[The next Star Wars movie] will inspire endless internet chit-chat and another round of overused references as people old enough to know better bring themselves to one more dry Star Wars-derived orgasm.

For years, almost daily, I’ve had to state that “I’m not really into Star Wars.” The closest I ever got was the desire as a small, animal-obsessed child to watch the Ewok movies over and over again. (And that’s not un-depressing.)

I love science fiction, but I’ve never been able to fully describe why Star Wars doesn’t appeal to me; today Dissonant Notes put my feelings into words in Flogging a Dead Force: The Terrible, Joyless Supercult of ‘Star Wars’.