bunch of fans. It is the greatest experience Unfortunately like I said episode 2 ended up being my least favorite of the entire saga so far during this time, of course, I'm still buying Action figures I still have on my wall. They've never been touched. I put them on the wall I still have my episode 1 figures I didn't buy too many episode 2 figures. I think I have a few Not a whole lot though. I Episode 3 I did buy by a few figures. I had to get Tarkin. I got Emperor. I've got a Target Exclusive Lava Vader figure and a couple of the Emperor's Guards the red and blue guard But episode 3 Episode 3 is kind of a funny story I was like, alright, so all these people camped out for episode 1 all these people camped out for episode 2 I'm gonna camp out for episode 3 keep in mind. This was roughly I believe around the time Fandango started where you can order your tickets in advance. This is like 2004. My cat's going apeshit. Sorry But so I but I wasn't aware of exactly what it was. You were able to order your tickets in advance Online no clue what it was all about. I saw the commercials a little paper bags puppet talking. It was cute It was funny really didn't pay too much attention And to the the night to take the table at night before the tickets were going to go on sale I Get in my car. I haven't packed up the food. I haven't packed up with blankets. I've packed up with a lawn chair I haven't packed up with my DVD player My little hand whatever handheld game system I had at the time and My little mini DVD player I had all my Star Wars films and I was gonna be there all night And I was there all night from like 11 o'clock at night to the the next day when They have the theater opened and I Was the line I Was the only one who showed up besides a friend of mine who came to check out the line It was a memorable experience It was interesting. I had a hard time Staying awake. So But the person who came to open up the theater they literally pulled up. They see me sitting in his chair Looks at me. I is my exhausted self at this point. I'm about ready to pass out Like I literally been here since 11 o'clock last night like really like yeah, I'll be open in a moment But what do you hear for like Star Wars tickets like Okay, they weren't supposed to let anybody camp out this time so Nobody told me that but they opened. I got my Star Wars. I'm so three tickets. I had got money from people Get them tickets Episode three Now the hype was a little bit big pretty big for this because as far as we knew this was gonna be the last Star Wars film And this was gonna be the film that Took place before Episode four the one with Luke Skywalker. This was gonna be the one where we see Frickin Darth Vader The third of the three prequel films. This was my favorite. I Loved the hell out of it. I I can die It was great, I really loved it and again saw it with fans first showing opening day And just the crowd went crazy. It was fantastic It was an experience and we all Got out of the theater. We were like this was been a great ride it's been five years of Star war heaven star Wars bliss, you know We wish it can continue and it kind of did not the theater, but it did kind of continue We ended up getting Star Wars anime series clone Wars which Which was Which I just actually finished and was good as good serious actually really sad and ended With so many unanswered questions But then we have Star Wars rebels and quite a few of the episodes they're kind of closed out a lot of the story gaps from Clone Wars now we get into the huge surprise and The surprise is this now. We had been told for years from George Lucas that we were gonna get a TV show live-action TV show and we were gonna get this we're gonna do that he was gonna do this bad Nothing ever came about it. We were just kind of like yeah, he's talking whatever great way to go You know stop messing with our movies and then the big announcement The one that just was under the radar Nobody knew what was going on boom Disney buys Lucasfilm What How did they keep that quiet? Right like what does it mean you bought Lucasfilm? What does this mean? Well, they own Star Wars. They own Indiana Jones Okay Yeah, we're gonna end the clone Wars and we're gonna do another anime series called rebels Okay, oh And we're gonna do a new trilogy Star Wars geeks everywhere Heads and asses exploding everywhere from excitement Like wait a minute. Okay What is this truly gonna be about and immediately I the first thing I said I'm sure I'm not alone is fucking Thrawn trilogy want the throne trilogy. I'm gonna use I love through. I love Grand Admiral Thrawn And I have to think well they do that they're gonna have to recast Because there's no way you know They might be able to get Mark Hamill and maybe Carrie Fisher to come back to portray their characters But they'll be older they'll never get Harris Ford to come back to play on solo cuz he didn't want to come back for Jedi return to the Jedi. There's no way So All he