Let the past die...
... Kill it, if you have to. The Star Wars sequels are a contentious subject. But so are all Star Wars movies, even the originals. Alec Guinness himself was famously disenchanted with them, though he does offer a small nugget of wisdom that modern fans should embrace: " [...] and I find myself old and out of touch with the young. " At any rate, I'm not here to discuss how wrong people who hate the sequels are (they really are). In fact, I'm not even here to talk SW at all. It's just that this quote from Disney's Bad Boy Kylo Ren resonates with me a lot because my brain likes to remind me of embarrassing moments in my life, and boy do I wish I could follow his advice and just "let old things die." Today is different, however, because today I remembered two episodes of my past that, given what we know now, seem like some slightly twisted foreshadowing (even though, realistically, they could probably fit into a bucket of research data into the effects...