![]() We'd dream about them at night and try to imagine ourselves in their midst up until then, we could only imagine such things - there were no projected images to realize such dreams. We'd read about them constantly in science fiction novels and short stories - tales of outer space civilizations, of spaceships zooming through asteroid belts, of exotic-looking aliens hanging around space ports. But they'd been there before in our minds. They were instant pop culture icons you got the sense you'd seen them before somewhere, but were sure this wasn't possible. ![]() This is where we first met them all: Luke, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi (old 'Ben'), Chewbacca, the 2 robots C3PO & R2D2 and, of course, Darth Vader. Though now known as "Episode IV-A New Hope," for many of us, namely those of us who first saw this exhilarating entertainment in theaters back in '77, this will always be the first "Star Wars." We will always think of it as just "Star Wars" - plain & simple, no pretensions, no aspirations to deep film-making or high art.
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