knew was it was gonna take place So many years after returning the Jedi It was going to be Episode seven eight nine Again amazing Love this. I can't wait. What is it? You know I and we we got the announcement that Mark Hamill is gonna return Okay Carrie Fisher is gonna return So we're gonna have Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia in the new trilogy. That's awesome. And then the bomb Han Solo Harrison Ford is coming back for the new trilogy This is awesome Right like the three like You some people consider Batman Wonder Woman Superman and the Trinity. No, no, no Han Solo Princess Leia Luke Skywalker. There's your Trinity right there the film Could do no wrong In my eyes, they got the original three. They're gonna continue it They're gonna pass the torch to a whole new, you know, the only way they're gonna be able to continue three trilogies It gotta pass the torch somehow at this point. We didn't know anything about the plot We still really up until the movie Debut didn't really know anything about the plot. There were assumptions. There were some confirmations here and there about various things We knew there was gonna be a new Dark Jedi not a Sith But somebody who we would find out was from the Knights of Wren Interesting and we still don't nothing really about the Knights of Wren. So I'm really hoping with this new Last Jedi movie that we get a little bit more backstory there and I'm sure I'm really sure you And then then we got, you know, we got this new mysterious Character named Finn who the first image we wanted the first image we saw of him was holding a lightsaber So we awesome. He was gonna be the new Jedi's like this is pretty cool Then we got Ray who eventually we saw with a lightsaber and like Are there gonna be two Jedi's? I mean there was confusion everywhere Everybody was just foaming at their mouth. They want to this was the first time Since the Phantom Menace that I wanted to know Everything I felt like a kid again. I felt like you know back in you know, I was in 97 and 99 I felt like I wanted to know everything, but at the same time I didn't I also wanted to be surprised Again, I felt like a kid. I went out on Force Friday. I Bought bought up Every single figure I can find and I think at the time I managed to get a hold of every single wave one Eventually wave two figure. I think at the moment right now. I'm only missing two or three figures out of the Force Awakens line That's not that and that's only because none of the stores in our town got And if they did it's cuz somebody in the back of the store go and kept them for themselves So I I mean I have Han Solo and Chewbacca From the Force Awakens the older versions, but I had the order those online. So But this was this was fantastic I was going crazy a lot of people we just we wanted More we want to know the movie needs to hurry up Around this time it was announced by Disney that they were going to be doing into it was like solo Star Wars movies as well Well in the first one, of course, it was announced was Rogue one and it was assuming it was this we were gonna It was also assumed that we're gonna get a Han Solo movie about a fat movie will be one Kenobi movie We didn't know it wasn't it wasn't confirmed what the other movies were Of course now we know one of them is Han Solo It's titled solo But we knew Rogue one And I was like, oh, this is amazing So we're gonna get a Star Wars film in between episode seven and eight And seven hasn't even stuck came out yet. This is awesome So it's the time it's time Force Awakens debuts I go see it specials showing The night that that Thursday Thursday night. I Saw it with my girlfriend who a little bit of backstory here had never seen the original Star Wars and But she wanted to see this one because it had Harrison Ford in it. It's like well, you can't You cannot see Force Awakens when there's for it until you see the original trilogy Luckily I have Episodes four five and six with with the special feature Being the original trilogy Non-special edition they get it as a bonus feature with the special edition versions of my cats going crazy again. Sorry So she is yet to still see the special edition versions haven't shown them to her yet So she agreed I showed her The original and she's why have I not seen these before and This is immediately of course her favorite character end up being Princess Leia So she was ready to go see Force Awakens with me. We absolutely loved I absolutely loved it out of the Seven movies Force Awakens for me beat Empire Strikes Back I'm probably gonna get a lot of backlash for that but for years Empire Strikes Back was my favorite And Force Awakens managed to beat it out of its first spot Sorry, I Don't like people like it's just a rehash of the first film first film I get what they were doing with it and I liked I really did so Loved the movie. I Think I went to the theater. I saw I think I saw it like three times the theater Which I feel bad because I saw it