It is Star Wars Day!

This is an unofficial geek holiday where we celebrate all that was, is, and will be Star Wars.

It is a pun that became mainstream popular after Margaret Thatcher won in 1979. But you know that fans were using it unironically before that, right?

Geeks of all kinds will wear fandom tee shirts, quaffs blue milk (not really) and speak in the particular Yoda cadence.

Even if I am watching a Marvel movie today, I will be representing Star Wars. Myself, I am wearing an R2D2 tee shirt that is R2 yelling as he tries to stop himself in one of the episodes. He is yelling EeYOOOOOW!! It was that or the polite D-0 droid.

But R2 is my favorite. Well, one of them. It is more correct to say that he was my first droid. My favorite is the AT-AT.

All good geeks know the story. Yes, all of it, including the 1978 Christmas Special. Yes, even that.

The story, at its heart like the best fiction, is the triumph of good versus evil. Of the scrappy rebellion against the much more impressively armored and supplied Empire. An asymmetric warfare if you were.

But it is so much more than that.

It is a love story.

It is lost family found.

It is found family comprised of friends.

It is the triumph of a moisture farmer against an itty bitty thermal exhaust port.

It is the recognition that the story continues after the rebellion wins.

It is a sprawling masterpiece of story telling, and a hat tip to the story never really ending.

It is a juggernaut that has launched toys and games and fan fiction and books and television shows and an entire universe that sparks recognition in us all.

Because it is as close as we get to a universal story.

I like to say that I am an all-purpose geek. In other words I am a non-denominational geek. I like it all, practical effects, CGI, no effects.

But you never forget your first fandom do you?