The Star Wars Generation

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MutantLeader@reddit

Kind of a weird way to put it. Because we weren’t old enough to watch Star Wars. I first got into those movies when the Special Editions came out around 1997. They had a huge impact on me then, but now I realize the fanbase pretty much hates all the changes.

We’re a generation that didn’t really have our own Star Wars. The 90s kids got to have the Prequels.

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IceSmiley@reddit

Me and my friends didn't give a shit about Star Wars or knew about it until it was rereleased

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Gadshill@reddit

I was more of a Star Trek: The Next Generation kind of kid.

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Sensitive_Pianist777@reddit

I'm in Toronto. Same age. My buddy and I went to watch it at the Skydome (the May after 93 WS Joe Carter blast win).

It was awesome. They played Yesterday's Enterprise before it as our network had a fan voting for episode to show before it. Talk about the perfect complimentary episode. Mann, still remember it vividly to this day.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiNzW5uoz4_tqNDirrP9rPcDEhp-YHye8&si=L0ZdPdf06IyZ2MKV

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Resident-Pattern4034@reddit

Complete with the theming that made you believe that the UN might actually have teeth and that adults would all be reasonable, educated, and horny

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Gadshill@reddit

It was competence porn.

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Resident-Pattern4034@reddit

With dope white noise and the beige interior of a luxury car 😙👌

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TheGillos@reddit

The TNG Engine white noise. I have it on (along with music from the show) while I work.

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Minouris@reddit

I have three cats for this - when I pat them, they purr like furry little warp cores :)

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TheGillos@reddit

Tribbles.

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Dannydimes@reddit

I had a boss that loved that site for this reason.

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most_triumphant_yeah@reddit

I abide by the prime directive in my professional life lol

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Traditional_Cat_60@reddit

For me it was TNG, for my wife it’s the West Wing. Can we just get some intelligent, well meaning people in charge for the love of God!?!?

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Resident-Pattern4034@reddit

Unless you make admiral. Then there’s like a 25% chance of random batshit Neanderthal corruption.

Which, I will totally give Roddenberry a nod for showing psychopathy inherit in the upper ranks, just like irl

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TheGillos@reddit

Same.

Though TOS and the films were also huge for me. So was the Star Trek 25th Anniversary DOS game.

X-Wing and later TIE-Fighter were also great DOS games, lol.

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Kurigunde@reddit

Yep, same. I’ve never been able to make myself sit through even one Star Wars movie, but I watched Star Trek next gen every week with my dad.

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HOTDOGVNDR@reddit

I related to a lot of that.

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Lord-Curriculum@reddit

Not sure if we're the Star Wars generation, but I tend to use the release year of the OG trilogy to define where this group starts and ends. 1977 to 1983 for core Xennials.

Although this radius seems like be expanding. Didn't know Gen X was a tale of two cities with the older 1/2 being well... Boomer light bitches.

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Minouris@reddit

I was born in 1978, and my mother saw it while she was pregnant. Overall, the idea of Star Wars was a big part of my childhood, but really, I was more defined by Star Trek and Doctor Who.

In certain parts of the world, you can define your generation by your childhood Doctor. By a weird quirk of NZ TV scheduling, however, Jon Pertwee kids in NZ are equivalent to Peter Davison kids everywhere else lol

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Left_Maize816@reddit

I was born in late 1976 and don’t really identify with them at all.

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Lord-Curriculum@reddit

Maybe we need to use Jaws and Back to the Future as the bookend years... 1975 to 1985.

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

I was also born in 1982. Everything in the blog applies, except the Star Wars part. I could never sit through a full showing…The movies just came across as too cheesy and fairytale-like.

We are the Space Balls Generation.

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LazarusDark@reddit

We are the Spaceballs Generation.

81 here and I am definitely not "Star Wars generation", I have seen Spaceballs 10x more than any of the original trilogy films (and I've seen the prequels 5x more than the originals). By the time I was 5, Star Wars was all memes: Spaceballs, Muppet Show, Muppet Babies. "I am your father" was a meme already, I've never felt anything from watching that scene.

(Don't get me wrong, I like Star Wars, but I never really appreciated the original trilogy much until I rewatched them in a marathon alongside episode 1 and 2 just before going to see Episode 3 premiere. The prequels have major flaws and things I wish were done differently but I personally like the originals and prequels equally, I don't have any special reverence for the originals, they are just good space fantasy to me. I always preferred Blade Runner and Dune and Star Trek and 2001 and cyberpunk and hard scifi)

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qwerty-game@reddit (OP)

As a female, I wanted to be Princess Leia.

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

That’s cool. The whole “I want to be (x) character” just felt kinda strange, even to me as a young kid. Spaceballs (and Airplane!) made me laugh like crazy, but the Star Wars episodes just bored me. I think Xennials tend to be more aligned in slapstick comedy, even from an early age, than maybe X and even Millenials.

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qwerty-game@reddit (OP)

I think the reference to Star Wars was that we were born between 77-83, which were the years the original Star Wars all came out. I do tend to agree we might not be fully aligned to Star Wars itself.

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

No, the article referenced an appeal to the notable Star Wars characters, not being born with it.

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qwerty-game@reddit (OP)

I always assumed it was being born during that time too. But you are right.

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hamburgler26@reddit

I didn't necessarily want to be one of the characters, but I enjoyed the movies, and the Star Wars games kind of let you be your own character in the universe and that is where I really got sucked into the Star Wars thing. I grew up blasting my way through stories of my own and they just made the movies that much more fun as a result.

Or maybe I'm just a massive Star Wars nerd. I also grew up with a lot of Star Trek and showed my dad Space Balls for the first time, and he was a huge Trekkie and Star Wars nerd so maybe the Space Balls generation is perfect 😃

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Pitiful_Ad2397@reddit

I also was never into Star Wars- give me Indiana Jones any day of the week!

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most_triumphant_yeah@reddit

I feel like this would apply more to someone very close to/if not over the boundary leaning to gen x, unless you had an older sibling or cousin that influenced this. I’d put Star Wars in the same category as someone that knew about Guns N’ Roses way too early in grade school. Too busy chasing tmnt and nes type content to really imprint on me. I remember having a friend that had an older sister and they were all about ewoks.

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qwerty-game@reddit (OP)

Agree there are some other movies that we could align better to. I never saw any of the SW in theaters cause obviously we were way too young. But in general, the learning of the old ways but not really doing them - like writing checks - really hit for me.

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Kiethblacklion@reddit

I wanna be the Police Academy Generation

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qwerty-game@reddit (OP)

I’ll second that. I did love Assignment Miami Beach. Well I loved all of them, it that was my fave.

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I also watch people play video games on YouTube, I’m in almost 1000 Facebook groups, and i discover new music constantly.

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit

Eh. I don't want to be The Star Wars generation. Star Wars kinda sucks.

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Flat-Philosopher8447@reddit

Same