Why is Star Wars so appealing to multiple generations? Full disclosure–I’ve been a Star Wars fan ever since watching my first movie in the series, Return of the Jedi.  I was 9 years old, and I remember standing with my mother in a line that snaked around the outside of the cinema waiting to get inside.  I was particularly unnerved by the scene in which a droid was tortured in Jabba the Hut’s palace, and I shuddered whenever Darth Vader, malevolence personified, made his … Continue reading →