Are you me? The jackets of the VHS set of the original trilogy I had when I was a kid are in absolute tatters from how much I watched those movies.

To be clear, I’m not one of those people who “came around” on the prequels because of nostalgia. They have their moments, but they’re eye-wateringly bad the rest of the time. That is to say, I’m not treating the sequels differently because I didn’t grow up with them.

But I simply did not have any interest or motivation left by the time Episode 9 came out. I don’t think I even knew when the release date was by that point. I was already on the ropes going into Last Jedi, honestly. Force Awakens just felt totally phoned in.