Anaheim is currently overrun by amateur stormtroopers and wannabe Jedi thanks to Star Wars Celebration, which is kind of like Comic-Con except ONLY STAR WARS ALLOWED, DO NOT EVEN FUCKING THINK ABOUT BRINGING ANYTHING THAT ISN’T STAR WARS™ WITHIN A QUARTER-MILE OF THE VERSATILE, FIRST-CLASS VENUE THAT IS THE ANAHEIM CONVENTION CENTER.
And the prom king and prom queen of this nerd prom are The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams and Star Wars Emperor Kathleen Kennedy, who, as part of their panel this morning about the new movie, debuted a new trailer. (They also got upstaged by R2-D2 and BB-8.) You already started watching it before reading a word of these two paragraphs. It’s okay. I don’t feel bad.
In the very near future—once we’ve all gotten sick of having a Star Wars movie released once per year for the rest of our goddamn lives—none of us will ever be able to escape Star Wars, no matter where we go, no matter how hard we try. Nobody will even care when they release a new Star Wars trailer, and it will be a crime punishable by death to not know what a BB-8 is.
Chewie hasn’t aged a day. He really looks terrific!
He’s had a lot of work done.
I’d say something about how Wookies live for hundreds of years but that might make me sound like some nerd who uses an online screen-name from a Star Wars character.
Wookies live hundreds of years? So in much the same way that a person who owns dogs throughout life still has their favorite from years ago, Han will always be Chewie’s favorite human.
Thank you for your nerd lore.
It’s “Wookiee.” Y’all are just trying to piss me off, right?