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Andy Rice DINGHIES

You remember how much you enjoyed the original Star Wars, the one that came out in 1977? It was easy to understand, wasn’t it! The young good guy in white, the tall bad guy in black. They even had different colour laser swords! Blue for good, red for evil.

But what about 20 years later when that prequel, the eagerly anticipated Episode 1, was launched to great fanfare? Two decades of excitement soon turned to bafflement when the yellow crawl of text at the beginning, blathering on about how someone or other

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