so it's one two and three five times at the theater each And my goal was to see Force Awakens at least five times the theater still not the most I've seen a movie The most I've seen the movie was I saw the return of the King Six times at the movie theater Whole different trilogy maybe another story later on Wasn't disappointed absolutely loved it And Yeah was when the movie came out on Blu-ray. I Think Walmart Target and Best Buy Had each had their own special Version of the film One was like a hard like a still case the other one was a special BB-8 cover Another one had had like art cards or something like that I kind of went out bought all three versions of that Plus the regular version. I still have yet to open up. I Still have yet to open up the other three special versions. I don't know why I swear my cat cat a catnip or something So Laugh my turn I thought So Episode seven done in the books That leaves the upcoming Rogue one movie. I'm intrigued. I really liked what Disney did with the Force Awakens I'm really interested to see what they do with a standalone Star Wars film with characters that we had never Never been introduced to yet. We've never heard of I knew nothing about Rogue one. I think it was gonna be based on a Novel or graphic novel or comic or something like that The only thing I knew was a huge announcement That would try to keep secret and that was Darth Vader was gonna be in the movie All right, and it was gonna be before episode four But after episode three So it's like well, it's a prequel sequel Interesting Wanted to go see it again like my girlfriend wanted you had to go with because she really wanted to see it I wasn't gonna say no. I have an awesome girlfriend and Again, my mind was blown to me Rogue one if for me Force Awakens was I won't say and I would say force away. There's the better film out of the episode series I still stand by Empire being the best film But my favorite film was Force Awakens out of the episode saga my favorite Star Wars film is Rogue one. I Was completely blown away by the story by the characters The it was amazing and the fact that It wasn't just a prequel to episode four It was a lead-in to episode four like literally a movie ends episode four begins And if you watch Rogue one and then watch episode four our new hope the movie really Changes It I don't know what the hell's wrong my cat. I swear But episode four really changes that changes the story it changes the way you look at the characters That's why I broke one is my favorite Star Wars movie There's been eight Star Wars movies not including the animated Clone Wars that they did There's been eight live-action Star Wars films and Rogue one is my favorite. I Think it's the best star. I'm I just want not my favorite, but I think it's the best Star Wars film period so and Rogue one I have to kind of gush about a little bit more here because of course I bought some of the action figures I didn't go out of my way to buy all the action figures. I just bought my favorite characters But what it allowed me to do I know it's not calling at-at in the movie it's called something else But I always wanted an at-at And I had one like the 1997 version And I had brought it back to the store because I didn't come with the two action figures It was supposed to somebody took them out and then of course a few months later They came out with those action figures single carded so I never Got my at-at and then when this Rogue one came out they had this new one. It was battery operated You can operate with your cell phone It is amazing. I absolutely love it. I was so excited to get ice. I played with it all the time and Yeah, I just I Enjoyed the hell out of that. The movie allowed me to buy finally get my at-at So all the again what Rogue one did was it really got me my mouth watering for episode eight Like all right. I'm ready. I've won episode eight now And of course we still know We know more about episode eight. I think we knew then about episode seven And we knew that Mark Hamill was gonna be in it We knew Carrie Fisher was gonna be in it However, we know Harrison Ford's not returning. We won't get into that As far as I know, we were of course, Chewbacca is gonna be in it Don't know if Lando is gonna be in it or don't know if any other original character is gonna show up in this We were all excited Rogue one had just came out We had that amazing I think People are so quick to criticize Everybody thought Tarkin looked god-awful horrible in Rogue one and the Princess Leia a cameo at the end was horrible This is stuff they couldn't do ten years ago They brought an actor back from the dead and Put him in a movie made today That was amazing and regardless of whether you think that's right or wrong in my opinion as long as whoever has the rights to that character or that actor If they say yeah, go for put him in the movie he'd great he would love he would love it Do it. Oh, that's all I'll say on that. I thought it was amazing