Star Wars: Where is sport in a galaxy far, far away?

My issue with the Star Wars phenomenon isn’t centred on what it, and other movies of its time, did to the interesting grown-up films of the seventies (i.e., got rid of them as a mainstream alternative to such modern nonsense as those Marvel films), writes Michael Moynihan.

It’s not based on the horrific dialogue, which drove Harrison Ford to tell the man who wrote most of it, George Lucas, that you could type it but you couldn’t say it.

It’s not even driven by the recurring drive to shoehorn characters into the movies that could be repurposed as lucrative toys which small kids covet for Christmas.