And and then and and then and then they kick in the nuts the just the heart just Got ripped out of everybody's chests The death of Carrie Fisher Of course, I mean on everybody's mind are like Princess Leia Is dead What? No, you know, and then you're thinking there's still two more Movies at this point. We didn't know how much of the other two movies or even the newest with the newest one How much you filmed and this is how I found out that she died. I was on eBay The day she died before I knew she died. I was on eBay and I was in the process of buying a 1977 Completed Princess Leia figure like 25 30 bucks was like hell. Yeah, I'm gonna get that. It's cheap. Usually they go for like 50 70 bucks, you know Sometimes a hundred and and she's loose, you know side of the package No problem completed the transaction Waiting for my confirmation to come into the email pop up on my phone I go on Facebook And one of the first things that pop up my Facebook Carrie Fisher dies Or Star Wars Carrie Fisher dies. What? Like Bullshit BS. It's one of those, you know fake things, you know, I'll go and like TMZ or Yahoo news or something and it won't even be there I'll keep scrolling and every to almost every time I scroll love Carrie Fisher dies Carrie Fisher dead. This is true. Holy shit. I'll go to check all the news sites. Carrie Fisher died Oh my god about that time is when my little email Popped up my screen confirmation, you know confirmed. I click it still in like, oh my god mode and I ended up Going back to eBay and it was insane like literally just minutes after I bought my Princess Leia figure Everything all the Princess Leia figures from 77 97 to current. We're going anywhere For and then these are just a loose figures along. We're going for like hundreds of dollars hundreds of thousands of dollars There was one of them was going for like a crazy five thousand dollars. It's like I'm gonna take advantage You know, I was good kind of sick of me. I End of going back to Facebook and oh my god, I just can't believe, you know Of course, we would find out that she did complete all her scenes For episode nine which we it was just right there was just still called episode nine We didn't know it was called for so wait or the last Jedi like we do now And we found out that none of her I don't believe any of her scenes Were filmed for Nine We were also told that they were not gonna use the technology that they used on Tarkin For Carrie Fisher for episode nine They weren't gonna do it. So And then we get the trailers for the new last Jedi Excuse me, I'm trying I'm getting over a cold so lingering cough We get the trailers for the last Jedi first one. We didn't see get a whole lot The second trailer was a second or third trailer we did get the Con with the inner conflict with Kylo Ren He's he's flying destroying Various ships around a bigger ship that we're believed that Princess Leia is on We believe he senses that she's on that ship and she senses that he's out there in space kind of like that Vader Luke moment in in Empire and it is believed That Kylo will end up killing Leia in a movie. Of course, we would like to see her go out more heroic Not go out so much as haunted Um If they're going to establish Kylo Ren as this total T T total evil just douche Then he has to kill Leia That and it's other than saying oh, she's going away on a mission somewhere else. It's really the only way for her to go out Maybe try to save her son Trying to bring him back to the Light side, but we won't know until next month and it is a month it is I think almost I think We we are at that month point in one month and we're gonna finally get to see the second part of this new trilogy Hmm And like the previous trilogy For us Friday. I did go out. I did buy My share of action figures a lot of them. I was disappointed that they were basically the same figures as The Force Awakens one like but they released him with like little microchips or something so they can talk I did buy a Luke Skywalker Jedi Ray training Ray Kylo Ren the smaller figures and I bought a Couple black figure black series figures I bought the Luke Skywalker and One I didn't even know was coming out. I'm so excited. I mentioned a prayer granny Admiral Thrawn Figure and I'm excited. He's one of my favorite characters. I really want to see a live action movie with him in it So Um So there we go. I mean those are my memories They those are my feelings. Those are my thoughts That's my Star Wars story Very interested to know what you think I'm very interested to hear your stories Your fond memories of Star Wars. I have so many more. I mean, I just work Currently to 46 minute mark. I have so many Star Wars memories. I can go on and on all night long so Yeah Thanks for watching Please make sure you comment at the bottom, please Please like and share and definitely subscribe so you don't miss Any awesome videos. I'm coming in TV Until next time this has been my story and why not call me retro John